Posted by Loulou on Nov 30, 2015 | 6 comments

Thank you, friend of mama, for sending this to her for Thanksgiving. It just about says it all, right? And now, let’s move on into holidays that have some substance!  Let’s deck the halls and make the plum puddings and the matzoh and the sugar cookies and the jams and jellies for gifts and the holly wreathes for the door and lay the track for a...

Posted by Loulou on Nov 28, 2015 | 8 comments

You know, right outside my perch on the soft couch is a piazza filled, in the mornings and afternoons, with adolescent anthros. Tall ones, short ones, shy ones, aggressive ones, some with lots of that beautiful hair that the Italians seem to have no matter what age (except for mainly bald men starting around their 20s!—another phenomenon), and these kids...

Posted by Loulou on Nov 27, 2015 | 7 comments

Well, I’ve been looking on my comments page and there seems to be one that I cannot find in order to answer it. My WordPress says 1 comment left unanswered and I cannot find it for the life of me! So whoever sent it, I’ll just say thank you so much for commenting at all and I hope you’ll continue to do so! Now, on to current questions. Is...

Posted by Loulou on Nov 26, 2015 | 6 comments

HEY, leave a little for me, please! Well, I happened upon this party today, and they let me sit in on their celebrations.  I hope that all of you out there have a really thankful day, together with your anthros or other furry friends and I hope so much that mama’s little step-grandkid finishes that leg really soon and throws it MY way! I’m...

Posted by Loulou on Nov 25, 2015 | 8 comments

Me, thinkin’ Well, I’ve been thinkin’. I read a lot of articles in the New York Times and editorials in magazine and lots of opinions on this terrible event in Paris, and I think, as does Noodle, my friend on another blog, that we cannot be caught in a net of fear because it is exactly what ISIS wants us to do. There is another word for...

Posted by Loulou on Nov 24, 2015 | 6 comments

All help with hops is welcome! Well, mama is still trying to figure out blog hops and so I just copied the info off of  Rascal and Rocco and put in on today’s blog in hopes that someone will see it and know what the heck it’s all about! Maybe it’s because I have a PC and not a Mac that I have so much trouble with hops. Be that as it may,...

Posted by Loulou on Nov 23, 2015 | 7 comments

I’m exhausted, too.  Guests are great but now there are holidays to plan for! Should I write Santa Paws? Haha, I never do that but it sort of slipped in. Well, all the sweet guests who seem to have picked November for an Italian jaunt have packed up and gone and now mama and papa have a little time to breathe again and hold hands and just BE in this...

Posted by Loulou on Nov 22, 2015 | 12 comments

Piazza Navona where the Romans held ship races long ago A lovely sleeping child in Siena A man in Pienza watching over things A kitty of many colors in Pienza–mama wants her hair those colors! A tree of empty wine bottles! What fun to make THAT! Today, I feel like putting a few photos on my blog that I took when mama wasn’t looking.  I do get...

Posted by Loulou on Nov 21, 2015 | 6 comments

Mama and Marghe, step-grand-kid Well, they wouldn’t let me go to the museum to see this incredible flower/vegetable (mama thinks it’s an artichoke because when it opens all the way–it opens and closes all day long—there is a thistle inside, not a lotus flower but it’s called Golden Lotus so what the heck) but I can imagine...

Posted by Loulou on Nov 19, 2015 | 12 comments

How very sad for you to have died from the fire of a suicide bomber, a woman at that!  For some reason, I always have regarded female anthros as a bit more caring than some, but in this case, I must change my mind. Evidently, suicide bombers do not discriminate. Your team regarded you as one of them, you were loved, you were honored, you were trusted, and...

Posted by Loulou on Nov 18, 2015 | 10 comments

Out of focus, but I was moving FAST! Today I would like to get back to my adventures in the villa and how two kitty-lovers made my life there so interesting. First, a friend of mama suggested a visit to me in my dunge…er…lovely room, and here she came, speaking softy and asking if I would like a little walk about the first floor and of course I said,...

Posted by Loulou on Nov 17, 2015 | 10 comments

A small fraction of the homage to the victims of the French terrorist attack So terribly moving, mama says, after her visit to piazza Farnese, the French embassy in Rome, where hundreds of flowers and poems and notes were left after Paris was so brutally wounded by terrorists. But one of the letters left by a bouquet of flowers was this: It brings our...

Posted by Loulou on Nov 15, 2015 | 12 comments

Mama, papa, and I are in shock. The world is in shock. Who ARE these animals? How does one stop them? How does one give them education and hope from birth so that they do not follow jihadist teachings and wish to die in the name of their religion and to find treasures in heaven through murder? Our hearts are with the French people now and always.  Our...

Posted by Loulou on Nov 12, 2015 | 8 comments

Well, I think they are coming to rescue me from this room, but at least they left some FOOD!!! Tonight they cooked T-bones, but I did not care a hoot, because guess what happened?  Mama’s good friend, Annabel, came to MY dungeon/prison and actually led me out into the second floor where they have stashed me, and we took a nice little walk around the...

Posted by Loulou on Nov 12, 2015 | 2 comments

So HA, HA, HA…who’s got the last laugh now? Well, there has been some pretty nice cookin’ around here.  Mama had never done a house party before with so many people and she was really glad to see that everyone liked each other and that the cooking was so much fun and that I was content to sleep under the bed in her and papa’s room...

Posted by Loulou on Nov 8, 2015 | 8 comments

Well, I have to say…I’m really happy after having gotten OFF the rock and roller, but mama is a bit under the weather and I really needed her help with this particular blog, so if you don’t mind, I’ll take up my pen…er…paw on the computer tomorrow and keep you posted on what happened when we landed and they took me off...

Posted by Loulou on Nov 8, 2015 | 4 comments

View from my dungeon, er, room… Well, here I am in that place after a 2-hour ride up a fairly straight road but then there was a winding part for about 20 minutes and I managed to mind my…er…manners. There was a lady anthro sitting in the back seat with me so I had to mind my ps and qs, whatever they are.  And so I did.  It seems that these guys are...

Posted by Loulou on Nov 6, 2015 | 16 comments

Looks like we’re takin’ off… What’s that noise? Rumble, rumble, as if I were sitting on a giant’s heart! Okay, just the motors, but I’m not coming out ’til the fat lady sings… Well, here I am at last. In one piece. But I am embarrassed to tell you what happened on the ship during the first hour when the sea...