Greetings, Fabulous Felines and Hoomans of Hivelandia and surrounding communities!
Found a bit of sunshine
We have arrived at the final weekend of 2024, which also means we have arrived at the final Caturday of 2024. As I'm sure you know by now, Caturday is my favorite day of the week and it's when we get to share an extravaganza of cat pictures with everybody around the web!
Nala, enjoying the view from the cat condos
Today is a bright and sunny day outside so we cats are competing for the various sun puddles we can find around the house. During the winter, when the days are short, nothing we cats like more than finding a little bit of warm sunshine in one of our favorite napping spots.
If all else fails, we like the storage closet because the boxes allow us to get up near the heating ducts!
Three cats in a closet!
Of course this is also the time where many of us look at the year that went and also start to formulate some thoughts about what we want the year ahead to mean to us.
Whereas 2024 was by no means a great year, there are plenty of things that we can be grateful for!
Shangri and Nala found a home with us in 2024
Above all, 2024 was the year when we adopted Shangri and Nala and they got themselves a new "forever home" with good food, love and safety. They have integrated quite well into our household routine and at this point it is hard to imagine our life without them.
At this point, they are about 8 to 9 months old, and have grown out of the stage of being kittens and are now young cats.
Nala, being Nala!
Nala is the super active one who's always running around and always getting into things. She can be a bit of a troublemaker but she's very sweet natured and is living up to the reputation of calico cats as "being slightly crazy." She's gentle natured and inquisitive though, and was the first of the two to start behaving like she truly felt at home here.
Shangri is always on the alert...
Shangri is growing into a somewhat large but quiet, sweet and cautious cat and everybody admires his striking copper colored eyes, which is one of the rarest eye colors in cats. And for those who are wondering, yes he is perfectly healthy... that eye color is not the result of liver shunts.
Shangri, posing
The Son-Hooman was staying with us for Christmas and he is now headed back home to Seattle for New Years and he'll be gone at least for a while before coming back at some point in January to spend some weeks with us while his job is in dormancy.
He has a strange job in which he has no job between Christmas and the beginning of March, although he returns to the same job year after year.
Smudge is the only one allowed near the Christmas tree!
Smudge has enjoyed her Christmas privileges as the only one of the cats who's allowed free access to the living room with the Christmas tree. Of course, she has also enjoyed her Christmas treats.
It's hard to believe that she will be turning 20 years old in just a couple of months!
Not super comfortable, but at least there was a little sun!
We haven't quite gotten so far as to start making a formal goals post for 2025, but it's amazing to think that we are already a quarter-century into the new Millennium.
That said, we cats don't generally concern ourselves very much with time, we focus on what is enjoyable here and now, in the moment! Like treats... and belly rubs!
Time for a snack...
Well, time for me to head back to my napping!
We really appreciate you taking the time to stop by our cat blog for a visit, and hope to see you again soon! Similarly, we are very grateful for everyone's support during 2024, and hope to continue offering more cat photos and cat content in 2025!
Till then, have a beautiful remainder of your weekend!
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