Easy Like Sunday Morning

Boo gazes off into the morning sunpuddles...

Seagull at Dawn

I remember getting up before the crack of dawn to drive down to Jacksonville Beach before the sun came up to get the first rays of light on the ocean. Thankfully this seagull gave me a little extra composition to add to the picture.The colorful skies are the nature's blessings.

Formerly Feral Friday: Hiding Gracie

Look who I found?

Smackdown

The Fur literally flies! Check out Abby and Gracie smackdown!

One Word Wednesday

purrs,

Tuxitude

Tuxitude!
Abby has been feeling a little under the weather the past few days.
Two days ago she didn't want to get up out of bed.
I had to go and pick her up and take her to the kitchen so I could feed her.
I even had to bring her water to drink.
But, she did eat and she did drink.
Later on in the evening she did come and sit with me like normal and she had a few 'treats'.
The next morning she greeted me like normal.
So, I thought well she just had a day like we all do when we don't feel like getting out of bed.
But, then she threw up her breakfast.
She wasn't as interested in food for supper, nor was she too interested in treats.
She also threw up again in her bed.
*sigh*
This morning she seemed like herself, except she wasn't that hungry.
She ate, but she was picky.
So, I will watch and see if it stays down and how she is.
I just hope I don't have to take her to the Vet as she gets so upset.
I worry about my little senior tuxie girl with attitude.
Please keep her in your purrs....

Mancat Monday: Ping

A furry happy Mancat Monday to all!!!!

Easy Like Sunday

The many whiskers of sweet Miss Boo.

Homage to My Hero Ansel Adams

OK Momma I will let you tell your stories, but don't fink furr one min-it I'm gonna let yoo have moore dan one day a week at dis!

purrs,

I love master photographer Ansel Adams work.
He is an absolute genius.
If I ever had a dream it was to be able to a photographer.

*****

In 1991 my husband and I took a vacation out west.
One part of the trip was to Yosemite.
Unbelievably gorgeous!
I was dragging around a ten ton SLR camera with another couple of tons of equipment.
(Thinking I was a real shutterbug!)
Of course, I had to take pictures in B/W (because Adams did).
This is a scanned image.
It's hard to make a mistake when photographing El Capitan. The majesty of the mountain itself is simply enough. The beauty of the entire park is majestic.
I am so glad, that in my lifetime I was able to visit.
And ...
pretend for just a few brief clicks of the camera I was Ansel.

Happy Friday

We wanted to mention that the other day we had some foreign comments left on our blog and when I translated it it was all very graphic stuff I would never want on this blog. I wanted to warm everyone to check when you receive foreign comments from someone you don't know. What it translates into may be shocking.


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While preparing breakfast, Abby normally walks the counter pacing back and forth and she uses the area around the sink like a gang plank. As I was putting some dirty dishes into the dish washer, she fell. Fell into the dish washer. This isn't the first time she has fallen from this area, but it's the first time I've ever had the dishwasher open at the same time. I felt so bad that I was unable to catch her (which I have been able to do in the past), she appears to be totally unfazed, but my little senior girl causes me such worry!

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We hope everyone has a very happy Friday!

purr on,

Boo's Secret

Fank you Kellie the Orange Cat!

In Sync

Wordless Wednesday

WE all just saw the Huffle Mawson is hosting the Competitive Napping in the Cat-O-Lympics and we thought, doesn't Mr. Jinx qualify?

Tuxie Twosday

Mancat Monday: Ping

Valentines

We would like to join in today with sending out healing purrs to MaxDog. Please stop by and give his family some loving purrs and woofs.

purry purrs,

Lil Bit

c.1974

He was my first dog.
The only dog I ever remember growing up.
My Dad, who was a mailman brought him home one day after seeing him repeatedly on his route when no one claimed him.
I don't remember what year it was, my only childhood memories are of him being there.
All the kids in the neighborhood loved him because he would run and chase and play with us.
He was gentle and sweet.
A small black and white terrier who provided my entire family with incredible love and loyalty.
I was 19.
He may have been too. We of course never knew his age. He was a full grown dog when Daddy brought him home.
He as you can see in the above photo the gray creeping in around the muzzle and he was slowing down.
I plainly remember sitting with him as he lay in his bed in my parents bedroom. I had been there for hours studying because I was in college at the time. I knew he was not well. I knew he wouldn't be us for much longer. I checked him sleeping peacefully and thought he needed some privacy, so I slipped out of the room. Yes, he did want some privacy. In those few moments he slipped from this world to the next. I walked back in to check on him and he was gone.
Gone.
Lil Bit...
Gone.
I ran to get my Dad. It was the first time in my life I had ever seen my Dad weep. I don't know if he remembers but I held onto him as we both cried for Bitsy.
He buried him underneath the bedroom window, not far from where he normally slept.

Some time after you had gone Bitsy,
I heard you again,
I knew it was you.
Your click - click - click - clack nails against the linoleum -- plain as day.

You missed us too.

I can't tell you how many days I came home expecting to find you on the front room couch, only to find the couch empty. I can't tell you how many times I sat there and cried for you.
We all did.
You live on forever in our hearts and our memories.

That year WILDFIRE was a hit on the radio and every time I heard it the words just beat up against my heart. Because I understood.......and every time I hear that song now, I think of you and it still beats up against my heart....they say she died one winter....

You lived a good life,
a long good life
but...........
that does not diminish the loss...

WILDFIRE by Michael Murphy

She comes down from Yellow Mountain
On a dark flat land she rides
On a pony she named Wildfire
With a whirlwind by her side
On a cold Nebraska night

Oh they say she died one winter
When there came a killin’ frost
And the pony she name Wildfire
Busted down his stall
In a blizzard he was lost

She ran calling Wildfire
She ran calling Wildfire
She ran calling Wildfire

By the dark of the moon I planted
But there came an early snow
There’s been a hoot owl howlin’ by my window now
For six nights in a row
She's coming for me I know
And on Wildfire we're both gonna go

We’ll be riding Wildfire
We’ll be riding Wildfire
We’ll be riding Wildfire

On wildfire we’re gonna ride, oh
We’re gonna leave sodbustin’ behind
Get these hard times right on out of our minds
Riding Wildfire

35 years later, I still miss you.

Formerly Feral: Miss Grace

Tinkle Thursday

Abby...what are you doing?
Did I just do that?
purrs,

Wicked Wednesday

Traditional Tuxie Toosday

Do you guys see that black fabric -- dat's Momma. Guess what I'm saying?
Ready or not here I come!
Yep the pictures a bit fuzzie cuz Momma wasn't ready.
With the next second I wuz up in her lap.
I lub bein a lapkitty.
Momma I sees yoo...
yoo is takin my pixchur.
purrs,

Mancat Monday: Ping Ball

My beautiful baby boy...

Easy Like Sunday Morning

Here's looking at you kiddos!

Niagara Falls

Mom told us she is takin ofur our bloggie...she got this new 'toy' for Chrissmousey and finally decided (hey Momma it's only February!) started playin wif it. She can scan in her old pictures. Here is one from her and Daddy's honeymoon. Goodness it must be ancient...yep it was taken in October 1989. See the purrty rainbow? Momma says dat there is a funny story about der honeymoon -- ahhh yeah, ya fink so Momma? Well let me let her tell you.

After our wedding we left the reception around 7PM (from an afternoon wedding) headed out driving towards Niagara Falls(from Florida). We thought we'd drive a few hours and stop. So close to Midnight we were outside of Charlotte, NC and we stopped for gas and decided we would spend the night. We both got out of our rental car (new car -- not familiar with how it all worked -- this is important) and my new husband left the keys in the car and when I got out in my short sleeves (it was cold) to go to the restroom the car locked itself. So on our honeymoon night we spent it outside(because the attendant would not let us into his locked area) waiting for a locksmith to come and unlock our car, freezing. Once he did arrive it was well after 3AM, so we decided to was foolish to get a room, so we drove off until my husband could not drive anymore and we stopped in a rest stop and slept for a few hours and then headed off again. WE made it all the way to Niagara Falls that day and then the "honeymoon" suite we got on the American side of the falls had a leaky hot tub, so we had to leave. We finally got a great hotel on the Canadian side and from there had a less troublesome honeymoon -- I am so glad I got to visit the Falls. They were awesome!

Formerly Feral Friday: Spotted Gracie

Gracie does not like the camera at all.
She is grimacing in this shot because I had to use the flash.
She is still semi-feral and her Dad and I shutter at what she must have been exposed to before she "adopted" us. We don't believe people were very nice to her. Although in her heart of hearts Gracie is a 'people pleaser'. She is such a sweet natured girl.
The only people she will allow around her is Mom and Dad. She runs if anyone else comes in and hides.
She's now five and I don't think her behavior is going to change all that much. She is such a angelic little girl I wish she felt more secure.
But she has begun to let us pick her up and she will sit in laps, sometimes for hours. Most of the time only for moments, but it's still progress.
Slow and steady we'll do our best to tackle that insecurity!

Thoughtful Thursday

Ping glows....

WHAT WE FOUND OUT SO FAR...
After doing some research on being able to save our Haloscan comments we discover that anyone who had Haloscan as the way for comments to be left on their blog is out of luck (at least for the time being). As far as importing any comments back into Blogger.
Neither the company that purchased Haloscan is able to import over to Blogger, and even if they did Blogger has no way to import the comments onto a blog. Isn't that just grand?
The only thing you can do is export your comments and save them and hope that someday you'll be able to put them back.
I lost over 17,000.
It's not the end of the world, but it's sad because it's over 5 years worth of things that meant a lot to me and all the kitties.
And so it goes in the world of technology...

Wordy Wednesday

After all this time Momma finally decided to update our blog since she was notified this morning that Haloscan who was doing our comments will be obsolete as of 2/18/10, so we just lost all of our all comments...they are going to a paid service...and since we knew we had a comment option on Blogger we thought we'd just switch. Well we all should know better. The old blogger can't republish, so Momma had to update to the new blogger (which many of you did many many years ago) As you can see Momma lost a lot of her old stuff and now she has to figure out how to get some of it back.

*sigh*

She is going to try and reestablish those ... but we don't know if we will be successful.
So we are sad about that.

Momma has been letting us read and post to our furfriends blogs and we are glad about that, but we don't understand why she isn't updating ours...MOM GET WITH IT! So lots to try and correct....and Momma isn't furry compoodle smart...uh oh we is in trubble.

HELP!

purrs,