Awards have been flying around like crazy lately, and our mom, who loves all things bright and shining, is so excited to have been nominated for one by Beverly Harvey, another cat lover/blogger, and her kitty Sophie from moggiepurrs.
The nomination is for the Sunshine Award. Beverly said that she nominated Mom because of her cheerful and inspiring posts. That definitely made Mom and us feel all sunshiny inside and out!
As usual, there are rules to follow if you accept the nomination, which, of course, we do she does. Thank you so much Beverly and Sophie. We and Mom are so appreciative of you for thinking us worthy of this award.
Rule 1: Post The Sunshine Award logo.
Rule 2: Nominate 10 fellow bloggers. The kitties and I admire so many of the bloggers we follow, and many of them already have this award. To my knowledge, none of those listed below have the Sunshine Award, and I personally believe each is very deserving. They bring a bright light and plenty of chuckles and MOLs into our lives each time we read their posts. If you are unfamiliar with any of these blogs, please click on their link and see what they have to say. Also please check out Beverly’s blog. The link is above.
I am nominating:
Amanda’s Books and More Just seeing five-year-old Amanda’s smiling face in the header makes me happy as well as her mom Christina’s posts on a variety of subjects.
Anakin The Two Legged Cat for his spirit and the joy he has brought to so many by being just like any other cat despite being born without a pelvis or legs
Friends FurEver If I wasn’t already a fan of this blog, Ellie’s and Allie’s birthday party and the fantastic Cinco de Mayo party with sombrero nip cookies and meowgaritas would have been enough for my kitties to beg me to make this nomination.
Furries of Whisppy If you want to know why I am bestowing my nomination on this blog, you need only check out their “Friday Fun” post of May 3, featuring Ling, Cosmo, Boomer, Coco, Tutu, Felix and Meow-me playing. Also, Boomer and Tutu look so much like my Astrid and Lisbeth, I can’t resist them.
The Howling Mad Cat as this blog’s kitty is a 21-year-old grey tabby who is still going strong. That has to make anybody feel happy.
Just Dip It in Chocolate as Lizy shares inventive and delicious menus as well as great craft projects. And she has by far some of the best photography of food on the web.
Katnip Lounge for having the fortitude to care for 13 adorable kitties with so many varied personalities as I would if I could!
Manx Mnews is another multi-kitty blog with great photos and some very inspiring quotes that I find relevant to my life.
Spitty Speaks as Spitty represents the epitome of catitude and always cracks us up.
Sweet Purrfections If you don’t know Truffle and Brûlée, you must visit. Brulee’s fur is enough to brighten your day and bring a smile to your face.
Rule 3: Announce their nomination in their blog’s comment section. I am posting this prior to completing Rule 3. I will fulfill this requirement tomorrow. If you are a nominee reading this, please feel free to accept prior to my posting that comment on your site.
Rule 4: Provide links to the nominees’ blogs as well as a link to the blog of the person who nominated you.
Rule 5: Answer the questions. This is designed to help people get to know you better.
Questions:
1. Favorite Color — Co-favorites aqua and purple. When I was in high school my bedroom was decorated in aqua, white and shades of purple. I even had an aqua Princess phone (for those of you old enough to remember phones that weren’t mobile).
2. Favorite Animal — =^ ..^ =
3. Favorite Number — 7. The optimum feng shui number of kitties for our house is seven. We have eight now (which seems to working out okay) and have had eight in the past, but at that time our now Angel Steamer was in assisted living (a huge animal cage probably meant for a St. Bernard) as she was quite old and rather fragile.
4. Favorite Non-Alcoholic Drink — Diet Coke, which I consider the breakfast of champions. (I don’t drink coffee.)
5. Favorite Alcoholic Drink — German Wines. I love red wine as well, but sometimes it doesn’t like me very much.
6. Facebook or Twitter? — Neither. Hubby Tom has Facebook and shares with me anything he thinks I might find interesting; especially anything involving Barn Cat Buddies, the TNR organization I support.
7. My Passions — Cats, gardening, biking, blogging and reading. I haven’t had much time for reading anything but blogs lately. When it gets too hot for gardening, I’ll have more time to get to some books I have waiting for me.
8. Giving or Receiving Gifts – Always, giving. I never met a present I didn’t like receiving, but I shop for my friends and family all year so that I know I have just the right gifts for each person.
9. Favorite City — Siena, Italy
10. Favorite TV Show — The Amazing Race. Though we have traveled a lot in other countries (Tom more than I have), I see places on that show I will never have the privilege of experiencing. Last night was the season finale which I missed (but recorded), so no spoilers please!
ConCats on that great award and thanks for passing this award on to us!
The Florida Furkids
Miss Janet! I will work on my post this weekend! Thank You so much for the nomination! I found your surprise on my page and wrote you back right away! Again Thank you so much for you kind words and all the support you and your kitties give to my blog all the time! Much Love, Lizy
Congratulations on the award and thank you for passing it on to us! We’re sorry for being so late in our reply but things have been pretty tough the last week or so. A Sunshiny award is exactly what Mommy needs!
Thank you once again! 🙂
Congrats on your award! And we loved reading your answers and getting to know you better.
Concats on the award. Sometimes they seem more like chain letters. Na mean?
I’m too new at this to feel jaded yet. I am happy to receive them and to give them. So, thanks for the concats.
Congratulations on the fun award, we enjoyed reading your answers!…Happy Tuesday, darling friends…kisses…Calle Halle, Sukki, Mommy Cat, Daddy Cat
Hello!! I couldn’t find your site from your comments! We’ve been trying to visit for ages! Thanks so much for coming to our place. We’re gonna kick up our paws and look around!
Concats on your awards! And you pocked great kitties to pass them onto. Our mom loves aqua/ teal & purple/ lavender too!
Concats on the award! Very much deserved!
Purrs
Congratulations on your award and thank you for nominating us. We’ll try to get it posted soon!
Congratulations! And thank you so much for the nomination! We were completely surprised! HMC and Ellie
Concatulations! Yous guys is always so bright and sunshiny!
Kisses
Nellie
Congrats on the very nice award! You always have a sunny and bright blog!
Whee you sure do deserve this award for all the sunshine you spread to your friends!
Purrs
Concats on your lovely award and thank you for thinking of us!
We loved all of your answers.
Congrats on the award and well done on keeping to the rules, which I am terrible at doing!! Always interesting to learn stuff about folk! xx
Congrats on the award. Good for you. And great answers to the questions. Hope you have a great day.
Congratulations!!! It’s so nice learning more about fellow bloggers
Congratulations! Well deserved! You are all wonderful! ~xo~