March 18, 2024

AWWW MONDAY with SPECIAL WELL WISHES

No kitties were harmed in the taking of these pictures.  And none will be now
that these old-style pull cords have been removed and updated to much safer wands.


When visiting Awww Monday today, brought to us all by friend Sandee,
please put paws together and send your well wishes to her, 
and to her husband Zane ~ thank you!




 

 

March 17, 2024

WISHING YOU THE LUCK O' THE IRISH


 Leprechauns,
large and small,
wishing you the luck o' the Irish!

[image from Baltimore's 2023 St. Patrick's Day Parade]

March 16, 2024

CATURDAY ART

CATURDAY ART

Repurposing a photograph to create a new and different look.

BTW: the inimitable Marjorie Dawson, of the blog Dash Kitten provided detailed
step by step instructions, with easy to follow images on the use of layers
to create and design unique and interesting images of your pets.  If you did not
get a chance to see her post earlier this week, please CLICK HERE.

Our art gallery image this week took the original below.  
Step one: a tight crop to remove unnecessary
background area, which is often only a distraction, then resize/reduce image.
Step two: the reading glasses were highlighted, copied as a layer, the base
layer converted to black and white.  
Step three:  shadow detail was added to the reading
glasses.  Various areas of the image were either slightly sharpened or
softly blurred, to draw the eyes attention to the center of the image,
and hairline rule border added.







March 15, 2024

SMALL, MEDIUM or LARGE

Mine Mommy says that once upon a time I was a small cat in a small box.
(Qualifier: these are photographs from 2-years ago March)

Oh dear.

She claims today I would be a medium cat in a medium box, or
purrhaps even a large cat ~ trying to get into the medium or the small box.

I tend to disagree.  
We do agree I continue to be a prime cat!








March 14, 2024

THANK YOU ~ CHEWY !

We were away all last week and found a package waiting when we returned.  
A surprise, as nothing had been ordered ~ what could it be?

A gift!  And what a wonderful gift it was!


It's ME ... me, myself and I.
A real portrait, all the way from CHEWY!

(per June ... almost better than food, treats or toys!)
(per Mom ... super better, better than any picture I can make with photoshop!)

We love it, thank you Chewy!  Thank you for always bringing us foodz, treats, toys, litter and so much more.  
We appurrciate you, we depend on you and we do
enjoy shopping with you ~ 
and hope all our friends do too, if'n they don't already.





March 13, 2024

MY WEDNESDAY WORD

I actually chose my own word this week after I heard it during a commercial break ~ mine Mommy was watching the news on her computer and all of a sudden there was a meowing computer-cat jumping on a kitchen counter and a computer-mommy opening a can (I know that sound), and I heard that computer-mommy say ~ "here bootsie, this is supper fit for a gourmand, just like you, bootsie baby!"  

So, I said to mine Mommy, "I'm your baby, right ... is my supper fit for a gourmand, am I one of those, what is a gourmand?"  And she said, oh yes you are!  Gourmand ~ the kitty who takes great pleasure in eating, the kitty who has a hearty appetite, the kitty who cleans her plate and leaves not a crumb.  That's me!


Unfortunately, she went on to point out that at my last visit to Dr Vet, I weighed in at 14.56 pounds and was notified that my ideal weight is actually about 12 pounds and again, unfortunately, in the very near future when much of the food in my cat food drawer is used up it will be replaced by different foods of lower-calorie counts and I will likely see smaller servings on my plate at each meal as we work together (together?) to restore my now plump little body to the healthier and better weight it was last year!  

Apparently I do not need to add the word gourmand to my voCATulary after all.  Sigh.



  


March 12, 2024

HAPPY TUESDAY


 ~ a sunny day is a happy day ~