Careful Storage

Always best to store your cat in a good vessel, for easy retrievel.

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A selection of cats in pots images, for your viewing pleasure!

All found on social media.

Shop Independent Bookstores

4/26 is Independent Bookstore Day!

 Independent bookstores that I love:

The Tattered Cover Book Store, several locations in Colorado

The Book Beat, Oak Park, Michigan

Mayflower Bookshop, Berkley, Michigan

John K. King Used and Rare Books, two locations in Metro Detroit, Michigan

Curious Books, East Lansing, Michigan

Paperback Writer Books, Mount Clemens, Michigan

Dark Star Bookstore, Yellow Springs, Ohio

Loganberry Books, Cleveland, Ohio

Mulberry Street Books, Lebanon, Ohio

Appletree Books, Cleveland Heights, Ohio

For today's Caturday, I used Prisma to artify an image of a kitten on a book found somewhere in social medialand.

Click on the image above to enjoy a jigsaw puzzle.

Let's Hop!

Penguin in a Tree

Arbor Day, celebrated on the last Friday in April in:

Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, and Nevada.

Plant a tree!

April 25 is World Penguin Day also!

Donate to penguin conversation, or visit the zoo.

Penguins are a group of aquatic flightless birds from the family Spheniscidae of the order Sphenisciformes.

Say that fast three times!

Using Image Playground, here's a penguin in a tree.

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My Furry Fellas

Am so, so very thankful for our three furry fellas!

Henry has found a new lounging location, in the spare bedroom which doubles as a junk room.

Manny and Chili Bruce, smashed into a one-cat-sized beddy.

Move a litter box to clean it, and some enterprising cat will leave pawprints in the dust.

Love these guys with all our hearts!

Let's Hop!

Read A Shakespeare Play About Dragons Day

 April 23 is:

Dragon Remembrance Day or St. George 'who slew a dragon, that rat fink', Day.

World Book Day, organized by UNESCO.

Talk Like Shakespeare Day/William Shakespeare's Birthday.

Forsooth!

FYI:

1) I read a ton of books that have dragons as characters in them.

2) Listen mostly to audiobooks, and I get the majority from the library.

Spend a fair amount of time requesting audiobooks, signing onto the library app queue for popular ones, and fret often as UK authors aren't published in The States for months after they are first published at home, and I have to keep an eye out to make sure I'll get the audiobook when it first drops, rather than waiting for 75 people to listen to it first.  (Competitive, aren't I?)

3) Learned to love Shakespeare when in High School, age 16 or 17, when our teacher assigned each of us parts in a play, and we read our lines out loud.

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Clean Power

April 22 is World Earth Day

"Earthday.org’s founders created and organized the very first Earth Day on April 22, 1970. 

Since then, Earth Day Network also known as EARTHDAY.ORG has been mobilizing over 1 billion people annually on Earth Day, and every other day, to protect the planet.

Earth Day’s 2025 theme is OUR POWER, OUR PLANET, calling for everyone to unite around renewable energy so we can triple clean electricity by 2030."

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Slurp!

April 21 is British National Tea Day, celebrated on the anniversary of the birthday of Elizabeth II.

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Smoke 'em!

April 20 has become an international counterculture holiday based on the celebration and consumption of cannabis.

Stay positive and relaxed, friends!

Cat Lady Day!

National Cat Lady Day is celebrated on April 19.

Made a slideshow of a few of the cats that I've shot ussies with:

And...it's Caturday!

Ussie of Sly and me, and I simply tweaked the color a tiny bit in iPhoto.

Click on the image above to enjoy a jigsaw puzzle.

Let's Hop!

International No Declaw Day

Don't do it!

How you can help:

Talk to your family, your neighbors, the guy in line with you at the coffee shop.

Educate them.

Many legislatures are working to get this made illegal in their jurisdiction, and it takes WE THE PEOPLE to push to make it so.

It's a travesty.

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Chiroptera Cheers

4/17 is International Bat Appreciation Day

Bats are crucial members of the environment. 

They provide pest control, disease control, and even medical assistance to humans. 

Bats are responsible for the pollination and seed dispersal of many plant species and help with plant regrowth after fires and habitat destruction. 

Without bats, we wouldn’t have things like tequila, bananas, mango, and avocados.

We are thankful for bats.

Bats are flying mammals of the order Chiroptera.

Let's Hop!

Wanderer

This week's Henry update is brought to you by Wednesday, 'cause Thursday's and Friday's post are already full with other things.

Our H.S.T.B.F.F* fella is really getting around Henryville these days.

He may be wary, but he knows when it's dinnertime.

Look at that face, he's telling me that I need to step away from the keyboard, to put some gushy goodness into that empty bowl.

The humans cannot yet touch Henry, and if someone is moving too fast, he'll head for the hills.

Henry squeaks and trills, so he's sorta singing for his supper, no?

*hopefully-soon-to-be-formerly-feral

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Peas

It's Twozday!

Da Boyz just cannot help but be adorable at all times of day.

It's weird at how differently my camera picks up the background colors.

Our two-peas-in-a-pod.

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Spring Tiger

It's PO'Monday, and let's turn back time to April 16, 2016.

Our Celestial Paddy was all over the yard, enjoying the sunshine, and the hopes that Spring really had arrived.

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Eightball

Last Sunday morning, I noticed a plea from a neighbor, about an injured community cat.

I messaged, saying I have humane traps to share.

My neighbor lives two blocks away, so I dropped off the trap and showed them how to use it.

Image provided by neighbor.

I was texted that the trapping was successful, and they were on their way to the lost cost spay/neuter clinic nearby a day later.

Word was that Eightball's injury was severe, but some antibiotics, stitches, and a day or two of rest would do the trick.

He was also neutered, the 'N' in TNR.

I picked up the trap after Eightball was released Friday morning, with his info written on a piece of tape.

And surprise!

While on my evening walk that day, I spied Eightball a street away.

Black cat, with a huge shaved area...that's him!

I'll keep my eyes peeled for future sightings while out and about in the 'hood.

I've made a donation to All About Animals Rescue in Eightball's name; they are a important resource for our community.

I've turned off the comments for this post, as this was all handled by Eightball's carer; she feeds about four community cats, plus has four cats inside.

Our trap may have made it possible, but we did little to make this one cat's life better; our neighbor did the heavy lifting.

Purrs for Eightball.

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The Hubby and I thank all who wished him a Happy Birthday!

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Eyeliner

It's Caturday!

Zeroed in on a cute pic of Henry, then played around with iPhoto filters until this sort of pencil sketch emerged. 

Click on the image above to enjoy a jigsaw puzzle.

Today is The Hubby's birthday, and all we have planned is to make sure all of the Eastside Cats give him the attention that he deserves.

Let's Hop!

Honoring Orphaned Pets

"National Pet Day on April 11 dedicates the day to those pets who may not always get the companionship and attention they deserve. 

While loving our pets is something we do every day, the observance encourages helping out orphaned pet companions. 

It will improve their health and enhance their opportunities for adoption."

“Love is a four legged word.” – Author unknown

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