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Dear Kitten and Offline

I'm going offline again. I've got edits due. Have a great week. Don't do anything you shouldn't, and if you do, don't get caught.

Bear Gets Ready To Attack The Weekend

Now this guy's got the right idea. Did you see this story? If not here's the link: http://mashable.com/2014/05/30/chill-bear/?utm_cid=mash-com-fb-main-link.
Enjoy yours, blogster buds. Especially all you fathers out there. You've earned it.

He's Got The Moves

Shameless Self-Promotion

I try not to do this too often.....



“I want to go!” Sittchuk-Seth’s silver plumy tail lashed back and forth. His jaw tightened his expression obstinate.His father Thut sat upon his throne. His beautiful russet paws rested on the burnished gold arms of the regal chair, his expression both indulgent and annoyed. “What say you, Furrlin, shall we take this whelp of mine?” he asked the soothsayer.Furrlin padded over to the blue crystal ball that stood in the corner near the throne. Standing on his hind legs, he rested his front paws on the crystal. The interior of the globe began to stir, to roll and flash in a prism of color. Furrlin stared unblinking into the ball as the blinding colors flashed. After a long moment, the storm of colors receded and once more lay dormant.“Well,” demanded Thut.Furrlin turned and shrugged. “His destiny is already written. Do what you will.” He dropped to his four paws and padded back to the king.“What in the name of the Goddess kind of answer is that?”“The kind you get from a soothsayer, my lord.”  Tiaa, his beautiful queen, put her paw over his and leaned toward him from her throne. “You promised, my lord. He would not accompany you into battle until he was a year of age.” For a moment, her paw tightened on his and anguish shown out of her beautiful amber eyes. “He is our only child. I can bear no other.”“Mother, other Odin Cats fight at six months, should their future king not be at their side?” Pacing back and forth across the smooth stone floor, Sittchuk-Seth stopped at the window. He rose on his hind legs to stick his head out the stone window embrasure and smell the clean salt air from the sea. He inhaled, drawing air deep into his belly. The massive castle reminded him of a velvet-lined prison. He yearned to fight his first battle against man and dogs, to flirt with pretty Odin Cats and ferals. Instead, he was confined to this dark gray castle that jutted on a scree of boulders, with the ocean singing its siren song far below.Pre-orders on sale for 2.99 @ http://bit.ly/SandraCox

Maleficent

Have you seen it yet? The hh complained about a sugar spike, but I enjoyed it. I didn't realize when I saw it that the five year old playing Aurora was Angelina's daughter Vivienne. If you like fantasy and sweet with an edge, I recommend it.
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Monday

May It Pass Quickly
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Yay Weekend and Jenga Cat

This cat is way better at Jenga than I am:)

Shopping For The Clerks

So I was out shopping and found a cute little dress on the clearance rack. I happened to notice, it was marked down even further in a different size. So I took both of the dresses to the counter. The clerk assured me the price would come up correctly. She was right. It did. She studied the dress and decided to buy the spare.  Hmm, maybe I should become a personal shopper. grin.

~*~Motto for the day: My cow died. I don't need your bull.

Do You Know

Got your thinking cap on today?

1. Name the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends.

2. What famous North American landmark is constantly moving backward?

3. Of all vegetables, only two can live to produce on their own for several growing seasons. All other vegetables must be replanted every year. What are the only two perennial vegetables?

4. What fruit has its seeds on the outside?

5. In many liquor stores you can buy pear brandy, with a real pear inside the bottle. The pear is whole and ripe, and the bottle is genuine; it hasn't been cut in any way. How did the pear get inside the bottle?

6. Only three words in standard English begin with the letters 'dw' and they are all common words. Name two of them.

7. There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name at least half of them?

8. Name the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form except fresh.

9. Name 6 or more things that you can wear on your feet beginning with the letter 'S.'

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Answers To Quiz:

1. Boxing

2. Niagara Falls (The rim is worn down about two and a half feet each year because of the millions of gallons of water that rush over it every minute.)

3. Asparagus and rhubarb.

4. Strawberry.

5. It grew inside the bottle. (The bottles are placed over pear buds when they are small, and are wired in place on the tree. The bottle is left in place for the entire growing season. When the pears are ripe, they are snipped off at the stems.)

6. Dwarf, dwell, and dwindle.

7. Period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark, exclamation point, quotation marks, brackets, parenthesis, braces, and ellipses.

8. Lettuce.

9. 'S' Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, skates,

Did you get them all? Congratulations, you're a mental giant.  Did I get them all?  Uh, no.
 

BFF

Looks like we aren't the only ones capable of forming deep attachments.