Thursday, April 9, 2020

THOMASINA, COME ALONG WITH ME NOW AND LETS PLAY DRESS-UP. 😻

“It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.” ~ L.M. Montgomery

And so, on this note, I will keep the happy thoughts up-front.

Yesterday, I shared a photograph of our cat Elliott dressed up as granny. It's an old photo of our pet cat dating back to 2003 when M discovered a new game to play with her cat. At first, I thought she was tormenting Elly but it turned out watching him getting dressed didn't bother him in the least, he loved the attention, he just sat there, happy, content to be with his best friend and who knows, perhaps it reminded him of a past life. 

It's not surprising then, to see Bat and Maggie today enjoying the dress-up game, that's if M abides to their rules of the game.  🐟🐠 




Bat with M wearing his pink tutu, though it was more like a blanket it was so big on him. As a baby, Bat was always cold and shivering and M made sure he was always kept warm. I think it's why now he's ok with wearing clothes. And M, well she reminds me of Mary in the movie.lol





Brother and Sister Cats, Bat and Maggie
Bat is a natural when it comes to modeling, Maggie, on the other hand, is just waiting for her special of the day.🐠🐟

Some cats will love the game and others not at all, we're lucky ours do. Remember, if you are going to play dress-up with a cat, ask them first.



You know when he gives you that look to back off! "Not today, dear girl."

Every day is Halloween in our house and I must say, we all enjoy what wonderful comedians these cats can be. 

So, back to the photograph of granny, it was the bonnet and pajamas which gave thought to a gal, who left me a message on Flickr saying how much Elly's photo reminded her of the granny from the fairytale Little Red Riding Hood and so I shared it like that but later on looking at the original photo without the drawn in specs I thought of a movie I loved way back when I, myself was a little girl......Tomasina











Photos via 








A movie so precious to this day, filled with magic and a cat called Tomasina who teaches us much about life. 


It took me a while to write down the lyrics to the song you hear at the beginning of the movie.
I  couldn't find them anywhere online but I believe them to be accurate.Here you go, have fun singing along to this cute kitty cat song.


Thomasina Song ~ listen here


Music and Lyrics by Terry Gilkyson
Performed by Robie Lester




Who is the most self-reliant animal made since the world began? Who can be the most defiant animal known to the world of man? Born with emerald eyes, so cold, so warm, so wise. Within her kingdom lies the world's arena. Do we need to ask more than that? You must know now, it's a cat. But a very important cat at that whose called, Thomasina.



Thomasina, what are you thinking now? Thomasina, what makes you so high brow?
For I do think of it very odd if you are an Egyptian God, that the wee little mouse runs in and out his house each time you blink or nod. Thomasina, though you may love to roam. Thomasina, don't go too far from home. There are beasties in the garden who would never accept your pardon. If you left the jungle yard in which we play. Thomasina, don't ever run away.



Thomasina, come along with me now. 
Thomasina
There you seen our little bird leave the bough. Thomasina
Even if it's a lark or dove you let them all fly away above you but I guess that always love you anyhow.
Thomasina, come along with me now.
Thomasina, I love you anyhow.
Thomasina 

Yes, I am Thomasina  this story is all about me.
I am a self-made cat.


The Three Lives of Thomasina ~ watch the movie Here

Thomasina 1963 Starring Patrick McGoohan who plays the vet, Mary his daughter played by Karen Dotrice is owned by Thomasina The Cat, and Susan Hampshire might just be a witch! You will find plenty of magic here for the whole family. This is definitely a keeper.♥️


Elly, what are you thinking now?








And at the park ...Elly, what are you thinking now? 






Maggie and Bat 
Still got paid 🐟🐠
                         You must respect when they are in self-absorbed reflection, just use their portraits and create some very funny cat people with a program of your choice.


Bat as The Little Naughty Boy in the Corner



Bat as Girl Friday





Maggie in character as Jessica Fletcher 
in Murder, She Wrote




Maggie as The Black Swan


Cats are Creative Creatures 
They sometimes paint, love fashion, watch tv and like watching you paint. 
They never bore and always find something to do. They can teach you a thing or two. 


Elliott and Karson 

Sleeping together all cozy as can be





Karson, The Church Cat

 It was during the blessing of the animals at church one Sunday when one of our parishioners brought in a basket filled with kittens, one of them, Karson. My daughter was completely taken aback. I'm sure it was her favorite Sundays at church. 





Together watching the Birds, Bunnies, and Squirrels 



And here, being two Gladys Kravitzes on Bewitched watching Ꙫꙫ the neighbor's every move . 😂




Bat in quarantine as
tHE pINK pANTHER





Keep Happy Thoughts, play games, watch movies,  be creative, paint, write, knit, crochet, make a little music, they're all good for the soul. Still haven't taken the country walk so that's long overdue.
Happy Thoughts, folks! Go Team Canada!


OH, THOUGHT YOU MIGHT LIKE TO SEE THIS!







My cats watching a Disney movie about a cat, how precious is that?
As usual, every morning I'm surrounded by my three cats. As soon as I sit down on the couch with my coffee and computer the cats will come.
Maggie will sit on my lap and go back to sleep, Karson the old boy doses off to sleep next to my leg and Bat enjoying his spacious spot at the end of the couch, oblivious to the world around him falls once again back to sleep. But it was a little different on this particular morning. I was working on a post about the game of dress-up my daughter and her cats enjoy playing. I was watching The Three Lives of Thomasina and as soon as the song began to play, so were the two cats Karson and Maggie, now wide awake watching the movie. Bat, well he was still out like a light. I just had to record the two cats. The moment was just so darn cute, their heads moving back and forth following Thomasina and obviously enjoying the song.

It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.” ~ L.M. Montgomery
Stay Home and Stay Safe😻






😽

Stay Home Canada 🏡🐱♥️🙏 

Tuesday, April 7, 2020

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.♥️😻😻😻♥️🍀💚🎂🌹

Tuesday, March 31, 2020

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 🏡 🙏🐱🐶🦜🏡

Sunday, March 29, 2020

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 🙏🌏😻🇨🇦

Saturday, March 28, 2020

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.



Friday, March 27, 2020

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♥️

Thursday, March 26, 2020

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 





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 

Wednesday, March 25, 2020

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!!!♥️🙏 🤗 🐱🐶 



Tuesday, March 24, 2020

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

Sunday, March 22, 2020

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



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