Photo Hunt - Colorful

This colorful bouquet is from my brother's wedding - the bride made the flowers out of paper. Isn't she talented?

Thanks from Auntie M

My Auntie M sent the following email that I would like to share with all you wonderful kitties and parents who posted comments yesterday:

Dear Simba,

Thanks so much for your lovely blog about Flossie – you are such a super kitty.

And please thank all your friends from me for their very kind comments. I’m really touched.

Lots of love,

Auntie M

Farewell Flossie

On Thursday my dear cousin Flossie was very sick due to renal failure and had to be helped to the Rainbow Bridge . Her Mom, my Auntie M, is very sad, and I would like to ask my kittie friends all to purr for her. Flossie was her very dear companion.


Flossie lived a good long life: she was nearly 16 years old. She chose to adopt her Mom, because the family she lived with 11 years ago had some dogs who were a little too lively for her. Auntie M worked it out with her first owners for her to become her family.


Sweet Flossie, we know you are in a good place at the Rainbow Bridge, having fun with all the kitties and doggies who have gone before, especially those from my Mom and Auntie M's family. We will not forget you.

We love you, Flossie's Mom. Flossie was very fortunate to have you for her Mommy.


If anybuddy wants to leave a message for my Auntie M, you can do so in the comments. I am sure she will read them. We have asked Gracie to let us adopt a special Angel Squillion in honor of Flossie, and when it arrives it will go permanently on my sidebar.

Thursday in the Garden with Simba

The other day I hopped off my deck while Dad was "watching" me, so he went out into the garden with me with the camera. I decided to make it a little hard for him to catch me or chase me inside (even though he wasn't planning to) by going into the forsythia bushes under the peanut bird feeder (or maybe I really wanted to be close to the birdies) - can you see me and can you see the feeder?


Here's a closeup of me:


and here is a closeup of the feeder above me:

It was lots of fun and Dad was in the mood to let me have a little time out there (not like Mom who kept telling him to shoo me inside - spoilsport!).

Wordless Wednesday

Basket-time

The weather has been a bit cooler here the past few days, so one day Mom found me in the laundry basket, snuggling in the "waiting-to-be-washed" clothes. I haven't done that in a while. In fact, while they were out for the evening on Friday, it appears I got caught in the laundry-room area of the house because I was in there without them realizing. Luckily being separated from my litter box for quite a few hours didn't seem to have any negative repurrcussions.

Easy Sunday

In the early evening, it is especially nice on my deck. The sunny patches are very filtered which I like, because I don't like the bright sun. Often Mom and Dad have an old towel down for me to lie on to soften the floorboards for me. Life can't get much better!

The answer to yesterday's picture is the statue at Rockefeller Center in New York City. Cat got it right! As she says, at Christmastime, that is where the big Christmas tree is, and the floor below the statue is frozen for ice-skating. It is a well-known landmark. During the Spring, my folks went there for lunch before going to a Broadway Show, at the "Rock Center Cafe". They said it was kindof interesting/weird to be where the ice rink usually is. I chose that picture because it was the most Public place we had a picture of.

Congratulations Cat for being the first (only?) one to recognize it. Sweet Praline was quite warm in suggesting the United Nations - right City! I enjoyed the snowboarder/skateboarder/cheeseburger ideas! Rumbles and Inigo, yes, your Daddy WILL be there!!! Here's another view of the "skateboarder" from a different angle:
The umbrellas in the foreground offer shade to the people eating there.

Photo Hunt - Public

Many of my visitors can probably identify this well-known public place Mom and Dad visited during the Spring. I am nowhere near as tricky as Chey is with her Find Chey Friday posts.

Thursday in the Garden with Simba

Hello kitties! Here's the gardening news from my deck:

The impatiens have really filled out and are looking pretty good, I think. With all the hot weather, Dad has moved the planters to keep them mostly in the shade, which they seem to like. There are four of them. He is also really good about watering everything a lot. On account of I can't do it myself, otherwise of course I would.

My catnip plant is getting quite full and actually flopping over. There are quite a lot of flowers on it - I am not sure if it would grow better if we pinched off the flowers but we like them!

And the last bit of gardening news is that we have several cherry tomatoes ripening and very close to being ready for picking! No good picture to show you. My servant is slacking off on the photography.