Time for a Squeezie, Mommy! #SundaySelfie

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Autumnal #CaturdayArt

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And now our weekly answers for the Friendly Fill-Ins challenge, hosted by 15andmeowing and Four-Legged Furballs!

1. My November to do list includes taking down the Halloween decorations and putting up the Christmas decorations.

2. I find the song Let It Go (from Frozen) annoying.

3. Currently, I'm ahead on bringing more stuff into the house but behind on getting stuff out of it.

4. I'm unbeatable at procrastination.

Feline Friday: National Hug a Bear Day

Meows from Mudpie!

Today is National Hug a Bear Day, and while we don't have a picture of me hugging a teddy bear, I do have this soft bear rug that came in a CatLadyBox many years ago. This picture was taken way back in 2017, and I still lounge on it today! 

Feline Friday is simple to join. All you have to do is:

Post a picture, drawing, cartoon or video of a cat (They may be silly or cute). 

Shrimping

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Mommy and I can't believe Mo has been gone for over a month now. We still miss him so much. Our yard is empty without him.

Mommy was looking through her phone for pictures of him we never posted and she came across this one. Is this the purrfect example of a cat "shrimping" or what? 

Mommy took this picture from our dining room window. He used to love napping under a large bush there. It was a good place for us to keep an eye on him, and Mommy still catches herself looking out the window to see if he's there :( 

Looking Sleepy After Halloween Hijinks #SundaySelfie

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Happy Halloween 2025

Meows from Mudpie! We hope you're having a pawsome Halloween!

Today is also the last Friday of the month, which means it's time for the Pet Photo Fails blog hop! 

This picture is super dark and you might not even be able to see what I was doing, but it was just too cute not to share. I was resting my head on my favorite mug of water, and fell asleep like that! Mommy told me not to drop my head in any further or I might drown!

That's my blooper...let's see yours!

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And lastly, our weekly answers for the Friendly Fill-Ins challenge, hosted by 15andmeowing and Four-Legged Furballs!

Mommy's answers:

1. I like pumpkin spice mini sheet cake from Trader Joe's. I even have a couple extra stashed in the freezer! 

2. My favorite movie to watch around Halloween is The Nightmare Before Christmas.

3. If I could meet any Halloween creature, I'd choose Frankenstein or Dracula. Love those classic Universal Monsters!

Mudpie's answers:

4. I'd like a Halloween treat basket filled with squeezies!

Ghost Kitties Everywhere!

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To say Mommy is obsessed with ghost kitties would be an understatement. It's downright spooky at our house!

This bunch resides on a bookshelf between my bedroom and bathroom and they watch me every time I go by.

We made up a little story for these ghost kitty stuffies. Of course we have the orange kitty we named Mo. He has a mouse in his mouth because that was his favorite treat! Mommy said that I'm the black kitty with the trick or treat bag (which should have some squeezies sticking out of it), and she's the big ghost with the pumpkin spice latte. We're all out trick or treating together!

The above signs hang in our hallway, and these are in the kitchen...

 Everywhere I turn there's a ghost haunting me!

Embarrassing Baby Talk #SundaySelfie

Meows from Mudpie!

I can't believe I'm telling you this because it's SO embarrassing. 

I think I've mentioned before that one of Mommy's favorite nicknames for me is Muddy Poo-Poo. I kid you not. 

It gets worse. 

I always hang out with her in the kitchen late at night when she's picking up one last time before bed. Usually if I'm lucky I can score an extra treat or two. Lately she's started asking me, "Is Mudsy-wudsy-poo ready for nighty-nighty-poo on the blankie-wankie-poo?"

You can't make this stuff up! 

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Caturday Art

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And now our weekly answers for the Friendly Fill-Ins challenge, hosted by 15andmeowing and Four-Legged Furballs!

1. My hometown is where I still live today. I love that I'm in a (fairly) quiet suburb (except for the high school at the top of the street) with just about everything I need only a couple miles away.

2. October is a good time to do some early Christmas shopping and beat the rush.

3. If I saw the ghost of Conway, I would pass out.

4. You couldn't pay me to wear a sexy costume.

Feline Friday: That Pizza Was Delish!

 

Feline Friday is simple to join. All you have to do is:

Post a picture, drawing, cartoon or video of a cat (They may be silly or cute). 

Thankful Thursday: Adding to Our Mo Memorial

Meows from Mudpie!

A couple weeks ago Mommy went to the mailbox and pulled out a package she hadn't ordered.

Inside the package was the sweetest gift from our wonderful friend Sierra from the Fur Everywhere blog - this amazing Mo Christmas ornament. Mommy's eyes immediately started leaking.

Just the week before she had told Grandpa that she wanted to look for a Mo ornament to add to our tree this year, and she had also planned to print a picture to place beside his urn. This precious ornament took care of both ideas at once! 

It will most certainly be front and center on our Christmas tree this year, but until then it has been added to the keepsake box that holds Mo's paw print and fur, and that's where it will reside after the holiday season too. It fits like it was meant to be there.

We can't thank Sierra enough for this extra special gift, and we also want to thank Terry from Brian's Home Forever for doing such an amazing job touching up the photo Sierra wanted to use. Most of the pictures I have of Mo were taken through a door or window so none of them are crystal clear.

Our ornament came from The Cat Blogosphere's online shop, and we can't recommend them highly enough! 

We're joining the Thankful Thursday blog hop because we're super thankful for thoughtful blogging friends!

Cuteness Overload #SundaySelfie

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Caturday Art

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And now our weekly answers for the Friendly Fill-Ins challenge, hosted by 15andmeowing and Four-Legged Furballs!

1. My yard is ready for winter because I worked outside most of the day today.

2. I stopped sending hardly anything in the mail because the price of stamps is ridiculous.

3. I'm less than a mile away from where Ted Bundy was born. 

4. Anytime there's water in the basement is the scariest experience I've ever had in my own home.

Merry Merry Merry Murder by Paty Jager - Blog Tour with Character Guest Post and Giveaway

In the close-knit town of Auburn, Oregon, Andi Clark’s therapy animals bring comfort to the community, especially during the holiday season. When a young girl seeks solace from Athena, Andi's therapy dog, after witnessing an unsettling scene behind the sleigh, it marks the beginning of a much darker holiday.

As the town gathers for the Tree Lighting Ceremony, a scream shatters the festive atmosphere. Cocoa, Andi’s loyal Border Collie, pulls her toward a chilling sight: a woman standing over the lifeless body of the girl's mother, strangled with Christmas lights.

Determined to help the grieving girl and her town recover from the shock, Andi, her therapy animals, and her niece, a county deputy, take it upon themselves to investigate. As they uncover secrets and untangle clues, they stay one step ahead of the new sheriff and worry that the killer lurking in their midst could be someone they know. 

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Character Guest Post - Meet Cupcake

Hellooooo! I’m Cupcake, Andi’s pygmy goat. I love to jump on things, dance, and have a good time. I have trouble standing still. But I love when people call me cute and kids pet me. I do my best to stand still then because I don’t want to hurt anyone.

My best days are when we all load up in the Cuddle Farm van and head to a school or Andi sets up a petting zoo. I get all kinds of hugs and pets. When I say we, I mean Andi, of course, she has to drive us there and load and unload us pets.

There is also Cocoa, a brown and white border collie. She is soooo smart! She helps Andi do lots of things, but she also helps Andi when she starts to have a panic attack. She didn’t have those until after her husband died. I think losing him so quickly when they were having a fun vacation kind of shook her up. Afterall, they had been hopping from country to country solving crimes for governments and if he had died then, she would have been prepared for it. But out of the blue… wham! It hit her hard and she struggles sometimes with knowing that life can be gone in a second.

Next in line in the dogs, is Athena. She’s smart too, but not as smart as Cocoa. She’s loveable and will let me curl up with her if I’m cold. She’s a Great Pyrenees/Golden retriever mix and loves to take care of animals and people. She is kind and only growls if someone is doing something wrong.

The littlest dog, and the one I like to play with, is Lulu. She’s a chiweenie. You know, a dachshund and chihuahua cross. She has the long ears, body, and tail of a dachshund and the longer legs and shorter snout of a chihuahua which makes her fun to play with. She runs, jumps, and zooms around like I do! She has a happy attitude but can get scared easily and will shiver or hide.

I have my pen in the barn next to Sparky. He’s a miniature donkey who likes to steal things. Not just little things either! I saw him dragging a sheep water trough across the field one day. He’d taken it from the sheep pasture. Andi couldn’t figure out how it ended up in his stall in the barn.

The two animals that I haven’t really bonded with are Flopsie, the dwarf Holland Lop bunny. She’s quiet and hangs out in the bunny hutches with her friends. When we all go to events, she is let loose in the small pen Andi sets up and the kids like to chase Flopsie, pick her up, and pet her.

The other creature, because that is what she looks like- a creature, is Chicklet. She’s a silky hen, but she doesn’t look silky to me! She looks like someone didn’t put her feathers on correctly! The feathers on the top of her head and on her legs above her feet stick out like they are full of electricity. And her feathers cover her eyes. You’d think she’d run into things! But she is always the one who finds the good stuff when we are out in the farmyard. She stays in the chicken coop with five of her friends.

The last time we all went somewhere together was the Christmas Festival. We were a petting zoo for the people coming to the event. It was fun! I especially liked when a little girl named, Ava, talked to Athena and told her something she saw. That caused Andi to get involved in a murder investigation.

I hope that one of these days, I can help Andi solve a crime, just like Athena, Cocoa, and Lulu did. Athena and Cocoa even saved Andi from the killer! That makes them heroes!

I hope you enjoyed getting to know me and my friends. Pick up the book Merry Merry Merry Murder and read how we solve a murder.

About the Author: 

Paty Jager is an award-winning author of murder mysteries, western romance, and action-adventure. All her work has Western or Native American elements in them along with hints of humor and engaging characters. Riding horses and battling rattlesnakes in eastern Oregon, she not only writes the western lifestyle, she lives it.

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Website: https://www.patyjager.net
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Unboxing September's CatLadyBox

The theme of September's CatLadyBox was Feline Fall...here's what was inside!

Caturday Lounge Crew:

I always love finding a sweatshirt in my box. This one is super warm and cozy.

"Cat Lady Crossing" Metal Sign:

This was immediately hung over my bedroom door!

Silhouette Cat Ring:

This little ring is just darling! It fit my small fingers purrfectly.

Scrappy Scarecrow & Cornelious Cobb Catnip Toys:

Both of these toys are SO cute. My mom was a doll collector and especially loved primitives, so I have a feeling if she was still here Mudpie's scarecrow doll/toy would've been snatched away!

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Airplane Ears #SundaySelfie

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Star Light, Star Bright #CaturdayArt

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And now our weekly answers for the Friendly Fill-Ins challenge, hosted by 15andmeowing and Four-Legged Furballs!

1. My plans for October include yard cleanup and watching lots of Halloween movies and TV shows.

2. Sometimes it is easier to bite your tongue than say what's really on your mind.

3. I didn't mean to get lost in my own city, but it turned out that way. It happened while I was trying to find the funeral home that was arranging Mo's cremation, and was very embarrassing. 

4. I'd rather deal with a haunted event than a haunted house. At least we know the fun Halloween events are fake!

Mo is Home

Meows from Mudpie! 

Our sweet Mo is back home. We always considered this his home, in his final days we came to realize that he considered it his home too, and now he will have a home with us forever.

Mommy picked out the orange cat urn for him the week before he passed. She knew it was the perfect choice for him. The clear keepsake box underneath contains his clay paw print and tufts of fur that the vet gave us.

The orange stuffie is a Halloween decoration Mommy picked up at Target back in August. She's obsessed with cat ghosts and had never seen an orange one before (they're most always black). It made her smile because Mo loved catching (and eating) mice, so this is our little "Mo ghost". Mommy says it will always be a part of our Mo memorial.

Welcome home, Mo. You're inside with us now where we always wanted you to be.

Slurp, Slurp

 

Have You Missed Me? #SundaySelfie

Meows from Mudpie! 

Since you haven't seen me ALL week I thought I'd treat you to an extreme closeup for my Sunday Selfie :) 

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Treasured Forever #CaturdayArt

Meows from Mudpie!

Thank you all so much for the beautiful comments yesterday on our memorial post for Mo. A lot of tears have been shed at our house over the past week. 

Next week Mommy will be picking up his ashes and we have a memorial spot picked out for him so he can live in our home always. 

We also wanted to thank Ingrid, Benji and Dalton from Meezer's Mews & Terrieristical Woofs for this darling memorial graphic. Mo will indeed be treasured forever.