Nature Friday With Walter

Flowers For My Love!

Hi everyone! It’s Walter here. Today I want to celebrate the life of my girlfriend, Tuiren, who left for the Rainbow Bridge about a week ago.

We enjoyed many Blogville events together and I was honored to be her boyfriend for many years. I know she is feeling young and frisky now that she is romping over the Bridge and someday, we will be reunited.

I will always love you, Tuiren.

In honor of Tuiren, I want to share some beautiful dahlia pictures my dad took over the course of the past couple of months at the Webster Arboretum.

The local dahlia society has dug out all the tubers and will keep them safe until they can be replanted next year.

I hope you enjoyed seeing all those beautiful flowers.

As some of you might have heard there is an exceptional winter storm happening in western New York state, but rest assured we aren’t being affected by it. We had a dusting of snow this morning and shouldn’t get much more than that. Don’t worry though we are sure to get our fair share this winter.

Join the Nature Friday Blog Hop

We are joining the LLB Gang for their Nature Friday Blog Hop. You should pop over to their blog to see all the other posts.

Before I go, I have one more thing to tell you about. Do you enjoy getting mail during the holiday season and having more cards come to you than your parents? Well why not join in on the Holiday Card Exchange.

To find out how to add your name to the list just email The Swiss Cats ( swissneko AT gmail.com ). Be sure to include your blog name and your human’s name in your email. We think even our friends that don’t blog anymore could probably participate if you ask nice and reference your old blog.

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Wear Orange for Crockett Day

Hi everyone! It’s Millie & Walter here. We were so sad to hear that a Blogville family lost one of their precious kitties to a tragic accident recently. Today would have been Crockett’s 5th gotcha day and his family wants to honor his memory with a special blog hop for their sweet ginger boy.

I’m sure going to miss you Crockett.

Your little tongue sticking out in your pictures always made me smile Crockett.

We are proud to wear our orange hats for Crockett and are even going to share our favorite orange bird.

Mr. Oriole wears his orange every day.

We hope Crockett’s family can feel the love from all of us in Blogville. He was such a special boy and will be missed by everyone.

Visit the Lone Star Cats blog to visit other blogs participating in the hop.

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Come Laugh With Us – Blog Hop

Hi everyone! It’s Millie & Walter here. We’re sorry we’ve been MIA this past week but our mom, aka our secretary, was away for a few days visiting her sister and family in Michigan. Rest assured that we’ve been reading all your blogs even if we didn’t have time to leave a comment.

We know that our last post was to remember Blogville’s former Mayor Miss Madi. It was sad to learn about her crossing the Rainbow Bridge but today we are here to celebrate her life and have some fun.

Come Laugh With Us

There are two things Angel Madi liked a lot. The first is the color red and the other thing is her boxes. A few years ago there was a blog party to celebrate Madi’s love for boxes.

A Soft & Crafty box for Madi

We just know she would have loved this box. It would make a perfect condo for any kitty. With some holes cut for windows and if you tipped it on its side you could open one of the flaps for a great front porch.

There is one thing about Madi (well most cats for that matter) that us dogs are very jealous of and that is their ability to prowl around the kitchen counters. Us pups usually get scolded if we even think of putting our paws up there but kitties all over get to explore all they want up there. One of our favorite pictures of Madi is of her jumping down from the kitchen counter.

Is she doing a front paw stand?

It looks like she is standing on her front paws or doing a head stand. One of the things we love the most about this picture is that you get to see those cute spots on her back legs.

We know that two posts in a row about our friend Angel Madi might seem a bit much but she and her mom and dad are very special to all of us. We’re so glad that her mom is going to keep blogging and will include Angel Madi whenever she feels the need to pop by.

Please stop by the blog hop hosted by our friends at Living Laughing Barking in our Backyard to see all the tributes to our special kitty friend Angel Madi.

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A Tribute to Madi

It’s with heavy heart that we share the news that all of Blogville’s BFFF (Best Feline Friend Forever) Madison D. Cat has crossed the Rainbow Bridge.

She was the life of many a Blogville party and taught us all how to dance (that girl could twerk like no other). She fought a courageous battle with kidney disease with the help of her pawrents this past year and lived to 16 ½ years old.

You can visit her blog here to leave some kind words to her pawrents.

We will miss you dear Madi and hold you in our hearts forever. Our paws are crossed for you pawrents as they cope with this sad time.

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Throw Back Thursday – My How Things Have Grown

Hi everyone it’s Cindy here. While moving all my files from one computer to another I discovered a picture that took me back over a decade ago.  A young Angel Nina was hanging out in the yard while helping Charlie do some gardening.

Many of the plants towards the front of the planting were just put in the ground during that spring of 2005. The small tree in the middle with the red leaves is a Japanese Maple. In front of the maple tree to the right and left are a couple of evergreen shrubs.

Here is the same Japanese Maple and evergreen shrubs about 11 years later. Some of the shrubs that are in the top picture were moved as the tree and other shrubs grew and crowded them out. You never know how a planting will turn out when it first goes in the ground. It’s always fun to stumble on a picture of what our yard looked like when a planting was first done to remind us of how it once looked. Gardening definitely takes patience to wait for the final outcome.

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A Candle for Easy

Today Blogville lights a candle to honor our dear friend Angel Easy who has made his final journey home. We also take this time to remember all our friends who have left us this year.

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Come Fly With Us!

Hi everyone! Today we are joining Madi and Angel Easy to show their friend Sammy our favorite place in our home town.

Little Black Dog in Big Snow

Whether it’s right after a winter snow storm where we love to plow through the fluffy white stuff and wrestle until we look like abominable snow dogs or…

Little tan dog under big tree

…it’s early spring when the trees and shrubs are just starting to bud out and the grass has started to green up or…

Happy tan dog in shade of big tree

… it’s the heat of the summer where you can cool off in the shade of the Katsura tree during a game of fetch or…

Two dogs playing on a cool fall day

…it’s a wonderfully cool fall day to play fetch and search the yard for hidden treasures (maybe a mouse, mole or vole to dig up) there is no better place than home.

We love our back yard and are sure Sammy would enjoy visiting us here any time of the year.

Even with this celebration for Sammy we are sad to report that today he crossed the rainbow bridge. He was in poor health and that is why Madi and Easy wanted to let him travel the world with this blog hop today. As many of you already know our dear friend Easy didn’t win his battle with bloat and crossed the rainbow bridge a few days ago. We know Easy and Sammy are having a great time meeting up with all their friends that have gone to the bridge before them.

Here is a beautiful fall rainbow from our back yard to share with all our rainbow friends and the Angel sisters that lived here before us.

In addition to the pain from loosing Easy his pawrents have been left with a hefty vet bill that their insurance won’t cover. To help them donations are being accepted through PayPal. You can learn more about how you can help by visiting Murphy & Stanley’s blog. We made sure to get out our mom’s plastic card to send some money to Easy’s family.

It’s been a tough week in Blogville but we hope this tour of our back yard brought a smile to your face.

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Napping for Bailey Day

Hi everyone. It’s Millie & Walter here. Last week our friend Bailey from Sheltie Times had to cross the Rainbow Bridge. Bailey and his sister were supposed to host a napping event in the Pawlympics. Today we are honoring him by taking naps. We think we have proven ourselves excellent nappers in the past but here are a couple new ones for you.

Why yes, I do find this comfortable.

It’s good to be wedged between the sectional and ottoman
so you don’t fall over.

We hope our friend and his family will proud of our napping skills. Run free sweet Bailey!

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