The Friday File: Beating the Summer Heat _ Diva Style

Welcome!

Hello MY Darlings!

Well, I hope you are enjoying the summer so far.

Even the window is hotter than NORMAL!

It is hotter than a 'cat on a hot tin roof' outside!!!

Here in MY studio I'm just right! Not much human traffic outside today, unless they are in their cars!!!                                     

I wash my whiskers sparkly clean
 as I reflect how lucky I am!

Fresh H2O for Kitty 

The sun is shining, with it's warm inviting face, MY body benefits from rays. When it gets a bit too much I shift PAWS around to the end of the table, where the air conditioning is!

  
Oh, MY secretary has just bought me a delicious offering.  In a moment I'll  dunk face first into my water bowl with an ice chips (don't lap up too quickly other wise you'll get tummy ache)........I guess I have trained her well ^..^!

Favorite playmate! Now you see it NOW you DON'T

I think I'm going to have MYSELF a lazy day!

Tin Man you have to hydrate!

With some friends!!!!

I follow DIVAS advise

                 



                                            
 10 ways to BEAT the HEAT!

1.  If you do go out find a shady spot;
2. Don't stay in the sun for too long, take your umbrella;
3. Bring along a friend, they can bring along ice-cream;
4. Dive into a kids wadding pool (paddle with the best of them);
5. Humans, DON'T leave feline or canines unattended in the car (or children for that matter); Double check your car before locking... retrieve your companions!
6. Excessive panting means drink MORE, keep cool.....be sensible;
7. Go out BEFORE 'High Noon' or 'After dinner'...great for walking  on     the Beach;
8. Make sure your SECRETARY brings food, water and cold face cloth;
9. Pack a little extra just in case you see a feline or canine without   

Enjoy your Summer!

If you stay in..you might do what I do..........go for a SPA!

Pamper YOURSELF with ATTENTION!

DIVA has it made!

There are more treats in store..follow the DIVA!!!

                           A little personal note:  We wish little "Dundas" the lion kitty ...

                                            all the very best as he continues to heal.
                                                                  A round of PAWS to his

                                                                            great team at

                                                               Toronto Downtown Animal!

If you missed last weeks "Friday File" it's here: Friday File: July 12 Going in Incognito

See  you next time ^..^!

The Friday File: Going Incognito - or How I Escaped the Wardrobe Mistress!

Well Hello MY Darlings!

Welcome to the Friday Files!

If you have stumbled upon this, or just grabbed a bowl of milk, or decided to escape from your HUMAN...you've come to the RIGHT PLACE.

Five minutes to myself: Theatre Life is so DEMANDING!

Rest your PAWS travel into the TARDIS,

(escape, escape...) to the worm hole, rabbit hole, wardrobe or in the Church they call it 'Rood Screen'.

Incognito Strategy

In the Theater the prop department simply calls it "THE SCREEN"! Darlings...don't kid yourself; we know "privacy screens" aren't all that they are cracked up to be. You don't even get time to practice a decent ARIA!!

  
Be aware of the of the "Dreaded Wardrobe Mistress".

I call her the Wicked Wicked Witch:

YOU are under MY SPELL!

Everyone knows the power SHE wields.  Like Betty Davis, an intellect with cunning resources. She WILL  hunt you down like Sherlock Holmes, THINKS before you do!

I even got on the catline to my cousin "Sammy" a master of disguise in his own right (said "I can't compete with her, I'm at loose PAWS")!



Now you would think, with ALL years of training I could out smart her; out scream her, out wit her..or does she know me too well?

Well....life is a bit like this:
 

Does this sound familiar: 

"Human Mummy says, kids leave me alone for a moment, kids say....you aren't paying me enough attention".

MY Secretary says “Diva it’s dinner time, come and get it” Diva mutters in cat whisper...(where is the mute button for for that grating cutter voice).. Is there NO PEACE!?

I'll make myself invisible

Sush: Don't give away the PAWS

The Wardrobe Mistress says: "Diva stop being a Drama Queen! If your costume is tight ...you shouldn't have eaten that plateful of sardines last night…I warned YOU”.   

 Diva replies “Oh leave me alone, I just want to hide”.

Hints for being effective at INCOGNITO:  

1. When trying not to be found out, DON'T STICK your paws BELOW the wooden screen;
2. Make sure you EAT so your stomach doesn't rumble a freight train!
3. Any voluntary body twitching from dreaming..... WILL result as a dead giveaway;
4. Get the prop department to build a drop stairway so you can ESCAPE like Houdini;
5. Use your understudy and bribe him or her as necessary! 
6. Make sure the Wardrobe Mistress isn't reading Houdini before YOU! 
7. Be ONE STEP AHEAD!

                                                       Remember: be one PAW head !

 

A GREAT Diva can outsmart them ALL


Remember to follow me........

If you missed my TRIP TO VIENNA here it is     city-to-city-vienna.html

Special Report: Please be kind to all Animals- A devotion to "DUNDAS"

Please BE KIND to Animals!

Hello MY Darlings!

As I sat looking outside my urban window, I was just lapping some cool water before the summer humidity rolled in.

Across my desk, MY "Secretary" alerted me to read a "Notice of Adoption" regarding "Dundas".   As the story unfolded, I was very moved.  Read on:



 Toronto Downtown Hospital writes:
"Earlier today we got a phone call from a visitor to Toronto who saw a car pull up to the intersection at Dundas and University only to throw a kitten out the car door. She called us and we gave her directions to bring the kitty here. After examination and x-rays, Dr Steede noted that his leg is shattered beyond repair and will need a leg amputation.

While we can't begin to question how someone would do this to a beautiful kitten we are glad that a saint was there to help save his life"


Toronto Downtown Hospital - "Dundas" Kitten.   (LOOK AT THIS CUTE VIDEO, left hand side).

Humans please put the 'humane' back into HUMANE!  I know MY readers will be shocked at the lack of compassion and cruelty to "Dundas" Shame, shame! 

Thankfully, he is in good PAWS now (he must have 'cat angels around him ^..^)!

REMEMBER: Speak UP for US

PLEASE have your humans report ANY cruelty, REMEMBER WE CAN'T SPEAK FOR OURSELVES.......you CAN!

 
I love my team at Toronto Downtown Animal Hospital and MY special "Mum" who makes my world complete with LOVE AND DEVOTION! 

HAPPINESS makes the HEART PURR LOUDER!

Thank you to Toronto Downtown for the inspiration today.......... this special blog is a devotion to "Dundas".  Get well SOON...a lion in the making!  ^..^!

A LION in the MAKING!

 
My DARLINGS, it's now time for my 'CAT NIP'  (oh meant to say.......C  A T.....N A P) 

^..^ !  Remember to visit MY blog page....purrs, face washing allowed ...make yourself at home......

MY humour is FREE.......^..^!


***Get your regular check ups with your Veterinarians**


If you missed my trip to Vienna....here is the link
City to city - Vienna
^..^!

City to City: Vienna

 Hello My DARLINGS!

I've decided to pay a little visit to Vienna myself, the travel bug got me so I decided to leave my human at home! LOL

I bet you thought 'felines' don't have a sweet tooth, well some of us do! I have a sophisticated palate and love to ROUTE (Root) it out.  :^..^:
 M I L K ,  C R E AM and any DELISH!!

Map:  Germany- Vienna

A Konditorei typically offers a wide variety of pastries and is like a little café. In Germany, Austria and Israel it is a very popular custom to go to a Konditorei to have a cake and some coffee or hot chocolate mid-afternoon.

The profession of the Konditor

developed from that of the baker. Once the bakers of medieval times (15th century) mastered the art of baking bread, some started to rarefy the dough with honey, dried fruits and spices. These specialists called themselves Lebküchler,



 Lebküchner or Lebzelter. They founded a guild in 1643 in the area in and around Nürnberg.

Lebkuchner

 {At the same time, the Lebkuchen bakers ran a second trade using wax, a side product of honey: they became chandlers, supplying churches and private households with artistic candles, wax figures and pictures made of wax. They carved wooden molds themselves and used these to pour magnificent pictures made of wax}.

My understudy supplies me with the "real deal"

  A few Konditoreien practised
 the sophisticated art of the chandlers until recent times.

In a her best German accent Diva meows "
^ .. ^ (Whistfully) Guten Tag, Art Madam! Bitte richten Sie mich zu den besten Konditorei in Wien, wo sie haben eine Fülle von Sahne. Danke!


English: 
 ^..^ (Whistfully) Good afternoon, kind Madam! Please direct me to the best pastry shop in Vienna,  where they have an abundance of cream.  Thank you!

 Well, I'm going out to the Vienna Wiener Konzerthaus

With a swirl of my Opera cape I'm on my way..................


If you missed my last post: City to City here is the link city-to-city-connecting-with-friends.html



See you soon MY Darlings......Auf Wiedersehen!

City to City: Connecting with Friends

Hello MY Darlings,

Summer is the purrfect time to get away from it all!

The Beach - Toronto

The excitement fills the air and imagination drifts to cities, places and things far away!

Sir Knight bring home the treats from afar!

A place to dream, and visit old friends!





For those of you have read this far (take time out and watch the video, while I have a bowl of milk):
Thank you to my friend Alexandru for providing this Romanian video
(:Romania, cele mai frumoase imagini)  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zeIGxVnpzo

 

Portsmouth, Southern England

Milk break:  patient window just opened up

My practice is busy, demanding, fulfilling often requiring a PAWS - TIME OUT!!!.


Travelling and visiting friends has always been of great interest to me, the best way to escape!.


You know I don't mince my CAT LANGUAGE.....Humans, feline and canines LISTEN -UP! Always make time to get away from it all!   NO EXCUSES, do it now! 

Solitude:   Morffa Niffin - Wales

East Anglia: Minsmere

Diva's YOU need to take their own advise. So DO I.

"PAWS" FOR CREATIVE THOUGHT!

 Planning begins on my favorite :"PAWS for ADVICE notebook.









Every writer needs several of those, plenty of PAWS FOR THOUGHT:

In this blog I invite humans, felines and canines to tell me about your favorite city, and share your reflections in a sentence

  1.Grab your THINKING CAPS, get your notebooks out and PAWS FOR thought,


 and WRITE!

                 2.Include your City  and why it is special to YOU, in the COMMENT SECTION of this blog page.  A round of "A PLAWS" goes to YOU.

                 3. Share the blog with your friend and connect!

This DIVA - got it right!

Other related blogs on Summer!  http://divapaws4advice.blogspot.ca/2013/06/summer-days-are-purfect-for-sharing.html

Happy travelling and connecting, see you next time!!


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Summer Days are PURFECT for sharing!

Hello My Darlings!

The birds are are chirping with much happiness, nattering away as I write from my quiet abode. The urban city, trudging along to the hum of traffic, human pedestrians going here and there...pondering as I am about "Summer time" less than a week away! Meoooooooooooooooooow!  Are you ready, I am!

My human, loves to hum along with this retro music..da, da, da, ta, ta, tada'.

Start those paws and toes tapping:

For all those Baby Boomers.....by Mongo Jerry"In the Summertime"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvUQcnfwU

Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong - from Cole Porters "Summertime"
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdueU1NnbiU.

Well, I'm making my 'wish list' to give to my servant (LOL):

• A trip to the beach
• A ride with Tuxedo cat
• Catch some Salmon!
• Sleep......

Did you know?

Salmon are fish that belong to the family of Salmonidae (biologists classify types of organisms according to similar characteristics: the term “families” encompasses the more commonly used terms “genus” and “species.” Within the Salmonidae family are the genus Salmo, which contains Atlantic salmon, and the genus Oncorhynchus, which contains Pacific salmon released into the Great Lakes, trout, and char. A common characteristic of salmonids is the presence of an adipose fin just in front of the tail on the dorsal (top) side. In general, these are all bony fish that are caught commercially from the wild, a dietary mainstay of aboriginal populations, sought after by recreational anglers, and farmed intensively because of their desirable taste and nutritional characteristics.
 http://www.fda.gov/AdvisoryCommittees/CommitteesMeetingMaterials/VeterinaryMedicineAdvisoryCommittee/ucm222635.htm#Section_1:_Salmon

1. Get someone to catch this!!!  

2.
Eat this! Purfectly prepared just for YOU!

Meowww are you hungry yet.....................                   3.  Ah yes.......PURFECT.....

Train your HUMAN go shopping, or fish for YOU!

 Invite your friends over:

The best part of any gathering, in "Diva" land is:

 bring the kittens, Diva's, and humans!

Marlene - loves this idea!

Best of friends!

Ok  Girl keep brushing.........you might get the ice - cream, purhaps a "99"

Ness Rottner likes this!
Memories of Brighton Peer!
"99" special.  Soft service ice-cream with a Cadbury fake..............

    

 Well my DARLINGS...after all this excitement.......!

See you next time......

other posts:  http://divapaws4advice.blogspot.ca/2013_05_01_archive.html

Let me know what you are doing for your summer!