Good News, Bad News, Somewhere-in-the-Middle News

Greetings, Effurrybuddies!

Let's start with the Bad News and get it out of the way, shall We?

Over the weekend, there were not one, but TWO rocket attacks on the Jerusalem area, from the Bad Humans who are trying to kill Us! On the night between Friday and Caturday, Mummy was rudely awakened at 2:11 am, by the sound of sirens warning of an imminent rocket attack. So She jumped out of her Our nice warm bed (disturbing Us in the process) to take shelter in the inner corridor of Our Apawtment and had to sit on the Hard, Cold Floor for ten minutes till it was Officially Safe to return to bed. That rocket, which was fired by Wicked People in Yemen, which is about 2000 kilometres away, was intercepted by Our Airforce before it even reached Israel. Mummy would have done well to stay in bed (as We did - MOL)! In fact, Mummy later heard from her sister, Auntie N., that she slept right through it - as Mummy has been known to do in the past.

Then, on Caturday afternoon, just as Mummy was lying down for her Shabbat afternoon nap, there was another rocket attack, this time from the Evil Humans in Gaza. Mummy didn't hear any sirens at all, and only found out about it afterwards, when She checked her phone app to see if and where there had been any more rocket attacks during the day. 

It was all rather surprising, because they usually don't fire on Jerusalem.
Mummy was furry annoyed and said it's a pity We can't just nuke 'em and be done with it!

At any rate, these rockets were also intercepted and nobody seems to have been hurt in either attack.

So much for the Bad News. Now for the Good News. Mummy finally got the gas-fired central heating fixed. Well, not exactly fixed. She replaced the gas boiler - which cost Her a Pretty Penny (that's the "Somewhere-in-the-middle News") - and now the house is lovely and warm and We are enjoying all kinds of new places to curl up, such as right in front of the radiators. Mummy says it was worth effurry shekel. We agree!

Actually, Mummy got this done just in the nick of time. The weather has turned furry cold, especially at night, and We are expecting two or three days of continuous rain in Jerusalem. In the North, they have already had snow. We think snow is purrty to look at, especially now that the heating has been fixed and We can watch the snowflakes fall from the sky while We are safely ensconced behind a double-glazed window, but We are furry sorry for anyone who has to be out in that cold, wet stuff!

Now, it is time for Us to join 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 the Delightful and Predictably Unpredictable Kitties Blue and their HuMom, Janet.  Since this will be the last Sunday Selfies post of 2024, We thought it would be a Good Idea to make it an Ussie this time. In fact, you can even see a couple of Us twice, as We are reflected in the Mirror. And the sharp-eyed amongst you may even catch a glimpse of Mummy's arm, also reflected in the mirror, as She snapped this photo.

Since it will be 2025 the next time We post, We decided to take this Oppurrtunity to wish you all a Happy Mew Year. And, just as We did with Our Chrissymouse/Hanukkah card last week, We used LunaPic's amazing filters to prepurr three artifications of this picture.

In the furrst one, We used a combination of Watercolour2 at 58% and Landscape at 73%:

Next, We tried two of Our favourites - Dark at 73%, overlaid with Nouveau at 41%:

Last, but not least - Candy at 45% with an overlay of Frida at 38%:

 

And here are the blog hop badges:

     

Till next time then. Meanwhile - be well. Be safe. We LOVE you all.

And have a Happy MEW Year!