It’s a chilly 22°F (-2°C) this New Years Eve afternoon. I have no intention of going outside except to get the mail, and then it will be as quick a maneuver as I can make it. I am cold-blooded.
The kitties are resting nearby. Andy’s on the computer and Dougy’s at my feet. My boys like to keep me close when it’s time for kitty food!
Andy poses nicely for this profile shot.
Happy new year 🙂
To you, too!
Come to bring you Extra fresh Pawkisses for a Happy and Healthy New Year 🙂 <3
Same to you! And I really enjoy seeing your beautiful self in your photos! Such a pretty kitty you are!
Happy New Year to you & your lovely boys! 🙂 🐱🐱
Thank you, Kitt Noir, from me and my Chats Noirs!
Happy New Year 🙂 to you ALL, Thank you, love, nia
That’s some New Years snow you had! I think you got more snow than we did, as best I can tell from snow stacked on cars and things in your recent photos. You took many very nice snow shots!
But doesn’t stay long… Melted. 🙂 Thank you so much dear, Happy New Year, Love, nia
Whereas we still have lots of it on the ground still!
Hope I don’t wake the boys!
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Apparently not, GP because I put food out for them a few minutes ago and it’s still waiting for hungry little kitties to stop by. Dougy was by the computer long enough to get photographed, but disappeared immediately after. Andy is snoozing away elsewhere. Lately, that would be the sink in my bathroom, but he’s not there right now, He must be in one of his other favorite spots- perhaps the washing machine lid..
Joy and health!
Likewise for you in the coming year!
I am sending you lots of warm air for 2016 (sorry there may be a mosquito or two in there as well); all the best from me and the gang!
At this point, I’ll be happy to have even a mosquito or two if the air’s warm! I had to wrap myself in a cocoon this morning to get warmed up.
Haha Gotta love those two! Happy New Year’s Doug.
Jean
They are a joy in my life!
What a regal profile! Wishing you a Happy New Year!
He does look noble there!
HAPPY NEW YEAR! May 2016 be your best year, yet!
Thank you, Jean! I look forward to more of your informative blogs in the coming year, too. I’ve especially enjoyed the ones with charts showing different cat breeds, for example, but all your posts have been interesting in one way or other to me. Nicely done!
And I look forward to hearing what your two are doing. 😉
They better start planning for 2016 now because I’m running out of ideas….! LOL!
One never knows what a cat will come up with.
For sure! That’s how one gets almost 1000 blog topics. Before I had cats, I updated my blog every few weeks it seemed. Once I had cats….! It was inevitable I redirected the theme of the blog to “surviving retirement with two cats”!
I understand … when I began my blog, I didn’t know what my theme would be, but somehow, Saphera, Mr. M and Ms. Purrseidon seem to have directed it to pet care & humor … they are even making their way into my fiction. Saphera is in Fire Island as a tiger (no dogs in the Chatterre trilogy) and in the Sea Purrtector Files, a stray comment about catnip blends inspired Kiara (my cover designer) to research this possibility, then begin developing Catabliss blends. I never, eve thought Kiara would turn into a drug dealer for my beloved furballs!
If that isn’t enough, Ms. Purrseidon’s baffling water obsession has inspired the character Mischief in the Sea Purrtector Files, where she is giving poor Xander tail twitches.
Yep, blogs about pets rarely lack for something to post.
I personally can’t get enough of other people’s cat, dog, and other critter blogs!
Me, too. I particularly love the photos.
Yes, me, too! It’s fun seeing how people handle the challenges of black or white pets, too. If it weren’t for PhotoShop, most of the photos I take of the boys would show black blobs that had cat outlines, I fear!
Mr. M is a challenge to photograph – for one thing, the dear old fella is generally snoozing in an obscure corner. I have never used photoshop for retouching photos, but you have a point about it being for more than adding text to a photo.
I use it mostly to increase contrast and sharpness where possible.
I shall give that a try. Thanks for the tip!
It isn’t a 100% solution, but it have salvaged a few photos I’d otherwise toss….
A couple years ago, I upgraded my camera, so now have a few photos of birds and butterflies instead of swaying twigs and leaves.
It is nice when the equipment you have is up to whatever challenges you give it! I have old Nikon cameras from the 1970s that are excellent tools…if they weren’t film cameras. I haven’t the patience or money for film these days, and settle for digital cameras that are also capable of things other than just photos.
When we downsized in order to move aboard our catamaran, the old film camera was sold. Our daughter manages to get some excellent photos using the cellphone, but I am challenged with texting, so haven’t had the courage to try that.
I don’t text myself. Too small a screen for these tired old eyes!
Tired eyes and clumsy fingers, here.
Yes, and that,too, for me! Of course, I am a “hunt-and-peck” typist, so, though I have fair speed and reasonable accuracy, I often get off by a key or two…!
I might – or might not – rely on reading glasses…
I have no choice but to wear them….!
Sure you have a choice – as long as you don’t mind not being able to read the fine print. What frosts my cookies is the size of the print on a lot of medication bottles – those require a magnifying glass!
Or instructions on packaging. Yesterday, I had a fight with the impossibly small type in a credit card website, and had a hell of a time paying my bill! I can tell which sites give me the most problems, though: the passwords I make for them usually include at least one foul word….! LOL!
I’m not fond of the sites which have those jumblewords to verify one isn’t a computer or something… even though they are not tiny, they are annoyingly muddled.
Me, either. There’s one that makes you do three or four in a row before it finally agrees you aren’t a machine, and I try to avoid going there….!
I usually decide to shop elsewhere when I have more than one of those darn things – ditto for when a site demands to know my name and email before they will even allow me into their site to see if they have anything I might be interested in.
That is tedious, for sure! I feel the same.
IMHO, the wanting to know who is checking out their site is an invasion of privacy. Worse, I suspect people land on spam lists if they fill those things out.
Mind you, if I find something I want on a site, I have no problem giving them that information, but I will not do so before I know what they have to offer.
Nice profile. Happy and healthy 2016 to you both and your Dad too!
Likewise to you!
I be at your feet too
If it’s time to eat
If I don’t have to cook you would be my best friend
Have a good one my friend
Stay warm
See you on the other side
Sheldon
Speaking of which, I better get off the computer a little and feed the little darlings before they waste away….!
Happy New Year to you and the guys.
And to you, too!
Happy new year!! 😊😺
Scritch you cat for me! I’ve enjoyed your blog this past year, and look forward to more of your good-humored commentary on life in 2016!
Thank you! And you give your two gorgeous furbabies a scritch from me too!!!
Done and done! (They love their English Auntie Ritu for that scritching, you know!)
Blesd em!!!
😺☺
Hey, surprise, Andy has got something like a nose!
Yes, it is a cute little button of a nose! And he loves to have you rub it, too!