Tuesday Time tale and teapots

Every Tuesday my Dad winds our Grandfather clock.

This clock was here BM (before Madi)  and I have been here

15 years.  BUT this is the very very very very first time

I have ever been inside.  Timing (pun intended) is everything

you see I was passing by just in nick of Time.

Pardon the blur but mom was upstairs when Dad bellowed

quietly said bring the camera Madi is in the clock.

In case you didn't know, I get my sense of humor from Dad.
Dad said to mom, 'well now Madi has truly been all over the clock'.On top* and now inside.  You may or may not have heard about the on top part.  Mom wrote about it in 2009 we had only been blogging 2 months. WE have it pasted below



Flashback August 2009:

I was not blogging on Madi's 7th b-day (March 11, 2009). Today and tomorrow 

I'll post two stories about Madi's first year with us to celebrate how

lucky she was she is still here and how VERY LUCKY we are she chose to STAY!!!

Madi Climbs: Mount Grandfather Clock: Part 1

Madi was angelic when we brought her home at 2 months of age and weighing 2.5 lbs. During the 

first 4 months of cuteness she was really sizing up her peeps, deciding best how to rule her domain.

She cast her cuteness net over us, reeling us in hook, line and sinker. At 6 mos. and maybe 5 lbs, her 

true colors came out she was a really mountain goat in a kitty body.

This picture is our staircase...to the left of it our Grandfather clock. The gap between the stairs 

and clock is about a foot. One afternoon Madi's Dad heard a faint meow (aka 'look at me Dad'). 

He looks to his left to find Madi on top of the Grandfather Clock. Somehow, Madi was able to 

jump between the banisters upwards to the top of the clock. As if this wasn't bad enough 

(cat claws on fine wood), she decided to carve her 'name' on the wood. Yes, she had gnawed on 

the top. THIS WILL NOT BE ALLOWED Dad says!!! Now that she had discovered the trick 

there was not keeping her or her teeth off. We covered the clock with a sheet hoping to spook her, 

NOT!!! Her launch point was where the wicker mag. rack now sits. I was at my wits end trying 

to keep her off the clock. Finally, I remembered seeing a stair step magazine rack in a magazine. 

I bought the last one they had at Linens and Things. Here 7 years later it still sits there...

to the best of our knowledge she never went up there again.

Teapots and other art from Cedar Creek Gallery