Scorched

July 14 is: Bastille Day (France):

🇫🇷 Vive le 14 juillet!” (“Long live the 14th of July!”) 🇫🇷

July 14 is :Be Nice to Bugs Day (USA):

Be Nice to Bugs Day encourages people to rethink their instinct to swat, squash, or spray the insects they encounter, and instead to recognise the vital role bugs play in keeping ecosystems healthy. 

It is a light-hearted observance with a serious conservation message at its heart.

🪲 🐞 🕷️ 🦗 🐝

Not much to comment on these two holidays, so how 'bout some whining about what I've found on social media:

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🥵 THE HEAT 🥵
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An Outlander TV show joke 😻

'Nuff said!

Excellent poem!

This is all in fun, folks!

😹

And THANK YOU

for the kind comments to yesterday's post here, about Celestial Paddy O'Malley's desire to be his own cat.

He was my ❤️ cat.

❤️❤️❤️

Unsuccessful Coaxing

It's PO'Monday!

Some images of some of my attempts to coax Celestial Paddy O'Malley inside over the years:

November 29, 2012

Front Door

August 14, 2013

Downstairs Back Door

December 6, 2015

Upstairs Back Door

March 9, 2016

Front Door, with Sweetie

September 25, 2016

Upper Back Door

February 6, 2017

Front Door

March 15, 2020

Front Door

We have two back doors: one off the kitchen downstairs, or on the first floor, and a second back door for upstairs, which was once a separate rental apartment.

This upper area is now considered Henryville, and the old two-story porch and deck for each floor, with stairway, was removed awhile ago when it got too old and musty.

The PO'M would only step in just so far, then leave, despite food, water, warmth, and my loving coaxing, at any of these doors!

Year after year after year.

It wasn't until July 24, 2021, when I opened the lower back door during a rainstorm, and reached out to pull him inside.

He lived in comfort until August 7, 2021, when he was unable to walk straight or breath properly, due to his lungs being completely filled, and he left us while in my arms, and my tears soaking his fur.

This isn't meant to be a Debbie Downer post; it's a celebration of how he lived his life; HIS WAY!

And how...for years...he told me how it was gonna be, yet I kept trying.

I loved that cat.

I love him now.

He was a huge part of my life; our lives.

WHAT A CAT!

❤️ 😻 💕 

In The Bag

July 12 is World Paper Bag Day!

However, paper bags are not as 'green' as we think: the manufacturing process uses a lot of water, fuel, and trees.

Plastic bags have the smaller manufacturing carbon footprint, but then as waste they are awful.

Learn more here: Paper, Plastic or Reusable?

Around Eastside Cats, the paper bag gets as much attention as any cardboard box by Da Boyz.

Here are a few photos:

Chili Bruce

It's anyone's guess!

Manny

We reuse everything, and recycle what can't be reused.

Chili Bruce would happily recycle all of his brofurs meals.

If I knew a scientist, I'd suggest finding a way to make cat litter box waste into something useful, with minimum energy and water needed.