Posted by Loulou on Jan 31, 2025 | 16 comments

MAMA, I’m LISTENING, I’m LISTENING….I think when I listen! Well, mama took this fill-in for SURE: 1. LISTENING BETTER___is a habit I want to develop. ALOT!!! I am taking over now: 2. I can’t seem to break my habit of ___cloud-hopping! And now mama again: 3. I just recently ___realized that I am over 60, haha, for the first time ever....

Posted by Loulou on Jan 30, 2025 | 19 comments

  Well, we are thankful today for humor and feel like passing on a few tickles to tint your day ticklesome! Things like, Don’t ever buy anything with Velcro – it’s a total ripoff! Okay that’s about the worst.  There are many more corny jokes that actually made mama and papa giggle. And what’s not to like about giggles? We...

Posted by Loulou on Jan 29, 2025 | 23 comments

  Thank you for watching our Tuxie Trip Out. A demain (until...

Posted by Loulou on Jan 28, 2025 | 18 comments

I’m outta here! Just saw a new little cloud to float upon that I’ve not seen before. It is just too, too great to miss! Well, we are just too, too happy for Toosday. Are you happy for something that’s just too wonderful? We hope so. For me, floating around like an astronaut is too, too, thrilling, and mama is too, too, happy to finally...

Posted by Loulou on Jan 27, 2025 | 22 comments

An old photo, of course, but I was always tending my garden…I could not do much for anthro failures.  A possibly helpful spark for today from papa who passed it on to mama and it is from Candide, by Voltaire “The metaphor of cultivating your own garden has been used in various ways throughout history, but it is most famously associated with the...

Posted by Loulou on Jan 26, 2025 | 22 comments

Well, we are using a past photo for our Selfie Paws, haha. Just having a bit of fun. Did mama do this one last week? Can’t remember, no record of it so what the heck. Have a sweet warm Sunday and try to relax. Stay warm, make a soup. It’s mushroom this time: A little olive oil, a chopped sweet onion and 4 garlic cloves, a splash of wine or...

Posted by Loulou on Jan 25, 2025 | 14 comments

  If you want to win, GRIN! Oh, happy day! The sun is out and a bouquet of birdies is at the feeder, cheep, cheep, cheeping away like crazy, and all’s (sort of) right with the world…sort of. Our sisinlaw and her partner in Sonoma sent this photo of what they have in their garden every morning, and when they perch in the tree nearby, it...

Posted by Loulou on Jan 24, 2025 | 15 comments

You’re keeping me, right? (My first photo 15 years ago,..about 6 months old) 1. Being found in a woodpile shelter by mama__was the highlight of my __lonely abandoned life on the streets. Mama’s turn: 2. A new book ( or movie or tv show) that I highly recommend is __ Orbital, the Booker Prize Winner. Takes a minute to get into but fascinating....

Posted by Loulou on Jan 23, 2025 | 16 comments

Well, mama is thankful that she is at the point that news may become obsolete in the morning. The Optimist lives up to its name often, but there are some stories that are hard to read even with happy endings...c’est la vie. We will just keep loving your blogs and laughting with you about all the antics of your kitties and doggies and horses and geese...

Posted by Loulou on Jan 22, 2025 | 16 comments

  THEY ARE OUT OF PRISON? IS HE OUT OF HIS MIND? Well, I think wordless is just about where we are right now. There are NO words for what Trump is doing to our country and yes, we are going to speak out because we MUST. The Proud Boys are pardoned and out of prison and organizing, That’s enough to make me...

Posted by Loulou on Jan 20, 2025 | 23 comments

We are thinking a lot today about Martin Luther King, a hero who fought for equality and fought like no other. Heather Cox Richardson said today that some heroes, like Reverand King, stand for truth, equality and freedom, and some sit down, like Rosa Parks. Our spark today is this: Whatever you can do against the oppression of freedom and...

Posted by Loulou on Jan 19, 2025 | 18 comments

Well, I had to use an old photo for this but hey, if it works, go for it, n’est ce pas? Haha, we did Selfie Paws just for FUN!!!! Have a lovely Sunday, keep warm, keep the faith, make a soup, mama has a new easy one on her Substack with potatoes and leeks. Warms the cockles, whatever they are… ****** And we send courage again to Los Angeles...

Posted by Loulou on Jan 18, 2025 | 24 comments

  THERMAL IRIDESCENCE from Lunapic started off our day with a BANG! Well, mama has a list of things to do in this new year and they all MATTER so she is going to start checking them  attempting/trying/making an effort to check them off, haha. And one of them is to….uh….have fun with Loonypics, see above!  Happy and safe and sane fun...

Posted by Loulou on Jan 17, 2025 | 12 comments

I borrowed this picture of our new friend, Monet, who LOVES coffee! Some of my kitty friends just love to be featured every now and then…you know how we are… Mama loves coffee, too, so this first one will have to be a guesser because she is also aware her opinion might not be polite. 1. I’ll never buy __lousy, weak, second string coffee from...

Posted by Loulou on Jan 16, 2025 | 14 comments

YOU WILL NOT TOUCH A HAIR, GET IT? BACK OFF! (see below later) ******** First thanks to the firefighters and all of those who are contributing to fighting the fires in California. Heroes, all. And thanks right away to President Biden, a very snart, sane, selfless and kind-hearted individual who has worked for you, the American people, from his first day in...

Posted by Loulou on Jan 15, 2025 | 16 comments

I can’t hear mama talking…weird! Mama has no voice.  This is a perfect blog day for her, haha!  She has her head over a pot that’s steaming….wow, wonder what that does? Not for me, that’s for sure, bream, maybe, but not STEAM, haha. Have a quiet and meditative Wednesday. I think I’ll go look for mama’s voice. It...

Posted by Loulou on Jan 14, 2025 | 16 comments

This is how winter always affected ME! Well this bad bug that started in the throat has found its way to one ear and now mama’s putting  drops in to cure THAT. Darn, winter. At least there’s a lovely full moon and a clear sky over our little village, even if it is 1°! Too cool for me that’s for sure and mama is what you would call a winter wuss, haha. To...

Posted by Loulou on Jan 13, 2025 | 20 comments

  Taking a day to help mama get her voice back. With the fires in mama’and papa’s ex-city and no voice….well, lots to ponder. We will just repeat Just Here, Just Now, Just This, which seems to help a bit when one is overwhelmed…. Hugs help more than anything! Hug your sweet animals...

Posted by Loulou on Jan 12, 2025 | 28 comments

I say THIS to the terrible, devastating fires in LA! Well, mama finally is reminded that …see below, with apoogies about the curse words but hey, they are fake Olde English and poetry , right? Or at least a send up of winter, by Ezra Pound, the poet.: “Winter is icummen in, Lhude sing Goddamm, Raineth drop and staineth slop And how the wind doth...

Posted by Loulou on Jan 11, 2025 | 12 comments

I’m trying to figure out which Lunapic I’m going to use..hmmmm. Well, I chose Fantasy and featured my little pigeon friend because he is alway alone in his feed tray, just waiting for...