Tabs

Poor Marnie. 😥

After struggling for weeks to get on Rosie’s good side, and to get away from her claws, Marnie, using the power of her mighty derp, realized that the key to Rosie’s heart is through her mind.

In hindsight, this makes perfect sense, because Rosie is, after all, an award-winning cat scientist.

Anyway, Marnie got to work last weekend looking for a scientific breakthrough that she could use to impress Rosie.

Something, anything, to get on Rosie’s good side.

Unfortunately, it wasn’t easy…

Nope, not easy at all…

It’s tough when your mentor has, like, eight degrees and a Nobel Cat Prize in Physics.

Not to mention a feline genius-level IQ…

Tabs was different. Obviously, he was also a cat genius, but he was also way more stylish and approachable.

Where Rosie takes a scratch-first-ask-questions-later approach to dealing with Marnie, Tabs was always very patient with less scientifically minded creatures.

But then, we’re talking about Tabs here. He was omega-level greatness. 😊

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

It’s all fun and games till a mouse takes over your patio.

That’s what happened here at Chez Tabs this week. Rosie used to call the shots here at Tabs the Cat Industries, LLC, and for the most part she’s been a benevolent dictator, but a few days ago a tiny tyrant of the rodent variety moved into, or onto to be more accurate, the patio where the staff (basically, just Marnie and Rosie) take their lunch.

For the most part, Marnie and Rosie work fairly well together.

I mean, Rosie tells Marnie to do things, and Marnie tries to oblige… Bless her heart.

They’d reached a form of detente, and it had been pretty effective until that mouse showed up.

Now every time one of them goes out there and tries to nap underneath one of the wooden lettuce or tomato planters, the mouse starts scratching or sneaking around somewhere in the area, must be underneath the wood, and Marnie and Rosie can hear it, and it drives them nuts.

It’s a shame because Tabs would have never allowed a usurper to … usurp his authority like this.

There’s just no way he would have shared power. 😹

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

Despite being incredibly busy, Rosie had to put a critical research project on paws this morning because of something unusual.

Earlier this week she took some pictures of Marnie for the company newsletter to announce her as our new intern, but when Rosie was processing the images she noticed something…

She pondered it during a jam session on her keyboard…

Quantum mechanics and superposition!

Rosie thinks she knows what’s going on. Somehow the office here in Novato has become entangled with another dimension.

This changes everything! 😹

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

Rosie should have known better than to trust Marnie with Rosie’s investments.

After all, Marnie doesn’t have any background or credentials or expertise in financial planning.

There was no reason to think Marnie would be able to manage Rosie’s assets, but Rosie wanted to give her a chance.

Oh, well. Bad move on Rosie’s part.

Even someone of Rosie’s intellectual stature screws up sometimes.

Sure, she may understand quantum physics better than any other cat on the planet, but that doesn’t mean she understands compound interest.

Sigh…

Now Rosie has to think of a way of to recoup all those losses. Hmm… What could she invent?

I’m sure she’ll think of something. 🐱

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

This time of year, Tabs was always pretty stoked about showing off his summer bod, which as you know, was curvy, Rubenesque and voluptuous.

With this being the official weekend of the summer solstice, this morning I asked Rosie if she had any big plans for summer, and she just stared at me blankly and meowed something under her breath that sounded like “science waits for no one.”

I took that as a “no.” 😂

Marnie’s sure been enjoying these longer summer days. In fact, she insists on waking me up at the crack of dawn so that she can go running with me, and by running I mean sprinting circles around me as I shuffle along…

I believe she thinks that I am her sheep. 🐑

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

Heya, friend! Happy late Father’s Day to ya! Hope you had a great one. Except for a brief drive out to visit the fam in the East Bay, we stayed around the house. But it was fun. Lots of high-intensity lounging, TV watching and chillaxin’…

Rosie, purr usual, spent the day working on her science experiments.

That reminds me…

Tabs wasn’t particularly interested in science or genetics like Rosie is, but he was interested in acting as a father figure to at-risk kittens and a mentor to up-and-coming kitty supermodels.

Despite his busy schedule, he always made time for the kittens in his foundation. He would read to them, do homework with them, teach them how to strut and strike poses on the catwalk — all the basic life skills.

Rosie

Rosie’s view of Father’s Day is a little different. As an introverted, more science-minded cat, she’s more interested in the genetic aspects of parentage. She was recently tapped by Genentech to lead a study into inherited traits that get passed along from father cat to kitten, so she’s been working on that all week long.

She has a theory that vertical leaping ability is closely tied to torbie fur pattern… Why Genentech is interested in that, I have no idea. 🤷‍♀️

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

Tabs always said that in kitty modeling, the best defense is a good offense. If you just rest on your laurels, sooner or later a hungrier up-and-coming cat (or Australian Shepherd) will take what’s yours, and you won’t be walking the catwalk at feline fashion week anymore. Nope, if you’re lucky, you’ll get a page in the Petco catalog.

Every once in a while Tabs went into kitty ninja mode, and instead of just patrolling the neighborhood, he conducted more advanced cat recon…

He’d inspect the houses on the circle more closely to look for signs of canine or feline incursion.

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Tabs the Cat Industries, LLC always celebrates Memorial Day, a federal holiday in the United States for honoring and mourning the U.S. military personnel who died while serving in the United States Armed Forces.

Despite his differences of opinion over some of the country’s policies and his disdain for some of its leaders over the years, Tabs strongly believed in the greatness of the United States. He actually had the U.S. Constitution memorized and would frequently cite portions of it.

One of his favorite quotes is from the preamble:

“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

But he felt it was the First Amendment that defined America. Without it, America would cease to exist. As Tabs always said, the promise of American democracy depends on our freedom to criticize it.

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

Whatever you’re doing this Memorial Day, have a good one.

Cheers!

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen