How Sweet It Would Be

Baby Finds Some Sun

Baby

Baby has worked out an appropriate work-life balance.

Leia and Darth Vader!

The one thing about my sister is that she can never just do something once. if she makes a knit Star Wars figure you can bet that she'll become obsessed and make them ALL.

I am the delighted benefactor of her new obsession! Darth Vader and Princess Leia arrived in the mail today. Baby likes them just as much as she liked Yoda.



Tigre can't be bothered. Her new obsession is sleeping on top of the couch.

She's Usually So Cute...

Bat Cat

Drawer Cat

Her favourite place to sleep is in this drawer if I leave it open. I hate it when this happens.

Look At This Cat

Look At Her

The Force Be With Me

My sister is awesome. I was having a lousy week so she knitted me this miniature Yoda to boost my spirits. I'm not sure why but every time I look at him it makes me smile.


Baby likes him too!



My sister is super talented. She runs a business selling amazing hats and other knit stuff. You can find her HERE.

Small Secretary

This cat continues to keep me on track with my work - the slow track.



She's also still an idiot. Here she is sitting in the recycling box, where she then complained that she couldn't get comfortable

Hello, We Are Back

The Scene This Morning

The Grass Box

I saw this idea on another blog for a balcony grass-box for pets. I thought Baby or Tigre might like some real grass to sniff at or eat during the summer.

My dad built the basic box for me. I covered the bottom with gravel and then a layer of potting soil. Then I just got a piece of sod and trimmed it to size.

Tigre ignored it entirely, but Baby went crazy for it. She used to love to sleep in the grass when she lived in Victoria. After a few tentative sniffs, she lifted herself into the grass and then settled down in the sun.

Completely happy:

Hypocrisy

Stephen Harper's logic on abortion for women in Africa goes like this: not all Canadians support abortion, so no women overseas will receive Canada's support for abortion. Never mind the hypocrisy of providing funding for abortions for Canadian women but not our foreign aid recipients. You thought the Bush era was over, but parts of it just migrated north.

Desperately Waiting For Summer (in a safe spot)

Dream Girl

I Can't Take It

Four elections in five years is too much. I'm about to tune out completely. And I'm a political junkie. I can imagine how the average person feels. It will get to the point where I'm busy on election day and wind up saying "I'll just vote next year."

Terry Fox Run

Hi everyone (is anyone still reading?). Just a quick update to make an appeal for pledges to my Terry Fox Run. Here's a bit more about Terry Fox and his foundation:

Terry Fox was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and raised in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, a community near Vancouver on Canada's west coast. An active teenager involved in many sports, Terry was only 18 years old when he was diagnosed with osteogenic sarcoma (bone cancer) and forced to have his right leg amputated 15 centimetres (six inches) above the knee in 1977.

While in hospital, Terry was so overcome by the suffering of other cancer patients, many of them young children, that he decided to run across Canada to raise money for cancer research.

He would call his journey the Marathon of Hope.

After 18 months and running over 5,000 kilometres (3,107 miles) to prepare, Terry started his run in St. John’s, Newfoundland on April 12, 1980 with little fanfare. Although it was difficult to garner attention in the beginning, enthusiasm soon grew, and the money collected along his route began to mount. He ran 42 kilometres (26 miles) a day through Canada's Atlantic provinces, Quebec and Ontario. However, on September 1st, after 143 days and 5,373 kilometres (3,339 miles), Terry was forced to stop running outside of Thunder Bay, Ontario because cancer had appeared in his lungs. An entire nation was stunned and saddened. Terry passed away on June 28, 1981 at the age 22.

The heroic Canadian was gone, but his legacy was just beginning.

To date, more than $400 million has been raised worldwide for cancer research in Terry's name through the annual Terry Fox Run, held across Canada and around the world.

You can contribute HERE

Dog Break

This is Sophie's new brother, Graham. He is a former greyhound champion and all around gentleman. From the looks of things he is adapting well to his new home.

Cats Days of Summer

The cats are heartily enjoying their summer vacation. Since we got back from our honeymoon,they have pretty much repeated the below activities every single day:

Writhing around strangely in catnip:

Staking claims to sunny spots on the balcony:

Being awesome:

Looking innocent:

And sleeping here, on the top of my file boxes. Tigre is still genetically disposed to finding the highest spot in the house and devoting herself to it. I made a bed up there so she could feel like she owns the place:

The Big Day

All apologies for the long radio silence from You Can Make It If You Try! It has been a busy couple of months of school and other things. And now we'll likely be away for at least a few more weeks.

Baby and Tigre are about to become legitimate sisters - we are getting married in about six hours. Sadly, the cats are already boarded with Marika's mother, probably loving every minute of it. Tigre already bit Marika's sister and took a nap inside the sheets of the spare bedroom. She was so excited her tail was vibrating like it was being shocked with electricity. What a cat. Baby is behaving herself as usual.



There will be a few more weeks of silence as we take a holiday. Usual cat broadcasting will continue soon after!

Baby Is Dramatic

Tigre's New Bedroom

As a way of saving space, we have started to keep Tigre in the closet.


Ok, I'm only kidding. She has been begging to get into the closet for the last two years. Finally I couldn't take it anymore and created a little compartment for her on the second shelf. She sat and waited for me to rearrange the entire closet and then happily made herself at home. Like all of her projects, Tigre has completely devoted herself to spending time on her little shelf. She retreats there to think, clean, and sleep. It's sort of nice having her tucked out of the way!

Practical and Fashionable

I gave Marika a scarf for Christmas which she had to trim by about six inches. Guess who the little piece fits perfectly!

A Gremlin In Repose

A photographic study of Baby trying to get a little bit of sun on every part of her body.