Yet again the blogosphere mourns the loss of anther beloved kitty. Jack from Dash Kitten, left us on the 13th. He lived a long life, but still will be sorely missed.
This memento was made in Jack's honor. You can visit his family HERE, to leave messages of comfort.
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| Jack. |
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| We will be joining the wordless Wednesday blog hop, since angels are wordless, but we will be loving them deeply, forever. |
Once again there are new angels to remember with love and sympathy.
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| Spike |
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| Ujio |
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| We are going to hook up with Awe Mondays, since both of these precious angels surely are awe-worthy. |
We had buckets of rain the other day, made our grass grow...well...like weeds! The lawnmower was not happy with the thickness and left many clogs instead of mulching it. So soon petcretary will go over it again.And very soon, cause the weather is going to get very hot again. UGH! And humid, to make it even better...not!
Well she managed to get one more privacy panel up Friday evening, but the sweat was dripping off of her...so she will wait with getting the doubled ones on over it all. They help a bit at keeping all the barking down. Us pups CAN see through it, so we sit and watch for activity on either side of the house to have a bark. BOL!
Other than that, petcretary keeps busy with many other chores, it seems there are so many more in the summertime than in the winter. Fill the bird feeders, which they seem to eat way more of now, maybe because of all the cowbirds, starlings and grackles which are not there in the winter, and they all eat like pigs! Even though we have more than one hummingbird feeder, they are not around too much here, this year. And the bee balm which usually finds them all over it, well they are not. Water the plants, esp the newly planted saplings...clean up after the doggies, pull out weeds...and so on and so on...always something to do, inside and out.
The snowball shrub ( Viburnum ), is either very stressed out from the dry and very hot weather we had recently...but at any rate it needs to be cut back or even dug out...which is a shame, it makes such a pretty sight every spring. I don't know if it is diseased, or has a bug/mold infestation, but it is for sure looking very sad. I will start with a severe pruning, and then wait and see if it comes back next year. A white lilac in the backyard has also seen much better days, so out that will come too. Arghhhh, smells like WORK.
Anyways, here is a moth I have not seen ever, in the 39 years we have been living here. It was quite large, and was on one of the may apple leaves.
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| Haploa lecontei |
Well, we had to pay the hat tax and endured a brief photo session...it was till hot and humid,and the mosquitoes were trying to get lots of vampire acquired meals form petcretary. Thankfully we didn't get any more storms right here...but many people are still without power, including one of our sons who lives just SE of Lansing. Not sure if he has a generator, if not we think he just might invest on one...even fans do not work in power outages, LOL, and it is quite hot and humid. We offered for him to come over here, but so far he hasn't.
There were a LOT of boomers around here...and we could hear them from shows off in the distance. Peeps were letting off fireworks almost all day. Dalton doesn't seem to be much bothered by them, but Benji was very clingy and didn't want to stay outside when we were making the pictures. He ran indoors a few times, poor fella. Hopefully there won't be any more now that *the day* is behind us.
We hope everyone had a fun, safe and meaningful Fourth Of July holiday! The 250th celebration of Independence Day!
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| We are joining up with The Cat On My Head, where the Kitties Blue are our hosts each week for the Sunday Selfies Blog Hop. |
The weather around here was NOT conducive for putting the dogs in costumes when it cooled off, the thunderstorms blew through here, so we are going to rely on an older celebratory image for this Fourth Of July...
Maybe today our doggy boys will be able to have some hat taxes paid...(BOL!) If so we'll show them off in The Sunday Selfies...if not, we'll resort to more 'look-backs'.
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| Since this 'art', we are going to post it into the Caturday Art Bloghop. |
Ellie Mae from Momma cat and Her Bear Cat recently became a new angel. So this memento was made in her honor.
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| Ellie Mae |
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| We are joining up with the others at Feline Friday |
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| We are joining the Wordless Wednesday Blog hop. |
