Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Might

It's Twozday!

The daytime temperatures have been wonderful recently, yet the overnights are cool, so Manny and Chili Bruce are doing a bit more tandem napping.
In MY chair...
...also in MY chair...
...had to go black-and-white to tell where one cat started and the other ended!
A mind-meld?

Say all you want about it's no longer MY CHAIR, but I'm bigger than the two of them, and I can scoop 'em up to replace them in my lap.

So might makes right, right?

😹 😹 😹 

Monday, September 29, 2025

Beckoning Cup of Joe

September 29 is:

Maneki Neko (Beckoning Cat) Day in Japan

and

National Coffee Day in several countries!

Maneki Neko at tattoo studio.
My Henry Outer Space Maneki Neko ink.
Maneki Neko gift from my nephew and niece-in-law, brought from their honeymoon in Japan.

❤️❤️❤️




☕️☕️☕️

Sunday, September 28, 2025

Missing Our Friends

 We have the sads that Astrid from The Cat On My Head Blog had left for The Rainbow Bridge so quickly.

Read about her here.

Image from The Cat on My Head.

Farewell, Angel Astrid.

😿

In addition, Four-Legged Furballs lost their sweet doggo Astrid recently too.


Good-bye, Angel Astrid.

😽

Today's Sunday Selfie is of Chili Bruce.

Well, a bit of his ear.

He wasn't having any of it! 😹

Let's Hop!

Saturday, September 27, 2025

Ghosty Scarves?

September 27 is National Scarf Day

~AND~

National Ghost Hunting Day is the last Saturday in September.

Manny and CB kindly chose to model some impromptu scarfs (read: they were asleep and I pounced!):

Manny (that's a ribbon)

Chili Bruce (yes, that's the fabric from Manny's favorite toy, the Cat Dancer!)

😹

A silly ghost hunting cartoon, with cat:


Below is a picture of our Ghost Cat, a garden statue, which earned its name when it appeared all ghostly white on our deck, and for a short time, I thought it WAS a ghost!

Discovered later that a generous neighbor wanted to gift this cat to us, but as we weren't home, it was left on the deck.

When I arrived in the evening after dark, I was communing with The 'O' Cats, and saw this white fella sitting there, still as stone.

I was spooked!

Finally, I worked up the courage to reach out, and discovered it was inanimate and not spectral. 


The neighbor, who was moving house and was gifting away anything her neighbors would take, apologized that the cat statue was a bit worn, and that one ear was broken.

Purrfect for our yard, where all of The 'O' Cats were TNR'd and ear-tipped, and a bit worn too!

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It's Caturday!

Ghost Cat Statue artified by Prisma filter Thota Veikuntam.

Click on the image to enjoy a jigsaw puzzle.

Let's Hop!

Friday, September 26, 2025

Forward

It's H.S.T.B.F.F. Friday!

Henry follows me now:
Bathroom

Bedroom

And Action Henry!

Video shot while Henry lay at my feet, as I sat in our old rocking chair.

He's got a fast paw, however, when I reach out to give him a pat.

Yet, I've managed a few touches here and there, and will continue to move this boundary forward.

Thursday, September 25, 2025

Remember Me Thursday


#Remember Me Thursday is on the fourth Thursday in September annually.

Shine a light on orphan pets waiting for forever homes.

Adopt, Don't Shop.

Spay and Neuter!

❤️ 🕯️ ❤️

Thankful for all humans who work hard to rescue animals.

Let's Hop!

Wednesday, September 24, 2025

Comma Wars

September 24 is National Punctuation Day in the U.S.

For a fun look at this topic, I recommend "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation" by Lynne Truss.


You'll have to pry the Oxford comma from my cold, dead hands!

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Tuesday, September 23, 2025

Not Identical

It's Twozday!

The bald-spots on Manny's noggin are clear to see.

He looks worried, but obviously it's not enough to get him to bap his brofur CB.


At least we cannot blame it on Henry, who continues to be sequestered in Henryville.

😹😹😹

Monday, September 22, 2025

Equinox and Blogoversary

The autumnal equinox will occur on September 22, 2025 at 18:19 GMT.

Some of us are unhappy that summer is over, yet rejoice in the recent wonderful days we've had here in Michigan.

In honor of every solstice and equinox, some creative Stonehenge replicas for your amusement:

🌞🌞🌞


Also, today is our 12th Blogoversary; our first post was September 22, 2013.

Who'd of thunk it?


We wouldn't be here if not for our readers: 

THANK YOU SO MUCH!

We are about CATS, and a whole bunch of other stuff.

Celestial Angel, photo taken on September 21, 2013.

❤️ ❤️ ❤️ 

Sunday, September 21, 2025

Harmony



So much unrest.

Too much hatred.

Let's each do our share to bring calm and harmony to our slices of reality.

Love others as ourselves.

Turn away from violence and hate.


❤️ ❤️ ❤️ 

Saturday, September 20, 2025

Sly The Old Man

It's Caturday!

My boyfriend Sly is such a cutie, and artified with Prisma filter Postcard, he's gone blue!
Click on the image above to enjoy a jigsaw puzzle.

Let's Hop!

Friday, September 19, 2025

Piratical

September 19 is Talk/Meow Like a Pirate Day.


Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson’s adventure novel "Treasure Island" was published in 1883. 

In 1950, the popular tale was adapted for Hollywood in what was Walt Disney’s first movie made with live actors only.

The movie starred Robert Newton as the fictional pirate Long John Silver. 

His performance was certainly a memorable one; TIME’s 1950 review of Disney’s Treasure Island notes that it “offers the fun of watching an eye-rolling, lip-twitching Robert Newton as he wallows outrageously through the role of Long John Silver, one of fiction’s most ingratiating scoundrels.”

Born in Dorset and educated in Cornwall, Newton based his pirate talk on his own native British West Country dialect. 

His accent might not have been far off—the south west of England has long been associated with pirates because of its strong maritime heritage; notorious pirate Blackbeard was even said to have come from Bristol, in the heart of that area.

Newton’s iconic role as Long John Silver was so influential that a variation his West Country English became the standard for portrayals of pirates on stage and in the cinema. 

As historian Colin Woodard told the National Geographic in 2011, “Newton’s performance—full of ‘arrs,’ ‘shiver me timbers,’ and references to landlubbers—not only stole the show, it permanently shaped pop culture’s vision of how pirates looked, acted, and spoke.”

🏴‍☠️ 🏴‍☠️ 🏴‍☠️ 

Thursday, September 18, 2025

Free Yet Invaluable

 Am so very thankful for the no-cost programs that I've attended.

At my local library, at a nearby library, on Zoom, and at a cat rescue

This summer, I've attended:

-The Ever-present Camera: Understanding Photography on Your Smartphone
-On Writing Darkly Charming Villainous Love with Hannah Nicole Maehrer
-Downton Abbey Tea Party
-Author Talk - "The Enchanted Season" by Lance Parish and Tom Gage
-Taming Feral Kittens for Adoption
-Documentary on extraterrestrial life and UAP's (UFO's)

Spay and Neuter!

Have found these events on social media, library calendars, newsletters, and by word of mouth.

Let's Hop!

Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Eye Spy

New 'hood cats!

This is Leo; he's got humans and is skittish, but his dad told me that he's friendly.
Isn't his fur pattern just lovely?
We will be great friends soon!
Window kitty.
As guessing that this is a Mama in front, with two kittens behind.
Have not seen them since, but will keep my eyes peeled, and chat up the neighbors too, so I know this family is cared for.
Another window kitty.
Floofalicious void.

Although the overnight temps are lower, our days are still quite warm and sunny, so I try to sneak out early to avoid sun, and again at early dusk.

These are the times when cats are active, as they are crepuscular, and you should know by now that I'm always cat spotting when on foot.

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