A PUMPKIN FAIRYTALE 🎃

A PUMPKIN FAIRYTALE

"Oh, greenly and fair in the lands of the sun,
The vines of the gourd and the rich melon run,
And the rock and the tree and the cottage enfold,
With broad leaves all greenness and blossoms all gold."
~ John Greenleaf Whittier

When pumpkins give you Fairytales: The quiet garden, still and fragrant after the rain and then I spot from afar little orange golden suns. Its the Pumpkin Patch once again! The pumpkin flowers and the little pumpkins are reaching out coming towards our house: I think they are trying to tell us a fairytale. 


PUMPKIN CAT AND PUMPKIN BAT

A PUMPKIN FAIRYTALE

"Oh, greenly and fair in the lands of the sun,
The vines of the gourd and the rich melon run,
And the rock and the tree and the cottage enfold,
With broad leaves all greenness and blossoms all gold."
~ John Greenleaf Whittier

When pumpkins give you Fairytales: The quiet garden, still and fragrant after the rain and then I spot from afar little orange golden suns. Its the Pumpkin Patch once again! The pumpkin flowers and the little pumpkins are reaching out coming towards our house: I think they are trying to tell us a fairytale. 


PUMPKIN CAT AND PUMPKIN BAT

Pumpkin fairies and pumpkin pie, jack o' lanterns of pumpkin cats and pumpkin bats under the light of the silvery moon, oh so many ways the pumpkin patch gives to our imagination. I can't wait for the great pumpkin but, I don't think we have the time for one, not much summer left.

I love rain and so do pumpkins. After last night's rainfall, the garden grew and bloomed some more, and the fairytale pumpkin's bloom was the fairest of them all until this silly girl tried to kill the cucumber bug sitting in the center of the flower. I caught the bug: but I got the flower too. Delicate is the flower of the pumpkin so, beware, look, but don't touch. 

The quiet garden, still and fragrant after the rain and then I spot from afar little orange golden suns.

I think I'm in love with Pumpkin Flowers 🧡🧡🧡🧡🎃



 

And the little bug I guess did less harm than me. Don't touch the Pumpkin Flowers!

Have you noticed all the flowers look like stars? Magical!.

No matter in whose garden this little vine grows, and grows and grows and blooms and blooms and blooms

A whimsical garden another name for a messy garden. 

Nicotiana is one of my favorite, white, fragrant, and starry. A must-have in my garden.

I may never stop dreaming of a cottage by the sea or in the wood, and the stories my garden tells keeps me happy where I am, for now.

HAPPY CATURDAY!

MAGGIE IN RISKY BUSINESS

Happy Caturday!😽😽 for today's theme Summer Holiday. Some old pics of our two pussycats who never fail to make us smile.
It's always a holiday when you live with cats. 🥰



De, de de de de de
Ooh you're a holiday, such a holiday
It's something I think's worthwhile
If the puppet makes you smile

~Bee Gees ~ 'Holiday'


Mosaics and photos by Emma ~ M



MAGGIE'S SOCIAL MEDIA PROFILES...JUST KIDDING

 BAT'S SOCIAL MEDIA PROFILES, NOT SO SURE IF ALL OF THESE ARE FAKE.😂 

HAPPY CATURDAY!

Fade to Grey Art for Sale

Fade to Grey

This illustration of a haunting, melancholic girl was inspired by the Italian Jewish artist Amedeo Clemente Modigliani.

Will be available on Society6

OH MY DARLIN', WHY DO I LOVE YOU SO ? HAPPY CATURDAY😻😻😻

Love this Little Bat.


We love you for so many reasons but the fact you appeared at our back door on Emma's birthday on October 27th, 2017 is truly magical and of course, you are two pets in one, a Cat, and a Bat!

Photos by M




HAPPY CATURDAY😻😻😻



WHY DO I LOVE YOU SO

IN ANOTHER LIFE I WAS LESTAT ~ HAPPY CATURDAY! 🖤

“None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.” ― Anne Rice.

Bat "When I could play Franz Joseph Haydn's Sonata in E flat on the piano.Ooh, how much I miss it."

Lestat: Listen, Louis. There's life in these old hands still. Not quite Furioso. Moderato? Cantabile, perhaps.

Claudia: How could it be?

Lestat: Ask the alligator. His blood helped. Then on the diet of the blood of snakes, toads, and all the putrid life of the Mississippi, slowly, Lestat became something like himself again. Claudia ... you've been a very, very naughty little girl.

HAPPY CATURDAY!

FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN SONATA IN E FLAT 

 ON THE PIANO ~  ROB WRIGHT

PICK ME, PICK ME, PICK ME, PICK ME

PICK ME, PICK ME, PICK ME, PICK ME...Four baby squirrels, likely around 5 weeks old. We picked up all four, literally.....Remember Kathy Bates in Rat Race? lol Well, these came free.

They showed up in our neighbor's driveway, three sitting on the pavement next to the running board of the neighbor's truck and then the fourth one jumped down from the tree by the driveway and joined his siblings on the ground. Their mother apparently had gone missing a few days prior so the four little ones were left to fend for themselves. Dehydrated and hungry they followed us around and so we gave them the essentials, 1st water and then tiny bits of apple and broccoli. 

It wasn't long before we got the call we were waiting for. We were fortunate to find a home for them @ https://www.rideauwildlife.org Rideau Valley WildLife Sanctuary in North Gower. 


So happy they took these little babies in.
Thank you so much, Linda Laurus for helping us out.


Oh, and we discovered two of the four are girls. So cute.


It seems we are in an area for rescuing animals but barely out in the countryside, imagine if we were lol .

P.S. To our cat friends, sorry we missed Caturday. Saturday was quite an eventful day.

SPOOKY GHOST STORIES ♥️ 👻👻👻👀

It’s World Book Day today. Here are a few of the old books I’ve collected over the years, some from Sally Ann others ordered online or from other thrift stores. The Victorian girl and boy statuette I found at House of Lazarus years ago and affectionately named them Miles and Flora, the ghost children from one of my favorite ghost story, “The Turn of The Screw” by Henry James and the movie “The Innocents”.

Happy World Art Day 🖼🎨🖌🐱 Nine Lives

"A cat has nine lives. For three he plays, for three he strays, and for the last three he stays"

A painting of mine from a while back and sharing it today for World Art Day ~ Nine Lives 

Bat wasn't put there he placed himself there, honest. Something about art and cats, they just get along so well. 

Il tempo se ne va ~ Time Passes 

Behind the painting is a photograph of my nono and nona in Italy. They brought me up until I left for Canada when I turned 7. They were the best!

Color or black and white? I think I like the b&w, I suppose the reason why I do is I love the color black. 

Happy World Art Day 🖼🎨🖌🐱

THE DREAM AND THE VISITOR

I couldn't sleep but I remembered my dream... Salem returned.

‘The Visitor’, by Ian Serraillier

A crumbling churchyard, the sea, and the moon; The waves had gouged out grave and bone;

A man was walking, late and alone...

He saw a skeleton on the ground; A ring on a bony finger he found.

He ran home to his wife and gave her the ring. “Oh, where did you get it?” He said not a thing.

“It’s the loveliest ring in the world,” she said,

As it glowed on her finger. They slipped off to bed.

At midnight they woke. In the dark outside, “Give me my ring!” a chill voice cried.

“What was that, William? What did it say?” “Don’t’ worry, my dear. It’ll soon go away.”

“I’m coming!” A skeleton opened the door. “Give me my ring!” It was crossing the floor.

“What was that, William? What did it say?” “Don’t’ worry, my dear. It’ll soon go away.”

“I’m reaching you now! I’m climbing the bed.” The wife pulled the sheet right over her head.

It was torn from her grasp and tossed in the air: “I’ll drag you out of bed by the hair!”

“What was that, William? What did it say?”

“Throw the ring through the window! THROW IT AWAY!”

She threw it. The skeleton leapt from the sill, Scooped up the ring and clattered downhill, Fainter... and fainter... Then all was still.



Salem was one of our rescues, a very special cat who had a sixth sense I'm sure.




THE VISITOR BY IAN SERRAILLIER

HAPPY EASTER 🌿🐣🌷 CATS IN THEIR EASTER BONNETS🐱🐱🐱

MAGGIE, BAT, AND KARSON AT HOME #WITHME, STAN, AND M. 🏡 AT EASTER🐣🐱🐱🐱🌷🌈🙏

HAPPY EASTER 🌿🐣🌷

IN YOUR EASTER BONNET JUDY GARLAND AND FRED ASTAIRE 

PHOTOS BY M

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😻

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Stay Home Canada 🏡🐱♥️🙏