Judges' division for Tallinn and Rurok

Judges' division for Tallinn came yesterday and Iines and Saga have Elena Zagorskaja on Saturday and Olga Sizova on Sunday. Kat II was divided to 4 judges, so I guess it will be and ok sized show :-) I have promised to take one cute forestcatgirl to judging both days because the owner isn't coming to the show, and of course she has Sizova on Saturday and Zagorskaja on Sunday ;-) Mut I think I will manage just fine.


I have entered Iines and Saga to Rurok's show in 26.8. They will have Kai Ruonala as a judge there. It will be the last day of my vacation, how can this holiday go by so fast?? After Rurok Iines will go to Tampere with Kalinda. That judges' division should appear next week.

Only a few days until our trip begins. I have been trying to write my thesis today.. Blah. I have about 20 pages and that was the part that I've had ready for about 2 years now... So lots of work to do. AND I haven't even started to interview people yet. I'm trying to get most of the writing done by end of this week, so that I could present it to my teacher next week and maybe interview people in the beginning of next month.

I also have a lot of other work to be done, so it's going to be a busy week.... Marja and Veikko are going to pick me up around 11 AM on Friday, so before that everything should be done :-) (yes, I know it's not likely I'll get it done by then, but I can always try... after all, my goal is to get the thesis accepted, not make anything spectacular)

Tallinn approaching

In less than a week we go to Tallinn. It's nice to go there, it will be my only "proper" holidaytrip. Two weeks of my holiday have passed without me even noticing it! Next week I'm suppose to do some school essays :-( Boring. I think I have to go to the library or to our school to do them, there is no way I'm going to get anything done at home ;-) And maybe I can scan some old photos at school. I realized that I don't have any old pictures on my computer, so it would be nice to scan even some of them.

It will be very interesting and a bit nervous too to take Iines to her first show. At first I was only going to take her to Tallinn because actually I don't have any cats who need certs from abroad.. Then I figured out that it could be quite stressful for Iines to travel alone, and Saga was chosen to be her companion. It's nicer for Iines to have Saga with her in the hotel etc. I'm not going to put them in a same cage, even though with Saga and Lulu it worked fine.

It will be interesting to see how she will behave in the show. She will have her next show a week from Tallinn, only one day in Vantaa. And after that we will go to Tampere for a day and then she will have a break. I haven't got her pedigree from SRK yet, but I hear that import -pedigrees have taken quite a long time. But of course I can show her with her registration number fron NRR. So no problem with that.

It seems that Iines has grown within this last week :-) She has gained some weight even though it's still too hot in here. The other cats don't eat much when it's this hot, but the little one need to have food :-)

I have been sleeping late the whole week (or at least trying to ;-)) Iines wants me to wake up at 6 AM and since I don't want to wake up then, she's trying her best to get me up :-) She tries to talk to me with her pathetic little voice, she wants to be cuddled, she tries to lick my face and roll over me etc. :-D But nothing works. Today I finally got up 11 AM, so 4 hours of worthless trying for Iines ;-) And then when I wake up, she is in a so much hurry to go to the balcony, get food etc. Adorable little kitten.

I was surfing in the internet yesterday when I found internetpages where was a relative to Iines; IC Lindbrekkas Sirikitt, DM :-) It was nice to see that she is still in good condition (11 years) and see pictures of her and her offsprings. I hope that Sirikitt will have many more years :-) And that Shamicka will live a long and healthy life like her :-)

Pictures from my phone, finally..

Finally I have a usb cable and I was able to get the photos from my phone.. Some of them aren't so great, but the one I most like is the one with Roope and Iines :-)

Iines turns 5 months tomorrow :-)

Rest of the pictures taken todya can be found in the gallery: http://picasaweb.google.com/minna.viljanen/Iines5Kk5Months

Iines really knows how to pose :-) Too bad that my camera isn't very good so the quality of the pictures is low.

It's too hot already, 29,5C inside! :-(

It's so hot that it's almost impossible to do anything around here. The sun doesn't shine here in the morning, but by noon it has turned to this side and me and the cats are melting inside. I hope it will cool down soon...

All the cats are just laying somewhere under the ventilators. Iines is the only one who manages to do something, but she hasen't got a long, hot coat yet.

I tried to cool the cats down a bit, but as usual, Roope is the only one who gets the idea... He loves to keep the wet towel in his back, but the girls didn't quite get it.. Iines wore it for a while, but then decited that it was a horrible horrible thing ;-) And she soon got rid of it.

By the way, Iines was stuck by a bee last week :-( Fortunately nothing happened. I gave her the medicin and then removed the prickle from her lower lip and after that she was fine again. She of course had tried to eat the bee and then it managed to stuck her. No swelling, no nothing. Maybe the medicin worked so fast, it is originally ment for snakebites, but workes on bees too.

Leevin nimiäiset :-)

Kummipoikani sai tänään nimen Leevi Julius Joonatan :-) Nimiäiset menivät mallikkaasti, eikä tämä täti edes kauheasti sekoillut sanoissaan.

Häjy's HCM test and a few pictures

Rest of the pictures can be found in this gallery: http://picasaweb.google.com/minna.viljanen/Elokuu2007

Yesterday Häjy was HCM tested and so was his mother Emma, halfsister Lotta and Emma's grandchild Milla. They all had normal hearts and Emma's result was very good for her age (6 years), no signs of HCM could be seen.