A Birthday and a Couple of Sad Goodbyes - Caturday Art and Sunday Selfies

Greetings, Effurrybody!

Queen Trixie here - with extremely mixed feelings this week. On Wednesday, August 12th, We celebrated My 14th Birthday with a Picnic and BBQ up in the Enchanted Forest - but how can we truly celebrate when, in the course of a single week, We have lost two such Beloved Furriends. I refurr, of course, to two of the dearest ladycats We have effur known, the beauteous and feisty Katie Isabella on August 8th, and the lovely and gentle Seal of the Brian's Home blog on August 14th.

It is furry, furry hard indeed - yet We think neither of these Amazing and Adorable Kitties would want their furriends to forego such Impawtant Traditions as 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 Delightfully and Predictably Unpredictable Kitties Blue and their HuMom, Janet. In fact, it is even more Impawtant to continue hopping - especially for kitties like Us, who are accustomed to blog only once a week. This is Our Way of keeping in touch - and keeping in touch, even if just to say a quick "Hallo, how are you?" can mean so much. 

So, here is this week's Selfie:

We framed it with the help of LunaPic, which is also responsible for this week's artification, using the Landscape art effect at 56%, overlaid with Dark at 34%.

In addition, a stamp - in Impurrial Purrple - was issued in honour of My Birthday:

Moreover, PhotoFunia's Empurress Winery, (a boutique label, you understand) launched a limited edition of a new champagne named Sleeping Beauty, in MY Honour.

And last, but by no means least, PhotoFunia Publications has just brought out My latest book of Poetry:

I have dedicated the book to Katie Isabella and to Seal.

And now, here are the blog hop badges:

        

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Before We start hopping, We wanted to tell you about something Really Weird! Yesterday, it rained. No, it didn't just rain. It POURED! As you may know, in Israel, it simply does not rain in August. But the weather all over the world has been completely Topsy-Turvy this summer, hasn't it? Europe has been suffering severe drought, due to massive heat waves, bringing the kind of tempurratures We would expect to see in Eilat. Meanwhile, although it's been pretty hot here in Israel (like, the upper 30s Celsius), yesterday, it seemed as if We might need to build an Ark (mol). And what's more, it's extremely cloudy again right now - although still furry hot. Kind of like monsoon weather. Maybe it will rain again this afternoon. Mummy hopes not, because we haven't yet got round to insulating the roof.

Well, I guess that's it for now. We will be back next week, COD-willing - same Cat Time, same Cat Channel.

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