Saturday Symmetry

 

Nature, Final Feature and Feline Friday

 

Nature  and Feline Friday

 

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A mix of  family stories that are true.  The only photos I have are in my mind's eye.

I asked PiZap's for photo help.

DOG TALES

My cousin Marion: 

One thing about families they never FORGET.   

Evidently during  the early years of  WWII, my maternal grandparents, named their dog Warbond, I'm guessing after the Warbond stamps.

When my older cousin, Marion,  was a toddler (she was born in 1939, she and her family lived next door to my Annie Ma.  The story I heard about Marion was particular funny/strange.  For some reason, Marion would see Warbond at the door...she would rub his head while asking, "are it raining out there Warbond"!  I never really found out why she did this...But Marion was kinda weird.

My aunt had small dog named Snowball.  Evidently nosey DNAs ran in the K9 members of the family too.  He was the official door answerer.  If he liked whomever was at the door he somehow pushed it open with his nose to let them in.

Once he forgot to move...the end of his happy tail was caught it the screen door.

I'm told he hardly noticed.  At least that is the story and they stuck to it.

Human Tales

My parents were raised on the same street,but several blocks apart.  Mama used to walk by Daddy's house on the way to work at Montgomery Wards aka MonkeyWards.

I'm told sometimes Daddy followed her hoping to get up the nerve to speak to her.

Her route was passed his home then thru the Park.  Daddy was following stalking her one day watching her long black pony tail sway back and forth, when all of a sudden he witnessed a bird drop poop onto Mama's swinging pony tail.  Daddy supposedly said a big thank you to the bird . Then politely approached Mama to tell her she had bird poop in her pony tail.  And as they say the rest is history.

Now one told on me... but I have no recollection.

When I was about 3 years old, they told  me they heard a strange nosie coming from the kitchen in wee hours of the morning. It was ME, I was standing in the kitchen eating a stick of butter.????!!!!  I do 100% believe this to be very true. I  still love butter but I don't eat it as a midnight snack.

Now I'll share a story from my daugher's childhood.

She started talking (she got her gift for gab from me) almost before she started walking.  She was putting together complete sentences before she was 20 months old.  One evening after bedtime stories, I thought she was asleep.

All of a sudden I heard this wee voice say, 'Mommy you look like a rabbit, your nose is wigglying'!!! The rest of the story was, I trying not to sneeze, thus my wiggly nose.

Rabbit with a wiggly nose.

I hope you enjoyed today's stories.
Hugs Cecilia 

 

Thoroughly Poetic and Thankful Thursday #175

  Poetic Thursday hosted by our pals Teddy and Angel Sammy 

at Two Spoiled Cats

 

Here is our challenge for today 

My Pop calls me
Carrot top
My mom calls my Pop
Mop top
She says he needs his 
locks 
Chopped.

 Thankful Thursday hosted by 

 

Dearest Auntie HiC 

It is I, Cali, newly crowned Queen Bee of Georgia...

I wanted to provide a quick update on my progress.
I’ve expressed (hissed) the new house rules now that I’m here. Da’ Boyz are slow learners, but are catching on.
Rule Number 1: I’m the Queen on the House! Treat me accordingly.
Rules 2-10: Refer to Rule Number 1! 😹
I must say, my brothers are very respectful & they’re  giving me the space I require to feel comfortable.

Mom says she believes Kat & Rocky are “quite smitten by the kitten”! 😻

I must say, I think Rocky has a “Kitty Crush” on me❣️

Hopefully, we’ll all be snuggling together soon❣️

💖 Cali

Be sure your volume is up this is the most adorable video purrFECT

music

Rocky that is absolutely the most precious video I've seen in FUREVER....just adorable...bless your GINGER heart. Cali seems chilled and at least interested. Surely the Queen Bee needs a snuggle buddy

Lovingly your Auntie HiC

To my brothers I say THANK YOU:

I am very x 100 Thankful for their patience and understanding

I have never ever NO never known such wonderful love and devotion...my itty bitty kitty heart runneth over..with

THANKS

Lovingly you sister, Cali Girl

Wordless Wednesday and FFF reminder

   

Thank you to our Hostess

Sandee at Comedy Plus   

Biscuitville biscuits are wonderful but OMCs 

HOLD THE SPAM for me.

Concerns about Spam's nutritional attributes have been raised due to the fact that it contains twice as much of the daily dietary recommendation of fat as it does of protein, and about the health effects of salt and preservatives

Reminder Friday July 26 join YAM for FFF

It is fun.

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for the simple rulz

RUMOR HAS IT I WILL BE SHARING SOME FAMILY STORIES

HAPPY TUESDAY WITH MY NEPHEWS

 

Thank you to our 

Hostess Sandee at Comedy Plus  

THE REST OF THE STORY

 Mom was awakened Thursday (July 18th) morning, by Dad sticking his phone in her face saying, “This cat is outside, meowing,

Hello kind sir might you have a bit of water and food for a weary traveler?"

This wasn’t the peeps’ first Stray Cat Rodeo, so Mom called all the local vets, animal shelter, & posted on local social media; while Dad scheduled FeLV test for the afternoon. 

The stray passed the test & now she lives with us!

My new Mom is a retired Teacher...I sure am happy I passed...

BTW the quote on my cat nip pickle is

"I'm kind of a big Dill" and I am.

Friends thank you for tuning in to Kat and Rocky's 

Happy Tuesday MEWS.  She is 5-6 months old, weighs 5.4 lbs

She had her kitty vaccines on Saturday.  Everyone loved her.

She will be spayed in 3 weeks.

 

Kit told me David took all the photos in this video before he even told her there was a kitty outside.  Kit said David was in love at first sight.

Dearest Nephews and Niece

I am so so so so so happy to meet Cali Girl

She is the 4th stray...precious friend...to find her way into the loving 

arms of your Mom Kit and Dad David.

Dad David kitties are bewitching as you discovered.

BREAKING NEWS from Rocky and Kat

Sister Cali was hissy and spitty but SHE is slowly warming up to us...

We'll tell you on Thankful Thursday.

Awww Monday from my Nephews

We thank our Hostess Sandee at Comedy Plus 

A couple days ago Mom noticed a 🐻 paw print on the walkway.

So, she wasn’t surprised to see 🐻 under the bird feeders today.

Morning Ms. Kit...I come in peace...I just need a cool place to rest and OMBs are these empty sunflower seeds yummy

Boo-Boo da Bear

It’s been dangerously hot in our area, and we also have drought conditions.

The wildlife is suffering.

We never feed the bears, & Mom always (eventually) chases the bears away, but they’re comfortable w/ us, so we independently coexist. . (We love oxymorons 😹).

There are so many new houses all around us, on 5 ac lots. 😞 We want the bears to know our 50 acres will always be a refuge for them.

After all, they were here first.

Enjoy the video below

This bear was licking empty sunflower seeds under bird feeders. 😞

Here on our Mountaing we provide them 400% RESPECT.

❤️ Kat & Rocky

Dearest Kat and Rocky I am so sorry Boo-Boo da Bear and all wildlife are suffering in this horrid heat.  I'm thankful he enjoyed the seeds and I do hope he found water.

Nephews your mom played a Joke on your gullible Auntie HiC.
She first sent me the photo of Boo-Boo  in a text it was a small photo
Mom said: "A stray dog wandered into our yard, David says we can keep it".
Auntie thought was a black Lab...(like Angel Buddy).

Kat here: I must tattle on Rocky when he saw the bear he took off like a Rocket to hide under the bed. I, Kat, was elsewhere that is a story for another day.

A few days later we were looking for Boo-Boo da Bear.

Rocky says he feels very brave when I'm with him

PS LAST WEEK WAS FULL OF SIGHTS, AND SOUNDS AND NEW FRIENDS. STAY TUNED TOMORROW FOR MORE EXCITEMENT.

HUGS K&R

Easy Sunday

Enhanced photo...

 

Saturday Symmetry

From Logan's

 

Feline and Nature Friday Flashback 2013

 Nature Friday host LLB Gang   Click here Hostess Miss Mimi 

Thank you for hosting!

 

Thursday (July 18, 2013) at 3:30 I had my annual

Senior Kitty Wellness Exam!!!  Since it was hotter

than blue blazes, there were no pictures taken

in the car.
 But someone should have taken the camera for inside.

 MOM DID COOL OF THE ROYAL COACH BEFORE

DEPARTURE TIME

ANYHOOO HEY MOM THIS IS MY NOT

HAPPY LOOK!!!

It took me 87 hours to wash the vet cooties off my lovely furs!

Mom rarely catches my tongue in action 'cause I'm quick

but I had a lot of repair work to do!!

Every single inch of me was dirty....

Mom took 66 (REALLY) pictures of me washing.  In nearly all of them my tongue is showing!!

Now for the vitals.....drum roooooooollllllllll

last year I weighed a whopping 11.4 lbs.  

 Dr. S gently suggested my ideal weight should be

11 or slightly below...GUESS what counting kibbles

DOES make one lose weight...I am now

a slender 10.8!!! Woo Hoo

Mom is very proud of herself.  I'm just hungry.

My teeth look very good in spite of the lack of  tartar fighting

kibble

Dr. S was listening to my heart, I was wiggling, Mom

gave me a kissy on my nose.  Dr. S told mom when you kissed Madi's nose, her heartbeat went down...Ok Ok 

I will admit it 

I love my Mom!!

MOM I owe you a 

Thank you for putting me in the PTU, the car and taking me to the vet!  I hope you enjoyed my soprano version of 

O Sole Mia...next time I'll try to sing all of it 

Nature seen on an EMW(early morning walk) 

thoroughly Poetic Thursday #174

 Poetic Thursday hosted by our pals Teddy and Angel Sammy 

at Two Spoiled Cats

 

Here is our challenge for today 

I have a new friend

he is thoroughly entertaining

Oh how I wish he was my dentist

he is gentle and thorough

No sharp pointy tools, or 

loud drills

He said open WIDE

with his help I DID.

Little did I know he was 

looking for 

FOOD

Wordless Wednesday Wings

   

Thank you to our Hostess

Sandee at Comedy Plus   

Snapped on an early morning walk

July 11, 2024

Eastern Swallowtails are very large insects. When basking in the sun, their outspread wings can be 8 to 14 cm (3 to 5.5 inches) from tip to tip. Their colors are vibrant. Broad yellow wings are edged by black and with four stripes, like tapering chevrons from the forewing margins downward into the yellow wings.

Happy Tuesday

Thank you to our 

Hostess Sandee at Comedy Plus  

 Dearest Auntie HiC

We were HAPPY to find the below video 

Mom made as we were heading  from our wonderful trek to the west, we were camped in Mississippi, we alerted Mom to a pair of pileated woodpeckers right out the back window.

By the time she found her phone, the male was out of sight, but the female posed for us❣️ What a treat!

Notice, she doesn’t have a red mustache.

According to Cornell Lab of Ornithology:

Excuse poor video quality. 

This was at the end of our trip & the back window was filthy. 😹

❤️ Kat & Rocky

Dearest Nephews 

You know how much Auntie loves birds

and HOW much she loves RED

Needless to say today's post gave her a serious case of the HAPPIES

The video was amazing WOW thank you for sharing it with me

I loved watching the trek up the tree trunk

Lovingly Auntie HiC

Awww Monday Turtle garden art and Sparks

 

We thank our Hostess Sandee at Comedy Plus

Easy to look at Sunday

 

Saturday Symmetry: Logan's

 

Nature and Feline Friday

 Nature Friday host LLB Gang   Click here Hostess Miss Mimi 

Thank you for hosting!

 

 New Plants spotted at Logan's

I loved the names 
Purrsian Blue Catmint (l)
Hot lips Salvia(r) the bloom looks just like fire engine red lips.

The brand name is Planet Easy.  They are not in plastic containers (notice the one on the right above) . The roots aren't pot bound and don't need breaking up before potting).  Just prepare soil then 

Plan(e)t EASY

Flash back  2010

The story of two Divas

My sis and her hubby came to visit. Well you know there is only room for one Diva

in a house...Sis tells me she was the first Diva and still is. We have agreed to co-exist. Now if she would relinquish her diva title all would be good but that is a story for another day.

However, I really LIKE her hubby aka my 'BIL' and he likes me. He calls me Cat, as in 'Hey Cat', but coming from him it is ok. He smells good...especially his shoes. MOL

We were celebrating Father's Day (I know a week late). When lo and behold look what my BIL did to me......

Maybe the first Diva of the family has been training him in evil ways to taunt a second Diva.

I gave him my most famous double laser eye stare which says

'Wha's up with you bro', he laughed. I said one of us needs to leave the room before it gets ugly...I volunteered

On the way out, I asked Mom to please reomove the bionic bow...

Even after my best shake, rattle and roll it would not fall off.

Now the company is gone.

I, Madi, am once again the only Diva of the house!!!

Present day:

Now to end this FFF I'd like to tell you about the two divas and

our son-in-law using the letters of their names in their favorite colors

Marlu

Marvelous young lady

Apple of our eye from the moment she was born

Rarest of all Daughter Gems

Loving Cat Mom to Frisco, Harper and Mia

Unique

Greg 

Going fishing
Rare gem of a guy
Everybody loves him
Great big brown eyes

Madi

My heart cat
Amazing Blogging Partner
Diva
Independent