Friendly Fill-Ins and Eddy's Aquamarine Eyes

Hello and happy Friday, 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. If I were to start a museum, it would be a museum of _________.

2. If I see _________ one more time I am going to lose my mind.

3. _________ is the strangest thing I believed as a child.

4. If my life had a mascot, it would be a _________.


My answers are below in bold.

1. If I were to start a museum, it would be a museum of drawings starring cats.
(I'd also be happy to include some doodles in there with dogs and other animals, but I'd mostly have a museum filled with drawings of cats in all sorts of seasons and settings and situations. I already have a ton of sketchbooks and notebooks filled with such feline drawings, so this answer is mostly me taking the easy way out.)

2. If I see a pregnant cat in my neighborhood one more time I am going to lose my mind.
(My neighborhood has always had feral cats. I put food out for them, and I'm happy for them to find a safe place in my yard. I've been able to trap-neuter-release one very feral kitty in need of vet care, and one pregnant cat was very sweet but without a family, and so I got her to a local no-kill rescue group. The newest issue is that a family in our neighborhood has started letting their intact cats roam. These cats have collars and a home, but the males are well-endowed and the females keep showing up pregnant. And that just means the cycle will never end. I wish people would be more humane and, well, smarter.)

3. Leprechauns living in my sandbox is the strangest thing I believed as a child.

(When I was a kid, my parents often made various holidays extra fun for my sister and me. One St. Patrick's Day when I was young, we wrote letters to leprechauns and made little homes for them in our backyard sandbox. If I'm remembering correctly, my parents even made tiny, fake footprints in the sand. Thereafter, for I don't even know how long, I really thought leprechauns lived in our sandbox outside.)

4. If my life had a mascot, it would be a cat reading a book.

(My mascot would be a cat for sure, because that's my life. Since I also love reading and writing, as well as drawing cats with books, I'd be more than happy with a bookish kitty as my life mascot. I fear this might make me sound full of hubris, but I'd like to turn one of my bookish kitty drawings into my mascot. Perhaps one of my bookish doodles of my calico angel Rosie.)

Now it's your turn!

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Are you ready for some Eddy? Today, we figured you were all due for another reminder that Eddy has absolutely stunning aquamarine eyes.

I just love her eyes. Well, I love all of her and her entire cute face, but those eyes are just stunning.

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

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Flashback Doodle of the Day

Today we have two flashback doodles, and they're yet more of the spookyish variety. Well, sort of. I scribbled them up a couple summers ago, when I simply felt like drawing a kitty Grim Reaper as well as a kitty zombie. Because why not.

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Tip of the Day

Today's tip is one a bit more for the dogs, but of course could be used for kitties if the situation applies. What we're talking about today is bell training. It can help to have a way for your dog to tell you they need to go to the bathroom. Since jumping and scratching at the door is not all that ideal, you can hang a bell, or a strand of bells, on the doorknob. Of course, make sure the design of the bell and any attachments are safe for your furbaby, especially if they're a chewer. Once you've selected and placed the bell to be used, training techniques such as positive reinforcement can be used to teach your dog to ring the bell prior to going outside to use to the restroom. This will allow your dog to make the connection that, if they ring the bell on the door, they will be let out to use the restroom. Just as with any training, this may take time, but with patience, practice, and positive reinforcement, everyone involved can get the hang of it.