Hey, it’s that time of year again and the kitty boys (Dougy above) are sleeping in in preparation for the Big Event. Darn right: 12 o’clock midnight is “Feed the Kitties Time”!
(To my human friends, may you have a prosperous 2019! I appreciate your following this blog and, for those of you having your own blogs, I’ve enjoyed following you. )
I’ve no idea what this says other than it supposedly celebrates Chinese New Year’s. Close enough and it has a tuxedo kitty. (Hi, Molly the tuxedo kitty!)
Bonne Année à tous! PS Dougy looks like that internet cat whose coat is the fur of his enemies! 😆
I guess I have at least one more cat to find on the Internet! I am unfamiliar with the one you mention. Anyway, Happy New Year to you, too!
Hehehehehe! If you Google “Cat wearing the fur of its enemies” you will find it. It’s the first picture that comes up! 😆
Best wishes to you and the kitty boys. 💕
Same to you! May you have the best of years in 2019!
Beba says, “Hey, I am also a tuxedo kitty, so how come your friend Doug is not saying Hi to me? Not fair!”
Oh! Oh! And tuxedos are among my favorites. Sorry Beba! Happy New Year! May you get all the best “scritches” on you ears, head, and tummyu, and lots of treats when you are good!
Ah, you didn’t know that Barmalei is completely black,his sister Beba is a tuxedo and extremely fluffy, and little Pyshka is a tiger. Both girls have my husband’s green eyes and his playful personality.
Beba thanks you – Mrrrr!
I love black cats! So handsome, especially when they have intgensely yellow eyes. GTuxedos are a family favorite, and there used to be a really pretty tuxedo kitty (“Taco” we called him.) that was a feral kitty in my neighjborhood. I’m glad I have photos and videos of him. My first two kitties were tabbies with that lovely striped coat. One was grey; they other ginger. It looks like we have simnilar tastes in kitties!
Barmalei is majestic, with royal demeanor. He is the Main Chief Cat around here, and he disciplines the girls, when they cause mischief. I grew up with a huge black cat, so my kitties have always been either totally black or tuxedo. Pyshka came into the mix by sheer accident, rescued from you-know-what, where a cop who found her had to send her according to their policy. I couldn’t let that happen!
I probably would have ginger tabbies if I hadn’t been given the kitty boys. (No regrets!)
The vet calls Pyshka “buff,” as she is not exactly ginger, but rather muted, or pastel color – just like my husband, reddish blond.
Your kitty boys are matchless – The Adorables!
A pastel kitty! I like the idea of it!
A pastel troublemaker is more like it!
LOL! Pretty is as pretty does I tell the Adorables! (They take your characterization to heart, but can be very naughty indeed.)
As all cats are!
I hope you and the Boys have a great new year be well, be safe…..chuq
Likewise! And I hope you have a much healthier 2019! I look forward to your incisive commentaries., and know I will read many more in the coming year.
Thanx for the kind words they bare appreciated….chuq
My pleasure!
Happy New Year to you, Andy and Dougy.
Likewise to you, Uncle Mel!
Happy New Year! Better sleep now before the fireworks start exploding later!
Fireworks aren’t a problem here for New Year, though there have been some years people did it. I’m glad it isn’;t a tradition here., Hate the damn things! (Well, the loud ones anyway.) Too bad the line wasn’t “…bombs popping silently in air…” in the national anthem! LOL!
Happy New Year guys. May the year 2019 bring you happiness and many laughs. Everyone is asleep here after a rousing game of tunnel.
Shoko, Tyebe, Budd and Jean
We were all awake for the magicv hour oif midnight and the only thing on all three of our minds was “When are we getting breakfast?!” LOL!. I had to wash a sink full of pots, pans, and dishes first, and that was serioujsly stressful for two of us. When I finally got around to breakfast, the tummies were so empty, they were like vacuums sucking in the yummy kitty food. Then I gave aAndy his medicine after petting and brushing him. Dougy’s hinting he wants attention,. something he always does when he sees me on the laptop. I guess I ignored him too long because he ran into the guest bedroom. Later, we’ll play kitty games to make up for ignoring him. Whew! It’s been a busy mornign already! And I still have to complete my post for today if I’m going to meet the 2 AM postime I like to meet.
Wishing you and the boys all the best in 2019! We love your stories!
Likewise to you! I look forward to Benji’s continuing story, and know he has been a good boy, so bring out the doggie treats in 2019!
Thank you! Doggie treats are never far away in our house 😀
Andy makes sure I know where their treats are, and regularly perches nearby, just in case I happen by! Dougy is less interested in them, but will eat a few.
Haha, Benji walks to the pantry when he thinks it’s time to get food.
They know we know what they want…! Andy’s attitude is he’s always a good kitty, so any time is treat time. Dougy follows a more moderate course.
Happy New Year Andy and Dougy!
Best New Year wishes to your family and to you for your new school year in the USA! Give your kitty and dog a nice head rub and “scritch” from Andy, Dougy, and me, too!
Happy New Year’s, Andy, Dougy and Doug! Yes, 12 midnight is “Food O’Clock” on Kitty Standard Time. 🙂
Oh, you know it, Lavinia! My earlier cat clock, Louie the ginger cat, though Food O’Clock was 5 AM. I don’t know what I did to fall for the Andy-Dougy cabal’s notion that a much earlier time was time for kitty food, but I’m trapped in their control now and have no hope of changing it! LOL! Best wishes to you, Rick, and all the Salmon Brook Farms kitties for a successful vintage in 2019! I love, love, love reading about the flowers and season changes in your blog, something that helps me focus on the gardener’s creed that today may be a bust but tomorrow will be better.
Dawn on this first day of January was beautiful, and I did get photos, which I hope came out. The cloud cover has been increasing steadily since sunrise. I will post again at the end of January, with all this mont’s activities. Vineyard pruning has already begun. The new wine from 2018 has settled a bit more, and we tested it again last night. We declare success. 🙂 🙂
Let us hope for a good 2019 for all. 🙂
I hope so, too. Great news on the vintage!
My New Year’s tradition used to be I’d drive out to a spot in the Nebraska Sandhills to watch the sunrise at this spot where the only evidence of human habitation was a simple bared wire fence. I think I must have stopped doing that when I came down with Wegener’s granulomatosis and was hospitalized over that holiday. Maybe I’ll remember to do that again next year. It was magical!
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Yes, Happy New Year to you, too, GP!
I post mostly amusing kitty posts, but you post history, something we all need to keep in mind when we participate in our political scene.
I look forward to your posts more than most because they always focus on the human side of war, the personal experiences of ordinary people caught in war (or the well known, too – you don’t forget those people either!).
I always think you must be sitting in a room full of files, magazines, books, the things of research and discovery, typing on your keyboard in the dark of night, the early light of the day to create your posts.
Whether that describes your work on your posts or not, they always have that intense and thorough quality about them, something I especially appreciate since I am a lover of history!
Thank you for your effort! I feel you do great honor to your father for the quality of your research, the accomplishment of your mission, if you will!
You pretty much have me pegged, Doug. My better-half is always trying to get me to “organize” or straight-up. I try, but 2 days later it’s back where it was – organized chaos!!
LOL!