11/05/2025 – 2 Word Wednesday

Viola and Tessa © Colehauscats.com
Viola and Tessa © Colehauscats.com

Soooo close.

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A Colehaus Cats flashback:

2024 – No post
2023 – No post
2022 – No post
2021Finally Friday
2020 – No post
2019 – No post
2018 – No post
2017 – No post
2016 – No post
2015 – No post
2014Colehaus Visitors
2013Ruby Tuesday
2012ManCat Monday – His Favorite Rug

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11/3/2025 – Happy November!

Viola with November things © Colehauscats.com
Viola with November things © Colehauscats.com

Viola and Colehaus welcomes November! November’s one of our favorite months because it has so many things we love in it. Foggy, damp mornings, the rain, mossy things, the smell of fireplace wood smoke in the air, the rain, the sound of Canada geese returning to our area, the end of Mom needing the mow the grass every week, snuggly sweater weather, the official season to drink apple cider without judgment and the rain.

There’s the added bonus of irritating the people who go on and on all season long about hating the gray, gloomy skies with how much we love those very things. Yeah, that doesn’t tend to go well when some of those people are bosses. We live, we learned, we stay mostly silent. But we’re smiling inside. Happy November!

Viola on Dad's bed © Colehauscats.com
Viola on Dad’s bed © Colehauscats.com

Viola’s claimed a spot on Dad’s downstairs bed (Quint’s the lump under the waterproof/cat proof blue cover), and Tessa usually naps nearby. Viola’s feeling a little under the weather as she waits for a dental extraction she’s scheduled for this coming Friday. A week ago, she hit her upper right canine tooth when jumping down from a kitchen counter and broke it off at the gum line. She’s on Clavamox until then and hates Mom, the official once-every-12-hour pill giver.

See? This is why we’re always on them about not getting up on the counters. But does anyone around here listen?

Tessa, head mischief maker © Colehauscats.com
Tessa, head mischief maker © Colehauscats.com

Gee, what do you think?

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A Colehaus Cats flashback:

2024 – No post
2023And This is Why…
2022 – No post
2021A Story, as told by Pia
2020 – No post
2019 – No post
2018 – No post
2017Finally Friday Flashback
2016 – No post
2015Ruby Tuesday
2014Maxx’s Take on Living with Sisters
2013 – No post
2012 – No post

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10/29/2025 – Halloween Prep

Viola prepares her Trebuchet for the hungry hoards © Colehauscats.com
Viola prepares her Trebuchet for the hungry hoards © Colehauscats.com

While Halloween is still a couple of days away, Viola prepares her trebuchet for the hungry, unruly hoards that’s sure to wander our street. You know, just in case they’re looking to steal some kibble. Oh, she is soooo ready for that rumble!

Tessa and Viola in temporary truce © Colehauscats.com
Tessa and Viola in temporary truce © Colehauscats.com

But first, who knew peace, however temporary, could be found over a trebuchet?

Baby Viola and her trusty trebuchet, October 2013 © Colehauscats.com
Baby Viola and her trusty trebuchet, October 2013 © Colehauscats.com

Here’s the photo that started the whole trebuchet and baby Viola Niblet thing back in October of 2013. She was so serious back then!

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We’re taking Friday, Halloween Day, off from blogging and we’ll be back Monday, November 3rd. Stay safe and see you in November!

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A Colehaus Cats flashback:

2024 – No post
2023 – No post
2022 – No post
2021A Talk with Tessa
2020 – No post
2019 – No post
2018MultiCat Monday and a Monday Memory
2017 – No post
2016 – No post
2015 – No post
2014The Bee Costume – 2014
2013Ruby Tuesday
2012ManCat Monday – The Colehaus Boys

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