Monday, January 18, 2021
January Retro Country Rewind #MewsicMovesMe
Sunday, January 17, 2021
Maple Mudpie #SundaySelfie
Meows from Mudpie!
Saturday, January 16, 2021
Caturday Art
2. Everyone should rescue a pet at least once in their lives. They say money can't buy happiness, but it actually does in the form of an adoption fee!
3. Lately, I've been thinking a lot about homeless kitties with no one to cuddle during the long, cold winter. I sure am a lucky girl.
4. I'll never be too old to bat around a pom pom. I can't resist!
Friday, January 15, 2021
Mudpie Interviews...Mona Lisa from Paula Darnell's Fine Art Mystery Series
Artist Amanda Trent, accompanied by her beloved golden retriever Laddie and her persnickety calico cat Mona Lisa, is determined to start a new life after her husband divorces her to marry a younger woman, but it isn’t easy.
Meowrrr! I'm a beautiful calico kitty—just ask my Mommy Amanda. She adopted me from an animal shelter when I was an abandoned kitten and now I rule the house. I like to hide from her sometimes or pretend I don't care what she's doing, but I'm only teasing.
What's a typical day like for you?
If Mommy doesn't wake up early, I like to pounce on her head. That usually does the trick. Then I get to have my breakfast; that's important. Mommy puts my food on one side of the kitchen and somebody else's (hint: there's a big dog in the house, too) on the other side, so he doesn't bother me. Whenever Mommy goes into her art studio to paint, I like to hang out on the top of my kitty tree where I can curl up and take a cat nap. It's a good spot to keep an eye on You-Know-Who because there's no way he can reach me. Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah!
Tell us about Artistic License to Kill, the new Fine Art Mystery you star in.
We moved to Lonesome Valley so Mommy could set up her own art studio and make her living from painting. She needed to get a new start in life after her husband divorced her (I guess he was having a mid-life crisis because he married his twenty-five-year-old assistant, and he's at least fifty, if he's a day). Anyway, things were going well in our new town, and Mommy got to join the Roadrunner Art Gallery so she had a great place to sell her paintings. (The more she sells, the more kitty treats for me.) Of course, life can't ever go too smoothly for long, and when Mommy went to the gallery for her first day, she and her friend Susan found the gallery director lying on the floor. Somebody had bashed her over the head with her own bronze sculpture. There's a lot more to the story, but you'll have to read Artistic License to Kill to find out what happened!
The book description calls you a persnickety calico. I'm a tortie myself and you may have heard we're known to have a bit of tortitude. Does your attitude ever get you into any trouble?
Who, me? Trouble? Surely you jest.
Who's the pup on the cover with you? Do you two get along?
Sigh! His name is Laddie, and he's a golden retriever. I have to share Mommy with him, which, honestly, is a bit much sometimes. Mostly, he leaves me alone because I like to show him who's boss. He doesn't even interfere when Mommy plays the feather toy game with me. He just lies there and watches. See? I told you I'm in charge!
Can you give us any clues as to what's next for you and Amanda?
Psst! I can tell you in confidence that Mommy's going to have another adventure. It's called Vanished into Plein Air, and you'll be able to read all about it very soon. In the meantime, I've arranged for a sneak peek of the cover and an excerpt from the first chapter if you go to https://www.pauladarnellauthor.com/2020/12/vanished-into-plein-air.html.
Wednesday, January 13, 2021
Pet Bloggers Journey 2021
When did you begin your blog and what do you currently write about on your blog?
Name one thing about your blog, or one blogging goal that you accomplished during 2020, that made you most proud.
Which of your 2020 posts was most popular with your audience? Why do you think it does so well?
What are your top three goals for 2021?
In the perfect world, where do you see yourself and your blog 1 year from now?
What is one skill you’d like to learn or improve in 2021?
Monday, January 11, 2021
Bait and Witch by Angela M. Sanders - Blog Tour with Excerpt and Giveaway
Almost as shocking, Josie learns that she’s descended from a long line of witches—and her powers have suddenly sprung to life. With help from a spoiled alley cat who just may be her familiar, Josie’s thumbing through a catalog of suspects, hoping she can conjure a way to save her library—and her life...
“Hello, kitty.” I dropped a hand for him to smell. “Did I do wrong by answering that ad in the Library Gazette? I’m not needed here, but I can’t go home.”
The cat pawed at the bookshelf, pulling a flyer to the floor. I reached down to put it back and saw it was a schedule of the month’s events. The library hosted weekly classes in English as a second language. Probably helpful for the field workers. Thursdays were organ lessons—the library had an organ?—and once a month, the knitting club met in the conservatory. I’d just missed an afternoon tea with “Original poems by Wilfred resident Helen Garlington.” The library was a community center, it seemed.
I set the flyer on the desk.
“Okay, so they do need me—as an events coordinator, at the least. And they probably need help cataloguing and packing up the books for storage once the library is history. Then I’ll be homeless, like you.”
The cat pointed his head toward the kitchen, where two ceramic bowls on the floor caught my eyes. “Rodney” was painted on one. Apparently the cat belonged to the library.
“Funny little guy. I almost believe you understand me.”
The cat stretched, reaching out one paw then the other, and leapt onto the chair’s arm. He bumped my shoulder with his head.
In the past twelve hours, everything had changed. I’d fled across the country to a nonexistent town and taken a job in a library that would soon be bulldozed. I was dreaming again, remembering my childhood. And now I’d turned into Dr. Dolittle.
“What’s happening to me, Rodney?”
The cat, still purring, rolled to his back. On his lower belly where the fur was thin was a star-shaped birthmark, clear and dark and sharp. Just like mine.
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Sunday, January 10, 2021
Saturday, January 9, 2021
Caturday Art
2. The luckiest I have ever been was the day Mommy saw me online and decided to adopt me.
3. I never thought I would get my drivers license, but I did.
4. I'm waiting for 2021 to get better. Too bad we weren't given a free 7 day trial so we could cancel it right now.
Friday, January 8, 2021
Feline Flashback Friday: Memories of Sebastian
Sebastian didn't have the easiest life. Many times through the years our hearts broke seeing him outside in all kinds of adverse weather conditions. But for the few years that he was a part of my family, he knew he was loved.
Wednesday, January 6, 2021
Unboxing December's CatLadyBox
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Monday, January 4, 2021
Don't Cry Mudpie #MewsicMovesMe
The theme of this week's Mewsic Moves Me blog hop is...Mewsic Trivia – tell us a piece of mewsic trivia about a song(s) and share it.
I thought I'd present a few fun facts about one of Conway's most beloved songs (and his most successful duet with someone other than Loretta Lynn), Don't Cry Joni with his 16 year old daughter Joni.
Don't Cry Joni is a song Conway wrote while his kids were growing up, and as they describe it today, one they sang around the house as a family. By the time Joni became a teenager she started thinking about following in her father's footsteps and becoming a singer. Conway thought bringing her into the recording studio might provide a bit of encouragement, so he asked her to record the song with him, telling her he would later substitute her voice with a professional singer.
Sunday, January 3, 2021
Snowbound #SundaySelfie
Meows from Mudpie!
Mommy helped me snapped this selfie yesterday morning after I spent most of the night watching the snow fall outside our bedroom window. Every single time she woke up and looked to see where I was, I was looking outside. For some reason I was mesmerized by it! Mommy was afraid I would be snow blind once the sun came up! (We ended up with 6 inches, biggest storm of the season...so far!)
Friday, January 1, 2021
Happy Mew Year 2021
Meows from Mudpie!
Who's ready to bury 2020 in the litter box and move on to 2021? I sure am!
Here's to a new year filled with cuddles, smooches, and squeezies!!!
2. I didn't get to do much quality writing this year, but I hope to in 2021.
3. The year 2020 taught me how easily the freedoms we take for granted can be stripped away from us.
4. Getting lots of home improvement projects taken care of is one of my biggest goals for 2021.