12/5/2025 – Finally Friday

Tessa and the old cabinets, 2025 © Colehauscats.com

Finally, we got rid of our old TV entertainment center cabinets. At long last and after one dozen trolls and 8 ghostings, multiple weekends listing the ad on multiple different venues, and with the starting price of $100 or best offer and quickly reduced after the first weekend down to FREE, we had two choices: Begin the laborious task of manually chopping up each cabinet, door and shelf and systematically sneaking some of that pile into the trash each and every week for the next 36 weeks, or pay a company to take the whole giant thing to a donation center that accepted particle wood furniture.

A few hundred dollars later, we’re pleased to announce we’ve rediscovered our entryway, and so have the cats, like Tessa here who, after Mom steam-mopped the floor, dusted the walls and called it good, promptly barfed across it. Consider it blessed.

From this, with the huge multi-cabinet entertainment center that filled almost an entire wall and so much brown everything:

Big entertainment center cabinets, 2002-2025 © Colehauscats.com
Big entertainment center cabinets, 2002-2025 © Colehauscats.com

To this, with a more manageable cabinet layout, moveable wall-mounted TV, brighter colors and Dad’s downstairs bed:

Dad's living room/downstair bedroom, 2025 © Colehauscats.com
Dad’s living room/downstair bedroom, 2025 © Colehauscats.com

Gone are the ratty couch and loveseat the cats loved to scratch and replaced with metal chairs that seems to be scratch and barf-resistant so far and the rug’s rolled up and stored in a long closet to rid the room of what turned out to be a tripping hazard. The chairs aren’t cozy in the least but they’ll do for a few years.

So what does Tessa think of the change:

Tessa's thoughts on the change © Colehauscats.com
Tessa’s thoughts on the change © Colehauscats.com

Honestly, what does Tessa usually think about anything? Love you, Tessa.

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A Colehaus Cats flashback:

2024 – No post
2023 – No post
2022MultiCat Monday
2021 – No post
2020 – No post
2019 – No post
2018 – No post
2017 – No post
2016Monday Snugglers
2015 – No post
2014Christmas Card Bloopers
2013 – No post
2012More Fun and Thank Yous

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12/3/2025 – Wordless Wednesday

Viola and toy © Colehauscats.com
Viola and toy © Colehauscats.com

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A Colehaus Cats flashback:

2024 – No post
2023 – No post
2022 – No post
2021According to Quint…
2020 – No post
2019 – No post
2018 – No post
2017 – No post
2016 – No post
2015 – No post
2014Patrol Sergeant Zuzu’s Plan
2013Ruby Tuesday
2012A Question for ManCats

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12/1/2025 – Let the Madness Begin!

Viola's 2025 Christmas eCard © Colehauscats.com
Viola’s 2025 Christmas eCard © Colehauscats.com

Happy December! We’ve made it to holiday season 2025! For whatever reason, cats just would not look into the camera lens for this year’s Christmas eCards. Sometimes, that happens. Sometimes, they are more interested in the holiday props – how to bat at them, how to bite them, how to knock them onto the floor, etc. Viola displays that same intensity that her angel Mama Zuzu did back in 2016, and so, we went with that.

Angel Mama Zuzu, 2016 © Colehauscats.com
Angel Mama Zuzu, 2016 © Colehauscats.com

Miss you, Zuzu.

Quint's 2025 Christmas eCard © Colehauscats.com
Quint’s 2025 Christmas eCard © Colehauscats.com

This year, Quint was just as fascinated, or bored, with the matte-finish ornament balls we used back in 2016. Or maybe it was the Christmas IKEA rats. We still have those, patiently waiting and marinating in a catnip box. This just didn’t seem like the right year for Christmas rats.

Quint checks out the Christmas rats, 2016 © Colehauscats.com
Quint checks out the Christmas rats, 2016 © Colehauscats.com

For us, December brings Mom’s attempt to keep outdoor Christmas lights lit (she does pretty well), some holiday baking to keep costs and store shopping temptation as close to nonexistent as possible and indoor decorating at a tasteful minimum. We both have overtime work at our jobs coming up and honestly, we’re just looking forward to surviving through the end of the year. It’s been a long expensive one, wouldn’t you agree?

Lastly, we’d love to show you Tessa’s 2025 Christmas eCard, but she just wasn’t having any of it this year. That’s just sooo Tessa!

Tessa and her uncooperative 2025 Christmas eCard © Colehauscats.com
Tessa and her uncooperative 2025 Christmas eCard © Colehauscats.com

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Want your own 2025 Colehaus Cats Christmas eCard? Easy-peasy! Right click on the eCard of your choice over on the upper right sidebar and select Save Image As . . . to download a copy to a location of your choice either Quint or Viola. Or both! Hurry, before Tessa figures out she missed all the fun!

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A Colehaus Cats flashback:

2024 – No post
2023Serious Business
2022 – No post
2021Almost Wordless Wednesday
2020 – No post
2019 – No post
2018 – No post
2017 – No post
2016 – No post
2015Ruby Tuesday
2014Kick Stick for Two
2013 – No post
2012Quint’s Art at #NipClub Holiday Bazaar Today!

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