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07 Dec 2012

Friday Frolic…and an update

Hiya! Savannah Here!

Well, let me get the “UPDATE” out of the way…it’s about the Blog of the Year 2012 Award. I was fretting (VBP) about not being able to get my award filled after I got my first star from Zena…but Misaki was gracious (VBP) enough to gently remind me…she also passed a star to me early on when this award first appeared…so the UPDATE…

Misaki, passed me the Blog of the Year Award on November 16 and also to Zena…Zena then passed it to me next day..all while Mom was in MEXICO…you know where the mess up comes from, right???

Now really, cross my paws over my heart…this is all Mom’s fault…she was in Mexico and not taking care of keeping my blog sorted out properly…so she MISSED posting that I have my FIRST star from Misaki and my SECOND star from Zena…we lady paw bloggers stick together…and purrlease note that they are both canine furriends…play bows to both.

My Mom even wrote my comment to Misaki:

“Squeeeeee!! A BRAND NEW AWARD AND NEW BLOGS TO VISIT!! Doesn’t get better than this…CONCATULATIONS MISAKI!…OMC! It does get better…YOU PASSED IT TO ME!….thank you ever so much…I know there are a kazillion others who are so deserving….runs off to make list to pass the award along…..how fun is this award!! Woo Hoo, paw pats, Savannah”

…but did she text me so I could keep the record straight??? Noooooo!!

So, I have FIVE and Sammy left me a comment giving me my Sixth!! DONE

Ok…on to the FROLICS FOR FRIDAY…and it involves what???…YES! My Peacock Feather!!

…What Mom???…Oh, sure…I have time to play with you…let me just finish up my workout here on the step…OK…let’s go…

…I like to keep up my precise paw coordination by sometimes going for the feather blind…keeping my head in the tunnel to see if I can still hit the feather…

…then I get Mom to run it under my Nip ‘N Nap Mat…so I can go for the feather even when it is hidden…sometimes I have to put the bitey on the mat ‘cuz it doesn’t cooperate…

…then I do my kill face to scare the feather…

…that usually does it…the feather is then dedded…just sayin’…I am one expert Peacock Feather killer…hear me ROAR!!!…heh…heh

One last thing…remember yesterday I gave a little teaser about a special Christmas package I was helping Mom wrap up…well no one guessed right so far about who that package is for…so here is the hint from yesterday…

…remember?…here is another one…

…I challenge everyone to guess who this special package is for…and there is more…see that box? That’s the one I used to send it. I will tell the WHOLE story on Sunday…bet’cha NO ONE gets it right…unless you have been paying attention to the special furriend in my life…

Paw pats, Savannah

peeEss I stole photos for Misaki, Zena and Sammy…purrlease forgive me

peepeeEss…sorry about the weird positions of photos and print, WP won’t let me format anything properly right now, maybe never again…sigh

06 Dec 2012

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Thankful For Furriends

Hiya! Savannah Here!

My thankfulness is a bit lighter note today…it is about being humbled by the thoughtfulness of my furriends when they do something special for me. I know lots of awards go around and some of us pawticipate and others don’t, and that’s peachy keen fine I think. Our paw blog community is diverse and that’s how it outta be…IMHO.

So you saw my Mom’s first attempt at doing a holiday photo edit of me with a Santa hat. Well, out of the ‘cloud’ I received an email from my very good gurl furriend Cathy Keisha…you know she is the furriend who got me to the Peacock Feathers…and then my Mom bought the Peacock Feather Holiday Wreath…just for me.

Well look what Cathy Keisha and TW fixed up just for ME!

PAWSOME!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!

Most of you know about the 2012 Blog of the Year Award circulating…you need to collect 6 Stars from 6 different bloggers to make it complete. I was so fortunate I got my award and first star from Princess Zena…purrrrrs to you PZ…and I passed it back to her as the Rules request.

Then I never received it again and realized I had passed it to mostly furriends who don’t typically (VBP) take part in receiving, passing and posting awards, which is OK. It just meant I wasn’t ever going to get my award completed, so I started to take it off my blog page when WHAMMO!!

I got TWO more STARS!!! One from Nissy, my very good mancat furriend at Nerissa’s Life, and of course I am sending one back to him, even tho’ I am sure his Award is complete already. And next day…another WHAMMO! I got a third Star from Speedy, my bunny pal from Speedy the Cheeky House Bunny.

For Henry, at My Three Moggies, and he can share with Archie and Oscar if he wants, but Henry has a bad boo boo and I think he needs a Blog of the Year Star Award all for himself to make him feel better…purrrrs Henry.

For my Champion Jetty, Hey, It’s Jet Here!…a ladycat needs her Champion and I know Jetty ALWAYS has my back and looks out for me…play bows Jetty.

For a new furriend for many of us in the paw blog community, Miss Nylablue…she was so brave to step forward and share her Real Rescue Cats Are Talking Interview with all of us on my post Tuesday…I want her to end 2012 with a BANG!!…let’s all try to get her Star Award filled with all 6 stars before year’s end, ‘KAY?

For my New York pal, Texas, whose huMom has been dragging her toes and paws getting his post done for ALL the awards he is collecting…so I thought I would toss this one on top of the bunch…MOL

I copied the RULES again from Zena’s site because she was so clear and she was the first to pass this to me.

The ‘rules’ for this award are simple:

1 Select the blog(s) you think deserve the ‘Blog of the Year 2012’ Award

2 Write a blog post and tell us about the blog(s) you have chosen – there’s no minimum or maximum number of blogs required – and ‘present’ them with their award.

3 Please include a link back to this page ‘Blog of the Year 2012’ Award – http://thethoughtpalette.co.uk/our-awards/blog-of-the-year-2012-award/ and include these ‘rules’ in your post (please don’t alter the rules or the badges!)

4 Let the blog(s) you have chosen know that you have given them this award and share the ‘rules’ with them

5 You can now also join our Facebook group – click ‘like’ on this page ‘Blog of the Year 2012’ Award Facebook group and then you can share your blog with an even wider audience

6 As a winner of the award – please add a link back to the blog that presented you with the award – and then proudly display the award on your blog and sidebar … and start collecting stars…

Unlike other awards which you can only add to your blog once – this award is different!

When you begin you will receive the ‘1 star’ award – and every time you are given the award by another blog – you can add another star!

There are a total of 6 stars to collect.

Which means that you can check out your favourite blogs – and even if they have already been given the award by someone else – you can still bestow it on them again and help them to reach the maximum 6 stars!

For more information check the FAQ on The Thought Palette.

I have proudly displayed my THREE STARS on my blog page and hope I can fill my other 3 before year’s end, but if not, I am very THANKFUL to have furriends who have thought well of me and appreciate their consideration.

WHEW! Now I have to dash over and tell my furriends I passed this Blog of the Year Award to them…

Oh, and just a little ‘teaser’ about an upcoming post…who do you think I am preparing this Holiday Gift for…hmmmm????? Bet no one guesses…heh…heh…

That’s just one part of the package, but I had to make sure the paper would fit…

Paw pats, Savannah

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05 Dec 2012

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Belated Monday Meowsie News…

Hiya! Savannah Here!

First, check out my Mom’s FIRST EVER ATTEMPT at editing a photo of me…and thanks to Sammy for the tip on trying PIZAP.com…Mom sort of understands this one…

So here’s my official Happy Holiday Greeting to efurryone!

Now my updates on some new stuff I have been doing just within this last week…getting better and braver…(most of the time)…

…I always sit at the end of the couch, close to the fireplace…as far from Mom as possible. Then for a week or so after she came back from Mexico…I came over close to her…now when she is on the couch, I stay at the far end.

But when she isn’t there yet…

…I keep her spot warm for when she is ready to come sit on the couch with me…

…and I wait for her…and wait for her…

…and wait some more…

Another new behavior for me this past week…Mom learned from Brian, from Brian’s Home, where to buy the home made hammiks he and his Sisters love so much. In fact, Mom bought two for me; one for upstairs and one for downstairs. And, I systematically (VBP) ignored them both.

She put the one downstairs in front of my fave window, where I could catch a sun puddle, but nope…I would have nothing to do with it.

While she gets my blog done, I come sit on the floor behind her chair…hunkered…so she moved the hammik next to her chair…and the result…

..I think I’m gonna like this Mom!…yup, it snuggles pretty good…

…maybe I will get a little shut eye here…

So here is a really good new behavior…Dad found me doing this one…twice now. He had presence (VBP) of mind to grab his iPhone for a photo the first time…so pardon the DEVIL eyes. He came out of his office upstairs…turned to go down to the kitchen…and BOOM! There I was…

…that window sill just called out to me…I could never get on the window sills at our old house ‘cuz we had those wood shutter thingys that cover the sills…but even tho’ it is about 4 or so feet off the ground, I like it…

Lastly…I’ve been working on my Kill Face, the one Mama Cat was teaching Leader Otis and Brothers Henry and Oliver over at The Blog of Otis…(follow the linky for Kill Face and you can see Thomas when he was a limbo kitty, outside and not safe)

What do ya think???? I’m kind of liking it…hope Leader Otis can take a look once he is feeling better after his Hipsterectomy operation.

That is my belated Monday Meowsie News…now for the not so good news…I must confess to having regressed in some of my behaviors recently…I am again running from Dad when he comes near me especially if I am lying down. We don’t know why. And I don’t follow him down for breakfast anymore…I wait until he leaves the room…we don’t know why…sigh…but more paws forward than back.

Paw pats, Savannah

peeEss I tried to make the photos smaller but WP would not allow me to format them in any other way than this today. Sorry for so many on Wordless Wednesday