Halloween

SCARED OR SCARY?

Caturday Art

Do you think I look scary or scared?

This is probably one of Mom’s most uncomplicated art creations to date. She selected a photo of me from last weekend’s selfie photo shoot and used PicMonkey to overlay a photo Dad took. Then she added a border with piZap and a frame with Picasa.

Here’s the photo she used for the overlay. It is a burning filament in a broken light bulb.

This is our entry in Athena Cat Goddess Wise Kitty’s Caturday Art blog hop. We enter a few hops each week, but this is Mom’s very favorite. If you haven’t tried it yet, what are you waiting for? With all the holidays coming up, we can’t think of a better time to try out your creativity. To get the links to the other hop submissions and/or add one of your, click on Athena’s badge.

Thank You

Fiona asked me to convey her sincerest thanks for the kind and supportive comments on yesterday’s post, especially, Sammy‘s. We know that without all the purrs, prayers, good thoughts, POTP and friendship, the past ten months since her diagnosis of CKD would have been much more difficult for her and our humans. She is a fighter, and we are fairly certain she’ll do all she can to stay with us as long as possible.

Sunday Selfies

Tomorrow is that day of the week when we all try to put on our best expressions and snap a selfie for our blog hop. We will have a guest host tomorrow. It’s a super cute one, but that’s the only hint you get. Hope lots and lots of you will join us tomorrow and invite your friends to hop as well.

Until tomorrow, this is Mauricio signing off with purrs and paw-pats for all and love and smooches for my sweet wife, Allie.

ZOMBIES IN LOVE

Sunday Selfies: Week #113

It doesn’t happen too often that one of us actually requests to do the Sunday Selfie, but today, I did just that. I wanted to do something for my sweet wife to brighten her day. Allie, Raz, Ellie, (Friends Furever) Mom Sharon and Dad Bill had to evacuate their home due to the threat of Hurricane Matthew. Though the expected storm surge did not materialize, and they are already back home, they are without power or cell service. And they do have some outdoor clean-up to do.

I pray this selfie will cheer her and that someone has the smelling salts close by. Allie usually faints when she sees my photo. She is such a sweet and delicate lady.

For a bit of fun, I am sharing an additional photo today. We are having our monthly Birthday/ Gotcha Day celebration today at Cat Scouts. Each month we have a different theme for the party. This month as a tribute to Halloween, our theme is zombies. My mom made costumes for Allie and me. (For those of you who don’t know, I have a Bake Shop at Cat Scouts, which is why I am a zombie baker.) Cat Scout Gracie added us to the scary background.

Did we scare you?

Now it is your turn to share your selfie with us. The link to add your photo is below. All anipals are always welcome, and I invite you to gather all your friends and encourage them to join us. Selfies are fun and you can make them as plain, fancy or scary as you like. If you’d like to include your human or even a zombie or witch in your selfie, go for it.

If you’d like to add the hop to your blog, the code is below. If you could please add our badge to your post and/or link back to The Cat on My Head, I won’t have to send any Cat Scout zombies to your house to frighten you and eat your brain.

Boos and paw-pats, Mauricio

October 9, 2016 by Janet Blue Backstory 41

I BELIEVE IN ANGELS

Friendly Fill-Ins

We are back for another week of Friendly Fill-ins hosted by our friends, Annie (McGuffy’s Reader) and Ellen (15AndMeowing). Each week th select two statements each (Ellen #s 1 and 2 and Annie #s 3 and 4) for us to complete. This is a blog hop. If you decide to participate, enter the link to your post on Annie’s blog.

Here are this week’s statements. My completions are in teal italics.

1. My favorite store is Steinmart; though, I haven’t been there in at least a year. Iprefer to shop on-line and have items delivered to my door.

2. An unanswered prayer I am thankful for is _______________________. (I have nothing to complete this fill-in and so am skipping it. I am sure I have many unanswered pryers, but I cannot think of any that would work here.)

3. At Halloween, I get annoyed when teenagers show up and stand on the porch holding out a bag, not say anything and expecting me to give them candy.

4. I totally believe in the supernatural, because once I met an angel. His name was Michael. I had a flat tire and saw what appeared to be a homeless man walking toward me. He asked if he could help. I could have called AAA, but instead I said, “yes.” It was Tom’s car, and I wasn’t really sure what to do nor was he. I read the instructions to him from the Owner’s Manual while he changed the tire. When he finished, I offered him money (the $7 I had in my purse), but he refused. I then offered him a ride, and he refused that as well. As he started to walk away, I said to him, “You are an angel.” He replied over his shoulder, “Don’t tell anyone.” I turned my back to him and took two steps before deciding to turn back around. He had totally vanished. Whenever I tell this story I get goosebumps.

My sweet and handsome angel Madison also approached me one day when I was working in the garden.

Hurricane Matthew

Please keep Mau’s wife, Allie, and her family (Friends Furever) in your purrs and prayers. They have evacuated their home on Florida’s Barrier Island. They should be safe but their home may be devastated by storm surges. We know other bloggers and friends live in Florida as well. We are keeping them and all those living along the east coast in our thoughts and prayers.

October 7, 2016 by Janet Blue Angel Cat Friendly Friday Fill-Ins Halloween Prayers 21

HALLOWEEN HIJINX WITH KITTIES BLUE

All of us competed in the Funniest Costume Contest at the Sam-o-Ween Haunted House Pawty at onespoiledcat. Only Lily Olivia, Mauricio and Misty May entered last year’s contest. The remainder of us are quite excited to join in this year’s fun. Mauricio and Misty May are wearing their costumes as Mickey and Minnie Mouse from last year. Mom said she didn’t have enough time to “make” new costumes for them. In our opinion, it is darn funny for kitties to masquerade as mice. We doubt we won anything in the contest, but that’s okay. We had fun showing our playful sides without having to don any real clothing. Besides, who can compete with the likes of a Mr. Potato Head cat, Barbie cat or Tootsie Roll cat (our honorary sisfur Nylablue).

Hope you get a chuckle out of our Halloween HiJinx!

BOO FROM

We would like to thank Penelope (Nellie) from The Cat from Hell for our Kitties Blue carved Jack-o-Lantern.

October 31, 2014 by Janet Blue Halloween Kitty Written Blog 34

NATIONAL BLACK CAT DAY

National Cat Day in the USA was yesterday, October 29, and today is National Black Cat Day in the UK. We think everyday is Cat Day whether it is celebrated nationally or internationally, but Mom decided to pawticipate in this Black Cat Day being as it is the day before Hall-o-ween. And one of the most recognizable images at Hall-o-ween is the black cat! Besides, she loves the mini-panfurs!

Thelma

Our humans had two black cats before we came to live with them. Thelma (Mom’s very first heart cat!) and Twinkle were both off-spring of the neighborhood stray who our humans called, “Mom.” Twinkle was the only kitten who got away when the neighbors caught Mom and her kittens and took them to the SPCA. Mom and Dad were away on vacation when this happened and found out too late to get them out of jail before they were euthanized.

Twinkle

Our mom and dad tried to trap Mom on several occasions to have her spayed but were never successful. Two other of her offspring were part of our household. Daphne and Thelma’s sisfur, Louise. Even though our mom wanted to keep some of the other kittens, particularly Skippy, Teddy and Alex, good homes were found for them and all the kittens from Mom’s litters.

Though today is Black Cat Day in the UK, many shelters and rescues in the U.S. will not allow black cat adoptions this week or sometimes for the entire month of October due to Hall-o-ween and mean people who might hurt these special kitties. But if you are in search of a new kitty, purrlease consider an older black kitty who may have been languishing in a shelter for quite sometime. They are consiered the least adoptable cats, but they are just as sweet, loving and adorable as any other kitty. Look at these faces of Thelma and Twinkle. What’s not to love?

Whatever color or breed of cat lives with you, purrlease be extra careful to protect them during Hall-o-ween. If you do allow them to go outside, consider not doing so at all tomorrow. At the very least, make certain they are in the house well before dark and have a place to chill-out away from the noise of the doorbell and squeals of the trick-or-treaters. A couple of us are super curious and want to see what the commotion is about. But most of us scatter as soon as the doorbell sounds. If the weather is warm, our humans sit on the front porch to hand out candy so we won’t be subjected to the hubbub and confusion. We won’t have to worry about all the racket this year. With Mom at Bark/Meow World, we won’t be participating in Hall-o-ween; though, we are praying cat sitter, Chris, will bring us a catnip treat like she usually does.

Stop by tomorrow to see us in our Hall-o-ween costumes. But most importantly, stay safe!

Purrs & paw-pats, Kitties Blue

October 30, 2014 by Janet Blue Angel Cat Halloween Kitty Written Blog 20

WORDLESS WEDNESDAY: BOO!

Giveaway Reminder

Once again, I am reminding you all of our current giveaway for five copies of the book, The Best Cat Book Ever, by Kate Funk with AC the Cat. Fifty booklets of four postcards with scenes of AC from the book will be given away as well. Eighteen additional readers can comment and everyone will be guaranteed to win either a book or postcards. Click here to read our review and leave your comment by Monday, November 3, at 5 p.m. EDT. Book winners will be selected by Random.org.

Costume Contest

We have all entered the Funniest Costume Contest at onespoiledcat. The three individuals receiving the most votes will win a prize. If you haven’t voted, we’d be so grateful if you’d stop by and vote for us. You can vote for your ten favorites. Click here to be whisked to Sammy’s blog and join in the Sam-o-ween fun. We will unveil our Hall-o-ween costumes here on Friday.

Barkworld/Meowworld

Mom will be away for a few days “playing” with some of your pet parents and so we probably won’t be doing a whole lot of visiting and/or commenting. We will be posting, however, so please continue to drop by and see us.

October 29, 2014 by Janet Blue Giveaway Halloween Holiday Wordless Wednesday 30

HALLOWEEN 2013

BOO EFURRYBUDDY!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

We want to share this year’s costumes with you. But first, we apologize for any trouble you might have had visiting us yesterday. WestHosts, where our blog is housed, was hacked again yesterday. All accounts were suspended for about six hours. That shut-down included our e-mail. We are sorry for any inconvenience if you tried to visit.

Now, without further ado, we present to you: Halloween 2013.

Mauricio Mouse and Misty May Mouse

Tiggerlily

Mauricio, Misty May and Lily Olivia competed in the Sam-o-Ween Costume Contest at onespoiledcat. They didn’t get too many votes, but they had a scary good time at Sammy’s Spooktacular Pawty. If you haven’t been there, don’t forget to drop by today and visit Sammy’s Haunted House.

Lisbeth as Catherine the Great and her date, Texas

Texas (Texas, a Cat in ~~New York~~ Austin) and Lisbeth are enjoying the Howl-o-Ween Ball going on at Misaki‘s and Mollie’s. They didn’t garner many votes in any of the costume categories. But they are having a great time dancing and making new friends.

And finally…

Mauricio as a Fairy Princess for Cat Scouts

Enjoy the spookiness and scariness of the evening, but please stay safe, and if you are a kitty, please stay indoors.

Purrs and hugs, Lily Olivia, Mauricio, Misty May, Giulietta, Fiona, Astrid, Lisbeth and Calista Jo

October 31, 2013 by Janet Blue Backstory Halloween Holiday Kitty Written Blog 42

WORDLESS WEDNESDAY: CAT-O-LANTERN

October 29, 2013 by Janet Blue Backstory Halloween Holiday Wordless Wednesday 36

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.