Michelle’s Weekly Pet Challenge
Enter this week’s challenge here: Michelle’s Weekly Pet Challenge, Week 36
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What? You dare to interrupt my beauty nap to take another ridiculous picture for a photo challenge? Puh-leeeease! Stop this nonsense! And yes, I am sitting on Mom’s pink cushion where I know I should not be sitting, but Mom is not home right now. So?
Michelle’s Weekly Pet Challenge
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Stalking Shadow
Yesterday afternoon, I stalked my sister Judie’s cat, Shadow, trying to get a picture. Shadow was quite miffed at this unwanted attention and my obnoxious behavior, so she kept turning her head away, avoiding all eye contact. Her glary eyes told me she did not want her picture taken. What’s with that? I thought all cats wanted to be the center of attention.
If you take my picture, I will ignore you.
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Janice Hall Heck, retired educator, blogger, wannabe photographer, and nitpicky editor of On the Horizon, a bi-monthly community newsletter for Horizons at Woods Landing, Mays Landing, NJ, is quite possibly a grammar geek.
Oh Heck! Another Writing Quirk, a regular feature on this blog, suggests ways to improve our writing by avoiding and/or eliminating troublesome bug-a-boos that cramp our writing style.
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Oh, a friend commented on one of my previously published photo posts and that reminded me that I haven’t posted any photos on the Daily Post WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge for a while. So I will take a break from posts on writing quirks and flash a few photos. That will give my poor typing fingers a rest and maybe my brain, too.
Cat chases mouse on top of a weather vane. San Diego, CA, Olde Town
A pineapple atop a fountain in Fort Myers, Fl.
Looking up at “Moving Forward” by Delores Fell in Riverside Park, Bonita Springs, Florida.
Snow on top of my garden cat. Definitely not a sunny day.
Snow on top of another of my many garden cats.
You’ve heard the commercial, “Let someone else do the driving”? Well, for this post I let someone else do the writing. Here are a few posts from the AtoZ.
This first post came in at a timely moment. It showed up only two hours after I had read the note about a “one-sheet” on the Greater Philadelphia Christian Writers Conference website. (Next conference: July 30-August 2)
Deena Rae, e-bookbuilders One-Sheet for Your Book
And a few more:
The Missouri Writers’ Guild, What Does It Take To Be a Writer?
RJSeeley, I’ve Always Been a Writer
Dani at http://onlybooksandhorses.wordpress.com Writing Inspiration: New York City
Gene’O of The Writing Catalog: Pacing
Daily Post, WordPress: Blogging 101: Love Your Theme
And here is a previous post I did on direct OBJECTS: D is for direct object or happy birthday.
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Your turn: What writing quirks or interesting words do you find in writing?
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Janice Hall Heck, retired educator, blogger, and nitpicky editor of On the Horizon, a bi-monthly community newsletter for Horizons at Woods Landing, Mays Landing, NJ, is quite possibly a grammar geek.
Oh Heck! Another Writing Quirk, theme for the amazing 2014 A to Z Challenge, suggests ways to improve our writing by avoiding and/or eliminating troublesome bug-a-boos that cramp our writing style.
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Minimum wage for these two cuties is a bowl of kibbles and as many hugs and cuddles a day as they can garner from staff and customers at Canadian Tire, a company with heart. Workers rescued these kitties, now named Baby and Jimmy, from harsh winter conditions where they found them outside the store in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada. Now they live quite contentedly in their new home. Who knew that cats could help sell tires?
WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge: One
One bike in the snow. NYC
One leaf on a stem…
One yellow leaf caught in the bushes…
One golden shoe in a shop window…
The Last Meow
How about us? Can’t we have a turn? Thanks! Just look at these adorable kitty pictures.
One cat in front of the fireplace… Photo: Barbara VanAusdall
One little lost kitten on the back deck… Dawn Ellis photo
One cat in the sink… Photo: Judith Krom
One more kitty in a sink… Photo Jill Pastore
Meow for now… =<^;^>=
Click on the links for more Weekly Photo Challenge Entries:
One (Weekly Photo Challenge) | Icezine
Silent Sunday (except that the cats have something to say at the end, as usual.)
If you, Like me, Were made of fur, And sun warmed you, Like me, You’d purr. – Karla Kuskin
The Last Meow
I am definitely not purring now. Enough of this snow already! Quit it.
Meow for now… =<^;^>=
Daily Post: WordPress: Reflections
Shooting into the sun produces silvery reflections on the water and sharp silhouettes on land.
Six Lakes, North Fort Myers, Florida
The Last Meow…
Reflections. Yes. This is a lovely reflection of me, don’tcha think? I am thinking of entering a beauty contest. I am sure I will win. Just look at my glossy coat, my fine white whiskers, my demure manner, and my sweet personality. Perfection.
Photo credit: The Creative Cat
And here are some more kitty reflections…
Meow for now. =<^;^>=
And here are some more reflections:
Weekly Photo Challenge: Reflections « sianakdesa
Unexpected: bike in church with church bulletin riding tandem
WooWee. Way to go.
From Elsie the Library Cat FB page.
Some days I write posts on my own ideas, and some days I use a prompt. Today I’ll use the NaBloPoMo prompt for November 5:
Tell us about your writing space. Where do you write your blog posts?
Here, let me show you. This is my desk view on September 4, 2013, the day of my 200th post (which I wrote about here: Zero the Hero Helps Celebrate My 200th Post). Not too messy a desk, really. Some books, my computer screen, a notebook, my calendar, and that ubiquitous coffee cup from our local WAWA, the source of the best brewed coffee anywhere around. (Now enjoying Pumpkin Spice… and soon Winter Spice.)
Notice, however, that this was a bit of a close-up shot. That was for a reason.
The wider the view of my desk, umm, let’s just say that the more chaos clutter things appear on the desk. Important things. Post-it notes. Reference books. Current reading books. Notebooks. Printed pages of blog posts from NaBloPoMo, November Photo A Day prompts, BlogHer posts, Research page prints, and so on ad nauseatum.
Here’s a little more honest wider view of my writing space.
Still, this is a somewhat organized chaos desktop with all I need within handy reach.
What? You want me to step back further for an even more honest wider view? Well, gee. I think my camera just ran out of film. Digital camera? Well, who said that? Let’s just leave this alone, okay? You wanted to see my desk, and here it is in all of its cluttered glory. Now it’s time to get back to some serious blogging. Besides, the cats are meowing to get their turn.
The Last Meow
Ha. What do you call a bunch of cats in a room? A clutter of kitties! (Get it? Meow)
Meow for now. =<^;^>=
Janice Hall Heck 
NaBloPoMo 16. Snarky Cats CatFurDay Commentary
Hello World,
Missy Jan has given us kitties this very special day, CatFurDay (some call it Caterday), as our own special day on her blog.
Finally. It took her long enough.Usually she just sticks us at the end of her post, but we
in no uncertain termspolitelydemanded told hersuggested that she should give us more air time.We are just tired of being second-class catizens.Don’t you think that would be more fun for us to talk than to listen to her rant all the time?She agreed to our
insistent naggingpoliteultimatumumm hint…surprise of surprises!So, we thought we would share some important cat stories.
1. Cat Safety Signage.
We are quite pleased (purr, purr) to see that our local municipalities are finally responding to our polite requests (you know how polite we are, right?) to post signs in the neighborhood in order to improve feline communication and safety. Here are the first two:
And finally, finally, finally, we have this one. Why did it take so long? Penny-pinching human bureaucracies!
2. Kitty Transport Services
Bikes. Twenty-five mile ride? Wow. Mary Jane (MJ for short) hangs out with her human, Rudy Salvia, for long bike rides. Fun, fun, fun.
Trains. How about this London kitty who rode the Victoria line train from Seven Sisters Station to Vauxhall? Guess he got tired of his current living accommodations and wanted to do something about it. And really, those station signs were just not written clearly enough. How’s a cat to know? Anyway, all’s well that ends well. “Oyster” arrived safely at the Battersea Dogs and Cats Home (BDCH) and is now looking for his old owner to humbly and penitently come and fetch him. If not, the BDCH will find more suitable living accommodations with a human underling who knows how to treat royalty. (By the way, did you notice Oyster’s eye lines? Remember Cleopatra? She tried to copy this style, but she never quite got it right. Humans. What can you expect!)
Buses.
We kitties love to ride buses. Here are a few of our stories.
Casper is a regular bus commuter.
Miss City Kitty loves the bus, too, and she never gets lost!
Mystery McCavity rides the bus to the local fish and chips shop.
Artful Dodger rides the bus routinely.
Maybe these kitties belong to our old friend T. S. Eliot. Remember him from this post? The Naming of Blogs is a Difficult Matter. Lots of famous, talented kitties in that post! Go read it. Now. (Okay, pretty please. Is that a little more polite?)
Kitty
BTW, you might wander over to Whisker’sList.com (the Craig’s list for kitties) where there’s all kinds of kitty-related stuff for sale. (#Justkidding!) But no kidding, you might find this an interesting site. Then you might be tempted to buy the book!
That’s the last meow for now, folks. Next time Missy Jan lets us post on her blog, we want to tell you about more kitty surprises. See you all again very soon. Now back to our very lovely, cheerful human blog post writer. Take it away, Missy Jan.
Hey, Snarky Cats. Yes, you.
Missy Jan here. Can I at least have a little corner of this post?
such fun information to my blog. I bet my readers will
I want to kick you off the postThank you for bringinghatelove it all. Maybe we canNEVERdo this again! And if I do let you do another post, you’d better get it finished earlier. No more sneaking it in just under the wire at 11:48 PM (with just twelve minutes to spare in NaBloPoMo 16). That’s just too stressful!What do you folks think? Should I let the Snarky Cats take over my blog on a few CarFurDays? (Personally, I am not so sure they can handle so much responsibility, but if y’all think they can do, I’ll give them another chance.)
Missy Jan
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