Welcome to the Caturday open thread! Weekends are great when shared with friends, so reader Tara O. invited her besties.
The best way to start a fall weekend, three cats and a website. From left to right we have Butch, Jacques, and Swee’Pea (and me in the blue shirt).
Good grief! I can’t even tell where the heads of the black cats are! Swee’Pea looks a little impatient, waiting for those squirrel videos😁
We had snow yesterday, but it wasn’t much and temps are back in the 40s today. By Thanksgiving we are back to being very cold.❄️
Have a good weekend y’all👍🏼
Everyone seems very comfy and Swee’Pea has the loveliest green eyes.
This week has been a lot less eventful than last week I’m glad to say but my nerves are not yet back to normal and I still have a problem sleeping.
On the temperature side they say will have our first daytime minus temperature this week down to -3C, I guess this being Eastern Canada and the end of November we’re lucky the warm temperatures lasted this long.
Not much going on today, we’re taking a bunch of non perishable food to our local food bank for their annual Guignolée, they used to go door to door collecting but they don’t have enough volunteers to do that anymore.
I don’t know if people outside Québec know the term but a Guignolée is an old tradition where charitable organizations collect food and money at this time of the year specifically to make Christmas basket for people in need.
Hope everyone has a good weekend.
Good Morning everyone! Only two cats today. Swee’Pea has just the one braincell and is convinced everyone is out to get him. He’s pretty skittish. He was here earlier but I think Butch glanced at him and so he took off.
I wanted to share that the Native Cinema Showcase 2024 hosted by the National Museum of the American Indian is now live. https://americanindian.si.edu/native-cinema-showcase-2024/
This is a one week, free event. You can live stream feature length and short films about and made by indigenous peoples, mostly from North America, but also from around the world. I look forward to it every year. I’ve learned so much and watched some beautiful films that I wouldn’t be able to see otherwise.
Happy Caturday…looks like a vine way to start the day. Finally got some rain here the last couple days (it hadn’t rained in weeks and we are in a drought warning, though some officials said it should actually be a drought emergency), and back to 39F and partly sunny right now. Looks like perhaps more rain a couple days next week. Got lots of chores to do, but…
I would like to vacation with Lucas, please.
(oops, that should say “fine way to start the day”…)
I want Zelda…
New We Walk Dogs!
They’ve also posted several Puppy Sessions videos recently. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAnFXX1kGt1vnmod4wExrbq_MGq7Cn9hv
Warning: history lesson coming up
A couple of days ago I was delighted to see that work had begun on clearing an unsightly patch of waste ground, full of weeds and rubbish and semi-hidden by plywood panels, at the end of the road. Shortcakery Street (not its real name) and the adjoining thoroughfare are slightly odd in that when they were built in the 1900-1906 period the builders must have been unable to buy a large parcel of land at one end, as a result of which the houses that stand there now are comparitively recent and this little gap may never have been built on at all.
I discovered recently that a series of windmills and associated outbuildings occupied the site between 1540 and 1900. The first one was burned down during the 1644 Siege of York and the last one was still grinding corn in 1895! A few photographs survive and I’m thinking of using one of them on a number plate for the Shortcakery.