Happy Birthday Mom / Frankie ♥️💐🌷🍷🌹💕💜💓💛🧡💚💙💓💘❣️

Happy Birthday Mom / Frankie ♥️💐🌷🍷🌹💕💜💓💛🧡💚💙💓💘❣️


84 years young today! April Love💚🌹

Think Happy Thoughts, IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY TODAY❣️❣️❣️🎂🍥🍰🧁🌷💐💕💖💞🌹🍀🍷


We will celebrate from afar today. Miss you♥️💙💚💜💛💖💓💘❣️

Love you, mom!♥️💙💚💛💜💘💖💓💕♥️❤️💞💖🎂😻😻😻😘🌷💐☀️🐦

Love, Anna, Stan, M, Ty , Addie, Sabrina and Helene.💚♥️💙🧡💖💘💓💕💜💛❤️💞


Karson, Bat, and Maggie send their love.♥️😻😻😻♥️🍀💚🎂🌹

When I Look in Your Eyes😻

Ranger, The Therapy Cat

No matter what you've done wrong, always try to make it look like the dog did it!

Cats do make it better. Looking back 9 years ago when I took this picture of Ranger. M takes great photos but I sometimes do as well. lol, Love this one.😻♥️

And this clip 'When I Look in Your Eyes' from Doctor Dolittle 1967 is precious. It really doesn't matter the pet you have, they are all your best friends!🐱🐶

When I look in your eyes...

I see the wisdom of the world in your eyes
I see the sadness of a thousand goodbyes
When I look in your eyes
And it is no surprise
To see the softness of the moon in your eyes
The gentle sparkle of the stars in the skies
When I look in your eyes
In your eyes
I see the deepness of the sea
I see the deepness of the love
The love I feel you feel for me
Autumn comes, summer dies
I see the passing of the years in your eyes
And when we part there'll be no tears, no good-byes
I'll just look into your eyes

Those eyes, so wise, so warm, so real

Isn't it a pity your a seal.


"If you haven't seen the movie, or just can't remember what happened, it's because he technically stole the seal from a circus. That seal was deeply in love with her "husband" and wanted to be with him again. Her husband was already a free seal and so she asked for help. So, the Doctor stole her, put clothes on her, and pretended she was a sickly mother so that he could hide her much more easily on their journey to the coast where she could be released to freedom and rejoin her love." WolfGirl04 YOUTUBE

...Seals are really water cats to me, lol

Stay home and stay safe 🏡 🙏🐱🐶🦜🏡

Teacher's Pet 🍎😻

PHOTO BY EMMA ~M

So, Bat is the Teacher's Pet 

 Bat is such a cutie here promoting Social Distancing and this movie came to mind I had seen years ago starring Clark Gable and Doris Day, Teacher's Pet.  Watch this scene, so funny. An oldie but a good one.

p.s. This is my little escape, posting silly things I love. It seems to be working for me at the moment and hopefully for you who reads this post.

Take care and stay safe 🙏🌏😻🇨🇦

Shining Like A Fiery Beacon ~ Earth Hour 🕯

EARTH  HOUR  ~ Home is where the heart is and tonight it's right here ♥️

STAY AT HOME AND STAY SAFE 🙏🌏🇨🇦🇮🇹

Bat's Favorite Things🐟

Tuna fish, pussy willows and his favorite hideout under the table .

My Favorite Things 
Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music

"When the dog bites, When the bee stings

When I’m feeling sad

I simply remember my favorite things and then I don’t feel

So bad..........."

And one of my favorite things is being near water, specifically, saltwater, the sea but I would be so happy to be back here today on a warm sunny day where everything is ok.  This place is a favorite of ours. Murphy's Point, Provincial Park.

Looking in From The Outside ~ Que Sera, Sera

When you spy on your three cats while taking out the garbage. 

Karson and Bat watching their crazy human taking out the trash and making crazy eyes.😂

Our Christmas lights, indoors and out are still up and I'm so happy they are. They warm our surroundings and the cats, of course, love sitting under the little indoor trees.

Maggie wondering if I lost it 😂

Throughout the years, after Christmas, I always take note of the lights left on far into the new year by people who like myself follow the tradition and I joke with my husband on what might be their reasons for leaving them on. 

I, tend to leave a little Christmas up all year through because I just don't know... 'The future's not ours to see'.  

I'm Still The Bad Guy😂

Be it Christmas or Halloween, I can't seem to never get enough in one day or a month, therefore, some of my favorite things will inevitably always be out on display to look at and enjoy night and day by all who live inside the walls of this home,  including the cats.

 To me, the world outside looks the same but I know its a photograph that doesn't tell the entire story. I wonder if the cats know. I believe they do, just look into their eyes and they are talking to you.

A Bad Dream

THANK YOU TO OUR VERY MUCH APPRECIATED GARBAGE MEN FOR PICKING OUR TRASH.

REMEMBER ***

STAY AT HOME AND SAVE LIVES 

Take a tiny trip down memory lane and watch this clip of Hitchock's 'The Man Who Knew Too Much'  starring Jimmy Stewart and Doris Day.

~ Que Sera Sera

Classic old flick♥️

The Old Cat and The Tough Old Bird

Karson, our church cat will be turning 16 years old this coming May 3rd, which makes him about 104 years old in humans years? 

When I think of growing old, I think of a few quotes I read some time ago. 
There's this one by Richard Gere

'Do not regret growing older, It's a privilege denied to many.' ~ Richard Gere 

Appreciating old age and keeping healthy both in body and mind as best I can, these days I try to limit myself from news feeds and often escape to places where I can have happy thoughts. My husband, daughter and I have taken up the routine of tuning in every afternoon to Ricky Gervais's live Twitter videos, they make us laugh and that's a good thing. 

It's wise to keep informed just so you know where you stand but too much information I have come to realize makes me not feel very good. Finding that happy place is necessary to keep one's sanity and avoid becoming increasingly depressed and sick.

A happy place for me is watching the old movie flicks. Maybe I can coax hubby and daughter to watch this one more time...lol 

'Some Like It Hot'.   

PHOTO BY TCM

FOR ALL THE OLD FOLKS OUT THERE ♥️YOU❣️🙏 

Watch this on TCM youtube channel

SOME LIKE IT HOT 




Here is a clip from Some Like it Hot on TCM channel / Facebook

♥️ Three-quarters of a century-old and he is still an adorable pussycat.♥️

Josephine: Well, there they are. More millionaires than you can shake a stick at.
Sugar: I'll bet there isn't one under seventy-five.
Josephine: Seventy-five. That's three-quarters of a century. Makes a girl think.
Sugar: Let's hope they brought their grand-sons along. 

Karson, his furry paw on my hand, love❣️😺

 No matter your age, inside you are still young. Life in all it's imperfections is still beautiful. And the human spirit never dies. I think I can still work on becoming that tough old bird. 

  STAY AT HOME AND SAVE LIVES 

HOME, A SWEET, SAFE PLACE TO BE 🐱🐶🏡

KEEPING CALM IS A MATTER OF UTMOST IMPORTANCE AT THIS POINT IN TIME, IN ABIDING BY RULES AND IN WORKING TOGETHER IN HELPING EVERYONE, ESPECIALLY GIVING ALL THE AMMUNITION THAT'S NEEDED TO THE PEOPLE WORKING FOR US IN 🥼🩺 , IN GROCERY STORES, TRUCKERS, GARBAGE MEN, EVERYONE WHO IS DOING A VITAL JOB ON THE FRONT LINE IN FIGHTING THE VIRUS FOR ALL.

PLEASE, STAY HOME.

CHERISH FAMILY, AND ALL GOD'S CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL FOR THEY HAVE UNCONDITIONAL LOVE FOR YOU AND YOU MUST REMEMBER THEY COUNT ON YOU, SO TAKE GOOD CARE OF THEM TOO.

 KEEP SAFE ♥️🙏

My little menagerie of collected animal statuettes from my country thrift store jaunts. Can you tell I'm old? ... lol 

'I'm afraid I'm not very good with people. I'm alright with animals but people, I'm not very good with, I never have been.' ~ Doctor Dolittle played by Rex Harrison 1967 

We are somewhat in the country and I am very happy about that but I always wanted to escape somewhere farther out, like forever, and spending time with a good book now allows me to be there. Some time ago I read a story by James Herriot, 'The Card Above the Bed'. It told the story of an elderly lady fearing she never would be with her pets in heaven. James Herriot replied, 'Well, I don't believe it. I patted the hand which still grasped mine. If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans. You've nothing to worry about there.'

...' Oh, I hope you're right.'

Three Cats, A Dog, and A Camera When my daughter, Emma opened her Instagram account she named it 'Three Cats, A Dog, and A Camera' Grace was still with us. 

The above picture of our Grace was taken back on Aug 14/ 2013 The bottle of Cataroma was a toy M bought for Grace so not making fun of the virus just interesting.

“You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.” Robert Louis Stevenson

To me, my past is a sweet, safe place to be, and through the medium of this book I shall spend a little time there now and then.' ~ James Herriot

So, I will read a few good books, practice a little piano, paint, stay connected by writing posts, even with my terrible, terrible grammar and some time soon take that much-needed walk in the countryside and pick pussy willows I saw yesterday. It's the time!

Oh and if you have not seen this video of Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger then now would be a good time.

Treating animals like people is no madness or disgrace'.

~ Doctor Dolittle 1967 

Time is never wasted with cats or with your pets.

So on that note, I think I'll play a little hide and seek with Bat.

Stay safe and remember ... Help our front line responders risking their lives for ours. Stay Home!!!♥️🙏 🤗 🐱🐶 

My Dark Romance 🖤

A cat named Bat and a little red wine to keep my sanity while @home. In all seriousness, I'm not much of a drinker but I do enjoy a little red wine with pasta or gnocchi, part of being Italian. KEEP SAFE 🙏♥️ 

and a little music of course... RED RED WINE UB40

Photo by M

Johnathan was Here. ̼

Spring has arrived and these seagulls where a sight to see.

A Lift to the Spirit♥️🙏🌎

"Find out what you already know and you will see the way to fly "

~ Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

NEIL DIAMOND"Stay safe out there everyone. Thank you to all the people who are out there working their butts off and making sacrifices to keep the world safe".

🇮🇹🇨🇦♥️🌎🙏




THANK YOU ♥️

Home, for the moment, is our refuge...Rosebud🌹

The news this morning...stay at home.

Its a broken record on repeat, people sick of hearing it but the truth is its good advice for everyone. 

We are not the bird in a cage or the boy in the bubble we have the freedom to take a walk whenever the need should arise. 

I wrote a post ~ Rosebud 🌹 over a year ago when my husband and I were thinking of early retirement. 

Looking back now, I see we made the right choice.

Stay At Home 🏡

 “If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.” ~ Orson Welles

"Close your eyes. Listen, Nothing’s missing." Maxime Lagacé

Spring 🌱 fogging this morning, all is calm and quiet, the cats are sleeping, just the way I like it and perfect to enjoy some beautiful music with the earmuffs on ☺️....still listening to this gorgeous piano piece.


Mariage d'Amour written by Paul de Senneville

known as "Chopin's Spring Waltz" which is incorrectly titled.

"Close your eyes. Listen, Nothing’s missing." Maxime Lagacé

Listen 🎶

Mariage d'Amour - Paul de Senneville || Jacob's

Piano




or here if you want to look at some beautiful images of spring







P.S. Don't forget to wash your hands ☺️♥️