Happy Friday everybody. It’s fill-in day with our two co-hosts Four-Legged Furballs and 15andMeowing. Four sentences with blanks – WE fill in the blanks! Fun? You betcha!
Here are the four sentences we got (two from each co-host) for today. Mom and I BOTH pawticipated – if the words are mine, they’re in GREEN and if they are Mom’s words, they’re in BLUE!
1. A product I would endorse is a cat to human translator – a little portable handheld thing so Mom could know FOR SURE what I need her to know. AND of course for the cat, a little “charm” on the collar which would do the reverse – let us know what our Mom is saying. GRANTED most of us read body language and human eye expressions BUT this would be a cool thing – right?.
2. If I had a boat, I would name it The SS CATatonic.
3. When I had to give a ride in a car to one of my parents was one of the first times I truly felt like a responsible adult.
4. I struggle with change most especially when it relates to the loss of a friend or family member.
Well that was fun as always………………….I look forward to this every week – so does my Mom. I bet you all enjoy reading what everyone says too right? Right!!!
My Mom painted this over 30 years ago in an art class……I think it would make a fine SS CATatonic!
TWO Spoiled Cats 
ss catatonic? that’s a super name for a ship… the radiograms with all our funny ship names would be he hit LOL
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It’s fun to think up names for a boat if we had one…….!!!!
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That beautiful boat would certainly fit the picture of SS CATatonic!
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Thanks Miss Annie!
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You might look into the app Meow Talk, Teddy, which comes (sort of) close to translation of your meows. Mama uses it and papa laughs at the translations, but often they are correct and your mama can change them to be closer to what you are meowing. It’s great fun, that’s for sure. Mama loves it because it DOES hit the mark every now and then. So frustrating to have anthros understand us, you are right!
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Well my Mom and Dad don’t have fancy phones – just flip phones so no apps BUT Mom seems to be pretty good at figuring out what I’m saying between my squeaks, eyes, and poking her with my paw she seems to “get” what I want pretty well. Dad, however, is clueless!!! HAHAHAHA That app sounds like fun though!
Hugs, Teddy
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That is a gorgeous painting! I love the serenity/sereneness of boats and have a lot of pictures and paintings of them in my home. I used to go to the harbour when I lived on the east Coast and watch all the comings and goings of the various ships, both large and small.
You are right about the translator Teddy,…us pups could use that kind of thing, too. Esp I, Dalton, cause I need to learn that not all men are evil…petcretary gets so vexed with me when I bark with vengeance at my pawppy…I don’t know why I do that, cause he is kind to me and even feeds me and gives me my treats.
Is so amazing all the various responsibilities we take on when we are ‘grown up’!
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Mom says thanks for the comments on her painting – it’s one of the first ones she did in class years ago. I think that translator thingie would be mighty handy!!!!
Hugs, Teddy
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That is a beautiful painting. A cat/human translator would be fun.
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Loulou says there is such a thing! We don’t have those kind of phones that use apps so we’ll never know!
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A translator would be good at times!
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Sure would – !!!
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Teddy, Mom, LOVE the painting you did. I do drawing, or my mom does…a few watercolors too.
I couldn;t think of anything for the fill-ins this time. Usually I do. I certainly agree with your Mom’s answer to #4. And I would LOVE that translator thingy! I wish for mom and me bith that we had one. Although we do pretty well…
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We can make ourselves and our needs pretty well known without a translator right Katie? That LOOK we give or the gentle touch with a paw…..says the same thing as words! Thanks for the compliment on Mom’s painting………Mom doesn’t do painting or drawing anymore but DID save some of her work that she never sold and it’s in “our” room where Mom and I hang out.
Big Hugs, Teddy
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Teddy, I love your Mom’s paintings. This painting really calls to me. Wishing you and your Mom and Dad a wonderful weekend! Looking forward to bacon post tomorrow!
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I love that painting too – and not just because Mom painted it – it’s just got the “right” sky and waves and the boat looks lonely like it would love someone to get aboard and sail……that would be ME!
Hugs, Teddy
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Your Mom’s painting is pawsome and so are your answers!!
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THANK YOU!!!!!!!! You’re too kind!
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Thank you both for participating in the fill-ins. I enjoyed all your answers. I like your name for a boat and that would be a perfect one. Your mom is so talented, that painting is beautiful. And please get working on that invention, I would buy one. XO
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Loulou says there’s an app that sort of does it – we don’t have a smarty-pants phone so know nothing about apps! Thanks for the compliments on Mom’s old painting. I like it to but I might be a little bit prejudiced!
Hugs, Teddy
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Love x 100 #1 and 2. Purrfect name for a ship too.
Great fill ins
Hugs Cecilia
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Thanks Miss “C”! 🙂
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Oh my gosh, Teddy. What a GREAT idea for number one. That would be the invention of the decade!
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It would! I could retire from blogging and be a millionaire ginger!
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wavez two ewe ted o natorz…. hope yur week waz awesum N yur week oh end
will bee two.. may bee ewe N dad can due sum fishin on SUNday🐠. pleez ta tell
yur mom thT her painting iz like sew total lee awesum….we givez it 984 pawz Up
timez 984. way kewl ‼️😺❤️
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Guys thanks for the compliments on Mom’s painting – that is an OLDIE but she saved it because it was one of her first ever paintings. We hope that you have a COOL weekend – you are some of the coolest cats around so you ought to be comfy! And I’m talking EVERY day!
Hugs, Ted O Nator
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I struggle with change also. Pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters make it tough to fly because they are heavy, Hundred dollar bills are easy.
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I bet they are……they make very UPSCALE cage liners too!
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Nice fill-ins…and that artwork is A-M-A-Z-I-N-G! Wow, you are quite the artist!
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You are WAY WAY too kind about the painting. It was a VERY early painting for me and the perspective is off but happily most people don’t notice it – except I do and it drives me nuts!
HAHA
Hugs, Pam
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Teddy, the mom says she wishes she understood cat speak better so a translator would be purrfect! ~Ernie
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Someone will invent that one day Ernie I bet!
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That’s a lovely painting.
Yes, i want that translator, too, except when two cats are fighting. Such language as they use, i don’t want to know the exact meaning!
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Thanks for the compliment on Mom’s painting – and we agree about bad language between cats – humans hear enough rude talk these days, they don’t need to hear US with our own nasty language when we’re in a fighting mood!
Hugs, Teddy
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Wow – that is a pretty neat painting of the SSSS Catatonic.
What you said about being a responsible ad
ult reminded me of something Erma Bombeck once wrote about “When Did the Mother Become The Child.” It’s the first time you slam the brakes on and throw your arm out to keep your Mom from hitting the dashboard. (Of course you have to be old enough to remember when this was the thing to do before seatbelts )
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My Mom TOTALLY remembers the old “Mom’s arm seatbelt” thing. LOL
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Teddy, that sounds like a great invention. Try as hard as we might, the peeps don’t always seem to get it quite right. We hope someone makes one of those soon.
Happy weekend.
Woos – Lightning, Misty, and Timber
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It would sure come in handy (both ways!).
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Those were really good answers and that painting is so pretty.
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thanks Brian!
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I like your idea Teddy! Your Mom is very talented, beautiful painting.
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Mom says thank you for the kind compliment on her very old boat painting!
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Your mom is an excellent painter
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Mom says thank you!
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Great answers, and I agree: that little kitty/human translator would be a wonderful invention. Love your Mom’s painting of the boat!
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I’ve heard that there already is some kind of app that “sort of” translate kitty talk but we don’t have smarty-pants phones so we don’t know about apps!! Glad you like Mom’s VERY old painting.
Hugs, Teddy
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Love the name for the boat, and Mom Pam’s painting is gorgeous. She is truly multi-talented. That translator device would be purrfect! XOCK, angel Lily Olivia, angel Mauricio, Misty May, angel Giulietta, angel Fiona, Astrid, Lisbeth, Calista Jo, Cooper Murphy, Sawyer & Kizmet
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Glad you like Mom’s old painting – perspective is off but she does love it and that’s why she never sold it. Yeah the translator would be nice wouldn’t it!!
Hugs, Teddy
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SS Catatonic! So clever. And we LOVE the painting. Very dramatic.
Love and licks,
Cupcake
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Mom was new at oil painting and she seemed to do a lot of “dramatic” paintings back then…..that one has so many colors it’s almost blinding! HAHA
Hugs, teddy
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Mee-yow WOW Miss Pam! You rite bookss! An you allso paint?? Yore so amazin!
That paintin iss furabuluss…Teddy wee LOVE yore name fore a boat…..
S.S. CAT-otonick!!!!!
An mee needss a Hu’man to Cat translatur…sumtimess mee just wunderss what shee iss tryin to tell mee!
***purrss*** BellaDharma an ((hugss)) BellaSita Mum
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Writing and painting are parts of my past and while I’m proud of all of that, I’m much happier now that I’m just taking it easy and enjoying being retired!
Hugs, Pam
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