Posted by Loulou on Dec 31, 2015 | 3 comments

Well, here I am trying to keep my balance in the back seat as we head toward home and New Year’s Eve and the fireworks and all the townspeople in the streets dressed in 60s costumes!  Personally, I did not want to wear that afro mama bought me or a headband so I am staying HOME where I am quiet and sane and not out there with all the crazies...

Posted by Loulou on Dec 29, 2015 | 8 comments

No, this is not yours truly as a youngster…but it made me smile so thank you www.123rf.com. Well, as the year draws to a close, I thought I’d put out some of my favourite pics to finish off 2015 with some chuckles… I may drool, but I DON’T snore! Strung out EEEK…a mouse! Ha, ha, ha, that was a good one! Couldl you turn off...

Posted by Loulou on Dec 28, 2015 | 6 comments

Now where did I leave my tooth crackers? Well, it’s that time again and I am really going to try not to throw up on mama or anywhere in the cabin on our trip back to my garden and familiar territory. These holiday trips take a lot out of me, that’s for sure, and I’m pushing five! Still, to be with the family was really nice, even if I was...

Posted by Loulou on Dec 27, 2015 | 17 comments

I’m working off a few grams so my tux will fit perfectly. Well, I happen to be dressed all year long for New Year’s Eve, so I’m quite lucky–no cleaning bills, moth holes, and that sort of thing, but speaking of Tuxedos (as in kitties), my friend the doggy, Mya, sent me this article from the Guardian about a rather amazing kitty who...

Posted by Loulou on Dec 26, 2015 | 7 comments

Well, in Italy it is the feast day of St. Stephen and mama’s favourite carol, Good King Wenceslas, pops into her head and she has asked me to put a link to the music because the words are so timely and lovely, especially during a season in which so many have so little.  It’s a beautiful song to help end the year with joy in our hearts. I love...

Posted by Loulou on Dec 25, 2015 | 10 comments

Step grandchildren visit. Warm snuggles to all in the new...

Posted by Loulou on Dec 23, 2015 | 7 comments

  I’m taking notes on this great article! Well, I read this article in the NYT about another way to counter the terror of ISIS, and found it most interesting.  There has always been great worth in knowing one’s enemy, and I think I am really going to have to take a look at the Quran and see for myself what it says. Then again, even in the...

Posted by Loulou on Dec 22, 2015 | 6 comments

Are those sweet eyes, or what?  Sixteen years old and still like a puppy! Oh, boy, my friend, Mya in France, sent the most BEE-OU-TI-FUL video of the last living 9/11 rescue doggy, Bretagne (which is pronounced by all, Brittany, but which, in French, is really bruh-tan-ya but who cares because in any language she is so sweet, so kind, so responsive and so...

Posted by Loulou on Dec 21, 2015 | 6 comments

We are all aware of what she represents. A friend of mama’s, Cathy Salter, sent this link to us recently and if you have time to read it, please do, as it is very relevant to the immigrant influx that Europe and the United States is experiencing. Here is the site in case the link does not work. Much to be learned here....

Posted by Loulou on Dec 20, 2015 | 14 comments

A holiday smile for you No, I am NOT sending out eggnog to everyone who reads my blog, but I would if I could! Even I love eggnog (without the Jack Daniels, thank you) but mama isn’t a big sweet-eater and so we don’t make a lot of it around here. I just thought some holiday photos would be nice to gaze upon, and when I heard about he store that...

Posted by Loulou on Dec 19, 2015 | 11 comments

These look like mama’s brain at holiday time, haha. Oh, boy, mama has gone bonkers again because she got out all the tree lights and of course, as everyone knows, they were in a mess, even though she had carefully organized them LAST year so that they would NOT be in a mess and after much deliberation (whatever that is) and much sturm und drang...

Posted by Loulou on Dec 16, 2015 | 12 comments

Such beautiful cards; thank you! Well, I have been getting very kind and lovely holiday cards from so many, and thank you, but I have also been getting news of doggies who are ill and kitties who have gone on to their next lives and I just wish to say that we here, mama, papa and I, are thinking about you and sending you hope for your sweet companions who...

Posted by Loulou on Dec 14, 2015 | 9 comments

So is mama going to let me lick this bowl?  No way, Jose.  She barely let me lick the spatula and then she grabbed it away too soon because this stuff is not food for kitties. Only a teeny-tiny bit every now and then.  But what can I do?  Mama is making truffles all the time and I have to sit there smelling the dark chocolate melting with the cream and...

Posted by Loulou on Dec 13, 2015 | 11 comments

I think I have the Sunday blues. I find myself staring off into space and wishing things would liven up.  It happens to everyone, right? But The Cat on My head Sunday Selfies always cheers me up. Taking a tip from those kitties, I try to get on mama’s head every morning and chew her hair but I find myself responding too well to “Lie down,...

Posted by Loulou on Dec 12, 2015 | 4 comments

Caitlin Doughty, mortician Well, maybe the holiday season is not the time to put this link in my blog, but mama and I read this over coffee and kibble this morning in The New Yorker and both of us were laughing and kidding around about what we read and were so incredibly informed about how death is treated by so many and how the death of a loved one (or...

Posted by Loulou on Dec 11, 2015 | 10 comments

Even doggies like Music for Cats Well, mama got the sweetest email from Mungo and Jet, who suggested that we acquire some special Music for Cats in this house for yours truly and so mama went right to the site and downloaded four songs that will keep me comforted and relaxed while THEY are out gallivanting and having fun WITHOUT ME! Thank you so much, you...

Posted by Loulou on Dec 10, 2015 | 8 comments

Well, I did a blooper, forgive me. It was Everycat who told me about Zuckerberg and I thank them for the info. Sorry about that. And if you want to warm your heart’s cockles and feel the holiday spirit, just take a look at these enchanting animals who love one another unconditionally. Would that we could all do that with our lives.  Maybe we can!...

Posted by Loulou on Dec 9, 2015 | 6 comments

Well, I never!!! First it’s a Chihuahua and now it’s a polar bear!  Right in the middle of the Corso, one of the main shopping streets of Rome!  What is mama going to find next?  Actually, it was papa who said, “Wow, you have to get over there and take a picture” to mama and she thought at first that it was real and so she sort of...

Posted by Loulou on Dec 8, 2015 | 7 comments

Well, I certainly wouldn’t scratch on someone’s pants leg!!! As in yadda, yadda, yadda. That’s…get this…HERCULES up in that photo. Ercole in Italian or Ercolino, as his mistress calls him, Little Hercules. I am so offended that I’m not going to post tonight. THIS Yoda impersonator is what mama has been visiting all...

Posted by Loulou on Dec 7, 2015 | 3 comments

Tangled up in the red tape of Republican vs Democratic dissention in government The following is my response to an excellent It’s Noodle post: As always, I agree with all you say and I have written previously about the having of guns and the semi-automatic weapons that seem to grace the closets of too many Americans, weapons that can become automatic...