Friday 14-07-2017 – TDK Café Honours Bastille Day – Mais Oui!

AV, we are all ok here with this nasty storm. Thankfully it is almost finished with us and people who had been stranded because of deep snow are able to leave now the roads have been graded clear. It is still bitingly cold here though.
Took HRH Shadz to the v-e-t this afternoon as she was still all stuffed up and snotty and all she wanted to do this morning was clamber on to me and cuddle up on my shoulder. It is very difficult to read the paper and drink a cup of tea with a cat glued to your upper body. I had to reheat my tea several times. She flatly refused to be put down so I had to do some jobs with her attached. The vet gave her a long lasting anti-inflammatory and a long acting antibiotic, cleaned her ears and wormed her. She was a total sweeties during the entire process and is now a contented girl cuddled up next to me. I hope she is back up to feeling 100% soon poor old girl.

Bonjour mes amis 🙂

Getting the day going with parade to start of festivities!

Borrowed from Brewtown’s Bastille Days Weekend 2017!

Yes, and I am going…tonight & hopeful Sunday later! 😀
(I luv this fest…one of my yearly faves!)
OK…gotta get back to my desk…later! Have a pawsome day!

purrfect 🙂

TGIF all! … oh MS, I hope HRH gets better soon!

I’m sorry to report, Miss Caddy is missing 🙁 she wasn’t at the door for breakfast this morning, but her bowl in the shed was empty, so I know she ate over night …… I’ve walked around calling her, which she usually comes …….. I’m thinking she might have gotten trapped somewhere, like in someone’s utility or something ….. I’m not in a total panic yet, but if she doesn’t show up by this evening I will be a basket case …… please send prayers and that famous TDK white light ….. thanks!

JK, I hope you’re right …. but it is unusual for her not to come when I call her ……. I’m starting to get nervous ….. I just put up a flyer, and gave my mailman my cell number ….. he walks the neighborhood all day

Oh, AV, I will pray that Miss Caddy comes home before the day is out.It’s awful to go through this. One of my little outside kitties was missing the other day and didn’t shoe up until after midnight. I’m sure it was because someone in the distance had leftover fireworks and was shooting them off all day and night. I know Miss Caddy isn’t missing because of fireworks and I hope with all my heart that she will be home soon. Dell

I love all the kitty pictures today as always of course. The kitty waiting for her manicure is so funny as is the white kitty lying on the bed like a painter’s model. I have grown to love the cat reading the newspaper at the breakfast table. It’s such a lifelike situation with the things he says. Thanks to everyone.

Le Mew? and Le Kitten? Who know the translations were so easy! 😉 “You are a very gorgeous cat”

Bonne journée de la Bastille

I’m glad you’ve survived the storm and that HRH is cuddled next to mum. How are you feeling?

Oh, AV – what a scare but now

I finally got all the kinks out after sleeping in the recliner. The recliner is comfortable enough but not with 3 kits and no way to move. We have rain! Yea-it feels so good and smell wonderful. I taking care of nephews’ cats while he’s gone for the weekend. Not much else going have a good Sabbath KJ and AV.

Cya l8r
PG

In France one never says Bastille Day, but le 14 juillet or la Fête nationale. It commemorates the storming of the Bastille, but also la Fête de la Féderation a year later.

Here is a story on Tunisian briks, and the growing importance of Maghrebi (North African) food as an enrichment of French foodways, from Joan Nathan. North Africans, whether actually or nominally Muslim or Jewish, love these treats, and so do a lot of other Frenchpeople.

http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-life-and-religion/190006/brik-tunisian-treat

I was actually at a wedding like the one described; husband was a Canadian of Polish-Jewish origin, wife a Frenchwoman of Moroccan-Jewish origin. Perhaps the tastiest wedding I’ve ever attended (though some competitors when in Italy).

I’m not Jewish, by the way; I’m what one would call a very lapsed Catholic…

And a devotee of Bastet.

Brik pastry is easily available here.

Le Mew, Le Purr…
After reading yesterday’s thread I am reminded that I literally bumped into Brian Setzer many years ago. We were both admiring the same truck at a car show at Raceway Park in Englishtown, NJ. Super nice guy and cute too!
I hope HRH is back to feeling like herself soon, MS. Stay warm.
Have fun in Brewtown, JK! So Kiki has a new friend! How cool to see the Blue Angels!
Oh gosh, what a sinking feeling to see your first post, AV, and what joy to see your post later announcing that Caddy is home, whew! That famous TDK white light is so powerful, and has proven so over and over through the years.
I’ve had an exhausting couple of days. My job is hard work, but I like it. Yesterday morning I discovered the septic was starting to back up. Of course, hubby is away, but he did call to arrange to have it pumped. Although I was prepared to arrange for coverage at work, the company said no one needed to be home. Guess what. There was a clog, which would have been discovered if I was home to run water while they were there. So last night I had to pay for emergency plumbing services to the tune of a lot of $$$. *sigh*
Funny, I know how to survive in an emergency when there’s no water, but not so much when I can’t access the drainage system!

MS skids sideways into the Cafe and hugs AV. Oh dear what a fright you and Caddy both must have had. It is awful when the cats don’t stick to their usual routine and you are left wondering and calling them fruitlessly. So glad that she is back and I bet she got so many big squishy hugs and kisses.
LOL PG, I have just noticed that yet again we have chosen the same pic, the Happy Cat Dance.
Thank you AV and JJ for your kind wishes for HRH. She should be feeling improved by this evening according to the vet. She is sprawled on the deck lolling this way and that in the sun and soaking up as much heat as possible. Yes the storm has blown away and left the country leaving it’s white calling card in many areas and the cold temperatures that we will have for some time. but it is Winter.
Lagatta what a coincidence that you should mention Mahgreb as it was a question in a daily quiz I do. Where is the Mahgreb? I did happen to know the answer.
JJ, that is annoying when the company assure you no one needs to be home and then it turns out that was not correct and then you have to pay the extra $$$. 👿
This has to be the funniest thing I have seen from Wimbledon
https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/tennis/94765464/wimbledon-fan-pulls-on-a-white-skirt-to-face-a-kim-clijsters-serve