Links: The Eye of My Apple

Illustration of a mouse that has just placed two plastic google eyes on a green apple

And finally: Kitten Craziness!

Dana D. shares these rambunctious rascals.

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40 thoughts on “Links: The Eye of My Apple

  1. Dubravkamcvmd January 31, 2025 / 8:42 am

    Kittens play like a mix of baby goat and super predator.

    • Blue Footed Booby January 31, 2025 / 10:45 am

      Lol yeah. And the preview is just superb.

      Kittens have two speeds: on, and off. They switch between modes without warning.

  2. Georgiana January 31, 2025 / 8:59 am

    If only we could harness kitten energy we could power the whole world and stop climate change.

  3. allein 🐾 January 31, 2025 / 9:08 am

    Uhh…1983 is “vintage” now?

    Former Scottish Sprinter Allan Wells With A Beautiful Cat. Surrey, United Kingdom, 1983

    • tara January 31, 2025 / 9:20 am

      1983 – right??? It’s really hard to keep your cool when one of your 20-year-old students tells you they like “the oldies.” “You know, like, Nirvana and Pearljam? Do you know them?”

      • allein 🐾 January 31, 2025 / 9:29 am

        My poor little Gen-X heart can’t take it.

      • debg January 31, 2025 / 9:38 am

        I used to tell my college students that if they made me feel old, they’d lose 10 points for the day!

        • Ricky & Bibi's Mom January 31, 2025 / 9:44 am

          How about 1956 being “ancient”? That one is even more outrageous. (#18). Incidentally, in 1956, “Indochina” had become “Vietnam.” Somebody gets an F in history, geography, and tact.

          • allein 🐾 January 31, 2025 / 9:50 am

            Kitty’s face seems to be saying, “Ancient? What are you talking about?”

      • tara January 31, 2025 / 9:51 am

        Ha ha! πŸ™‚ Thank you all for feeling my pain and making me laugh!

    • 6rabbits. January 31, 2025 / 9:51 am

      No, no, no to Vintage. I would have identified these pics as Classic.
      To be vintage they have to be more than 100 yrs old.

      • Alice Shortcake January 31, 2025 / 11:12 am

        I’ve reached an age where I see 1983 and instantly think “ooh, about twenty years ago”.

      • Ricky & Bibi's Mom January 31, 2025 / 12:08 pm

        In my personal lexicon, Vintage is 50–100 years old, Antique is 100 years old or more. Ancient is trickier, but I tend to think of it as BCE.

        And Retro is reproduction old-style stuff. If it is a reproduction, it is not Vintage. Unless maybe it is a reproduction made at least 50 years ago.

        My brain, my rules …

        I would have identified the pictures as “found, B/W”!

  4. tara January 31, 2025 / 9:18 am

    Bouncy kitties!!!!! squeeeeeee! Just what I needed this morning. (happy sigh)

  5. 6rabbits. January 31, 2025 / 9:33 am

    Spring-loaded kitties? So much hopping and leaping!

  6. debg January 31, 2025 / 9:38 am

    Love those energetic kitties. I also love the part where they suddenly run out of gas and sleep like the dead.

  7. 6rabbits. January 31, 2025 / 9:46 am

    I have seen real field mice in flowers like these. I like the sideways mouse pics, but most would look better as wild mice, brown or gray, IMHO.

  8. 6rabbits. January 31, 2025 / 10:22 am

    Just gonna leave this here.

    (Waits for fainting sounds)

    • debg January 31, 2025 / 10:35 am

      Yeah, that little one is going to be a “mischief managed” kind of cat.

  9. debg January 31, 2025 / 10:44 am

    Love the “classic” photos, especially when it’s a celebrity. I’ve never seen Steve Martin without white hair!

    • Ricky & Bibi's Mom January 31, 2025 / 12:10 pm

      Um, DebG? You lose 10 points for the day.

      πŸ˜‰

      • N. Fritz January 31, 2025 / 12:41 pm

        I love this thread!

      • debg January 31, 2025 / 3:23 pm

        Hah! And I remember watching him on SNL, originals NOT reruns, back in the early 80s!

        • Kar January 31, 2025 / 3:46 pm

          I BOUGHT the ** 45 *** of his King Tut song.

          Now get off my lawn!!

    • Tara January 31, 2025 / 5:35 pm

      psst – DebG – I didn’t recognize him either! πŸ˜† -10pts for me too

  10. N. Fritz January 31, 2025 / 12:42 pm

    As someone who turned 60 last week, I resemble these remarks!

    • debg January 31, 2025 / 3:24 pm

      Belated happy birthday! I reach that milestone in September.

      • N. Fritz January 31, 2025 / 3:27 pm

        Thanks, DebG!

    • Georgiana January 31, 2025 / 3:28 pm

      Happy belated birthday kid.

      • N. Fritz January 31, 2025 / 3:47 pm

        Thank you, Georgiana!

    • tara January 31, 2025 / 3:30 pm

      Happy Belated Birthday!

      • N. Fritz January 31, 2025 / 3:47 pm

        Thank you, Tara!

    • AJ January 31, 2025 / 3:41 pm

      I feel your pain. I turned 60 back in Nov 2024. I look in the mirror and go what the h*** happened? And I still remember Steve Martin doing Wild & Crazy Guy on Saturday Night Live the first time around.

      • N. Fritz January 31, 2025 / 3:50 pm

        The last 12 months have wreaked havoc. I barely recognize myself!

      • 6rabbits. January 31, 2025 / 5:06 pm

        I’m one year up on ya all! And I, too, remember Steve Martin on SNL! My Dad liked some of the skits and we’d watch Johnny Carson, The Comedy Club, and SNL. My mom would leave the roomπŸ™„πŸ˜‰

    • Ricky & Bibi's Mom January 31, 2025 / 4:29 pm

      Hippo birdie two ewe!

      • N. Fritz February 1, 2025 / 2:59 am

        Thank you, R&B’s Mom!

  11. AJ January 31, 2025 / 3:44 pm

    The rampaging kittens!! And they sound like a herd of elephants. How can something so small make so much noise? Mousie art is cute but I agree a brownish mouse would have been more realistic. And this is what I aspire to in my old age – a book, a cat and a comfy chair, just heaven!

    • 6rabbits. January 31, 2025 / 5:00 pm

      Replace cat with a fluffy bun, and that’s me!😊

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