So Close To Christmas Selfies

Before we get started we need to remind you of this PSA:
A Public Service Note:
As of Jan 1, 2020, petcretary will no longer be making all the Birthday and Gotcha Day cards. She will make Memorial Cards, and maybe a few others. She is spending way too much time on them, (Sometimes up to 8 hours on a card), even though she loves making them...Sorry to have to put an end to those...if you want one and have not had one for your special furend/furbaby...send her a clear image with an unobtrusive background at least 4 weeks ahead, and she will get one out to you. Just leave a comment, with contact info.
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Yes! This is the last Sunday before Christmas!

And *she* has not even sent out any snail-mail cards yet, Oh-oh!

She did send a bunch out by email though:)

She has been working, and doing other so called time consuming things which keeps her away from  doing things here in our world of blogging so that we have not visited a lot of you...maybe after the change of the calendar into the new year, (and the new decade!), she might find more time, since there will not be as much time spent on making all the cards. We hope so:)

So without further ado, here are our selfie offerings for this week:

We are part of Dezi & Raena's Blessing Train

Blessing Train

Our Christmas card for all of you! If you didn't get one in your Email, then feel free to snag it here:)

We saw petcretary busy at the card factory so we helped her a bit...because it was our doggy cousin, Eddie

We think he would have a ton of fun chasing all those squirrels! Hope they don't eat up his cake, BOL!

We had to make some sadness cards, too; to send some comforting thoughts to their furmilies:

Percy

BoBo ~ From the furmily of Little Binky

We are in the Christmastime Sunday Selfie Hop, hosted by The Kitties Blue

Peace on Earth ~ Triple Selfies!

Before we get started we need to remind you of this PSA:
A Public Service Note:
As of Jan 1, 2020, petcretary will no longer be making all the Birthday and Gotcha Day cards. She will make Memorial Cards, and maybe a few others. She is spending way too much time on them, (Sometimes up to 8 hours on a card), even though she loves making them...Sorry to have to put an end to those...if you want one and have not had one for your special furend/furbaby...send her a clear image with an unobtrusive background at least 4 weeks ahead, and she will get one out to you. Just leave a comment, with contact info.
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Yes, you read that correctly. We have triple selfies today, just in time for Christmas:)
It was a moment of 'Peace On Earth' here, and no furries were harmed in any way, well, except maybe their pride, MOL/BOL!

We had to do our own Santa session, sans Santa, cause apparently *she* missed out on the notice of the event way back a month ago, sheesh, she was still recovering from that nasty trip back in the snow storm...Santa was not on her mind, and we hadn't even had Thanksgiving yet. Go figure. But somehow we didn't mind one bit, about missing a big red lap...Bwahahahaha!

Benji & Dalton: If we lie real still maybe he won't whap us...

Pipo: That's right, Dalton...no funny business, OK?

Pipo: And you had best behave, too, Benji...

Pipo: Good, now I can enjoy being warmed up on both sides at the same time!

Maybe I might give you a wee kiss for being good, Dalton...

Merry Christmas and Peace On Earth from Benji, Pipo & Dalton!

 Then we got down, took off our decor, and we were back to normal. I Pipo, chased Benji from the front door to the back door...Bwahahahaha! (And yes I really did do that, tee-hee!)

Pipo: Valentine wanted to see my tie, that is the same as he has, so here is an old selfie of Moi:

And we made a card, even though soon our card factory will be greatly curtailed, as you can read above...then most of our 'art' will be for us, for special days, and of course for those that need memorial cards.

Marcus

We are peacefully hopping with The Kitties Blue, who host this feature each week, and we heartily thank them.

Christmas Card Day!

Zoey & Dougie Dog from Zoolatry said that today, Dec 9, its Christmas Card Day...well, we are a wee bit late in our time zone, but...its still the 9th in some, MOL/BOL!
So here is our card for you, our blogging friends; feel free to snag it for yourself if you wish:

There may yet be another, if *she* finds time, if so that one will be posted individually and she will try to print it to put in any snail-mail cards she may send as well.
Not sure if the pet shop we get a lot of our noms from (Cause Chewy doesn't have them go figure...), well, not sure if they will have a Santa event on a day that petcretary is off...she can't take us there if she is working, cause of the awkwardness of the timing. If we do get to see Santa, then those images will go into our card...else *she* might resort to a photo session here at home...sigh...

Happy Christmas Greetings to all, and may you find many blessing in this joyful season!

Thanks Zoolatry, for telling us about this day!

Some Selfies In Pre-Christmas Mode

Before we get started we need to remind you of this PSA:
A Public Service Note:
As of Jan 1, 2020, petcretary will no longer be making all the Birthday and Gotcha Day cards. She will make Memorial Cards, and maybe a few others. She is spending way too much time on them, (Sometimes up to 8 hours on a card), even though she loves making them...Sorry to have to put an end to those...if you want one and have not had one for your special furend/furbaby...send her a clear image with an unobtrusive background at least 4 weeks ahead, and she will get one out to you. Just leave a comment, with contact info.
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Not much going on art our den this past week, petcretary was so busy with her work she hasn't been able to let us visit too many of you...but we try to get her to do a few each day...
We still have no snow other than that which fell at the beginning of November, which is long gone, and all the leaves that were still on the trees back then are still scuttering over the grass...a big mess, actually, MOL/BOL!
On Friday, petcretary made a big bonfire with all the year's twigs, limbs and other big yaerd waste, including the remains of a felled tree that she was able to saw into managable pieces last spring. It was HOT! She came back inside smelling like that fire, and there were cinders in her hair...oops. But after a shower and the clothes int he washer she smells like herself again...at least we thought so, BOL/MOL!
Us pups have been gobbling up some whole nuts that petcretary put out for the birds and squirrels. But I, Benji, jump over the not too high fence and snagged some for myself before those tree rats did. Crunch and yummy...I have no idea why *she* found that unacceptable. Then she cleaned up the leftovers and tossed them - spoil-sport! However we did get the last woof...and we brought some whole almonds and English walnuts in to the den to crunch them in our warm soft nests. More disapproval from *her*. She had no idea how we got them either, tee-hee!
But when she went out to clean up our downloads; she found little digging spots, not at all like the usual kind of digging we do...then the light went on! We were excavating the buried nuts that the tree rats had put away for future reference. We are so clever, but she busted us and the squirrels too!
So she traversed the yard and found a whole lot more that went into the compost...and some even went into that bonfire! Hmmm...it was too hot to retrieve those roasted nuts...and she was humming 'chestnuts roasting on an open fire.....'. BOL!
I Benji, was hunting for more buried treasures all day yesterday and even today. Could not find any...shucks. I shall have to resort to the yucky black walnuts in the far back woods...petcretary loves when I bring those into the house, Tee-Hee! And the tree rats shall have to stick with the spillage of sunflower seeds from the hanging feeders:) Why, I haven't even seen one the past few days, they must be busy with all the other nuts and acorns around our area. They seem to know when we are inside and its safe for them to 'forage'.

Pipo gets brave and watches us and then struts nearby us...tail up and mrouwing at petcretary to give him some food in his dish, or a belly rub. Or just to taunt us. Why one day he even headbonked on Dalton. He just sat there and froze. SO, maybe he wants to try and be friendly for this Christmas season?
Health wise he is holding his own and being normal. Petcretary is thankful that he is doing so well. She just wishes he would be more helpful with her when she wants to take his picture. Even with no props he hates it to the max...He's been that way, even as a kitten. She uses no flash...and with the phone camera there is little noise of focusing, etc...oh well, at least she gets a few good ones now and then, Hah!

Well, today December 8th is National Christmas Tree Day...no tree up in our den yet...but here is some pictures of  pretty google trees. BOL/MOL!

Some trees like this one are found and taken home like this:

Tree in transport...

Decorated and pretty!

Maybe some peeps prefer a more eco-friendly way to take a tree home:)

We wonder if those decorations will last??

Sometimes in winter the trees nearby look like this

Or this...

This is another eco-smart tree!

So Pretty!

Of course you might try quilting a tree, it won't need watering and is low-maintenance!

Another idea for a low maintenance tree:)

Petcretary says she likes this old fashioned pretty tree a lot!

And this is a good thing to be mindful of during this special season of joy and wonder.

Thanks Ann, of Zoolatry, for this badge.

We made a card though, somehow we found time for that:)

Annabelle

We are hopping along in the Sunday Selfies, hosted by the Kitties Blue, our ever faithful weekly hosts. Thanks so much!

(Post)Thanksgiving Selfies On Sunday

Before we get started we need to remind you of this PSA:
A Public Service Note:
As of Jan 1, 2020, petcretary will no longer be making all the Birthday and Gotcha Day cards. She will make Memorial Cards, and maybe a few others. She is spending way too much time on them, (Sometimes up to 8 hours on a card), even though she loves making them...Sorry to have to put an end to those...if you want one and have not had one for your special furend/furbaby...send her a clear image with an unobtrusive background at least 4 weeks ahead, and she will get one out to you. Just leave a comment, with contact info.
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Well, these are some of the pics that were taken to celebrate Thanksgiving this year. It was the first Thanksgiving for Benji, well, by that we mean the first as celebrated with us, since he is a little over a year old by now.
There were 129 images taken...and most were total fails for one reason or another, some the fault of petcretary not focusing, some where no one wants to look and so on, MOL/BOL!
So here are the best ones...

Pipo hopes you all had a fine Thanksgiving celebration.

I, Benji am celebrating my first Thanksgiving with my forever family, I have SO much to be thankful for!

I wonder if this corn tastes good?? Heh-heh!

Its more fun when we can celebrate together, Though we don't seem too thrilled right now, BOL!

A better image, but...we are looking outside at the neighbours activity instead of at Petcretary.

A thankful trio??

Well...

Um...

This is the best we could muster, *that* kitty is making us nervous...

 Here is the card we made for the day, in case you missed it...

We made a birthday card too:

Wilhelmina

We are hopping in the Sunday Selfies, hosted by the Kitties Blue, and we are thankful that they do this each week:)