Flashback Friday

FELINE FRIDAY FLASHBACK & FILL-INS

Friendly Fill-Ins: Week #198

I am joining the Friendly Fill-Ins blog hop hosted by Ellen from 15 And Meowing and Lorianne from Four-Legged Furballs. If you’d like to take part, you can find the sentences to be filled in each Thursday on their blogs. To join the hop, click on the badge at the left. It will take you to Four-legged Furballs.

I got a little help again this week from Sawyer. Both of us have used teal italics for our fill-ins.

1. I won’t pay more than a sale price for anything (unless it is a gift).

2. The last show I watched on television was Project Runway.

3. I recently had the opportunity to have an MRI of my neck. (I had one ten years ago, and I am waiting to find out about the changes.)

4. Sawyer: Every day I don’t have a seizure is cause for celebration.

Flashback & Feline Friday

I enjoy sharing photos with you of past Kitties Blue, and I have shared several of best buddies, MacKenzie and Madison. Both got their wings in 2011.

Today’s photo was taken in June, 2002.

 

 

Angels MacKenzie (left) and Madison (right) are hopping over to visit Sandee at Comedy Plus for Feline Friday. If you would like to join them there, click on the badge below.

 

 

FELINES, FILL-INS & FRIENDSHIP WITH FIONA

Friendly Fill-Ins: Week #192

Friendly Fill-Ins is hosted by Ellen (15 And Meowing) and Lorianne (Four-Legged Furballs). Each select two sentences for participants to complete. If you’d like to play along, click on the badge at the left. That will take you to Lorianne’s blog, where you can enter the link to your post.

The sentences to be completed can be found on both blogs each Thursday.

These are some of the toughest fill-ins ever. I had to call on both Mau and Sawyer to help me out. I tell myself each week that I will fill-in with the first thing that pops into my mind. It’s tough, however, when nothing comes to mind!

Anyhoo, the boys and I have used teal italics to complete the fill-ins. Explanatory info is in parentheses.

1. I am particular about my writing and grammar and always proofread my work carefully.

2. Sawyer: My tummy is like a clock. (I always know exactly when it is time to get my treats [11 a.m.] and lunch [3 p.m.].)

3. Mauricio: My marriage to Allie (Friends Furever) in a ceremony at Cat Scouts is a moment I will never forget.

4. Have you ever heard of an American who doesn’t like John Wayne or chocolate chip cookies? (I did like John Wayne in True Grit and will eat a chocolate chip cookie if it is the only sweet thing in the house.)

Feline & Friendship Fridays

For the blog hops, Feline Friday at Comedy Plus and Friendship Friday at Create with Joy, I am using a flashback photo from July 2015 of our sweet and beautiful angel, Fiona.

 

 

I did use this photo back in 2015 for Caturday Art.

If you’d like to join the hops, click on the badges below.

 

 

CHRISTMAS-THEMED FILL-INS AND FELINE FLASHBACK

Friendly Fill-Ins: Week #187

This Friday’s Fill-Ins again are Christmas-themed. Our hosts, Ellen (15 And Meowing) and Lorianne (Four-Legged Furballs), each selected two sentences for participants to complete. If you’d like to play along, click on the badge at the left. That will take you to Lorianne’s blog, where you can enter the link to your post.

The sentences to be completed can be found on both blogs each Thursday.

My fill-ins are in teal italics. Any explanatory information is in parentheses.

1. My holiday plans include starting physical therapy on December 26.

2. I can’t wait to see Kitties Blue open his/her their gift from me.

3. All I want for Christmas is for Sawyer to never have another seizure.

4. Smiling and saying, “Merry Christmas” to everyone you meet is the best way to spread holiday cheer. (Too many people are stressed and over-tired this time of year. I am no exception. It is important not to take one’s frustration out on family, friends, sales people and strangers.)

Feline Friday Christmas Flashback

Lisbeth was helping me de-decorate in January 2013 when this photo was taken. I shared it for the first time in 2017.

 

 

She is popping over to Comedy Plus to join in their Feline Friday blog hop. Click on the badge below to go there.

 

MORE CHRISTMAS-THEMED FILL-INS & A FLASHBACK

Friendly Fill-Ins: Week #186

Time for fill-ins again. Ellen (15 And Meowing) and Lorianne (Four-Legged Furballs) host this blog hop. Each Thursday they post four incomplete sentences for participants to fill-in. Hoppers post of Friday. To join in the fun, click on the badge at the left. It will take you to Four-Legged Furballs where you can enter your link.

Kitties Blue were not interested in helping this week. Not much causes them stress, they don’t watch movies and they keep their memories to themselves. As far as they are concerned the only thing that makes any day merry and bright is treats.

My fill-ins are in teal italics. Explanatory info is in parentheses.

1. Everything stresses me this time of year. (Too much to do and too little time, especially this year with Thanksgiving falling so late.)

2. My favorite holiday film is Love Actually followed by White Christmas.

3. If you ask me, giving and, of course, twinkling lights (the more the merrier) makes this season merry and bright.

 

Christmas 2015

 

4. Ornaments I have collected when visiting other countries brings back memories.

Feline Friday: Christmas Flashback

 

Christmas 2017

 

For the Feline Friday blog Hop at Comedy Plus, I am sharing another flashback. This photo was taken on Christmas Day 2017. It was both Cooper Murphy’s and Sawyer’s first Christmas with us. Cooper had been a member of Kitties Blue for 50 weeks, and Sawyer had been with us exactly one month. (You can see how little he was.) The two boys were already friends.

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FRIENDLY FILL-INS & FELINE FRIDAY WITH A FLASHBACK

Friendly Fill-Ins: Week #173

It’s Friday, so we are joining the Friendly Fill-Ins blog hop hosted by Ellen from 15 And Meowing and Lorianne from Four-Legged Furballs. On Thursdays they each select and post two sentences to be completed by filling in the blanks. On Fridays, those of us who participate, post our fill-ins on our blogs and join the hop with the Furballs. To go there now, click on the badge at the left.

Sawyer is becoming quite adept at completing the fill-ins, so today we have split the duties. He filled in #s 1 and 2, and I did #s 3 and 4.

We both used teal italics for our fill-ins. Information in parentheses is for clarification.

1. Sawyer: I joined Tabby Cat Club in order to hang out with Teddy, Raz, my big brother, Cooper Murphy, but especially Noelle. (Teddy – Two Spoiled Cats; Raz and Noelle – Friends Furever)

2. Sawyer: I wish I’d asked our humans about the number of cats already living with them before accepting an invitation to move in.

3. My paternal grandparents and Kitties Blue dad, Tom, had the biggest impact on who I am today.

4. Tortola, BVI, is the most beautiful place I have ever been. (I have been to many incredible and beautiful places around the world. Tortola probably isn’t the “most” beautiful one of those, but it is my “happy” place.)

Feline Flashback Friday

For our entry in this week’s Feline Friday blog hop at Comedy Plus, we have a flashback photo from October, 2011. As The Cat on My Head had not yet premiered, this photo has never been shared on the blog. This is baby Lisbeth in a photo taken about ten days after her and Astrid’s Gotcha Day.

 

 

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WHY MISTY MAY FEELS OLD

Friendly Fill-Ins: Week #154

As we do each Friday, Kitties Blue and I are joining the Friendly Fill-Ins blog hop. The hop is hosted by Ellen from 15 And Meowing and Lorianne from Four-Legged Furballs. Each Thursday, they post four sentences with blanks to be filled in by those of us who participate. On Friday, we post the completed sentences on our blogs. This week Misty May helped me. We both used teal italics for our completions.

To join in, click on that badge on the left. You’ll be transported to Four-Legged Furballs.

1. I got my first cell phone in the mid-90s. The Kitties dad got it for me. It was big and clunky. I didn’t want it and rarely used it.

2. I wish the word “boo,” as used to refer to one’s significant other or any random person could be removed from the English language.

3. I’ll never outgrow my enjoyment of coloring. Here is a kitty picture from the Happy Color app, which I “colored” on my iPad.

 

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4. Misty May: Being deaf make(s) me feel old.

Feline Friday

For the Feline Friday blog hop at Comedy Plus, I decided to share a flashback photo from 15 years ago (April 6, 2004). Some of you might be thinking that is Fiona in the foreground, but it is actually our original grey cat, Louise, with Madison giving her a bath. If you don’t know these cats, who passed before the debut of The Cat on My Head, you can read about them on The Felines page.

 

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CHRISTMAS SING-ALONG

Friendly Fill-Ins: Week #32

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We are joining this week’s Christmas-themed Friendly Fill-Ins hosted by Ellen (15 And Meowing) and Annie (McGuffy’s Reader). The kitties asked me to complete all four fill-ins again this week, as they found them to be human-oriented. My completions are in teal italics.

1. My favorite Christmas Song(s) is/are “What Child is This,” “Do You Hear What I Hear,” and “Mary, Did You Know.” but I could do without hearing _____________________ever again. I didn’t finish this fill-in as I really don’t have any Christmas songs I don’t like; though, I can get tired of some by the end of the season. (I have included videos of the three songs I listed, each by a different artist, at the conclusion of this post.)

2. My most meaningful Christmas ornament/decoration is now Fiona’s Star. The other is my Christmas stocking which my grandmother knit for me when I was an infant. It has my name and the year knitted into the pattern. The second part of this fill-in was “because.” I did not complete that as I think the reasons these are meaningful are self-evident. 

As I didn’t decorate this year, I had to dig into the photo archives to find a photo of the mantel with our stockings. This photo is from 2012. My stocking is the longest one with the striped toe.

 

Christmas stockings hanging from mantel.

 

3. My favourite holiday treat is the Oreo truffles my friend makes. 

4. A holiday tradition in my house is opening a bottle or two of wine and sitting down with Tom to write our annual Christmas letter. The more wine, the more amusing the letter. That’s on our schedule for this weekend.

 

 

This is a blog hop. To join, click on the link to Annie’s blog in the first paragraph.

We’ll see you tomorrow for Athena’s Caturday Art blog hop, featuring Giulietta.

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MIRROR MIRROR

Fiona in the Mirror

I hope you’ll forgive me for featuring my sweet and beautiful Fiona again today. Her dad found a camera card with an unbelievable number of forgotten photos. This one was taken in December 2010 when Fiona was nine months old. I imagine her wondering who that kitty was looking back at her. Of course she wasn’t seeing those reflective eyes produced by the flash. That probably would have freaked her out.

 

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Normally I would save this photo for Caturday Art because of her eyes. But I found them so compelling, I had to use the photo in its original form. I am captivated by this photo and cannot stop looking at it.

I am certain some of you are curious about how Fiona’s doing. She continues to fight taking her medications. Giving her the subQ fluids is going slightly better. She usually whines and shakes while her dad tries to comfort her. Occasionally she tries to climb our of her PTU, which can cause the needle to become dislodged. I will not try to “stab” her again when this happens. Most days we manage to administer the full amount of fluid. She’s eating a bit more and not just treats; though, she continues to prefer those. We have more different brands of treats than I can count as it is impossible to predict which ones she will eat on any particular day.

Fiona sees Dr. Neel next week, and she will give you another report then.

Our Latest Book Giveaway

love in lower caseIf you have not left a comment for the opportunity to win a copy of Love in Lowercase by Francesc Miralles, you have until Sunday the 14th at 5 p.m. ET. Three copies will be given away. Click here to read the review post and leave your comment.

Visiting Friends

I subscribe to most of the blogs I read via e-mail. In the last several days I have not been getting e-mails notifying me of new posts on most of these blog. I have no idea what the problem is. I have a reader in WordPress that has many of your blogs listed. I will start adding URLs for those of you who are not currently listed. I will use that to visit and comment until I can straighten out the problem.

 

TOO, TOO CUTE BABY PHOTOS

We are having a Flashback Friday this week, but it’s not of a long ago post. It is a flashback to some baby photos. We just got our paws on them after our foster mom, Xan, posted them on Facebook. These are just three of the bunch.

 

Astrid and Lisbeth baby photos

 

Did you recognize us? We were pretty cute, don’tcha think? Mom’s fairly certain the Astrid photo is the one she fell in love with on PetFinder. It was those little kissable lips that grabbed at her heart.

As y’all know, we are no longer friends. It makes our mom so sad. She’d like all of us Kitties Blue to like each other and be a nice little family. It ain’t gonna happen…EVER! She and Dad will have to content themselves with us loving them.

As Mom types this, six of us are hunkered down in bed with both Dad and her. By the time you read this, the snow that is coming probably will have started to bury our little city. We are in the center of the area where power is most likely to be lost. That means no heated floors or any other heat for that matter. That’s why we’ve staked out our places on the bed and only plan to get up for meals.

If you are in the path of Jonas (That’s the name of this monster storm.) we hope you have hunkered down as well. Tell your humans to stay indoors where they can remain safe and warm. It’s going to be a great day or two to curl up and cuddle with you.

Purrs and paw-pats, Astrid and Lisbeth

p.s. Fiona asked us to thank everyone for the continued purrs, prayers, POTP and good wishes. This is the most wonderful community of caring and loving individuals.

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KITTIES BLUE PERSONAL CHRISTMAS RESPONSIBILITIES

For Flashback Friday, I am sharing a post from December 20, 2012. It was titled, “Christmas: Day 6,” and received one comment. It is printed as it was then but for a few word changes, an added closing paragraph and different photos. Hope you enjoy it.

Getting ready for Christmas can be exhausting, especially if you are a kitty and self-appointed quality control inspector of all things Christmas.

 

Kitties Blue are Q.C. Inspectors for Christmas

 

These are eight Christmas duties for which Kitties Blue take personal responsibility:

1. Tasting the butter before it goes in the cookies to ensure it is fresh, pure and nommy. Leaving some fur on the stick of butter is also very important as the kitties don’t have any “inspected by” stickers to apply.

2. Playing tug-of-war with all garland to make sure it is strong enough to swing from once it has been hung.

3. Nosing a few ornaments off of angel “Twinkle‘s Tree” (the only one to which they have constant access) and shoving them under the rug to assure they won’t break and will be available for future play.

4. Nesting inside the wreaths prior to my hanging them as a check for symmetry and fluffiness.

5. Testing all light strings to make certain each bulb is securely inserted into its socket so no outages will occur when they attempt to remove the strings from trees, wreaths and garland.

6. Clawing and sniffing each package, chewing on bows and burrowing into gift bags in order to ascertain that gift wrappings will hold up until presents can be opened officially.

7. Shoving the glass, votive candle holders off the kitchen counter and watching them crash to the floor just because she (Lisbeth) can!

8. Excavating all Christmas stockings to ascertain if any treats or catnip may have been left behind last year, while making certain plenty of space is available for this year’s goodies.

What are your kitties responsible for during the holidays? Kitties Blue are inquiring in case they are neglecting any important, kitty-specific duties.