Memorial Day Weekend, 2025

 Wow, it seems that the year has gone by so fast, that we just recently posted for Memorial Day in 2024!

Anyways, tomorrow is Memorial Day, and Petcretary has to take her turn to work the holiday...which means she will have off on July 4th!

She didn't have a chance to help us make make any new patriotic selfies...so today we'll post a few flashback ones for this time of the yearl

Memorial Day:

A day set aside to be solemn and to think on the sacrifices of so many for the freedoms we sometimes take for granted.

Fort Custer National Cemetery. With all those flags, 'planted' by many volunteers, it is an awesome sight. And there are many others of these national cemeteries scattered over the country...yes and even around the world...all those who gave all, lay there and they deserve our thanks, even posthumously...this cemetery is not too far from where we live, and there will be ceremonies there this whole weekend.

We hope you all have a good long weekend, and please don't forget to take a moment out of your day to say a thank you for all those who gave of their time, talents and more.

We are joining all the others at The Cat On My Head for the Sunday Selfies Blog hop! Thanks, Kitties Blue!

In Memory of Stippie

 Yesterday we were so very shocked to learn that sweet and precious young Stippie had to become an Angel Kitty. Naturally his family is devastated and heartbroken; as are all who knew and loved him from his Blogville extended family.
We made this memento to honor him and to bring a tiny bit of comfort to his family.
If you haven't already, you can visit his blog by clicking on the link under the memento.

Stippie, from Angelwhisper2011

Since it is also Caturday art day, we are adding this post to that blog hop...

Caturday Art

In Memory Of Rami

Rami from The Blessing of Animal Companions had to fly away to the Rainbow Bridge due to complications of all his severe health issues. So sad... 

Rami

Feel free to visit there and leave your message(s) of comfort and sympathy.

We are joining the Thankful Thursday Blog hop...thankful that Rami and his foster family tried ever so hard to help him become healthy so he could have a new lease on life...but alas, even those efforts were not enough to counter the state of his conditions. Thanks Derry Cats for trying so very hard. We appreciate your sometimes thankless tasks when you foster these sweethearts.

Thankful Thursday

Stormy Selfies and a Guest

 Petcretary is working this weekend...first one in over three months! Wow! (Everything is fine and she can do her job as before...)

Anyways; In Canada where she is from it is a long weekend since it's Victoria Day on Monday. Its a fun day of celebrations. We don't have any new images to show you of ourselves, so we thought this redheaded dude would fill in well, and red is a good color for Canada

Mr RedHeaded Woodpecker is enjoying his peanut!

We had some horrible storms come through our area on Thursday night, into Friday, with at least three tornadoes touching down, two of which were very close to our home. The power outs are phenomenal, and the outage map looks like a broken up jigsaw puzzle...petcretary needed to go to the store for groceries, so she'd have them and not needing to go out on her working days...anyhow, she had to make major detours to get there, since the highway was closed...as were many side roads. Downed trees and wires all over the place. 

Amazingly we and a few others nearby did not lose power...but the areas to the south, north and east of us, who knows when they'll get their power restored. 

In all the years we have lived in this home (since 1983, and 1987 when we both were here), we have not ever had a storm this ferocious come over us. and we've had some humdingers, but this one will go in the books as the worst.

When she finally got back, she did her usual walkabout of the yard after any storm to make sure the fence is OK. OMD!!! OMD:((

There are all kinds of trees uprooted, or broken off, and some of the neighbor's trees did the same, and fell on the back of the fence, squashing parts of it. He had no idea, until *she* pointed it out to him...he'll need to get out his chainsaw to move them off the fence, and then we may need to install a temporary one till we can get it properly fixed. In our yard, there are a few trees hanging in the tops of other ones, threatening those as well. What a huge MESS! 

Downed tree right in the middle of a nice patch of may apples...

The edge of the 'groomed' part of the yard, with the woodsy area, all covered in tree trunks and debris.

One of the neighbor's trees on our fence.

Another tree on our fence...

One of 'our' trees almost on the fence, its hanging in another treetop...and you can see another ssnapped tree in the other yard...

Anther 'hanging' tree...the ground level is not shrubs but tops of downed trees.

Anther tree and a destroyed section of the back fence. This part of the fence is so squashed that if the tree is removed, then the dogs might be able to exit the yard...Yikes!

Uprooted tree in the background

Tree uprooted and anither broken off and 'hanging'.

This tree that was snapped in half, used to house a wild bee colony...now they've lost thier home....and we can't enjoy the honey either.

But we are glad those trees didn't ruin anything other than the fence, and they are far away from  any shed or house...and we were not under them. She did find an empty nest thrown far away from the tree it was in, and when she walked through another area she found a dead nestling, she thought it might have been a blue jay...poor thing. She gave it a bit of a funeral...she didn't see any dislodged nests there or any other casualties.

Petcretary's work place is running on a generator, and hopes to have the power on before she gets there. Time will tell. Well, when she got to work the power was still not back on...they had thought it would have been on by 6 am...but nope! So when it became dusk, she had to use the flashlight feature on herr phone to go into the closets and store rooms...and the kitchen was improvising with the meal prep...apparently kitchens in nursing homes are not considered essential?? Really?? Sheesh! Same with our in-house laundry. 

At about 8 pm the power suddenly surged back on, and all the various tvs and computers started to make noise again. Some residents came out of their rooms shouting the lights are on! yup, we knew, LOL! The place had been without power for almost 48 hours! When petcretary left at about 10 pm, there were still several crews working in the city limits and on the highway where the road had been closed since Wednesday evening.

The cities where our unfurbros live also got hammered by the same storm system...but neither of them lost their power. Our church is out of power, and sustained a lot of water damage inside, as the roof was being worked on...but not enough to cancel the services.

So now the chores that need to be done in our yard have changed....from weed control and other such tasks, to branch pickups, and lumberjacking!...maybe we'll have a bonfire!! Maybe by the fourth of July...Oh unfurbros, could you come by and give us some help!?! We'll feed you with weenies and smores, BOL!

Oh, here are couple of 'pensive' selfies...cause they came out there with me to see what I was doing...or to help me, BOL!

Some of my favorite sniffing and digging places are out of my paw-reach now...and how am I going to do all my zoomies back there? The pathways are all blocked.

Wow, everything is such a big mess...all the pretty wildflowers that were starting to thrive are under all these big trees and branches...here if you look closely you can see a baby jack in the pulpit and some ferns.
And since it's Victoria Day Weekend, (in Canada), here is our 'offering' to help all our Canadian friends and ourselves as well remember and celebrate!

We are in the Sunday Selfies Blog Hop

In Memory of Tylan

Tylan

 Tylan ,beloved kitty of Sierra from Fur Everywhere has become an Angel,having fought valiantly with many health issues, he just wanted to go and join his furblings at the Rainbow Bridge, and enjoy resting, and having renewed strength and health.

You can leave your condolences and comforting messages by clicking on the links.

No words will bring him back to his mom...so we are joining up with Wordless Wednesday...

Wordless Wednesday

Happy Mother's Day! 2025

 We send our love to our Mom...aka our petcretary on this May 11th, Mother's Day, 2025!

We made her a card, too!

We made some festive selfies with 'flowers' too...it's too early to pick any from our yard, except maybe dandelions, BOL!

We wish all Mother's and Mother figures a great day, and lets' make sure all you sons and daughters be you four footed, furred, feathered or human, give your Moms a big hug!

Happy Mother's Day!!

We are joined up to the Sunday Selfies Blog Hop  at The Cat On my Head!Thanks for hosting, Kitties Blue!

Angels ~ Again

 Once again there are angels to honor and memorialize.

A little while ago, Lucy reported that one of her Mommy's clients had had a tragically become an angel, and so we made this memento in his honor.

Griffin

Then just a few days ago sweet Millie from Bird Brains and Dog Tales had flown away to the Rainbow Bridge. We made this for her family.

Millie

We are thankful that we are able to send some comfort to their families by these mementos, and we are thankful that we are actually ABLE to do this.

We are also thankful for the beautiful weather we have right now, not too hot and the sun is making all our flowers bloom, and soon all the leaves will be covering the trees. 

We are thankful too, that petcretary will be returning to her work tomorrow, the first time since Feb 10th, Wow, that is three months ago! Now we will be thankful that  our yummy treats and healthy noms coming our way, BOL!

Thankful Thursday

Nothing Too Exciting This Week...

 Yup, mostly boring for us, no possums, not even any squirrels to chase! We did do some digging, to make our own excitement. BOL! We did get to bark at some buzzards flying overhead...and some dudes on their bikes, BOL!

The other day when petcretary needed to use her oven...she discovered that it wasn't going to bake anything anytime soon...Phooey! So now we have to have invaders come to fixand to check out why the dryer is not being very efficient lately and the washing machine needs some help too...else it floods if we don't stand by while it fills up...sigh...always something breaking around here. Is that exciting?? Nah, just very annoying!

Petcretary saw her doc, who said she's been OK'd to go back to her work, on the ninth. We'll miss her being here every day...but well, we need her to make green papers to pay for our noms, toys and treats! So we guess it's OK to be without her a couple of days a week...

She'll have been off work for a total of 12 weeks! (on short term disability)

There was a lot of stiffness still, and heat and swelling in her wrist and fingers, not at the break site, and OT was not really helping this issue...so the doc thought that maybe some strong steroid meds ( as dose pak) plus using prescription NSAIDs would help remove all the inflammation there, and yes it has already, even after two days! She's thankful for that...

She's mowed the lawn, did housework, and a lot of other stuff such as yanking out weeds, and planting shrubs, and nothing hurts, A wonderful feeling to just be tired...

Benji had been running the fence line with Rose and came in exhausted...so he laid down under the table...and soon went to his 'nest'. He wasn't too  pleased at being disturbed with a phone pointed at him...sorry these images are grainy and not of the best quality...

I'm hot, but I had fun!

Sheesh, she never stops taking pictures!.

Dalton was 'helping petcretary in the yard while she was yanking out weeds...

Can you stop for a while and play with me??

See, I'm a good boy keeping you company while you bend down yanking out all those weeds...I even wash your face when the sweat is dripping, BOL!

He gets in front of her, and then she cannot see what she's doing, so she has to move him off to the side...he scores because she paid him attention, BOL, BOL!!! Sometimes she blows into his face, but it doesn't stop him from trying over and over again....sheesh, he's SO NEEDY!

We got a big envelope in the mail...and it was a Badge/Patch for Epi Dogs from Five Sibs, which petcretary had won. Thanks so much!

We had nice weather most of the past week, not too hot, a lot of sunshine. We love this kind of weather.It makes for nice May flowers. Wow, how did it get to be May so soon already?? Speaking of May flowers, next Sunday is Mother's Day, so here are a couple of AI generated images for that occasion.

Oh, and its May Fourth...may the fourth be with you, BOL! Petcretary has no interest in that kind of thing, sci-fi , well she mostly finds that sort of thing disturbing to her mind...but the rest of the unfurred gang here seem to enjoy that stuff...oh well! Glad we didn't have to get dressed up for that kind of theme, hooray!

We're heading over to The Cat On My Head where all the other Sunday Selfies are...its a fun blog hop, and Kitties Blue are our hosts! Thanks so much, Kitties Blue, and your Mom too!