Caturday Art and Sunday Guest Selfies to Honour a New Angel

 Hallo again, Effurrybuddies. 

Our first post of 2021, like our last post of 2020, is going to be dedicated to commemorating another Angel Kitty.

This is Pizi, who received her Angel's Wings on Mew Year's Eve.

Pizi's Human was a non-blogging friend of Mummy's - Ms. F.  Effur since Mummy has known Ms. F., she has shared her home in Jerusalem with six or seven kitties. Not only that, but like Mummy, she also used to feed homeless kitties in her street effurry day.

In the Spring of 2020, Ms. F. travelled for what was supposed to be a short visit to her native Switzerland, to visit her own Mummy. Naturally, she took thought, as always, for her kitties and made sure they would be looked after till her return by a lady who has worked for her for many years and who knows all the kitties purrsonally. 

And then came the Evil Coronavirus and made it impawsible for her fly home and be with her kitties. For months now, her own health issues and the pandemic have kept her trapped in Switzerland, while her furbabies have been faithfully cared for by Ms. I.

Beautiful Pizi was Ms. F.'s most senior ladycat. She was 18 years old when the Great Cat in the Sky called her home for a well-deserved rest. Ms. I., who has been looking after her all these months, was with her when she closed her eyes for the last time, so Pizi was not alone - but it must have been furry hard for Ms. F. to know that she could not be there to say goodbye to her sweet furbaby.

In tribute to Pizi, and because Ms. F. doesn't have her own blog, We are featuring her Selfie today as Our Honorary Repurrasentative on the Sunday Selfies Blog Hop, hosted by the dear Kitties Blue and their HuMom, Janet and on the Caturday Art Blog Hop, hosted by the beauteous Athena and her HuMum, Marie.

We used the Beauty filter from LunaPic, at 60%. We then framed the picture and hung it in the Louvre, with the assistance of PhotoFunia.

If you would like to leave messages of condolence for Pizi's Human, Ms. F., you can do so here. Mummy purromises to pass them on to her.

Now it is time to start blog hopping. Here are the blog hop badges:

Before We go, We want to wish you all Shavua Tov (A Good Week), and a Happy Mew Year for 2021. And to remind you and your humans that to make sure this year really is better than the last one, you need to keep practising Social Distancing, wear your facemasks and Wash Your Paws as often as you can.

Be Well. Be Safe.

Remembering Pixie in Caturday Art and Sunday Selfies

 Greetings, Fellow Felines (and Woofies and all Anipals)!

That is how Angel Pixie, one of the co-founders of this Blog, used to greet her readers.  Pixie received her Angel Wings on December 23rd, nine years ago, so We commemorated her last Wednesday with a Yahrzeit candle - although, being Mewish, We should actually have done that at Hanukkah.

May her Light always illuminate Our Way.

We have honoured her memory this year by issuing commemorative stamps with her image:

Princess PixieCato, as Mummy used to call her, will also repurresent Us in the Caturday Art Blog Hop, hosted by the Wise and Beautiful Athena and her HuMum, Marie, as well as in the Sunday Selfies Blog Hop, hosted by the Amazing Kitties Blue and their HuMom, Janet:

Mummy has often told Us stories about Pixie and the mischiefs She and her brofur,  Angel Possum, used to get up to. We have all of Us - Shimshi in purrticular - learned A Lot from hearing these stories.  In general, She was a furry Good Kitty, but She certainly knew how to plan a Good Mischief! 
But Mummy remembers her most for the way She loved to snuggle up with her under the blankets when Mummy went to bed. She was a most loving, precious little girl and Mummy still misses her terribly.

It is time for Us to set off on the blog hops now. Here are their badges:

  

Before We go, We want to remind you that, although they have now started rolling-out the vaccines against the Evil Coronavirus (Mummy has an appointment to get her first dose in a fortnight), We are not yet out of the woods, so remember to carry on Social Distancing, wearing your facemasks and Washing Your Paws.

And because We only post on Sundays, We will wish you NOW a Happy Mew Year - and purray that 2021 will be a much better year than 2020 has been!

Purrs and Pawpats to you all!

Shimshi's Sunday Selfie and Chrissymouse Caturday Art

Hallo there, Effurrybuddies.

Shavua Tov (a Good Week) to you all!

Do your humans also have a purr-dilection for demanding your co-operation in the snapping of selfies at The Most Inconvenient and Intimate of Miowments?
'Cos MINE certainly do, as you can see!

Anyways, this picture (which does, at least, have the advantage of showing off my toesies), is Our Entry this week in the Sunday Selfies blog hop, hosted by the Magnificent Kitties Blue and their HuMom, Janet.

Here is their badge:

We artified this picture with Chrissymouse Effects and a Snowflake Border from LunaPic.

Now it looks like a tapestry, doesn't it?


That will make a highly suitable entry for the Caturday Art blog hop hosted by the Wise and Lovely Athena and her HuMum, Marie, don't you agree?

So here is their badge:   

Last, but most Certainly not least, once again, this year, We are joining the Blessing Train at DezizWorld. As you know, beautiful Dezi received her Angel Wings last week, but she loved the Blessing Train so much that her Mommy, Audra and her sisfur RaenaBelle are carrying on with the Blessing Train - and We are joining it in Dezi's honour. This is Our Boxcar:

Look out for it on the DezizWorld website.

And here is the Blessing Train badge:  

All that remains is for Us to wish you all a Furry Miaowy Chrissymouse and to remind you that, although there is now, at last, a vaccine against the Evil Coronavirus, it will be some time before its full effects are known, so, in the meantime, keep on Social Distancing, Wear your Facemasks - and don't forget to Wash Your Paws!

J-Cats at Hanukkah: Caturday Art and Sunday Selfies

Hallo, Effurryone!

It is I, Caspurr the Courageous, the Maccabee, Commander-in-Chief of the Impurrial Forces, King of the Tigger-Tabbies, here to wish you all Shavua Tov, a Good Week - or at any rate, a better week than the last. That was an Absolutely Pawful Week, which saw the departure of no fewer than THREE of Our blogging furriends for the Rainbow Bridge - sweet Jinx, a handsome panfur from the 15andmeowing blog who was much loved by Us all, and especially by his Mommy, Ellen and her hubby; beautiful Gracie (so well-named) from the Animal Shelter Volunteer Life blog, another precious panfur whose pawrents, Kevin and Tracey and sisfur Ava will never forget her; and lovely floofy Dezi, from the DezizWorld blog, who has flown away and left her Mommy, Audra, and sisfur, RaenaBelle, grieving.
We will remember them all, and We send comforting pawpats and kitty kisses to their families, both furry and human.

We are hardly in the mood for art and selfies and blog hops at the moment, with so much sadness around Us, but We think these precious new Angels would want us all to carry on, visiting our Furriends and bringing them what cheer we can. We can never know what tomorrow will bring, so it is terribly impawtant to cherish Our Loved Ones while We can - even if distance and the Evil Coronavirus makes it impawsible for us to meet in the fur or flesh.

So once again, We are joining 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 magnificent Kitties Blue and their HuMom, Janet.

Here, then, is My Selfie. Note the chiaroscuro effects, the play of sunlight and shadow on My fur, as I bask in a sunpuddle.

These were heightened by the Luce filter from the Paper Artist app on Mummy's meowbile phone, which We used to artify the picture.

And, of course, in honour of Hanukkah, which started on Thursday night, We added a Menorah.

Here are the blog hop badges:

Stay safe, Dear Friends (both Anipal and Human), be well and let us always love and support one another.

And (for those who celebrate it) - Happy Hanukkah!

Caturday Art and Sunday Selfies with Queen Trixie

Hallo again, Effurrybody!

Shavua tov (a Good Week) to you all!

Yes, it is ME again, Queen Trixie, Furrst of My Name, Empurress of Jerusalem, Israel and the Entire Middle East, Queen of Hearts, Guardian of the Boudoir, Alpha Kitty Extraordinaire, etc. etc. etc.

This is going to be a furry short post, because Our Petcretary Mummy is tired, having spent a goodly portion of that part of the day when She is usually awake and active, (and helping Us write Our Blog) with her Caterwauling Club at a rehearsal. 

In the middle of the day, do I hear you ask?

Well, yes - because they are appearing in the Jerusalem International YMCA's annual Chrissymouse (and Hanukkah) concert, which is being pre-recorded, this year, without an audience, because of the Evil Chinese Coronavirus pandemic. And since they are appearing (like last month) with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, they have to make themselves available at the same time as the orchestra. They are going to be singing two pieces - one for Chrissymouse and one for Hanukkah. For Chrissymouse, they will be singing the Hallelujah Chorus from "Messiah" by Mr. G.F.  Händel. And for Hanukkah, they will be singing Maoz Tzur (or, as WE call it, Miaoz Tzur), to the less well-known tune by Signor Benedetto Marcello. The recording will take place later this week. Hanukkah, of course, starts Thursday night, with the lighting of the First Candle and you are all invited to join Us for a Hanukkah party on Saturday evening at 6 pm Israel Time, when We will be lighting the Third Candle. There will be latkes (potato pancakes) and sufganiyot (yummy jam doughnuts) and all the other traditional Hanukkah foods. And we will play dreidel and all sorts of other games.

Now, kitties, it is time for us to join the Sunday Selfies blog hop, hosted by the delightful Kitties Blue and their HuMom, Janet.  In the picture above, I am strategically placed on a comfortable chair under the table, where I am safe both from my rambunctious brofurs, and from the thunderstorm that visited Us that day. (My brofurs ran and hid under the bed. But I stayed in the living-room to purrtect Mummy from the Storm.)

Mummy artified the picture by adding the Colorello filter from the Paper Artist app on her meowbile phone, and added a frame from the same app, so that We can take part in the Caturday Art blog hop, hosted by the Wise and Beautiful Athena and her HuMum, Marie, as well.

We have also made a jigsaw puzzle of it. But We haven't yet tried to complete it. We know it will take Us a zillion years, especially if We have to rely on Mummy's Puzzle-solving Skills (mol).

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 And here are the blog hop badges:

Now, just a quick reminder before We go (because you already know the drill, right?) that the Evil Coronavirus is still lurking out there, so don't go out unless you must (and don't let your Humans go out either, unless it's for something really impawtant, like shopping for Food or Treats for you), make sure they wear facemasks if they absolutely have to go out - and REMEMBER TO WASH YOUR PAWS REGULARLY.

See you next week.  By which time, it will already be Hanukkah.
So - 

Happy Hanukkah!

A Surprise Visitor: Sunday Selfies And Caturday Art

Greetings, Effurrybody!

Shavua Tov (a Good Week) to you all.


Today, We have a Surprise Guest joining Us on the Caturday Art blog hop, hosted by the Wise and Beauteous Athena and her HuMum, Marie and the Sunday Selfies blog hop, hosted by the magnificent Kitties Blue and their HuMom, Janet.

Can you guess who it is?


Take a closer look.

Yes, you are right! It is Our Woofie Uncle, Messi, who lives with Grandpaw and Step-Grandma.

This is the original picture:

Mummy artified with the Color Scribble filter, and a simple, but elegant, frame from LunaPic.

And since most of you seemed to like the jigsaw puzzle we added last week, here is another one:

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Mummy is ashamed to admit it took her 28 minutes and 59 seconds to complete! (We have mentioned, in the past, that She is rubbish sorely in need of practice at jigsaw puzzles, haven't We?)
We wish all of you better luck.

Before We go, We want to ask you all to pray for a furry sick little kitty. You remember a couple of weeks ago, We mentioned our furriend Smores, who was summoned to the Bridge, not long after his brofur Julio flew off there? Shortly before that happened, Smores' Mommy had adopted a kitten called Emilio, to keep him company, and when Smores, too, was awarded his Angel Wings, his Mommy, Ilana, adopted another little kitty, to be company for Emilio. She called the new kitty Julio, after Smores' brofur. But now, Little Julio is terribly sick and his Mommy is sick too, with worry. Please, all of you, send purrs and purrayers and massive doses of POTP for his recovery.

That's all for now, Dear Anipals. See you all next week and don't fur-get, the Evil Chinese Coronavirus is still with us (will it effur go away?), so it is still impawtant to carry on Social Distancing, wearing facemasks and WASHING YOUR PAWS.

Here are the blog hop badges:

    

Now off We go.

Caturday Art and Sunday Selfies With Shimshi (Plus a Special Surprise...)

Hallo, Effurrybuddies!

Here I am Again, the Mighty Shimshon (aka Shimshi aka The Little Purrince), Furrst of My Name, Master of the Queen's Mischiefs and Captain of the Guard, wishing you all Shavua Tov (a Good Week) - and let's hope this time, it really will be a Good Week.

It is My Turn this week to repurresent the J-Cats in the Caturday Art Blog Hop, hosted by the Wise and Beautiful Athena and her HuMum, Marie, as well as the Sunday Selfies Blog Hop, hosted by the magnificent Kitties Blue and their HuMom, Janet.

So, without further ado, here is My Selfie:

Mummy always has a bit of a giggle when I sit like this, with my Paws tucked under, but by my sides. She says She has neffur seen any other kitty sit like this.

Have you?

She loves that pose so much that, for Our Caturday Art, She decided to purrpetuate it, with some help from PhotoFunia:

And now for the Surprise!  We aren't all that good at jigsaw puzzles, but We see that a lot of you like them, so, this week, for the furry furrst time effur, We decided to add a puzzle for you. It's only 60 pieces, so We are sure many of you will easily be able to beat Mummy's 12 minutes and 31 seconds!!!
(She really needs to purractice more...)

60Shimshi Framed in November




 

Now, before We set out on the Blog Hops, We want to remind you that the Evil Chinese Coronavirus is still lurking out there, so you and your Humans should remember to Socially Distance, wear your face-masks and Most Impawtant of all - Keep Washing Your paws!

Here are the blog hop badges:

                    

And off We go!