Close Your Eyes and Model

SAM:  Oh, no!  I can't believe Jan is making me model this tank.  Maybe if I close my eyes, it will disappear.  Or maybe I'll disappear.  Wait!  I shouldn't complain.  This is to keep me warm.

BUDDY:  Nope, it won't work, Sam.  Jan is determined we're going to model our new winter coats.  Thank you, Miss Pat, for the nice present.  You know how I am always cold.

SAM:  Yes, thank you, Miss Pat.  I get cold too.  Merci has a long, thick coat and Marcus is young and active, but Buddy and I can use a little help now that we're older.

BUDDY:  Jan said she wishes this covered more of me but there was a big gap in sizes and it appeared the next size up would have been way too big, so ordering this size was her idea.  It's hard to tell until you actually get to try it on.

SAM:  These photos are pencil sketches.  Can you tell my eyes are closed in this?

BUDDY:  We thought we would enter the HDR-ish and sketches in the Caturday Art blog hop, hosted by Athena.

SAM:  And we can't forget the Sepia Saturday blog hop. 

BUDDY:  It's co-hosted by Ruckus the Eskie and Earl's World.

Making An Impression

MARCUS:  I'm becoming popular.  And famous.

CYNDI:  Since when?

MARCUS:  I have a face and ears everyone can love.

RUSTY:  I doubt that.

MARCUS:  Well, on our way home Thursday, a young woman passed us, then stopped to tell Jan, "You have my dog."

SAM:  So what are you doing here?  Jan should have returned you on the spot!  It would have made us all so happy ... I mean, sad.

MARCUS:  But I didn't know the young lady.  She evidently has a dog that looks just like me. Except he's white and his name is Jody. He has this handsome face with big pointy ears.  Big pointy ears are sexy to the ladies, you know.  Like Mr. Spock from Star Trek.

MERCI:  I don't know about that.  I'm a lady and I don't find your ears sexy.  Just tall.

Caturday Art with Athena.

MICAH:  So, if Jan stopped to chat with her, did you show off with another strip tease?  (Marcus Houdini)

MARCUS:  No, I was a perfect angel.  I lay down quietly.  I stood up on my back feet to show her how tall I am, I let her pet me and feed me a treat, and then I impressed the daylights out of her!

PERCY:  *face palm with paw*  Oh, no, what did you do, Marcus?

MARCUS:  There was a fly flitting by, so I leaped, snapped and swallowed.  Just like you taught me to do, Buddy, only I don't miss.  You should have seen the young lady's eyes grow big.  She was impressed.

BUDDY:  I doubt "impressed" is the correct word.  But it sounds as if you did make an impression.

Sepia Saturday with Ruckus the Eskie.

 Be sure to go by and join the blog hops Caturday Art and Sepia Saturday.

 Caturday Art is hosted by Athena.

Sepia Saturday is hosted by Ruckus the Eskie & Earl's World.

Talk Like A Pirate 2015

MERCI:  Well, even with all the reminders - and Jan added it to her calendar! - we still almost missed Meow or Woof Like a Pirate Day.  But the Funny Farmer Furry Buccaneers are ready to sail.

MICAH:  We asked Jan to rework a couple of graphics we've used before.  It was sad to remove Cameron from this one.

SAM:  We've had a lot of fun with this over the years.  I guess every furry dreams of being a pirate.

PERCY:  We have posted this one a couple of times but we can only remember one - possibly two - humans noticing the non-furry.

MARCUS:  We changed the text this year.  First, we ran it through a pirate translator site to make certain our speech is authentic.  We can't afford to be cited for inappropriate speech!

BUDDY:  This is our Caturday Art blog hop picture.  The hop is hosted by Athena. We just loved those circles when we tried a halftone pattern in Photoshop Elements.

CYNDI:  After looking at this picture for a while, the room is starting to move in circles.  I think I'm dizzy.

RUSTY:  And our Sepia Saturday blog hop picture.  The hop is hosted by Ruckus the Eskie & Earl's World.