Wordless Wednesday with Kat Batter Up

 

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THIS IS A REPOST FROM JULY 22...I POSTED THE INCORRECT VIDEO WITH THE WONDERFUL PHOTO.  

FOR ALL  THE EARLY READERS I WANTED TO MAKE SURE YOU SAW THE CORRECT VIDEO

 

Dear Auntie,

It’s still too hot to go outside, so Mom & I have playing baseball in the house!

Mom’s sending my video to the Atlanta Braves, in case they’re looking for a pinch hitter!  I can run around the bases fast too! Put me in coach! I’m ready to play!  😹

Check out my home run!

 

❤️ Kat

OMCs Kat you have some moves and agility...your fans will be stomping

and clapping in the stands.

Hugs and Love Auntie HiC

 

Happy Tuesday: Advice from Cali

 

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Welcome Friends.....

  Dear Auntie HiC, 

A dear friend sent this adorable card to Mom, and I wanted to share it with my friends! 

I agree with this advice 100% purrr-cent❣️

 

If you’re interested, you can find this card & many more “Advice from…” cards here:

https://myadviceforlife.com/

❤️ Cali

Dear Niece Cali

OMCs Auntie HiC loves your advice  words to live by.

Those human advice columnist didn't have a clue.

Lovingly Auntie HiC

Awww Monday all about Red

Hostess Sandee at Comedy Plus 

Thank you

   

We had some delicious home grown tomatoes we used on a  delicious recipe

 from favorite  Sissy and BIL of angel Madi

Toasted crusty sourdough with small Mozzarella cheeseballs, added tomatoes sprinkle with Balsamic vinegar and olive oil, salt and pepper with fresh basil on top.  OMCs was it yummy and easy!!!

WHOHOO

Kit made me a food truck

I was very happy Mr. Cardinal posed for me and OMB(irds) he even showed 2 sides.

Serene Sunday drive thru Country Club Estates

 

Saturday Symmetry

Entrance to the women's locker room at Healthtrax

 

Nature, Final Feature and Feline Freaky Friday

   Nature Friday host LLB Gang  

Recently my neighbor sent this picture via text with this message:

"No one will be seeing birds at their bird feeders today"

What a great photo capture of Mr. Hawk she snapped catching his beak as he was ...Squawking lunch time

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The thing I enjoyed most about working at NC State University,

was all the wonderful people I met. It was my pleasure to be the first person 

our international group members met.  Each and every visitor arrived full of excitement for their visit. with us.  My correspondence with them started at least a year before their arrival date as I arranged for their H1B visas.

 By the time they arrived we had formed quite a bond. 

I will be sharing a few of these short stories about my favorite international visitors on Final Feature Friday.

1.  First up is Koichi, Japanese Post Doctoral fellow.

Koichi and his wife Mana  were a delight.  Both spoke excellent English...but for some reason they were intent on learning my Southern accent...not sure if they learned the accent but they surely master understanding it. Just a month short of the first year of his two year post doc,  I learned Mana was expecting their first child.  Of course needed an OB/GYN.  I gave them several names of practices. Happy to say she had a healthy pregnancy. Mana delivered a precious Baby boy. The proud parents wanted their son to have a name that was associated with his birth state. They loved Raleigh area and coastal North Carolina, in particular Kitty Hawk/Kill Devil Hills, NC. Which is where, on December 17, 1903,  Orville and Wilbur Wright had the first successful flight of powered controlled and sustained heavier than air...air craft. 

Koichi shared four names they were considering as the middle name of their son. (Sorry I cannot remember their son's first name).

Wake (the county where Raleigh is located) Orville, Wilbur or Wright.

They decided on Wake.  I often wondered how many times they proudly told their son about the significance of his middle name. 

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FREAKY FRIDAY July 2011

MOM WE HAVE A PROBLEM......

 SOMEONE LEFT THEIR HAND

ON YOUR COUNTER!!

Apologies for late post for NF, FFF and Feline Friday I set post for 12:10 pm not 12:00 am

Thoroughly Poetic Thursday #273

Thankful Thursday hosted

We are very very very thankful for ELECTRICITY...
We had a monster storm Tuesday evening 7/28/26
at 9:30 our power went out...it was not restored til 3:30 am 7/29/26.
The interior of my refrigerate was 48 degrees F.  Any temperature above 40 for longer that 3 hours means food had to be discarded.  Luckily, I had not bought the week's groceries.  I estimate I discarded about $50 to $60.

  Today we join

Angel Sammy and brudder Teddy

Two SPOILED CAT 

at Sammy's Poetry Corner

Here is our fun photo challenge

I saw this photo as a first meet and greet

CURIOUS ABOUT EACH OTHER

OH SO NERVIOUS

UNIQUE

PLAYFUL

LEARNING 

EYE CONTACT IS HARD

SUPPORTIVE

Wordless Wednesday with Rocky

 

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EAR Massage

Nephew Rocky

Please save Auntie HiC   a place in line for an ear massage

 

Happy Tuesday: the last of the Cedar Creek Gallery Teapot exhibt #8

 

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They have some quite unique mirrors too

 Thank you all for browsing the teapot Exhibit with us this year.

Next one is in 2029

Thank you all for the kind retirement wishes you left in yesterday's comments.  She is not sure how she ever had time to WORK for 32 years. LOLMOLBOL

Awww Monday Puzzles

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Thank you

   

Our daughter retired from NCSU on APRIL 30, 2026 with 32 years service.

She is slowly filling her days with fun this summer (first summer off since high school).

Her love of puzzles started at a very young age with Fisher Price wooden puzzles about 18 months old.

She has rediscovered her love of puzzles.  One of her recently finished puzzles, CATS of course.  She ordered a special board for puzzles it has a cover too keep inquisitive kitty paws from swatting pieces.

She has lined up several volunteering projects starting in the fall.

Sunday Selfie (flashback) photos taken at NC art Museum trail

The heron offered to pose for a Sunday Selfie

 

Saturday Art and Symmetry

Very pretty art in my doctor's medical practice

 

Art and Symmetry

Nature and Feline Friday

 Nature Friday host LLB Gang  

 

RETIRED ATTORNEY ERNIE IS SHARING THE NATURE FROM 

HIS BACK YARD TODAY.  HE AND MOM LANA HAVE SWEET BUNNY IN THEIR BACK YARD WHO LOVES CARROTS and APPLE cores

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Flashback with Angel Madi sharing a story about her Dad aka Bryan who is an artist

When Mom was 19 (~1968 aka Stone age), she worked part time in a fancy clothing store. The wooden purses were very popular. She and my Dad had just started dating. Often she mentioned to him how much she admired the purses. Well Dad started to secretly investigate the wooden purses because he wanted my Mom to have one. After careful consideration, Dad concluded that he could make one for her. He worked on it for a very long time. Finally the time came to give it to my Mom. As I've mentioned, many times Mom is a squealer and I'm pretty sure she S Q U E A L E D long and loud when she saw this beautiful wooden purse made with love and care just for her. Dad bought the unfinished purses at a hobby/art shop. He hand drew each of the butterflies on the purse, painted them in their authentic colors,

painted the edges of the purse,note the itty bitty tiny orange line in between the yellow and brown. The brown semi-circles were made by tracing 1/2 of a penny
After all the painting was complete he put several coats of lacquer on the purse to perserve the drawings and the paint. Here it is 42 years later and the purse looks nearly perfect.Mom said she was so afraid she would dent it she only used it on Sunday. It has been stored with tender love and care over the years.

If you enlarge the pictures, you might see that each butterfly has tiny jewels on its wings that sparkle. The name of each butterfly is also either above or below the drawing.

Thoroughly Poetic Thursday #272

  Today we join

Angel Sammy and brudder Teddy

Two SPOILED CAT 

at Sammy's Poetry Corner

Here is our fun photo challenge

A little cottage

We bought a cottage

nestled in the trees

It was foggy, very hard to see
The yard was full of weeds

Oh no we thought,

we will need to reseed

The realtor said no need

In the spring it will all be green

I’d say he was right

 We had no idea it had a babbling creek 

out back and a deck with RED chairs.

Wordless Wednesday with Kat: Batter CORRECT VIDEO

 

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Dear Auntie,

It’s still too hot to go outside, so Mom & I have playing baseball in the house!

Mom’s sending my video to the Atlanta Braves, in case they’re looking for a pinch hitter!  I can run around the bases fast too! Put me in coach! I’m ready to play!  😹

THIS IS THE CORRECT VIDEO FOR TODAY'S POST

APOLOGIES TOO ALL ESPECIALLY KAT WHO KNOCKED THE BALL OUT OF THE PARK

Check out my home run!

❤️ Kat

OMCs Kat you have some moves and agility...your fans will be stomping

and clapping in the stands.

Hugs and Love Auntie HiC