Random Thursday stuff

Kitties, Mom has not been good at getting pictures of us to do blog posts.     This one is new, but otherwise, not much

Since today is Thursday I will tell you  a little about our garden.  Dad has planted some tomatoes and some peppers and various herbs in pots on the deck.   He doesn't usually have a lot of luck with the tomatoes, but this year looks like it may be better.    His goal is for ripe ones by then end of July since they aren't in full sun.

He also planted a bee balm to help attract the hummingbirds, and it finally has flowers.  But we have seen ZERO hummingbirds at our feeders this year, which is very discouraging.  

We will try to have some real garden pictures for next Thursday.

AND..................DRUMROLL.......................

The Baby is walking!     And has been going to the swimming pool and is a real fish.  

Easy Sunday

Simba has two small plastic tables for shade out on the deck - Dad spoils him a lot, but it has been pretty hot here, so the extra shade is important. 

 We know you think you saw this photo before, but we promise it is a new picture!    Audrey's favorite position on that chair.

  

Have a great relaxing Sunday, furries and peeps!

Independence Day

To all the United States kittehs and their families, Happy 4th of July! (or July 4th as some call it   :-)  That's a true joke - a group of young children was asked what another name for the fourth of July is.  So one said "July 4th!")

But we don't get it with this holiday being called Independence Day.    WE sure don't get any greater independence!   Simba was unceremoniously IMPRISONED in the ptu yesterday and taken to the V-E-T for his shots and checkup.     Mom has never before seen a kitty try so hard to break out of a carrier.    Once there, he became meek and backed into the back of the carrier with big wide eyes.     He passively submitted to all the vet did to him (thankfully, no thermometers).     Very glad to come home and throw up a good big hairball on the rug.

The humans went to a concert and fireworks show last night and enjoyed it.     We hope all our readers can have an enjoyable day today.    We plan on naps and deck time.

Almost Wordless Wednesday

Helping Dad

Favourite Things

Nerissa came up with a new award to celebrate 50,000 page views on his blog.  It is called "My Favourite Things award" and he very kindly passed it on to me (note how he spells Favourite, because he lives in Nova Scotia).  Thank you, Nissy!   It is one of the prettiest awards ever!  Don't you just love those beautiful Nova Scotia flowers?

The awardee is to list 6 of their favorite things and then pass the award on to some other bloggers.

So here goes, hopefully in priority order.

1.   Party Mix treats!
2.   Going on the deck.
3.  Escaping into the garden from the deck.
4.  My "messy blankie" on the couch (that is more in the cold weather - Mom put it away now).
5.  Lying in front of the iMac, between the computer and the keyboard
6.  Playing chase with Audrey.

I am going to pass the award on to the following friends:

Ginger Jasper at Ginger Jasper
Angel and Isabella at Beaded Tail
The Island Cats Ernie, Wally and Zoey
Sparkle at Sparkle the Designer Cat
Cheysuli, Ichiro and Gemini at The Cat Post Intelligencer
Maxwell Allie and Faraday at A Tonk's Tail
Cathy Keisha of Stunning Keisha
Prancer, Princeton and Precious at Prancer Pie

Pass it on, friends!

Saturday Photo Hunt : Citrus

We hunted for the most "orange" photo we have of me and we think this is it.  

In the evening light, my coat becomes darker and brighter.   More orange.  
Oops, I just realized we posted this a day early, but will leave it now.

Going Pink in Memory of Skeezix

Along with many others in the pet blogosphere, we are turning our blog pink today in memory of Skeezix, who recently ran off to the Rainbow Bridge.  

(we hope it is ok thay we borrowed this badge from Cheysuli's blog).


Before I started my blog, I used to read other cat blogs and in September of 2009, I twice successfully "found" Cheysuli when she was lost on Fridays.     A few cats encouraged me to start my own blog and among them was Skeezix:  


"Skeezix the Cat says:

September 27, 2009 at 7:15 pm

I have two qweschuns: Why duzn’t Simba have a blog? and How does Simba git his tale to be so floofy?"

We have always been in awe of Skeezix, almost like he was too unique to believe.   I mean he did all sorts of things happily that I would never have the patience to do.   He dressed up and posed for pictures in his outfits, he took rides in his stroller, he took walks on a harness and leash, and he traveled all over the werld as his flat self.    He had the most awesome frootbat ears, and a super relationship with his humans, Mr TastyFace and the Food Lady.     He introduced us to Vishus Deer and how to be suspicious of even the most innocent of those deers we see.  

But I think we will most hold in our hearts the brave way he faced his last days on earth, and his final blog posts.     No sad parts, just his wonderful sense of humor shining through when he talked about his tumor and showed us the zipper the vet installed in his tummy.   And his final post that greeted many old cat friends at the Rainbow Bridge as he arrived there and reviewed his grate life.     We know his humans' hearts were heavy, but instead of talking about that, they gave us one last dose of Skeezix's fabulous purrsonality.  

Cat World Domination Day

Of course, cats dominate the world ALL the time.   But as Sparkle the Cat says, mothers are mothers every day of the year and we have a day set aside to celebrate them.  So today is the day to celebrate the fact that Cats Dominate the World.     However, if you wish to undertake any extra domination of the world activities today (see for example Spitty and Katie Isabella's blogs) more power to you!

Sparkle is having a great party, also to celebrate her birthday.    

We are already sleeping off the cake, and Dominating the Couch:

Technical Help

Hi, kitties.      Sorry for the scant posting - we do have a sort of excuse because Mom is visiting The Baby and her parents and has been busy with stuff other than US!   Alarming, isn't it?

Anyhoo, in sharing some photos from Audrey's first Mom's camera, she came across this sequence of three pictures that were taken when they visited us in early May.  

We would love to be able to use these three shots to make one of those action GIFs but we have no clue how to.    Any assistance would be appreciated.     We have only Mac computers.  Maybe the middle picture could be used twice, so the GIF would contain 4 pictures in all?

Thanks to our very first commenter, Furries of Whispy, we worked out how to do it.  Thanks!!