Friendly Fill-Ins and Adorable Eddy

Hello, friend! 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. Anyone who can _________ is a genius in my book.

2. I find _________ boring.

3. I wish I had _________'s ability to _________.

4. _________ often distracts me from _________.

My answers are below in bold.

1. Anyone who can create something new is a genius in my book.
(Whether it be a scientific invention or a creative new spin on storytelling in a book or movie, I appreciate the genius it takes to invent something new. I've of course been in awe of life-saving scientific inventions, but I've also been amazed at the genius of some authors who create entire new worlds, my favorite author J.R.R. Tolkien being a major example of this.)

2. I find most sports boring.
(Golfing is one sport I find especially boring. And though I used to watch the occasional sporting event when I was a kid, I now find anything from baseball to basketball to football quite boring as well. And don't even get me started on curling.)

3. I wish I had Thimble's ability to be happy-go-lucky.

(I'm okay with not being a happy-go-lucky, let's-not-worry-about-anything kind of person in general. That's just not who I am. But, I know I sometimes worry and fret too much, and that always makes me think of my tabby girl Thimble, who is one of the most perpetually happy, unbothered creatures I've ever met in my life. Sure, she's not so happy when she has to go to the vet, but even there, while terrified, she rolls her belly up and makes friends. I admire that about her.)

4. My kitties and pup often distract me from anything and everything that needs done.

(Whether initiated by a furry baby or myself, these furry distractions are my favorite kind. I will try to extricate myself from distractions on my phone and such, but I let the kitty and puppy distractions go for as long as possible. I need to do laundry but a kitty just sat on my lap? That laundry's going to have to wait. It's time to vacuum the floors but pup Astrid wants me to hang out with her in the back yard? Outside we go. Of course, sometimes the kitty and pup distractions come in the form of piles of vomit on the floor and that sort of thing, but what's new.)

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It's time for your Eddy fix. For this one, the tabby gal was a tad bit tired and so was resting in the one and only cat bed she likes.

It's not terribly visible, but Eddy's favorite bed in which she's lying there is a pink one. Despite having the name Eddy, she is indeed a little lady, and her pink bed is perfect for this adorable girl.

Also, behind Eddy there you can yet again see her beloved year round Christmas tree. If you look closely at it, you'll notice that this was one of the times when I had not yet put back all of the limbs Eddy regularly knocks from the tree. It looks quite sparse after she's done this.

Eddy and all of us here wish you a fantastic Friday!

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Flashback Doodle of the Day

Today's flashback doodle is a weird one. I scribbled it up during a heat wave last year, and now that we're in our third or so heat wave of this summer, why not re-share this melted cat? Because that's totally normal.

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Tip of the Day

In a home with a hind limb paralyzed cat, as well as other active cats and a clumsy dog with arthritis and vestibular disease, rugs on hardwood, laminate, tile, and other similar floor surfaces do not easily stay put. That being said, today's tip covers just a couple ideas on how you can try to keep rugs in place when you live with playful, active, or special needs furbabies who often just cannot help but move those rugs around. To begin, you can get rugs that come already equipped with a nonslip backing. There are also separate nonslip pads that can be placed beneath a rug. Even these options are sometimes not enough to keep rugs in place, though. For something a bit more heavy-duty, you can try something such as double-sided carpet tape. Similarly, you can use velcro strips, placing one on the rug's underside and one on the floor beneath it, thereby attaching the rug to the floor. I have even heard of people using something such as silicone caulking on the bottom of rugs, which, when dried, will have a nonskid effect. Sharing our homes with furbabies can mean that rugs throughout the house end up in all sorts of disarray. To combat this, you can brainstorm and test out which potential nonskid or adherent methods might work best for you, your furbaby, and your home.