Two Celebrations Coming Up: Caturday Art and Sunday Selfies With Shimshi

Greetings, Effurrybuddies!

Guess whose turn it is to lead the J-Cats on this weekend's 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 the Deliciously and Predictably Unpredictable Kitties Blue and their HuMom, Janet! 

That's right! It is I, the Mighty Shimshon (Shimshi for short), Furrst of My Name, aka The Little Purrince, aka The Baby Mancat, Master of the Queen's Mischiefs and Captain of the Guard!

Coincidentally, that turns out to be furry appawsite, because this coming Wednesday, May 15th, is My 10th Gotchaversary. In honor of that Meowmentous Occasion, PhotoFunia has issued a Special Commemorative Stamp:

The day before that, Tuesday May 14th, is Israel's Independence Day. Of course, the celebrations this year are likely to be somewhat toned down, because of the War, but Mummy says it's impawtant to show all those who want to destroy Us that We are here and will remain so, in spite of Anything and Effurrything they try to do to Us.
So, We are going to have a Joint Celebration for Independence Day and My Gotchaversary, starting with a Barbecue on Tuesday afternoon at 4pm Israel time, to which all Our Anipals are invited. It will go on all night long, and well into Wednesday, and there will be Mewsic and Dancing and, of course, lots and lots of Food and Drink.

Where? 

Do you even need to ask? 

Where else but up in the Enchanted Forest (mol)!

Now, getting back to the blog hops - We have two more selfies for you and you can choose which you like best. Furrst, here is Me trying to avoid the Flashy Box and not succeeding:

 

We went back to LunaPic to artify this one, and made it furry colourful, with a combination  of Quirky at 52%, and Dawn, at 29%:

Our third and final selfie today shows Me stretched across two chairs in the living room, keeping Mummy company while She watched some silly old film from 60 years ago that She found on MewTube:

Judging by the look on My Face, it seems I was quite enthralled by the film too (mol). At any rate, We thought this picture was worthy of being hung in a gallery, once it was turned into an oil painting, with the help of PhotoFunia:

And now, We shall put up the Blog Hop badges:

        

We are posting a bit late today, because Mummy is furry tired, having stayed up till the wee hours of the meowning watching the Eurovision Song Contest and then commenting about it on Fursbook and WhatsApp. But She doesn't have Caterwauling Purractice this evening, because it is the start of Remembrance Day, which is always marked the Day before Independence Day, so She doesn't need to sleep during the afternoon (though She purrobably will, as She can hardly keep her Eyes open).

So We will do Our Best to visit as many of you as We can before Mummy falls asleep at the keyboard (mol) and if We don't manage today, there's always tomorrow.

Don't forget - the Pawty starts on Tuesday afternoon. We look forward to welcoming you to the Barbecue.

Till then - Be well. Be safe. We love you all.