Meet & Greet The Green Organicat Grocer

Vegie-Tables .. yep uh huh the vegies izza everywhere! Under da table and on top of da tables and sometimes rolling along da floor too, and if youza wanna be on top of your veritable vegie selections then youza gotta view da vegies frumza every angle! Datsa how we EyeTailYuns do it so take da vegie viewing advise frum me,   yur green organicat grocer - it's not a show cuz I'ma in the know ... itza da EyeTailYun thing!

When selectacatting your Tomatoes itza impurrtant to get up close to da inside and outside too ... so like smell the stem and where itza  been, and then figure out if da Tomato izza soft or hard....leaning yurself and purrrressing on da Tomato can be fruitful fur shure. OH CATZOWEY and scientificatically speaking, da Tomato is NOT a vegie, but itza Fruit!

"Stand By Yur Man" never sounded more purrfecto, cuz my veggies always stands by me and my Man Cat self! See see see, datsa me and my favorito feline Fennel bulb surrounded by my favorito broccolini too. Definicatically itza da EyeTailYun veggies seleckshun dat gets my purr masheen revved up like da Ferrari Car motor.

If yur tomatoes izza not mushy, undoubtacatically youza can lean on them from any pawsative direkshun and youza not gonna hear "Splish Splash My Tomato Izza Taking a Bath".

Repurrting live from da EyeTailYun Iron Cat Kitchen, itza Me and my smitten kitten self wishing you and yurself a nonCATastrophic week filled with abundacat meowalous mewsings and piles of vivacious Vegie-Tables too.

Ciao & Meow,
GUIDO the Italian Kitty

Momma's Day With Momma & Mio

Momma's Day only comes aroundza once a year and thatza whole lotta catnaps tooza get thru befur da Momma wants to be taken out to SellAbrate da speshule day in May. So I rested uppa uppa and under da sofa too,  all year long, and increased my Credible Cat Line of Credit at da Bank, yep uh huh, I did! Furstly I purrchased this  BeeYouTeeFull orchid of course cursage to SirPrize my Momma - Oh catzowey when sheeza sees me sitting here at da  table in da Furench Ristorante, sheeza gonna faint smackaroni dabzatini, yep faint in front of abundacat Momma's at their table.  When I sez "SirPrize Momma", sheeza purrobably so sirprised she won't remember!  So, I  got da impurrted Catalonia Sardine Smelling Salts just in case mia Momma needs reviving!

Youza knows me and myself izza Envirocat helping to purrtect Momma Earth, so da purrfecto Momma's Day gifty must always be in da fabucatulous Green Organicat Giftie Bag and check this outza - weeza got da wait purrsons  on alert,  cuz they'za hears mia Momma izza arriving soon and theyza looking fur her.

Buon Appetito and letsa enjoy da tasting--I wants da food to be supurrrbo fur mia Momma so my EyeTailYun self izza  checking out da authenticat Furench Croque Meownsieur sammywich with da CalEyeFurKneeYah Organicat greens .... bring on da next dish fur my feline fastidious tastebuds s'il vous plait (Shuksatini!  I'ma cat chatting in Furench cuz weeza not in da Pizzeria ristorante.)

NOWza MEOWza, me and myself  connectacats instacatically with this Eggs Benedictazini with Salmon -oh la la la! I hear this dish meowing meowvaloso hints of fine dining tooza me and myself - yep uh huh itza saying thizza izza da purrfecto dish fur my mia Momma. I'ma curious as a cat to know whooza da purrson named Benedict dat gets this dish in his honor??

Sweet InsPURRashuns await mia Momma when sheeza spoons into this authenticat FURench Creme Brulee - sheeza gonna be saying "OH OO LA LA Guido" all day! Yep uh huh, datsa whatza my momma's gonna say in between da bites of this fabucatulous double creamy Creme Brulee. Dontcha tell nobody that youza sees my paw in da Creme Brulee - youza having a feline fixation meowment purrhaps OR maybe youza gotta take off yur 3D glasses! Pawsatively I sees no paws in da desert... nope I duzn't.

Definicatically Momma deserves da funtasticat Momma's Day Brunch SirPrise  ... Sheeza takes me to my job every other FurEyeDay on a bus and then we boards da famous San Franfuncisco Cable Car (yep weeza hums & strums da Mice-A-Roni-da-San Francisco-Treat Song, along da route). Weeza going to my job at  The ARC senior center in San Franfuncisco where we meets and greets da fabucatulous folks who gotza da Downe Syndrome or Autism or just things - yep uh huh, things and condishuns that youza and mio has too. Weeza all exacticatically da same which is why I luvs my job cuz I feels normal and meowvalous at The ARC.   Rain or shine my Momma gets me to my job and thatza why I took my Momma out fur da speshule Momma Mia Day in The City By The Bay.

CATZOWEY - I'ma wishing youza da mostest fabucatulous week - yep uh huh and make it a nonCATastrophic week!

Ciao & Meow,
GUIDO the Italian Kitty

Nachural Meowdacine For Fighting Stress

Life is fur shure hecticat these days! Yep uh huh, there's no doubt bout it,  weeza all feeling a mini meowster stressful and that stuff can be putting me, myself and you too into giganticat hiss fits. Those hissy fitties cause da road rages and rages in da grocery store aisle too. But lemme tell youza,  the recipe fur feeling purrky is easy: take 1 of me and 1 of you and smile and immediately datsa da recipe for stress-busting! When weeza got speshule furiends in our lives ittza da bestest nachural meowdacine fur saying arrividerci stress! Even though I gotza da 9 lives, I wanna have abundacat speshule furiends for all my lives cuz that makes me purrzatini and purrs over da martini too!  We got best furiends, new furiends, old furiends, furiends in need, furiends in deed, furiendly takeovers and dontcha furget da furiendly makeovers. 

Furiends can look diffurent but thatza makes the pawsative and 

interesting furiendship! 

Search everywhere with yur eyes wide open cuz youza never knows ....  

yur speshule furiends might be exacticatically in front of you.

Or they may be down down down but still in front of you.

AhTenZeeOhKnee!  YOUza my furiend, so go and have a furiendly nonCATastrophic week! The Cinco de Mayo izza arriving so get creatacative and whip up some furiendly Fishy Tacos datza tacolicious or share a pitcher of Nipgaritas with yur furiends, or invite yur furiends over to catnap in yur Spanish hammock while snoozing in da sun rays! Ole Ole and ay carumbakitty, life is Catzowey!

Ciao & Meow,
GUIDO the Italian Kitty

PURRfecto Pooch Pawty - Doggone Great!

     Youza never ever gonna guess what me and my paws didza this weekend so I guess I'ma gonna have to tell ya what I didza this weekend! Are youza pawsatively ready to hear this?  I went to a Pooch Pawty, yep uh huh, me and myself wazza content-a-cat guests at my furiend  BONZER's pawty.  Datsa Bonzer and me in da picshure. Now thizza is no normal pawty - itza ImPURRted pawty cuz my pal Bonzer lives in ALASKA! YEP, uh huh he flew on da giant bird with super sonicat wings to get here and host da pawty.

 Cuz I'm not even 4 yet, me and myself dontza have da CalEyeFurKneeYah drivers license so my doggone great furiends Josephine & Jolanda picked me up and weeza drove in their DogO'limo cross da glistening Golden Gate Bridge to get to da Pooch Pawty. See howza ecstaticat Jolanda izza cuz sheeza smiling doggone purrrrfectly - wellza itza cuz I'm tickling her ear with my meowster whiskers!

Da pawty guests wazza very diverse (and thatza politicatically correct). Check out these minichure goats whooza discussing which one should introduce themself furst. They didn't knowz I was listening.

Meet my pooch pal MerryBelle - sheeza very merry cuz sheeza flew on da giganticat jet bird all da way cross da YouEssHay from New Yawk - looks like sheeza merrily merry to see me in fine funtasticat New Yawk style, yep sheeza doggone happy to be in here in CalEyeFurKneeYah!

 More WOWza MEOWza -  I'ma so so so happy to be at da Pooch Pawty with my furiend MIA - sheeza from da South of CalEyeFurKneeYah and sheeza one smart Pooch with da strong senses cuz sheeza blind but  Mia knows exacticatically where me and myself izza and datza all thatza impurrtant. Ohhh  Momma Meowster MIA! You makes my meowster heart go bumpity bump bump, just like whenza I'm riding da rails of da San Franfuncisco Cable Cars dat humm da "Mice A Roni Da San Francisco Treat" tune.

 Me and myself wazza stretching out in da abundacat sunrays at da Pooch Pawty about to catnap whenza someone said "Moose Burgers from Alaska Hazza Arrived". WOWza MEOWza, datza Giganticat mound O' meat and  I'ma ready fur my furst Meowster Mooster Burger!

Thizza izza da purrfecto pawty. Meowster Mooster Burgers and Salmon frumza Alaska. Bonzer brings da 27 paws long Salmon, yep, I means furesh from da waters of Alaska - yep uh uh, weeza chowing down on da Barbequed salmon thatza WHITE  not red (dat means there's no Dye Numero 3,4, 27 or 6) and itza better than da salmon in da Fancy Feast can. IF me and myself couldza eat this every day, I'd purrobably have more than 9 lives!






AhTenZeeOhKnee - Itza time fur fun and games and itza fur shure, da Dogs like tooza dip da paws in da water so I dived in da pool with my pooch pal Tillie - sheeza keeping 2 doggone great eyes on me even though I'm wearing my "feline float" Guido Speedo but I furgot to bring my Life PURRsevor to da pooch pawty - hey, I knows Tillie izza my Life PURRsevor in case I can't do da back stroke no more.

My Cat-stylist and da Staff, all had da day off so I had to fluff dry my fur in da sun then I helped out with da fun stuff. YEOWza MEOWza,  I went into Shocksatini cuz theyza shudda had me in da booth dat was 100 PURRcent ITALIANO Dark Roast NOT  wtih da inFURior Colombian stuff!  HEY I'ma the EyeTailYun Kitty! Basta Pasta itza not impurrtant cuz I still gave all 4 of my meowster paws to help with da T-Shirt Drawing and, and AND guessa whatza?  I wins da Catster T-Shirt at da Pooch Pawty! WOWza MEOWza, life is full of SirPrizes!

So mio myo furiends, itza inevicatable youza gonna meet and greet purrrsons dat youza normally wouldn't meet and greet and itza meowvalous to put a furiendly paw furward. Itza just doggone meowvaloso to meet da diverse purrsons of all sorts and sizes. Some got 2 eyes, some gotza no eyes, some gotza fur galore and some gotza almost no fur (oh no tip fur dat groomer!). I'ma furtunate fur shure, to have so many fabucatulous furiends all around da globe and being invited to da Pooch Pawty in Petaluma wazza so so so speshule fur me and myself. So, my smitten kitten self suggests YOU go to a doggone POOCH pawty sometime fur a doggone pawsatively great time.

Wishing youza da nonCATastrophic week!

Ciao & Meow,
GUIDO the Italian Kitty

Envirocatically Speaking - Every Day Izza Earth Day!

While me and myself izza doing the bench purresses (I gotta keep my smitten kitten meowscles condishuned!) I purrponders how to be a better envirocat and a respectacatable resident of the Earth. Weeza all tenants of The Earth and when youza renting space youza wanna take care of it so I tells ya, Earth Day 2010 izza arriving, yep uh huh itza coming to YOUR street on Thursday April 22nd, and here's some fine feline tips on having a speshule Earth Day.

 If youza like me, youza got abundacat papers,  some papers not so organized so you can play in them. Youza got papers in all shapes and sizes to catnap upon too. So when youza  Spring cleaning (itza OK to Spring Clean thru Summer, Fall and Winter too) you always wanna put all da papers in da correctacat Recycle box NOT in da compost box and definicatically NOT in da litter box!

Take a meowment to sepurrrrrrate yur trash- yep uh huh, youza gotta go thru it with a keen Cat's eye to be shure youza putting the correctacat stuff in da correctacat receptacle. And hiss fits if youza thinks plastic bags izza recycled!

If youza has a passhun, like me, fur da Seafood, make shure youza purrrrrchases da firm rising fishes, oopsatini I mean to say Farm Raised Fishies, then youza not depleting da fabulous fishies in da Oshuns - cuz their fishy selves izza doing their part to keep da Oshuns clean too - weeza needs da natural fishies but not on our dinner plates.



Ahhh youza gotta say Arrividerci to da plastic bottles and put yur H2O or Nip Infused Iced Tea into da metal bottles! Yep uh huh, itza true dat da Pacific and Atlantic Oshuns has da new plastic floating islands da size of Texas and datsa giganticat purroblem, Itza called PLASTIC SOUP (and itza not da zuppa made with organicat garlic!)



So puhleezse, may I have yur AhhhTenZeeOhKnee? When Thursday da 22nd day of April arrives in your City, join ME and Myself and more than one billion people in 190 countries thatza taking da  action for Earth Day this year. Youza can be a very impurrrtant part of helping our Mother Earth, cuz sheeza in a CATastrophic condishun right now!

Ciao & Meow!
GUIDO the Italian Kitty

1, 2, 3 ... I'm OUT at the Ballpark

My smitten kitten paws izza up Up UP in da air while out out out at da Ballpark cuz I'ma purrracticing catching the ball at the baseball game opener without wearing da Smitten Kitten Mitt. It's what you do at da ball game - youza has a ball trying to catch da ball.

On da opening NIGHT at da Ball Park itza meowvoloso cuz I can catnap all day and be revving up fur da speshule Night Opener of da San Franfuncisco Giants. Youza betcha,  I used my MasterCat Card to purrrrchase da tixs, trotting my ball loving paws out to da AT&T Ball Park. Hey .. itza what we do here in San Franfuncisco cuz someone gotza cheer on our San Fran Giants in the City by the Bay where our famous Willie Mays sez, "Say Hey Hey!" I gotta  purrrriliant ideas for going to da Ballpark ......

  Always wear da team's hat so youza looks like a fantasticat fan!

 

It's fur shure youza gonna see all da players from da View sekshun - itza da  Birdie Eyes View!

 

When youza gets to know yur seat mates, youza gonna have a catzowey time at

 da Ballgame cuz theyza happy folks and really happy to see ya!

  Shuksatini! Even if yur Team duzn't win,  da sparklies start flying from da sky and fans izza saying "oh my oh my"! Defnicatically YOUza winner cuz youza got off yur sofa and out of da house to  help yur Team - showing supuuuurrt is speshule.

 

AhTenZeeOhKnee! Youza wanna see all da fireworks frumza every direkshun, so get down on da ground and check itza out from all da pawzishuns in yur PurrEyeVat box seat. Ah, basta pasta! I luvs da sparklies in da Sky and now youza knows why.  NOWza MEOWza - youza gonna have a sparkly kind of  winning week  with no strike outs. Make it a nonCATastrophic one!

Ciao & Meow,
GUIDO the Italian Kitty

Arrividerci Baci

 Me and myself izza what we is because of momma Baci raising me all my life - she had da payshunce with my wild child self. Yep uh huh, sheeza been my momma da whole almost 4 years of my life, and sheeza taught me my meowster manners while tolerating my smitten kitten antics.

 Baci crossed over The Rainbow Bridge on Saturday April 3rd and I wanna paws fur a meowment frumza my normal Catzowey day, to pay da tribute to da redhead who made me whooza I am. Born on da streets of San Franfuncisco  (after Karl Malden & Michael Douglas left da Streets of San Francisco) in October 1995, Baci found her furever home cuz of da San Franfuncisco SPCA rescuing her and well, da rest is historicatically meowvalous history.

Ahhh she loved me from da meowment I arrived in her house. She was happy to see me, but everybody calls Baci "Mrs Grumpy" cuz datsa da look sheeza got all her almost 15 years of life. My molto famoso photographer Mark Rogers even made da "Birthday Card" using Baci's not smiling face, and if youza furtunate to receive his speshule card, youza opens it up  and it shouts "NO! Really I AM happy it's your Birthday"! Baci gotza her very own line of speshule OK-shun cards on da market. Datsa something!

 Always, Baci wazza da boss of da house, ruling with da 4 redhead paws and we izza shure she selectacatted da Easter Eve to cross The Rainbow Bridge - exacticatically her way cuz that's how life was with Baci.  I'ma calling it "Baci's RED-surrection".

 See, sheeza still looking da grumpy look! But fur all her life sheeza consistent creature of da habit, da purrfecto kitty.   Losing my momma Baci izza da impurrtant reminder dat life is short - even when ya got 9 lives, so be shure youza enjoys it to the meowximum and tells someone speshule dat theyza speshule or they won't ever know theyza speshule. Cheers tooza you Baci and mille meowster grazie fur being my speshule Momma Cat.


Luv & Baci  (datsa means "kisses" in EyeTailYun),
Guido