March 13, 2020

MAU CONFESSES & COOPER PLAYS

Friendly Fill-Ins: Week #199

On Fridays we enjoy participating in the Friendly Fill-Ins blog hop hosted by Ellen from 15 And Meowing and Lorianne from Four-Legged Furballs. It’s a fun way to learn a bit more about your blogging friends. If you’d like to take part in the hop, you can find the sentences to be filled in each Thursday on both blogs. To enter the hop, click on the badge at the left.

I coerced Mau into helping me with the fill-ins, so he would have to confess his recent transgressions.

We both used teal italics for our fill-ins. Any explanatory info is in parentheses.

1. I know I am sick when I do not have the energy to get out of bed.

2. For St. Patrick’s Day, I usually try to wear green, as I am half Irish, but I have never done anything special to celebrate it.

3. It’s been a long time since I have been out of the country.

4. Mauricio: In order to sneak out at night you have to learn how to move the barriers your humans place in front of the cat door and then pry the cover off. (I am in the dog house [MOL] right now, as I have been a hooligan and sneaking out of the house. Mom says, “The older I get, the bolder I get.” She and Dad and my beloved Allie are super disappointed in me. I have no excuse. I’m just being a stinker!)

Feline Friday with Cooper Murphy

How do you like my peacock feather toupee? Mom and I were playing with one of the peacock feathers the Florida Furkids (Allie, Noelle and Raz) sent us for Christmas, and I got a little goofy.

I am pawticipating in the Feline Friday blog hop at Comedy Plus. To join me, click on the badge below.

Purrs and paw-pats, Cooper Murphy

YOU
For Fiona

It seems like only yesterday…
You were just a kitten.
When I saw your pleading look,
I was completely smitten.

Now at only six years old,
You are getting ready to leave,
Soon you will have your wings.
I’ve already started to grieve.

You’ve fought hard for the past year,
And I’m not ready to say good-bye.
I can’t imagine you not in my life
I am so sad…today I had to cry.

I am grateful and blessed
For my six years with you.
You’ll live in my heart forever.
You’re one of the best ever Kitties Blue.

YESTERDAY

Many yesterdays have passed since
You gained your angel wings. Today
Is six months since you left us behind
To remember and mourn. Our hearts
Continue to hurt, and we miss
You as much as the day you left.
Giulietta whined from the catio
Yesterday as I worked in the yard.
I know you put her up to it. That
Was your way of getting me to,
Allow you to join me as I
Gardened. You were there with me
In spirit. With every meow
I thought of you and how much I miss
Your sweet face and disposition.
In these past few months, many friends
Have traveled your same path in your
paw-steps. I am certain you were
Waiting to greet them with purrs and hugs.
I pray you and your friends are laughing,
Frolicking and having fun together.
Picturing that makes me smile, but
Does not lessen my sadness at your
No longer being here to snuggle
And receive our love, care and kisses.
Fiona, please do not ever forget
You are still and always will be loved.

ONE YEAR MISSING YOU

One year has passed since you flew away,
And I still think of you everyday.
I see your sweet face in my mind’s eye
And wish we’d never had to say good-bye.
It’s nice you’ve sent us kitties needing a family,
But my dearest love, we are now at capacity.
You thought it would take more than one cat
To take your place in our habitat.
We love Cooper Murphy and baby Sawyer dearly
But thinking either could replace you makes me teary.
You were one-of-a-kind and will stay in my heart
Until the day I join you and we’re no longer apart.
When once again I can hold you in my arms
And revel in all your love and feline charms.
Together with you and all who have passed.
I will spend eternity contemplating how blessed
I was to share my life with my furry children,
Each and every one of you one-in-a billion.

UNTIL

I miss you each day.
Until we meet in heaven,
The pain will remain.

ONE OF A KIND

I don’t know how to say good-bye.
I thought you were invincible; though,
You used up many of your nine lives.
You ruled us all with an iron paw;
Never took “no” for an answer
And always got your way.
If not, you’d bark to signal your
Displeasure and sometimes raise a paw.
I always joked that you were bi-polar.
When I told people you were a calico
They immediately understood what I meant.
Today was unnaturally quiet in the house.
Can a home seem empty with eight cats?
I will miss waking up at night to find you
Sitting next to me and staring at me.
I will miss you yelling at us as you did
When you wanted breakfast and dinner.
I will miss watching you lounging and snoozing
On the porch settee on a warm afternoon.
But most of all I will miss your kisses!
When kitten Sawyer befriended you,
We suspect you were imparting your
Wisdom and secrets for controlling us.
Time will tell if he was a good listener.
But whatever he may have learned,
Neither Sawyer nor any other cat
Can or will replace you in our hearts.
Lily Olivia, you were one-of-a-kind.