Good afternoon everyone. Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary provided this wonderful video about some ducks who were seeing water for the first time.
This little video is full of awwwwwww.
Ducks: Happy endings
Caturday Presents: A Birthday
On this day, many moons ago… Ahem, lemme try again. On this day, in the last century… No, not good. Ok. Once upon a time, this young princess came upon a frog…oops, wrong story. There’s no princess in this one.
Today is Lastech’s birthday. Since his birthday is in October, they wanted to dress up for the occasion and make a card for him. They did, and here it is.
Midnight Movie Madness : “the sound of noise”
“The sound of noise” – (102 minutes, Sweden/France, 2010 – rated R)
Drummers Magnus (Magnus Borjeson) and his pal Sanna (Sanna Persson) are speeding along Swedish freeways in a van, when Sanna’s rythmic (erratic?) driving prompts a motorcycle cop to give chase, which all ends up looking like a terrorist plot after the crashed van is found at the German embassy’s gates and the tick-tock of the metronome on the dash sounds like a bomb to the cops.
Crazy?
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Caturday: Magazine Edition
It’s Caturday and time for our furbabies to shine. This time, they have been working on a magazine cover. They both went and picked out their own magazine covers. Tito wanted a soothing restful theme. Miss Jenny decided that her tater wrangling was so inspired that she went in that direction.
Beware of cats bearing gifts
Miss Nightshade Jenny pulled an interesting trick last night. She got bored. As you know, cats can be downright dangerous when bored and Miss Jenny was no exception. At some point, she decided to make me a part of it by bringing me a gift and BLAAARRRRPING it out onto the bed.
It all started when I was sitting in bed reading my book. I glanced over and saw Miss Jenny coming through the hall on her way to the bed. Along the way she dropped something that went THUD!. It was too dark to see what it was, but it sounded like a heavy rubber ball. She wrestled with it for a few minutes and finally managed to pick it up again. Then she jumped up and BLAAARRRRPed it onto the bed. WTF? A gift? For me? Really? WTF?
Miss Jenny is an extraordinary thief. She steals pens and corks and other assorted items. This is the first time I’ve seen her wrangling taters. That wasn’t the only tater she wrangled. I found this when I went to the kitchen.
Evidently, Miss Jenny was having a ball playing with taters.
There were several other floor taters and I was still finding them this morning. I have since Jenny-proofed the tater bag. Miss Nightshade Jenny the tater pirate. What a riot. I’m still suffering from a terminal case of the giggles. I didn’t forget my manners and I remembered to thank Miss Jenny for the lovely gift.
Moody Tuesday: silver skies and grey waters
Counting down to Halloween on this gloomy Tuesday morning, let’s stroll through Autumn, Ray Bradbury’s country.
I hope you’ll enjoy these photos as I do, taken between the beaches of San Francisco, Golden Gate Park and the Shoreline at Mountain View, CA.
“That country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and midnights stay. That country composed in the main of cellars, sub-cellars, coal-bins, closets, attics, and pantries faced away from the sun. That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts. Whose people passing at night on the empty walks sound like rain.”
― Ray Bradbury, The October Country
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From the inside looking out
I had a few photos that I like because of the perspective. Sadly, one or two have some serious purple fringe from heck, but I can live with it. I just wouldn’t hang them on my wall. Someday, I’ll have a DSLR with some good filters. Before I do that, I need a computer that can handle the memory usage.
Caturday: the candle beats
Not that the pointy eared ones really care, but today’s post is about belated birthday wishes for them. If it wasn’t for the fact that they sleep, oh say about 17 hours each day, their parkour play moves and Klingon-style luvvin’ would make you think they’re burning the candle at both ends.
Our wish is for them to meow long and loud and for many years to come. Happy birthday, you little @$#%*&#!
In fact, if they were human, I think they might be Swedish percussionists running from the Law in the JBoDmobile (more on that later)…
“What greater gift than the love of a cat?”
– Charles Dickens
We got to see the Space Shuttle Endeavor!
I remember when Neil Armstrong first set foot on the moon in 1969. Our TV had died and we had to run to a friend’s house to watch it. I remember the first shuttle launch in 1981. I was watching when we lost the Challenger and now I’ve seen Endeavor airborne for the last time. Endeavor was riding atop a 747, and they did a slow flyover of the Golden Gate Bridge. It was magnificent.
These photos aren’t perfect, but I don’t care. I was there and I got to see it! Lastech deserves extra thanks for the trip to see it. He didn’t get near enough sleep and had to go to work this afternoon. I married a heckuva guy.
JBoD friend Nofuratu is on a fundraising mission
We have just received 5 autographed photos from the famous cat blogger, Nofuratu. It’s so exciting to be acknowledged by such an important celebrity.
We discovered his blog Adventures of a Naked Cat a couple of years ago, and he inspired us to adopt our own naked kitty, Kitsune. Sadly, we lost our sweet boy to FIP. However, we still follow and adore Nofur and his siblings.
Please Note: The following photos are owned by Nofuratu and used with his permission.
Nofur is a daring adventurer and activist. You can read about his adventures at his blog. Right now, he’s on a fundraising mission. He is going to participate in the CA-R-MA walk.
CA-R-MA stands for CAt Rescue MAritimes.
From their homepage:
Cat Rescue Maritimes strives to improve the lives of the homeless cats around us. Our immediate goal is to humanely reduce the number of unwanted cats and kittens dying needless premature deaths and to place non-feral homeless cats and kittens in responsible homes. We accomplish this by operating TNR (Trap Neuter Return) programs where colonies of stray, abandoned and feral cats exist under the care of a care giver. We also assist care givers in providing food, shelter and minor medical care for animals in their colonies.
Nofur working extra hard this time because it became very personal. CA-R-MA assisted his family when they wound up with two stray moms with kittens (10 in all). CA-R-MA neutered and spayed four of the kitties and Nofur’s family managed to find homes for all of them. That was nothing short of amazing. Nofur is working very hard to help them in return. Nofur is receiving pledges at his mom’s PayPal account:
If you can find it in your heart to donate, please do so. Nofur only has 5 more days for pledges.
This isn’t Nofur’s first walk. He made a blog post about last year’s walk here.
I’m sure that any pledges will be greatly appreciated by Nofur and his family. JBoD managed a small donation. We’re hoping that some of our readers can too.
JBoD Thanks you
Here are a few of my favorite Nofur blog posts.
Moncton “River of Pride” Parade
A Well Planned Wedding – 5 Meows
These are just a few of our favorites. There are plenty more adventures to read about. Nofur has been to New Orleans and to The Desert of Maine and other exciting places. You can also visit his Facebook page.