Too Hot To Be Legal: Caturday Art and Sunday Selfies with Shimshi

Hallo again, Effurrybuddies!

It is Me again, the Mighty Shimshi, Master of the Queen's Mischiefs (and all the other Titles, which I am too tired to repeat). I haven't actually been getting up to many Mischiefs these past few days, because the Extreme Heat is making Us all so furry sleepy, I have no Energy for Mischiefs or anything else!

Yes, We are facing another Extreme Heatwave. At the moment, it's 36 degrees Celsius in Jerusalem, with a Real Feel of 38. And We are only at the beginning of what is going to be a whole week of Extreme Tempurratures, going up to 41 degrees on Wednesday. That's only in Jerusalem. We heard that in Eilat, where one of Mummy's nieces lives, it is currently 44 or 45 degrees and that they are looking at tempurratures approaching 50 degrees Celsius (!!!) later in the week.

Can you believe it? We think there ought to be a Law against that kind of Heat! It should NOT be allowed!
And that's not just here in Israel, by the way. In London, where Uncle D. lives,  they are also expecting a week of really hot weather - well, hot for England, anyway, although the 32 degrees Celsius they are expecting would be a Welcome Relief from what We've got here!

Anyway, the Enervating Heat is the reason that despite her (sort-of) Promise, Mummy just didn't feel up to writing her own bloggie last week. She started - but She just couldn't finish. The Heat made her head all Fuzzy - that is to say, even fuzzier than usual (mol) - and She really couldn't think straight. It's always so much harder to summon up the Energy to write about Horrible Things that make her Angry, than it is to write about Happy Things - such as Trixie's 13th Birthday which falls this coming Tuesday, August 12th. We are going to have a Picnic to celebrate, of course, up in the Enchanted Forest, where the weather conditions are always ideal (that's part of the Enchantment). It will be at 6pm Israel time and, as always, you are all invited. You already have the Coordinates in your Teleporting Devices, don't you? But if you are new here, just let Us know and We will send them directly to the Control Panels of your Tunnels, Flying Carpets, Egg Whisks or Whatever.

Now it's time for Us to join 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.

As is Our Time-Honoured Custom, We have chosen three Selfies. All of these were framed and artified with the help of LunaPic.

Furrst of all, here I am in the company of one of My pawsselain dolly sisters, Miss Dorothea:

You can see her in the background, can't you? I had just been telling her some of My Ideas for Trixie's Birthday Pawty when Mummy came and reminded Me it was time to take some Selfies.

We artified this with the Courtisane filter at 67%:

Next up - a picture of Me all relaxed and - dare I say it? - looking quite Princely.

For the artification here, We used Dawn at 85%:

In my third and final picture of the day, you can see the effect the Heat is having. I was completely Zonked Out!

For the artsy-fartsy version, We used the Beauty filter, set to 42%:

Well, what do you think? Which is Your Favourite? Let Us know in the Comments Section below?


Next, We shall put up the blog hop badges:

        

And that's it for now, dear Furriends, but We shall see you again next week, COD  willing - same Cat Time, same Cat Channel. Till then, be well. Be safe. We love you all.