Shimshi's Caturday Art and Sunday Selfie for the First Week in May

Hallo again, Effurrybuddies!

April and its sunny showers have been and gone, bringing the flowers that bloom in May.  Unfortunately, Mummy can't go furry far to see them, because of lockdown restrictions which prevent her from going more than 500 metres from home - but the geraniums in her window boxes are doing furry nicely, and so is a late-blooming Sick Lemon on the front porch. 

 






And who knew spider-plants could flower?

The lockdown restrictions are gradually being eased. Schools are re-opening for Grades 1 - 3, thus enabling parents of young children to get back to work (within the Ministry of Health and Ministry of Education guidelines, which make it conditional on wearing face masks and adhering to Social Distancing regulations i.e. 2 metres distance between workers/pupils), and also Grades 11 - 12, so that teachers can prepare students for the Bagrut (Matriculation) examinations. Also, more shops are now being allowed to open - but not shopping malls or markets.

And when Mummy does go out - if only to take down the garbage - of course she can also see how Spring has come to effurryone else's balconies and window boxes and gardens.

We are stay-at-home Kitties, so all of this doesn't really make much difference to Us. The birdies continue to torment Us by flying right up to the window and laughing at Us. It is especially annoying when they perch on the bars right above the frosted windows of the Utility Room, and We can hear them chirping away but can't see them. We know they are there and it drives Us crazy!







And, of course, the Lockdown hasn't prevented Us from visiting Our Furriends throughout the Blogosphere and, most impawtantly, from taking part in the Blog Hops - the Caturday Art blog hop hosted by the Wise and Beautiful Athena and her HuMum, Marie - whose badge you see here:

and the Sunday Selfies blog hop hosted by Our Furriends, the Kitties Blue and their HuMom, Janet. Here is their badge:

As I said, We are stay-at-home Kitties, content to get Our Exercise by jumping up onto the highest cupboards in the kitchen, or racing around under Mummy's feet, or doing zoomies up and down the stairs. And when it's time to relax, either We snooze in the plentiful sunpuddles afforded Us by the south-facing windows, or We watch TeeVee - although, sometimes, it's a bit of a contest who rules the Remote Control.  As you can see from this picture below (which is Our Entry in the Sunday Selfies blog hop), it is usually ME, the Mighty Shimshi:

Mummy artified this picture, using the MonoChrome filter from her favourite photo-editing site, LunaPic.







I rather like the effect, don't you?


Now, before We set off on Our blog hop, let Me wish you all Shavua Tov (a Good Week) - and remind you all to keep your Humans under Snoopervision and make sure they continue to observe whatever restrictions are still in place in your neck-of-the-woods. Those restrictions are for effurryone's health and safety, so We can defeat that Evil Corona-virus once and for all.

Stay home, stay safe and Be Well.