Trixie's Sad and Worried Caturday Art and Sunday Selfie

Greetings, Effurrybody!

We are back to taking it in turn to repurresent the J-Cats in the weekend blog hops - the Caturday Art blog hop, hosted by the Wise and Beautiful Athena and her HuMum, Marie, and the Sunday Selfies blog hop, hosted by those Delightful and Predictably Unpredictable Kitties Blue and their HuMom, Janet.

This week, it is MY Turn, Queen Trixie, Furrst of My Name, etc. etc. to be the J-Cats' official presenter:

This has been a furry sad and worrying weekend for all of Us.  Saturday should have been a wonderful, happy day, because it was the Mewish festival of Simchat Torah. But instead, Mummy woke up a few minutes before 7 am and something told her to turn on the radio. Then she discovered that for the past half hour, the Evil Humans in the Gaza Strip had been firing hundreds of rockets at Israeli towns and villages (later, it transpired there had been over 5000 in all!) Mummy was wary but not too worried, because they usually don't fire rockets at Jerusalem, and if they do, it's usually just one or two, just to show they can. She got up to get breakfast for Us, and a cup of coffee and a sandwich for herself. Well, she managed to give Us Our Brekkie, but then She got distracted by the news reports that said that in addition to the missiles, dozens of Hamas terrorists from Gaza had also infiltrated Israel and were roaming around freely in several towns and villages in the south, murdering people and taking hostages!

And then She We all heard them - the sirens warning of a rocket attack. Mummy dived under the heavy oak table in the living-room, because the air-raid shelter is three floors down an unprotected outside staircase, and in any case, Mummy was still in her rather skimpy nightie. There were a couple of booms, which Mummy said must be the Iron Dome system intercepting the rockets. 

After a few minutes, during which time, She was WhatsApping other family members to make sure effurryone was okay, Mummy felt it was safe enough to come out.  We all thought that that was that, as far as Jerusalem was concerned, but no! There were four or five more Red Alerts during the morning.

And then it became clear that a full-scale war was in the offing. Mummy will write about that in her own bloggie, of course, if not today, then tomorrow. Part 2 of her adventures in Montenegro last month will just have to wait. 
Mummy would also like to mention that her bloggie has a Fursbook page. She might post short updates there if She can't find time to write a full-length article. We also apawlogise if We can't find much time for visiting Our Furriends this week. We will do Our best but We need to stay close to the TeeVee, to keep abreast of what's happening. There is a high pawsibility of war in the north also.

   
Meanwhile, We kitties have a new duty - purrtecting Mummy from the Boomies. I, Trixie, am Chief Air Raid Warden. Naturally, I wear a helmet to keep Me safe. For Our Caturday Art, here is a pawtrait of Me in My Camouflage Helmet, artified using LunaPic's Scribble filter at 30%:

As if Our weekend wasn't sad enough, We also received the heartbreaking news that Pattie Kleinke, known to most of us as TW (The Woman) from Cathy Keisha's blog Stunning Keisha, has lost her battle with the evil cancer and crossed her own Rainbow Bridge. We send hugs and gentle purrs of condolence to her beloved kitty, Cathy Keisha (CK) and to her Dad, Fred (aka Pop).

Now, here are the blog hop badges.

        

Thanks to all of you who left Us messages of support, or who mailed Us to make sure We are all safe in these furry difficult times.

Be well. Be safe. We love you all.