Friendly Fill-Ins and Eddy's Blurry Bloopers

Hello, friends! We're ready for the Friendly Fill-Ins challenge, and we'd love for you to join us. My amazing co-host Ellen of 15andmeowing came up with the first two fill-in statements, and I came up with the second two.


1. Lately, my main focus is _________.

2. I crave _________.

3. I get my best ideas _________.

4. I only trust _________ with my biggest secrets.


My answers are below in bold.

1. Lately, my main focus is giving the best care possible to my senior and special needs furry family members.

(This is always my main focus, but as of this year all of my kitties and pup are 7 and older and are therefore considered seniors. Thimble, Eddy, and Tonks truly don't seem it, though. Evan and Astrid's special needs have increased the most. They are indeed the oldest in the family, both 12 years old, but they're also the ones who have simply had the most medical issues over the years. They're both on medications for their various ailments, though, and overall they're both doing pretty good right now.)

2. I crave fruit.

(I love anything sweet, and luckily there are a lot of fruit that satisfy this craving for me. I have fruit with almost every meal. I often have a huge serving of blueberries in oats for breakfast, and on the side of my lunch and/or supper I always have a big bowl of watermelon and/or grapes and/or strawberries. I wish I craved veggies as much as I do fruit, but alas, I do not.)

3. I get my best ideas when I'm falling asleep.

(Ever since I was a kid, I'll get some of my best ideas for art, writing projects, and other such things when I'm falling asleep in bed. It's like halfway to dreamland exists this magical place full of gems. The problem, though, is that I either have to immediately jolt awake and write the idea down, or fall asleep and never remember the idea again. There's no in between.)

4. I only trust my kitties and pup with my biggest secrets.

(I have a sign at home that says, "Nobody keeps secrets better than my cat." And that is so very true. Pup Astrid is also pretty darn good at keeping secrets.)

Now it's your turn!

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And now it's time for the Pet Photo Fails Blog Hop, hosted by none other than Melissa and Mudpie of Melissa's Mochas, Mysteries, & Meows.

You better believe blooper queen Eddy is here to grace you with her blurriness. Today's outtakes were taken when I pulled out the camera while Eddy rested on her favorite chair. Annoyed with me, the poor girl of course started moving around in that blurry way.

Don't worry, because I left Eddy alone and let her snooze after just a few photos. I even got a couple of decent shots from that photo shoot, which we've already shared in recent weeks.

Happy Friday, friends!

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Flashback Doodle of the Day

This weekend I will be finishing this year's new summertime spooky doodles. As I've been working on those, I've been re-sharing last summer's spooky doodles. We already shared Eddy's last Friday, but we haven't shared Evan's yet, so here was his spooky little something from last summer.

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Tip of the Day

We've decided to do a series of tips on life hacks for pet parents, especially cat parents. These hacks may be all sorts of random, and most of them are repeats of tips from the past. But, we hope these might offer some pet parenting tips for saving money, saving space, saving time, and, of course, keeping your furbaby happy and healthy.

Do you have furbaby hair on your sofa? What about in your car? Surely not on your clothes? Our pet parenting life hack for today is to keep some rubber gloves on hand. Why? Because, aside from the more commonly used lint roller or piece of tape, rubber gloves can be a reusable tool for removing furbaby hair from surfaces such as sofas and car interiors. You just put on a rubber glove and run it over the hairy sofa or other surface. The rubber glove and a little thing called static electricity will help lift the hair from the surface, and the hair will instead stick to the glove. When you're done using the glove to remove furbaby hair from your furniture, one easy way to get said hair off of the glove is by submerging the glove in water. The hair will float off of the glove, and then you can dip the hair out of the water and toss it. So, if you're looking for a quick, easy, reusable tool for removing your furbaby's hair from your furniture, consider giving the rubber glove trick a try.