I’ll be participating in the Wordless Wednesday blog hop at Comedy Plus. You can do the same by clicking on the WW badge.
Mom has COVID-19, and we will be taking a few days off until she feels better. We do promise to be back for Sunday Selfies if not before. Thanks for understanding
Purrs & paw-pats, Kizmet
We imagine many of you are celebrating the World’s Best Cat Dad today. We are fairly certain each of you who have a human dad consider him to be the World’s Best. And we believe that is exactly how it should be. So here’s best wishes for Father’s Day to all the cat dads (as well as all dads) but especially ours.
Thanks Dad Tom for taking such exceptionally good care of us. We love you!
Now it’s time for you to share your selfie, one of your dad or maybe the two of you together. If you and your dad are celebrating and do not have time to join us today, we totally understand. You can hop over anytime between now and Thursday.
But whatever you do, make certain you give your dad extra cuddles, purrs and love today. That’s exactly what we plan to do!
Purrs & paw pats, Misty May, Astrid, Lisbeth, Calista Jo, Cooper Murphy, Sawyer & Kizmet
Today we celebrate our dad, who we think is the World’s Best Cat Dad. He does everything for us, and we love him bunches. To honor him, we made a special card with his selfie and a selfie of each of us.
If you are wondering about our disguises, it’s sort of an inside joke. But if you look closely at our dad, we think you’ll figure out who is the brunt of the joke. But, we want to assure you, we are not mocking our dad. This is to let him know we love him so much that we want to be just like him!
Now it is your turn. If you’d like to honor your dad by sharing his selfie, that would be terrific. And if you’d like to share an usie with the two of you, that would be even better. Whatever you decide to share is okay with us. We just hope to see you here hopping with us. Even if you don’t want to share a selfie and hop, please stop by and check out the selfies of your friends.
Purrs and paw-pats, Misty May, Giulietta, Astrid, Lisbeth, Calista Jo, Cooper Murphy, Sawyer & Kizmet
Stinky stands near the teleportation tunnel waiting for Periwinkle to arrive. He is holding gifts for her in his paws and doesn’t want to get too close. Periwinkle usually comes tumbling out of the tunnel right into Stinky’s paws, and he wants to avoid dropping anything.
Periwinkle is confused when she tumbles out of the tunnel with the usual whoosh, and Stinky is not there to catch her. When she sees him, she squeals with delight, especially when she sees his gifts. “Stinky, what have you got? Are those beautiful flowers for me and those doughnuts? What is the occasion?”
Stinky explains to Periwinkle that June 8 celebrates lots and lots of different things, and they are going to to get involved with three. While handing Periwinkle the flowers, he tells her, “I have never asked you your favorite color or favorite flower, so I hope you like these yellow roses.”
“Oh yes I do, Stinky. Why did you select these?”
Stinky explains, “Today is Best Friends Day, and you are both my girlfriend and my best friend. Yellow roses represent friendship, joy and caring. They convey happy thoughts and positive feelings of warmth. As my girlfriend you bring all those things to my life.”
Periwinkle wipes a tear from her eye and gives Stinky a big hug and whisker kiss prior to asking him about the doughnuts.
“Today also is Jelly-Filled Doughnut Day. Cooper Murphy helped me make these special ones in his Cat Scout Bake Shop. They are filled with a special catnip jelly.”
“Can we have one now?”
Stinky tells her, “Of course,” and hands Periwinkle a doughnut and then takes one for himself. They spend several minutes smacking their lips and licking their toe beans, as they enjoy their yummy doughnuts. After finishing the first one, they look at the others longingly and decide to each have another.
“Are we going anywhere today, Stinky?”
“Nope, I hope that’s okay,” he replies and adds, “But I do have something else for you.”
Periwinkle starts to bounce from paw to paw in anticipation. Seeing this, Stinky gets very nervous. Then he begins to recite…
Periwinkle, you are my best friend,
And I know you will be until the end.
You are beautiful and kind
And hold a special place in my heart and mind.
We always have fun when we are together
But seeing you more often would make my life better.
I know that cannot happen since we live far apart,
So you will be always in my dreams and my heart.
“Oh, Stinky, you wrote me a poem. That is the sweetest thing ever. Thank you so much!”
“I know it was sort of lame, but I am happy you like it,” Stinky tells her apologetically.
“Stinky, it wasn’t lame at all, and I love it. You are the best boyfriend ever,” Periwinkle whispers as she hugs him tightly.
Hugging her back, Stinky tells Periwinkle it is time for the third celebration of the day; though, it is not actually a celebration. It is a remembrance.
Stinky tells Periwinkle that June 8 also is World Pet Memorial Day, created by the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA), as a day when humans can memorialize their pets that have gone to the Rainbow Bridge. The AVMA suggests some ways to do this, including the creation of a photo collage or scrapbook of the beloved pet, the planting of a tree in their memory or donating money or time to an organization that helps animals.
“Stinky, are we going to do something special for our fursibs that are now angels?”
Stinky tells Periwinkle, “Yes, but not all of them. That would take us all week. We are going to do a special memorial photo for your sisfur, Allie, and my brofur, Mau, as they were the last ones to leave our families as well as husband and wife.”
“Oh, I really like that Stinky. Let’s do it now.”
The tabbies get busy making their special memorial. When finished they show it to Stinky’s mom and dad, who are very impressed and proud of Periwinkle and Stinky for doing something so nice and thoughtful.
Stinky stifles a yawn and asks Periwinkle if she’d like to have a nap and then another doughnut and some Temptations before she has to leave for home. Periwinkle agrees that would be a terrific idea, and the tabbies head to Stinky’s dad’s chair where they curl up together for a nice long snooze and cuddle.
The End
Periwinkle & Stinky are joining the Happy Tuesday blog hop at Comedy Plus.
I am the designated Kitty Blue to be your host for this special Sunday…Father’s Day.
Lots of men claim they don’t like cats. I feel sorry for them. They are missing out on lots of love and fun. Of course, we know many cat dads. In fact several follow this blog, and their kitties join Sunday Selfies. We know they are all fabulous dads, but we think our cat dad is the very BEST one.
My selfie is our card for Dad Tom.
Now it’s your turn. If you want to share an usie with you and your dad, that would be terrific, but not necessary if your dad is shy.
Here are those hopping tips Mom likes us to post.
The link to add your selfie to the hop is below.Thanks to everyone who continues to support and join us for our weekly hop. And welcome to all those who are joining us for the first time.
All my fursibs and I want to wish all dads everywhere a Happy Father’s Day.
Purrs and paw-pats, Calista Jo
Today’s photo was taken by our resident photographer, Dad Tom. It is the Pisgah National Forest shot from the Blue Ridge Parkway.
The author of today’s Spark, Sivananda Saraswati [Swami Sivananda] (1887 – 1963), was a Hindu spiritual teacher and proponent of Yoga and Vedanta. Sivananda was born Kuppuswami in Pattamadai, in the Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu. He studied medicine and served as a physician for several years in British Malaya before taking up monasticism. Sivananda was the founder of the Divine Life Society (DLS) in 1936 and the Yoga-Vedanta Forest Academy in 1948. He authored more than 200 books on yoga, Vedanta and a variety of subjects.
Sparks was established as a blog hop by our friend, Annie (McGuffy’s Reader). Though Annie is taking a break from blogging and our Sparks post is not part of a hop, we continue to support Annie’s vision (as do many of our friends) when starting the Sparks hop: “I believe we are meant to be lights in this world. If we allow our light to shine, we can see where we are going. It is then that we can begin to truly see each other clearly. Together, we can light up the entire world!”
Well, we pretty much failed miserably at our promises we made yesterday. In addition to that, our gifts we had expected to give our dad are on backorder, whatever the heck that means. We know one thing for sure: That’s not our fault!
Guess Dad will have to wait until his birthday (eight months from now) for us to attempt this once again.
Purrs and paw-pats, Mauricio, Misty May, Giulietta, Astrid, Lisbeth, Calista Jo, Cooper Murphy and Sawyer
As today is Father’s Day, we are dedicating our post to our most excellent cat dad, Dad Tom. We have a special selfie collage, but before we get to that, we all want to make some promises to Dad Tom as his gift for the day.
We are going to do our darnedest to keep these promises; though, that horking one is going to be tough as is Lisbeth’s other promise. But we are going to do our best, and that’s what counts. Right?
Now here’s that selfie we promised. Each of us selected a past selfie and added those to one of Dad’s to make this especially for him.
Now here’s that ridiculous garbage vital information, Mom always makes us post, about hopping. We all say, “Ignore it!” Just take your selfie, link it up, and if you have the time, leave us a comment. If you’d like to include your dad in your selfie today, go for it. They never get enough recognition!
All of us are extremely sad about losing two friends this past week. We know they are happy and frolicking at the Rainbow Bridge, with all their friends and fursibs who went before, but that doesn’t mean we won’t miss them. We are sending lots of purrs to their humans as they grieve, and Mom is sending condolences and prayers. Today we are remembering and honoring, Simon from Toby in Charge and Minchie from Cat-a-holic.
If you have not had the opportunity to leave your condolences for your friends, the links to their blogs are above.
Purrs and paw-pats, Mauricio, Misty May, Giulietta, Astrid, Lisbeth, Calista Jo, Cooper Murphy and Sawyer
This Sunday is when we officially celebrate our dads and say thanks for all they do for us. We do we should do this more than one day each year, as our dads do things for us everyday. Our human dad is an exceptional cat daddy, and we love him very much. We wanted to do a special selfie with our day, but didn’t want to ask him and spoil our surprise. This afternoon while we had our heads together trying to come up with a plan, our dad picked up Mom’s new cell phone and took a selfie! We immediately got the photo from Mom’s phone and made this collage.
We wish all dads a happy Father’s Day, and we hope those of you who join us today will share your dad with us if you have one. All anipals, regardless of species, are invited to join our blog hop each Sunday. We truly do have the cutest critters on the internets joining us each week, and we’d love to have you join us. Meeting new kitties, woofies, buns, hamsters, guinea pigs, etc. and making friends is always fun.
Should you wish to join us, the link to add your selfie is below. You will also find the code there that you will need yo add the hop to your Sunday Selfies post. Should you decide to do this, would you please be so kind as to display our badge and/or link back to The Cat on My Head.
If you normally do not post on Sunday but still want to join in the fun, our hop remains open through Thursday.
Purrs and paw-pats, Lily Olivia, Mauricio, Misty May, Giulietta, Angel Fiona, Astrid, Lisbeth, Calista Joe and Cooper Murphy
Welcome to our special Father’s Day edition of our Sunday Selfies Blog Hop. Today we our featuring the most meowvolous cat dad on the planet. He’s a litter box scooper extraordinaire, a faithful bird feeder filler, and bestests of all, a great cuddler. We want to honor him today with this post and let him know how much we love him.
We are allowing the baby of the family, Calista Jo, to share the spotlight with Dad Tom. There was a bit of squabbling as to who would get this special opportunity, but Mom put a stop to that pretty quickly. She let us know that tomorrow is C.J.’s birthday, and she would get that privilege. Even if we don’t like that very much, we do understand.
Calista Jo will be four-years-old tomorrow. We will have a bit of a blog party, so we hope you’ll join us again tomorrow.
Without further rambling, here’s the photo of C.J. with our dad. Mom had to help as Dad was holding Calista.
So, now it is your turn to share your selfie, one of your dad or a photo of the two of you together. We realize some of you don’t have a dad, so please share your photo with anyone you consider a dad (if you’d like). As always, no requirements. Just have fun with it!
The link to add your selfie is below as is the code to include the hop on your blog. It would make our mom super happy if you would display our badge and/or link back to The Cat on My Head.
If you have any difficulty adding the link to your post, leave us a comment, and Mom will enter it for you.
We know you all will be doing fun things with your dad today. However, maybe during the upcoming week, you can visit at least some of the other hoppers. We have been getting one or more new entrants each Sunday, and it would be nice if we could give them some support.
Wising all the dads, especially ours, a Happy Father’s Day filled with lots of love and family time.
Purrs and paw-pats, Lily Olivia, Mauricio, Misty May, Giulietta, Fiona, Astrid, Lisbeth and Calista Jo
For Father’s Day we honor the best cat dad ever…our human dad, Tom. He does so much for us each and every day. The thing we appreciate most is his keeping all the bird feeders full so that we have constant entertainment when we are on the catio.
Of course, he puts food and water in our bowls and scoops our poops and pees.
And even though we make him sneeze, he still allows us to snuggle up to him.
He is not just good to us. He also helps kitties from Barn Cat Buddies find homes by taking exceptional photos of them.
So today, we have a special Sunday Selfie featuring our dad!
He’s also an amazingly good sport as you can see in this photo. Although he didn’t wear cat ears at BlogPaws, he agreed to pose in them at home. What a great guy!
This is a special edition of our Sunday Selfies Blog Hop honoring all dads everywhere. If you’d like to share a selfie with your dad or post one of him only, please do so. But, of course, all selfies are welcome.
If you would like to include the blog hop on your web-site, the code is below. We only ask that you please link back to The Cat on My Head and/or display our badge.
Purrs and paw-pats from your cat kids, Lily Olivia, Mauricio, Misty May, Giulietta, Fiona, Astrid, Lisbeth and Calista Jo
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.
© Janet Buickerood Blue 01/03/2018
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.
© Janet Buickerood Blue 01/03/2018
