Pawprints on my heart

Once upon a time, I had a little cat who wasn' t so little. He was grouchy and demanding but also incredibly loving. If I sat down, he was in my lap. My sister brought him to me from Gainesville. Before that, he was an outdoor kitty who lived around in her apartment complex.


Basil was one of the first kitties of mine that my husband met. It was love at first sight. For us and for him and Basil. He called him my comfort kitty. Whenever I would get upset, the first thing B would do would be to go find Basil.

After over eight years with me (and then us), one day he began acting strange. He just seemed to lay around (even more so than normal) and didn't want to eat or drink. I decided to take him to the vet and this was a good thing. His liver was failing and if I hadn't taken him, he might have died while we were at work. We wouldn't have been able to say good bye. But we did get to say good bye and got to tell him how much we loved him.


He died over 6 months ago. I don't know why I was thinking about him today. I do think about him often. I miss him so much. I cry about him sometimes. Heaven is where he deserves to be even with his grumpy meows. It is sad to miss him but in the end I treasure all my memories of him.

Good day and meow : )

One Last Holiday Tradition

We had meant to do it for my birthday but instead, we did it tonight. We headed down to St. Augustine for their Night of Lights. It is like the whole center of town is decked out in lights. Houses, parks, museums, churches... all were gleaming in the night.

We were able to hop about a trolley to ride around to see it all. Hop being a loosely used term. Particularly since we had parked at one trolley lot to take a trolley to stand in line for another trolley. But it was truly lovely and worth the wait (mostly : ) The streets were just buzzing with people. I think the thing that was Beloved's favorite was the display at the Potter Wax Museum. Both their front windows were decked in holiday decorations along with Darth Vader, Boba Fett, R2D2 and C3PO. I'm sure the Rebels and Empire troops held the cease fire for Christmas.

Good night and May the Christmas be with you.

Turkey is In

And the cats have begun to enjoy their presents. Apparently all the unwrapped boxes became new kitty toys : ) It was a quiet Christmas. My favorite gift was my subjective one. I did my list on Amazon this year. But as always, I had one request that wouldn't fit on Amazon. I have so far asked for a bottle of sunshine, a jar of moonlight and this year's was a box of dreams. Beloved got me that one this year. He found a candle that was both labeled dream and was in a box labeled dream. I must start making these requests more difficult : )

I wonder if there are any open restaurants just in case... that turkey scares me a bit. I don't roast whole anythings very much. Baking I can do but roast just seems strange and foreign. We're also going to be having baked potatos, corn on the cob and cranberry sauce. LOL on the last one as Beloved and I don't like the same type of cranberry sauce. We bought two cans. One for each of us. We can comprise on most things except cranberry sauce.

Good day and Merry Christmas, world!

Mrs. Claus

What do you mean you didn't leave out cookies for Mrs. Claus?

I really wanted to make our holiday party something special. So today I did storytime as someone special, Mrs. Claus. The above pics are my dress rehearsal. I was a bit busy doing storytime so I forgot to get someone to take my picture today. I had added a Christmas apron and painted my eyebrows white. It was wicked hot but such fun. We read A Pirate's Night before Christmas and Who will drive my sleigh tonight for the storytime. Then we had a sing-along (I had to remind them of that) and then lots of fun crafts. We had a stocking giveaway and then everyone got to take 2 books as a present from the library. There were about 20+ people there of all ages.

Good night and to all a good night : )

Another Day of Shooting

After a long morning of cash handling training, I needed a break. A puppet break, of course : )

We shot another scene for the puppet commerical. I can't wait to post it in total. They are doing the Hootie awards again and this might help my vote for Most Likely to Talk to Puppets. Not quite the Oscars but still it is fun to receive credit for something that make me and others laugh.

I also am going to be Mrs. Claus for work on two different days. I have all my pieces of my outfit. I am looking forward to that too. I literally have the best job in the world for me. I love doing storytime and sharing the joy of books with kids. I still get lost in my books and want kids to feel the same way. Books and language. I love using new or interesting words. Gregarious or erudite are two of my favorites. I hope I am both of those things : )

Good night and in the jungle (You'll see when I post the video)

Librariam

It was not my first attempt at mispelling today. Earlier I had been creating beautiful tags for some staff awards. One of my first one was supposed to say Most likely to suffer a breakdown if they catch a customer shelving a book. On my tag, it read Most likely to suffer a breakdown if they cath a customer. I certainly hope no one is doing that in the library.

Then tonight, as I was renewing my passport. This title is what I put for Occupation. I changed it as it would look super bad to have that forever stuck on my passport.

God night and yes, I know but it was intentional : )

Woops!

: ) It was a good thing I got pics of the beautiful job I did on decorating our house with lights. Apparently the hooks I used were NOT super duper solid as my lights were on the ground this morning.

Though on the plus side for today, I did get to film most of my puppet commerical for the staff party in January. Any day where I get to have fun with puppet is a good one.

Good night and puppets rock!

Holidays at the Harms

Our first ornament was also our wedding topper. Now we collect them whenever we go somewhere new.

Kitty Nativity. I am super sure that this is an actual reenactment of the birth of Christ.

Our Tree

Mechanical Christmas Singers

Holidays at the Harms : )

Santa Kitty is Coming to Town

(S)He knows if you've been bad or good... or in this case evil for putting a poor cat in a Santa Hat.

The wreath on our door

A first. We've never put up Christmas lights. Thanks to Mommy Harm for the lights.

Decks the Halls

It's beginning to look a bit like Christmas. We put up our tree and lights yesterday. It was fun as we put the ornaments on the tree, we remembered where we had gotten them. The first ornament we got was the cat bride and groom. It was also our wedding topper. Since then, we have gotten them from everywhere we've been together. I really like our Pirate Santa that we got in Amelia Island. LOL He even has a peg leg : ) We also have ornaments from his and my childhood. I put up the crochet catcus for him and he hung the golden carriage for me.

Good day and joy to the world!