Thankful Thursday

We wanted to take a moment to say Thank You to all of you - our wonderful kitty, woofie, and bean friends. You have been so wonderful to us and our Mommy over the last month, that we cannot express how grateful we are. As you know, Mommy has been sorta sick with the kitten that is in her tummy, and we've had some real big scares. Knowing the entire time that we had such wonderful friends purring and purraying for us really helped. We truly think that it is what has been keeping Mommy and Cabin Boy healthy and off of bedrest and out of the hospital. Thank you all!

Thankful Thursday

This Thursday, we is thankful to have a loving home with our humans. With Mommy having to be home so much because all she can do is rest, we get plenty of snuggle and napping time.

We do have one request though kitties - we needs all of your purrs and purrayers. Mommy goes back to the Cabin Boy doctor tommorow and she is nervous about being told she has to be home with us all of the time because she is worse. Her bloods pressures have been up for the last day (we thinks it cause she is nervous because they have been great for the last three weeks) and her feets were a bit puffy yesterday. She is day hunting now with her feets up at her desk and drinking lots and trying to remain unstressed, but she could use your good thoughts and wishes too!!

Mommy says we will let you know how things go tommorow and to say THANK YOU SO MUCH for all of your love and support. It makes us happy that you kitties care about our Mommy like we do. So we say again, thank you kitties, woofies and friends. We loves you!!

Thankful Thursday

Hiya kitties, it is ME, FAGIN!! YAY!!! ME get to do this week's Thankful Thursday because what we are thankful for is ME!! Let ME explain. As most of you know, FAGIN was bottle raised by Aunt Susan (we does not have a V-E-T here at the Black Furrball; we has an Aunt Susan) from the time FAGIN (then know as Little Kitty or LK) was only about 8 days old. She kept FAGIN alive and healthy so ME could become the big, strong mancat FAGIN is today.

Well, last night Mommy and Daddy went to Aunt Susan and Uncle Dave's for dinner and Mommy got to meet Aunt Susan's newest foster - a little girl tortie who is so tiny that she is calling Ethel!! She may be about 3 weeks old or older. Aunt Susan has had her for about two weeks but she is not growing much so its hard to guestimate age at this point. Mommy says if we could all send healing and growing purrs and thoughts to little Ethel that she thinks it could go as well for this little kitty as it did for ME - the FAGINATOR!! YAY!!!! Ethel needs purrs to eat lots and gain weights and not be what Mommy calls "failure to thrive." So come on kitties - purr hard for FOODS and WEIGHTS and ETHELS!! YAY!!!

That means that for this week's Thankful Thursday, we is thankful for Aunt Susan taking in little kitties to foster and grow into big kitties, and for all of the kitties at the cat blogosphere who send special purrs and purrayers to help little kitties like FAGIN and Ethel to grow big and strong. Come on kitties - you pulled FAGIN through - can we get some of the same magical purrs for little Ethel?? YAY!!!!!!

Thankful Thursday

Heya kitties, it's ME, FAGIN! YAY!! Mommy said that I should do this week's Thankful Thursday post cause guess what Saturday is!! GUESS GUESS GUESS!!! Here, I has a hint for you:

Do you know? Can you guess?? Well kitties, Saturday is FAGIN'S FIRST EVER GOTCHA DAY!!! YAY!!! Yep, it means that FAGIN has been living with Mommy and Daddy and Samwise and Captain Jack and Beaux and Dante for ONE WHOLE YEAR!! YAY!! Do you remember these pictures??FAGIN'S first meeting with the bestest big brofurr ever, Dante!! YAY!!! Do you kitties remember that Dante never once growled at FAGIN but immediately began to PLAYPLAYPLAY with me?? He's is AWESOME!!Ah, when FAGIN first met the Cheese Chase game. Look at how TINY I was!! FAGIN was playing on the kitchen table here if you can believe it. I remember when FAGIN was little I would sit on one side of the game and Dante would sit on the other and we would BAP the play back and forth to each other!! FAGIN still PLAYPLAYPLAYs with this game sometimes.

So kitties, this week FAGIN is thankful for his furrever home, and to Aunt Susan and Uncle Dave for keeping FAGIN alive and healthy so that FAGIN got to come home. Mommy says FAGIN can have a par-tay on Saturday if ME wants. What do you kitties think? Should FAGIN have a Gotcha Day party?

Thankful Thursday

We are thankful that us kitties already know how to stop and smell the roses; how to sleep in a sunbeam; how to truly enjoy life's myriad pleasures. We wish that our humans knew how to do this as instictively as we kitties do but they could use some help. Just read this email Mommy got this morning as proof:

A man sat at a metro station in Washington DC and started to play the violin; it was a cold January morning.

He played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time, since it was rush hour, it was calculated that thousands of people went through the station, most of them on their way to work.

Three minutes went by and a middle aged man noticed there was a musician playing. He slowed his pace and stopped for a few seconds and then hurried to meet his schedule.

A few minutes later, the violinist received his first dollar tip. A woman threw the money in the till and without stopping, continued to walk.

A few minutes later, someone leaned against the wall to listen to him, but the man looked at his watch and started to walk again. Clearly he was late for work.

The one who paid the most attention was a 3 year old boy. His mother tugged him along, but the kid stopped to look at the violinist. Finally the mother pushed hard and the child continued to walk turning his head all the time.

This action was repeated by several other children. All the parents, without exception, forced them to move on.

In the 45 minutes the musician played, only 6 people stopped and stayed for a while. Another 20 gave him money but continued to walk their normal pace. He collected $32.

When he finished playing and silence took over, no one noticed it. No one applauded, nor was there any recognition.

No one knew this but the violinist was Joshua Bell, one of the best musicians in the world. He played one of the most intricate pieces ever written with a violin worth 3.5 million dollars.

Two days before his playing in the subway, Joshua Bell sold out at a theatre in Boston where the seats average $100.

Joshua Bell playing incognito in the metro station was organized by the Washington Post as part of a social experiment about perception, taste and priorities of people. The outlines were: In a commonplace environment at an inappropriate hour: Do we perceive beauty? Do we stop to appreciate it? Do we recognize the talent in an unexpected context?

One of the possible conclusions from this experience could be: If we do not have a moment to stop and listen to one of the best musicians in the world playing the best music ever written, how many other things are we missing? That's something worth thinking about.

Click here if you would like to watch some footage of Mr. Bell playing his 300 year old Stradivarius violin in the subway station.

We hope that all of our beans remember that sometimes it's life's little pleasures that count the most. Have a Thankful and Wonderful Thursday everyone!!

Thankful Thursday

Yesterday, Daddy came home from work early because he had to go to the dentist (human teeths doctor). His appointment was rescheduled for a few hours later so we got to spend some of the afternoon on the porch with Daddy enjoying the warm Georgia weather. Well, Mommy says about 2pm she checked her email at work and had one from Daddy with a picture attached that was entitled:

"You Takes Your Beams Where You Can Find Them"

Ah! We are very thankful for Daddy, for Daddy getting to come home early yesterday, for Mommy who loves us so much then when she saw this picture she missed us so much that she wanted to come home but instead called Daddy to check on us and mostly, we are thankful for all sunbeams, no matter how great or how small!

Thankful Thursday

Look kitties! We both got our own special awards!!

This award was given to Sir Dante, the Dread Pirate by Sunny and from the very special Pearl:

The You Make My Day Award is presented to bloggers whose blog brings you happiness and inspiration and makes you feel happy about Blogland. The rules are to pass the award along to up to 10 Kitties.

Thank you Sunny, and thank you beautiful Pearl - I am very honored to receive this award. I would like to pass it on to Adan, Chase, Kellie, Miles and Sammy, and our friends in Italy Opus and Roscoe.

This award was given to Captain Jack by his Lady Pirate Love, the beautiful Miss Boo:

My Lady, I thank you wholeheartedly for this award. I will treasure it always! I would like to pass it on to Hendrix because he is one of our oldest friends and to Monkee because he is one of our newest friends.