Dragons, Smiles, and Paddy O'My!

The Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional Chinese holiday that occurs on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese calendar, which corresponds to late May or early June in the Gregorian calendar.

This week, it's today, May 31.

May 31 is also National Smile Day.

How 'bout some smiling dragon cartoons?

For Caturday, a smile from May 30, 2021, as Celestial Paddy and I were having fun!

Played around with filters to artify it a bit.

Click on the image above to enjoy a jigsaw puzzle.

Let's Hop!

Toys for Boy

It's hopefully-soon-to-be-formerly-feral Friday!

Things are well in Henryville.

Our fella loves his toys, and I spend minutes every day retrieving them from behind doors, under the desk, or inside the closet.

Henry has his specific places to nap, and like Celestial Sweetie, often is on a piece of cardboard on the floor of the spare room.

Soft beddys and blankets are eschewed, but who knows what tomorrow will bring?

Henry is a cat after all; we humans are not supposed to know or understand their processes.

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Seek

Today we are thankful for folks on social media who love to make these puzzles for us to enjoy!

Bigify if you need to.

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Let's Hop!

Water Cats

Established by The International Otter Survival Fund on the last Wednesday in May, to bring awareness that otter species are declining due to habitat destruction, reduction of prey, roadkill, and illegal trade for fur, and being kept as pets. 

As I've posted before, otters look like water cats to me!

SQUEE!!!!

Images found on social media.

Have included the IOSF link as a resource to my readers, but I am not a member nor spokesperson for the group.

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The Brow

It's Twozday!

Manny is our focus today, as the bald areas over his eyes make him look like he's worried.

First reported this on Siblings Day in April.

Just chillin'

Pensive

This is where Manny hides from CB.

We've discovered that Manny no longer has any eyebrow whiskers; you know, the one's that stick up from a cat's head.

A quick internet search says this isn't unusual, and that they will grow back.

Due to Manny's appearance, it's much easier for the humans to tell the two cats apart.

However, if his bald spots disappear and his eyebrows reappear, we'll be happy all the same.

Memorial Day 🇺🇸

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Shyly

Sunday Selfies

Henry is still a shy guy.

However, he's begun to follow me as I move around Henryville.

His wee head haloed by the bright sunshine just makes me love him more!

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Let's Hop!

Time Manager Manny

Our dear friend Stippie gained his angel wings in such a hurry, and we are heartbroken.

Image taken from Angelswhisper2011

Please consider leaving a word of condolence; use the link above.

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It's Caturday!

Manny sits on top of the refrigerator, watching The Hubby work in the kitchen.

A few Prisma filters, then a collage, and if you click on the image below, you'll have a jigsaw puzzle.

Let's Hop!

New 'Hood Friends

A fresh selection of 'hood cats, as observed on my walk:

This kitty has a name and a loving caregiver...I've simply forgotten the name!

New to me kitty, who hid under a parked car when I got interested.

Will continue to look for this dilute ginger, and ask any of the cat people I meet if they know this cat.

This threesome are cared for by the same kind people who rescued Eightball (click here for that post).

Eightball, however, is not in the picture.

No cat seemed upset with my making kissy noises and being silly, but who knows what any humans in the nearby homes thought of my performance!

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Hankering for Holmes

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, born on May 22, 1859.

Happy Birthday, ACD!

The Sherlock Holmes books and stories made a huge impact on my life, as I read them when I was young.

Am thankful for that, even if much of the British Victorian social mores ACD depicted are unconscionable in modern times.

Indeed, we attended the play "Baskerville" at the Chemainus Theatre, in Chemainus, British Columbia, on Vancouver Island.

Dinner and a show, and both were terrific!

The actors of Holmes and Dr. Watson played only those roles, while the six or seven additional cast members changed costumes multiple times, adding to a tongue-in-cheek humorous take on that terrific novel, "The Hound of the Baskervilles".

Program

Image from The Chemainus Theatre Festival website

Also so thankful to my host ET, who not only put me up in her home, but the "Baskerville" experience was a birthday gift to me! ❤️

Let's Hop!

Suits to a Tea

International Tea Day is a United Nations observance celebrated each year on May 21.

There are multiple tea holidays each year, but do you blame us tea-lovers?

Well aware that some folks aren't into tea at all, and that's fine, 'cause that means there is more for those of us who drink our fair share.

The best part, to me, is that lots of artists portray cats with teacups, dragons IN teacups, reading books and drinking tea...and these images float my boat!

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Bzzzzz...

The United Nations has designated May 20 as World Bee Day.

Read more here.

Bumblebee visiting our garden.

🐝 Be kind to bees! 🐝

Garden Lovely

 It's PO'Monday!

Look what a gorgeous and goofy lovely we found in the garden, May 21, 2014.

A sight for sore eyes, or rather, Winter-weary eyes.

Cats at The Museum

May 18 is International Museum Day, and this year the objective is to raise awareness about the fact that, “Museums are an important means of cultural exchange, enrichment of cultures and development of mutual understanding, cooperation and peace among peoples.” 

Have snapped photos of cats at art and natural history museums in my travels; here are a few:

The Graham Children, 1742

William Hogarth

The National Gallery, London

See the wee kitten watching the bird in the upper right?

Replica of Persian cat sculpture by

Richard H. Recchia

The Feline Historical Museum, Alliance, Ohio

Ancient Egypt

Bastet figure

The Field Museum, Chicago, Illinois

Cat and Bird, 1928

Paul Klee

Museum of Modern Art, New York

Tiger Rug, made of Maneki Neko cat images

The Lucky Cat MEWseum, Cincinnati, Ohio

Visit a museum; you'll learn something, I guarantee it.

Sweet Pea

It's Caturday!

How could I NOT artify a close-up of Sweet Pea, who is now far away on Vancouver Island while I am home with Da Boyz, Henry, and The Hubby in Michigan.

So much fun was had; adventures, discoveries, libraries...oh yeah, you think I that I WOULDN'T visit a library when on vacation?!?

Finished four audiobooks during my trip.

Click on the image to enjoy a jigsaw puzzle.

Let's Hop!

Fri-YIPPEE!

 Have enjoyed my visit to Vancouver Island so very much!

Friday is my travel-back-home day, so to avoid sketchy WiFi connections, with strangers reading my laptop screen, here's a few yucks yucks that I hope will make you smile, set up ahead of time:

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