July Fourth ~ Happy Independence Day!

 

 

In Loving Memory: Valentine and Poppy Q

 

Valentine, His mom doesn't blog anymore, so you can leave comments on the POTP page if you haven't already.

Poppy Q.  Her Mom and family can be visited here.

Inbetween Sunday Selfies

Yup, we are inbetween...between holidays that is, BOL!

Saturday the First of July was Canada Day...which petcretary being ancient remembers being Dominion Day! Canada was officially its own country on July 1, 1867. So Canada is now 156 years old...hmmm...we don't think we can count that high! Though petcretary says she doesn't think we can count at all, BOL!

Here are a couple of Canadian pups...

Anyways, then on the 4th, it will be Independence Day here in the United States...aka July The Fourth!

We'll see if we let petcretary put our festive gear on...else we'll have to post a rerun session.

Petcretary was a Firstie along with three others at Teddy's Teaser Class...and she was also the first right guesser, so she got some 'awards'.

WOW! Four First Commenters on the Teaser post of June 27th and I WAS ONE OF THEM!!! WOO HOO!

I was the FIRST RIGHT GUESSER on the Teaser of June 27, 2023 – YAY FOR ME!

I was a First Commenter AND the First Right Guesser on the Teaser of June 27, 2023 – I had a DOUBLE BADGE DAY!

Petcretary had a very itchy week...and still is...she has welts and bumps all over her torso, arms and legs, and a few on her neck...cause unknown as yet. She's been at the urgent care and in the ER, too...wow! The doc is perplexed...Lyme disease test was negative, and the rash is not typical of that. She might need to see a specialist...sigh...its her two weeks of vacation! To top that off the tick bite she had a couple weeks ago, got infected and so now she's on antibiotics for that trouble...and no, that isn't the cause of the rash, as she got that several days before the cellulitis. Always something.

This morning our peaceful village was invaded by all kinds of hot air balloons! We grumped and grr'ed at them...BOL!

We didn't see any this evening, likely the weather put a kabosh on that and the scheduled fireworks, too.

We did get some welcome rain last Sunday afternoon, and again Saturday evening...with more in the forecast. Hopefully our grass will green up...If there is enough rain all around that will help with the smoke in the air problems around here, outside smells like smoke! We sure hope all those devastating forest fires will get under control and be put out. Lets all do a rain dance, OK??!

Unfurbro the elder is on a plane right now, flying to Estonia for a conference with his work partners.

Unfurbro the younger is flying to Calgary in a few days for his vacation.

We heard recently about Valentine, and just yesterday about Poppy Q...becoming Angel Kitties, so we are watching petcretary making some more mementos to send to their families. Will make a post about that soon.

Hope all is quiet wherever you live so you won't have to be in fear of the loud booming of fireworks. 

We are hopping along with all the others who have selfies to show off. And The Kitties Blue are our wonderful hosts! Thanks to you all!

Happy Canada Day!!

 

We wish everyone a great day! And if you are Canadian like us, Happy Canada Day! (We are Dual citizens...on the apron strings of petcretary who is a Canadian...)

Please be careful with fireworks...or just watch them on TV, which maybe not quite as exciting is less stressful for us furry ones...and far less fire risk, we do not. need anymore wild fires.

Its also ID your pet day...yup,we have our tags on our collars and we are both 'wearing' chips somewhw=ere on our backside...BOL!

New Angels...Just a Few Words...

We were informed of new Angels in the blogging community.

Our hearts go out to their families and we all send much love and many hugs to them during these difficult days of grieving. These Kitty Angels with all their precious memories, will always remain deep in the hearts of those who knew and loved them.

 Petcretary has a request:

I don't have emails of the kitty's furmilies, and when its a G-mail address, I cannot send them, they always come back to me as non-deliverable even though I will try to send them from the Chrome browser which is from Google. Sheesh:(

If anyone has email addies for these kitties, could you snag the image(s) from this blog, and then pass them along.Thanks!

 In no particular order:

Winnie, from The Chair Speaks

Teddy, from Patricia's Place

Midnight, from Kitty Par-TAY

 

We are in the Wordless Wednesday Hop..

Summer! Selfies for The Solstice

Well, a few days ago we passed the Summer Solstice Day, June 21st Solstice...and we sure have it feeling like summer, too. Hot and very dry...way TOO dry in fact. While we could see some rain in our state on the local radar, we only had all of two drips at our place. Everyone is hoping and pawyering for rain to come. Its in the forecast, but only as a 30 - 40% chance. Now if we had a picnic or some important outdoor event planned, it surely would pour, BOL! Our grass is crunchy, since its been burned to a crisp and some of the trees are so stressed they are dropping their leaves.

 

 

Last week, petcretary found a deer tick that had decided she tasted good...and it was already buried into her skin...she used the doggy tick remover and went to urgent care to get the prophylactic doxycycline to prevent her from getting sick. Lyme Disease is NO joke. 

Thanks, 'Google'...

 

Then earlier this week some other bug took a nibble under her shirt. So there is a big red wheal there, and the itch is phenomenal. UGH. She was 'attacked' yesterday on her way to the house after she came home from work and has some big bite marks on her chin...those mosquitoes, and other hungry insects are such pests and annoying to the max. Who puts on insect repellent to be outside for a few minutes to water the plants or walk the length of the sidewalk to go inside...sheesh! Maybe she just needs a beekeeper's protective outfit!! BOL!

 Here is a tip:

Eucalyptus Oil; straight from the bottle; when dabbed on mosquito or other itchy bug bites, helps with reducing the itch...doesn't smell too bad either! Its a tropical remedy petcretary's parents learned about when they lived in the West Indies...

Petcretary was a firstie this past Tuesday at Teddy's Tuesday Teaser Class...and she guessed correctly but was a wee bit too slow with her hunting skills, LOL!

Here are our summertime selfies, and its art! Petcretary wishes she could have flowers like that in her patio pots, right now there are a few dahlias and some geraniums, and a whole lot of marigolds, they seem to like the hot weather we are having. The wisteria she planted three years ago refuses to bloom, it just puts our a million shoots to expand itself...sigh...

Here are the original selfies we used to make this:

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On a sad note, LouLou posted that one of her good friends lost his precious pup, Mya, so we made a memento to honor her.

Mya ~ You can see the post about her HERE.

We are hopping in The Sunday Selfies.Hosted as always by The Kitties Blue at the Cat On My Head. Thanks for hosting, its already week 462!! Wow, that is one huge lot of Sundays!!

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Happy Father's Day!

 Today is Father's Day...so our selfies are in this card we made for him.

We hope all fathers and father figures have a wonderful day. We giving our pawppy lots of extra aroos and kisses! Even me Dalton might lick his fingers...

We love you Pawppy!

Petcretary is working, so we are just posting this image today as we join the Sunday Selfies Blog Hop.

All the Sunday Selfies can be found here! Thanks for hosting, Kitties Blue!