Bugsy and Sassy's Birthday

It's our (observed) birthday today, along with our sister Callie, who became an Angel at the Rainbow Bridge last December. We're 7 years old now (yes, Ziggy and Pixie, Bugsy saw that crack on Tuesday about being "so old" now...he can still whip your butts, you young whippersnappers!), even if Callie is forever 6.

Recently, we received some beautiful ink drawings of our lovely angel Callie that we had commissioned from The Ball Guy (you know him from our dear friends at The Monkeys), and in honor of her birthday at the Bridge, we'd like to share one of those with everyone now. We think this is our favorite...but it changes everytime we look at them.

Isn't The Ball Guy great?? We heart him. Thanks so much, Ball Guy!

But today is not a day for sadness; no, today is a day for a birthday party, combined for us and Gypsy! So come on over and party party party with us all, and we can lift a niptini glass in honor of Callie as well. Come and go as you please all weekend long, there's plenty of food and drinks for everyone -- sorry kittens, pups and other youngsters, milk only for you.

Be here or be square!

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Tortie Tuesday Tribute and Angel VSquillion

Time again for another Tortie Tuesday Tribute, in honor of our sweet Callie. Regular readers will recall that our beautiful girl went to the Rainbow Bridge unexpectedly back in December, a week before Christmas, at the regretfully young age of 6. It's been nearly 3 months, and The Mommy still looks around for her sometimes, calling her name during one of those roll calls of 'where is everycat'. We miss her bunches.

Below is a montage of some of the many Faces of Callie (bigify to see better). While most photos are unrelated to each other in the time and space continuum (MOL), the 3 in the lower right were all taken on her last evening at home...though we didn't realize that at the time. The second photo in the upper left is classic Callie, she loved to lay with her paws crossed like that, she was quite the little lady!

We'd also like to introduce our newest blog family member, our Angel VSquillion, Callie, named obviously in honor of our dear Callie. We had previously adopted another VSquillion, Caleb, in honor of all our CAts who LEft Before, but when the Angels became available, we decided to adopt one specifically for our most recent angel.

Thank you to Miss Gracie and all the others who handle the vSquillion adoption processes!!

We love you and miss you, Callie Boo.

Tortie Tuesday Tribute

It's time for another Tortie Tuesday Tribute, featuring our dear Callie. For those new or newish to the bloggie, Callie became ill unexpectedly in early December and passed on to the Rainbow Bridge a week before Christmas. At that time, there were still quite a few good photos of her that had never been posted, so The Mommy made several collages of them and we've been sharing those one or two at a time since then.

This first collage is a series of photos taken just the night before Callie passed. The Mommy had received a package in a rather small box, and Callie was determined to take a nap in that box -- and by golly, she managed to fit herself in all curled up! (Biggify to see better)

This second collage shows Callie in some of her favorite napping spots. The upper middle photo shows her curled up in the corner of the couch, just where we pictured her being in the photo shown on last Friday's post of the 6 of us left behind...

*Sigh* We really miss Callie.

Tortie Tuesday Tribute

It's time for a Tortie Tuesday Tribute post, in honor of our dear Callie. She's been gone 3-1/2 weeks now -- has it only been 3-1/2 weeks? Has it already been 3-1/2 weeks? Time both flies and crawls all at the same instant.

Thinking of her being a guardian angel for Saturday's Sextuple Cat shot made me think she'd have been right in there lying there on the carpet, on her back with her belleh waiting to be snorgled. That was one of her favorite napping positions. I had a few of those unposted belleh shots -- waiting to be posted but that never made it -- that I put together in a collage as they're too cute not to use. (As always, you can bigify to see better.)

Callie also just loved the hairy blankies we got from Peggy, especially if I was on the couch with her but even if I wasn't. As these previously unposted photos show, she would even put up with other kitty company if she had to, to be able to lay on a hairy blankie.

We have more Callie photos to share, but that's it for this Tortie Tuesday Tribute. We hope you enjoyed them.

Super Saturday Sextuplet

Regular readers may recall how positively giddy The Mommy got when she was previously able to finally get all of us -- then numbered at 5 -- in one photo, which she called the Quintuple Cat Crown Jewel (first occuring for our 100th post back in mid-September and then again just a month later in October).

Sadly, in the 7 weeks that there were 7 of us -- after adding Gypsy and Ziggy and before losing Callie -- she never managed to get a photo with all 7.

Well, imagine her shock, surprise, and utter delight when she looked around the den on Wednesday night and realized that the remaining 6 of us were all in there! Gypsy has just in the past couple of weeks started venturing into the den again, after self-exiling herself in the dining room for most of her time with us since coming along just at Halloween. And not only were all 6 of us in there, but with careful squeezing into the doorway and pulling the chair that Bugsy was in just a little further over (without disturbing him so much that he'd jump out... MOL), The Mommy was able to get a photo of it!

So, we are pleased to present to you, our adoring fans, the first Super Spectacular Sextuple Cat Platinum Crown Jewel! (Yoo should bigify to see better....)

That should hold her for awhile....