Gets Friendly

It's Sweetnesday!

July, 2017: Sweetie goes from standoffish to friendly!

Finally being able to pet Celestial Sweetie was so wonderful!

She loved brushies too.

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Paperback

30 July is Paperback Book Day!

Did you know that paperback is short for 'paper-backed' book?

Also used:

-paperbound

-soft covered

Cats really like paperback books, as evidenced in the images below:

Today's images were collected from social media and used only for the entertainment of our readers.

 

Prowl

It's PO'Monday!

Late July, 2017: Celestial Paddy O'Malley was the king of his domain.

Surveying his territory.

Keeping his claws sharp, to deter intruders.

Showing off his glorious fur colors to his human!
Look at the raccoon tailio.

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Garden Beauties

A few new blooms and beauties on our gardens:

Looking Out

It's Caturday!

Here are Da Boyz, watching out the open window.

I played around with Lunapic, and make sure to click on the image below to enjoy a jigsaw puzzle.

This image reminds me of this:

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Let's Hop!

Angels

Our fellow bloggers lost their beloveds:

Angel Theo
Four White Paws
Click on the image to leave kind words.

Angel Jaava
Catio Tales
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Angel Lexy

Lola the Rescued Cat

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~Hugs and purrs~

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New Friends

 Dear friends have joyfully added to their families!

Winnie

Tommi

Such adorableness!

Welcome to your new families.

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Barn Cats Like You've Never Seen Before!

Thankful to have attended the 2024 Saline Celtic Festival.

Highland Cow

A Knight with his steed.

These actors are quite flat.

There were plenty of kilts, but it was too creepy to be snapping photos of dudes!

A few miles away from the Fairgrounds, I'd heard a rumor that there was a cat barn, so I drove out into farm country...

...and I found it!

A Mama with two kittens.

Not usual behavior for barn roofs, yet worth the extra drive out from Metro Detroit.

Let's Hop!

When Out

It's Sweetnesday!

A few photos from July, 2018, when Celestial Sweetie was an 'O Cat'.

And, of course, Celestial Pommy had to photobomb again.

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PO'M's Inside Gotchaversary was 24 July, 2021.

We lost him 7 August, 2021, so neither date is very celebratory for us.

Am not lying when I tell you that I went from the highest high with joy in my heart to the lowest low in that fortnight.

Losing Celestial Sweetie, who was a part of it all, is another blow, yet having these lovely furrys in our lives has only enriched us in so many ways.

The sadness only enhances the love that we all shared, and how precious life is. 

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Focus on: CB

The many moods of Chili Bruce

Watching out the open front door.

Hiding under a blankie when the temps dipped.

In the round.

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Easy

It's PO'Monday!

2018, and the living was easy...🎶

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Full of...

The term “Buck Moon” is a reference to male deer, which are also called bucks. In late spring, male deer start to grow new antlers, and these new antlers, coated in velvety fur, can be fully visible by July, according to the Farmers’ Almanac. The name “Buck Moon” comes from Algonquin tribes that lived in what is now the northeastern U.S., according to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

July’s full moon has other names too. Some Indigenous groups have dubbed it the Salmon Moon because its timing aligns with salmon runs, which is when the fish migrate up rivers each year. Others have called it the Thunder Moon because of the early summer’s frequent thunderstorms. Europeans refer to the full moon as the Hay Moon because early summer is typically when haymaking takes place.

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Enjoy yourselves!

Feeling Moony

In honor of this anniversary, here's a pic of the full moon taken in February, 2024.

Artified with Prisma 'Blooming' filter, it seems apt for the day.

Click on the image to enjoy a jigsaw puzzle.

Let's Hop!

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Giving Airs

Why not behave like a blue blood?

Let's all be pretentious!

We've learned it from our cats, after all.

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Twenty Years

 18 July, 2004

Angel and Chuck were born.

These two kittens began our everlasting love for cats.

We are so very, very thankful for them!

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Let's Hop!

At Home

It's Sweetnesday, and Queen Sweet the First has come home.

Thank you to Ellen for the purrfect art to go with.
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17 July is National Tattoo Day, and it just so happens that I have an appointment to have my Celestial Sweetie tattoo brightened with a ring of flowers.

I've chosen blooms that she lived with when an 'O' Cat.

Pics to be presented in the future, but let's have a moment of fun for this particular holiday: 

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Not Looking!

It's Twozday, and they've decided to not look.

This last pic is funny, as they appear like carbon copies!

Henry is very curious about Da Boyz, by the way.

We think that's a good sign.

'O' Friends

Pictorial proof that Celestial Paddy O'Malley and Sweetie were friends in life; we all hope they are now hanging out in Heaven. 

July 2017

July 2018

Happy Bastille Day, France!

Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité (“liberty, equality and fraternity”)

Freepik Image

Haven't yet traveled to France, yet family members have, and they of course sent cat images to me!

Pierre Auguste Renoir
"Julie Manet With Cat", 1887
Musée d'Orsay

Pierre Bonnard
"Le Chat Blanc", 1894
Musée d'Orsay

Au Chat Bleu, Paris

I have read a few books that are based in France:

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by Victoria Schwab

The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley

The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George

Peter May's The Enzo Files, 7 books with more to come, we hope

The Paris Key by Juliet Blackwell

Letters from Paris by Juliet Blackwell

The Bones of Paris by Laurie R. King

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