I am a proud memfur of The TCMC Flower Garden Society.

At the CLAW Awards August 28 Miss Pinkerton presented me with these awards. It was so furry exciting.

Gardening is one of my passions. Meowmie needs help and I am always ready. We are gardening in pots this years and that has been a challenge for us. Here are several photographs taken of me and my garden. Meowmie is the photographer.

I am watching a new Calidum come up. It has been under my purrsonal supervision all spring.

I make my rounds often. My main job is to keep the garden free of insects. See me on the hunt.

It takes a lot of work to get all those plants where they are suppose to be.

My hibicus. Isn't it georgous!

I worked hard during August 2000 and received this award.

Napping under the Calidiums in my shade garden, I awoke to discover myself in the center of an invasion. Insects of all kinds were merging on my beautiful leaves. There were crawling caterpillars, beetles with many legs and grasshoppers. I know a grasshopper when I see one. Well I was looking at 40 or 50 and one was looking at me dead in the eye. My garden is chemical free and I don't mind a bit of theft now and again this was brazen pre-meditated war!

What to do. How does one cat defend her garden against so many munching, voracious, plant eating machines? Time slowed for me as I planned my strategy. Before that grasshopper could remove his face from mine, I leaped into action.

Chomp! His head was gone. Slap! Down went three more grasshoppers and a half dozen beetles. I became a lean, mean, fighting machine with adrenaline pumping through my veins. My tail knocked those caterpillars off the plant leaves and stems. My claws went for the beetles like lightning in a thunder storm (shudder at the thought). With super powers I munched grasshoppers until there were none left.

90 seconds from that rude awakening and there were no more insects. I sat down and looked about me. Not an insect, bug or any other moving object around me. Success! Exhausted I lay down next to the one remaining upright calidium leaf to continue my nap. The plant will regrow but insects will no longer do battle with SUPER SAMMY.

submitted by: Sammy Brewer - July 2000