Cats and International Cat Day Celebration August 8th

International Cat Day- August 8th

Hey Everyone!

Grayce here it's that time of year again!

...International Cat Day!!!!  

It's a great time to remember all the serenity we bring to your life.  Or as goes on around here the chaos!

Mom says I've gotten very mean since none of us have flea problems anymore.  Just because I stake a claim to the hallways, the TV room, the bedrooms, the dining room, kitchen, and growl at anyone who tries to trespass. 

Biggles chases me just because I growl at him.  Then I scream and run and hiss. Gets Mom mad.  She can't understand why I do that as he's twice my size and muscular.  

Buddy!

Buddy is still with us and holding his own.  He liked it when it was cooler and he could go out, we could leave the door from the lanai and house open and we could all wander in and out.  Can't do that when it "feels like" 103. UPDATE:  2021 Actually Buddy passed in August of 2020. A grand old cat. He's with all his family friends.

We are holding our own in this pandemic and being in one of the hotspot states makes it even harder.  We hope everyone stays safe and hopeful that this will ease at some point for the whole world.  UPDATE:  2021 Our human Dad passed recently due to breakthrough Covid Delta. The state being number 3 in hot spots, just the sort of record you want to be known for. PLEASE get the vaccine!  Innocents are passing.

Since we're all watching our budgets I wanted to share some of my Grayce Cooks photos.  Maybe they'll cheer you up some.  It's a kindle version.  Put together a print version, but it's so photo-centric it'll be priced way out of whack, so haven't done it.  

  

Want more?

Mysteries and Cats. Reading - A Great Pastime!

Mysteries - Reading - A Great Pastime! 

Healthy, fun!  

Helping my human, sitting on the lap of the book reader is my job, gets me attention, pets, and a warm soft place to sleep. I’m comfy!

So to keep the mind active my human has been re-reading all her mystery books.

• Dorothy Gilman, Mrs. Pollifax, light, sometimes gruesome, but fast reads New Jersey Garden Club CIA agent.

• Heron Carvic’s, Miss Seeton, that oblivious Scotland Yard helper somewhat wordy about town settings and characters, but still light and quick.  Got the originals and a bunch of Hamilton Crane’s versions and Hampton Charles as well.

• Too many Lillian Jackson Braun, The Cat Who’s, repeat of the premise of his fortune in each book tiring and wordy.

• Elizabeth Peters, the Peabody’s and Egypt digs 
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• All Agatha Christie, Poirot and Miss Marple.
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• All Rex Stout, Nero Wolfe.
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• Spattering of Sherlock Holmes, don’t know where they all are.
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• G. K. Chesterton, Father Brown.
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• Ellis Peters, Brother Cadfael.
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• Dorothy Sayers, Lord Peter Wimsey.
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• Marjorie Allingham, Mr. Campion.
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• And other single and straggling authors of mysteries. Aunt Dimity, etc.
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• Chi’s Sweet Home series translated from the original Japanese series, really silly kitten and her adventures, great fun.
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The video of the book series and Chi’s New Address video, The books are truer to the original cartoon than the video Chi’s Sweet Home. But still good fun!

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With the number of stray cats living here, we recognize quite a few of the personalities. Lightens our days. 

Bunches of cookbooks that were never gotten to before.  Not cooking, just reading, lots of “got to try”.

Now for Xmas Father's Day Gift Snafu!! Fixed.

December:  we've reworked this cute booklet to be an all purpose Dad Gift.

We've added pages and quotes and the ability to make it a gift for one's Grand Dad, Uncle, Brother with alternate covers. It's a good DIY project and budget friendly gift for these times.You print the ones you need or all.

We have also put together a Dad's B B Que Cooking with alternate covers for the above relatives. A change from ties or socks. They can be found at the store along with other budget gifts.

 Plenty of room for notes and tweaks and pages to add your /their family favorites.

For an investment of around $7.00 you can fix yourself at least 8 gifts, depending on family size you'll get more for less. These are full 8.5 x 11 sized booklets.  Don't forget to go to the How To at the Annex for ideas on how to personalize our books for your needs. 

July

Today, we discovered that the link was not working..... to the drop box for the free Father's Day booklets.

We apologize for all that inconvenience it may have caused you.

We haven't been as attentive as we could be, as our human Dad was moved to a home due to medical complications.  COVID-19 isn't helping ease our worries.

We have been hoping to relieve our problems with trying to ease your problems with these various gifts. It's been very stressful for all of us.

We're posting the links to the Father's Day journal a short version and a book like version again.  Hopefully this will go better.

While we may be a tad late for Father's Day, we can honor him with a surprise now.

 Go here for the smaller but full page

 8.5 x 11 writing area.

Here is sample page for the for the full page writing journal.......

Here are the Instructions 

 

Sample picture from the booklet, which is 23 pages 2 to 8.5 x 11 page format. Check out the  booklet                                                                                                                      

Give an Uplifting Day

Budget Gift Shop full of Goodies  for the Day!

A variety of bookmarks from Grayce Lynn to help ease stress. These are in color for ease of sharing and Black and white to color in.  There are 12 pages in this bookmark booklet for you to be able to please everyone. PDF format US and A4.            

Get the A4 for $3.20

Get the letter sized for $3.20


Print these on a heavier stock, white or in color to personalize.

Need a quick gift?  We have all of the puzzles, mazes and other PDF files  up and available to gift to yourself or someone else. These are easily emailed or printed and personalized by you to gift. These are NOT EBOOKS, these are printables/consumables meant to be held in a hand to  write on, color on, work on. A PDF Reader is needed.

Gift it! for $3.20

Important information about the HOW TO print and use the products can be found

here. at Grayce's Wisdom Annex. It is an easy 'How To' to follow.

These products are in addition to our regular products on Amazon featuring Marcijona the endangered Red Squirrel and Lithuania, journals, coloring and humor books. Still time to get them for Christmas.

Thank you for visiting and happy shopping and DIYing your gifts. They will mean more to your recipient and are budget friendly.  Use your hidden artistic talents , help the youngsters prepare gifts from the heart.

Keep well and safe while celebrating whichever holiday you do.

Homage to Buddy-A Great Cat's Walk Through His Heaven

 Our Buddy and His Friends!

Buddy has taken his last long walk.  On August 16, 2020, he made a peaceful transition to Cat Heaven.

He was so proud of his homemade bed!

                Just rearranged the stuff and plopped right down on it!

8/16/2020  Buddy has moved on to a higher plane to be with all our other adopted strays.  He quietly passed today.  It’s bittersweet, he had lost so much weight, but was eating, drinking and liking the master bathroom as his rental home.  He was such a gentle giant with all the others and there were a lot over the years.  We’re gathering the photos and will have to scan some in, as we don’t seem to have digital photos of 1 of the cats that he will be reunited with. We just can't find Mittens' photos.

It’s been difficult to not see him, he was such a presence for so long.  The gentle giant of the household.  He was the calm one, the tolerant one, the one who caused no problems, the one who loved all people as well as cats.

He loved presents and boxes

Buddy and Lily

Buddy and Baby

Buddy and Rusty

Buddy and Grayce

    Buddy and Biggles

Roll Call

It fit in our hand, found on a dark Halloween night. A pure black cat on a black night on a blacktop road in the rain.  Our downstairs neighbor kept asking – how is it? And we’d say it’s fine.  By the time he was big enough for us to know what he was, he’d concluded IT was his name. He was part Siamese. The vocal part, 10/31/1992 – 4/4/2014

Corkette (Corky) found us when we moved in, she had cuts and gashes was around 7 months old. A long legged, thin long cat and long tailed--Abyssinian  1/1996 -12/23/2010

Tom T. Hall came with the house as we discovered.  Had no home, showed up 3 times a day for meals, loved walking on a harness around the neighborhood. Had no voice, but could purr.  A large gray and white tux. 1989-90-5/31/2011

Casper pure white used to hiss and we could only pet him when he was eating.  He became a lap cat.  He was our Angel Fund Cat with cancer of the eye.  1998-3/8/2008

Mittens showed up on a cold Thanksgiving, thought she was a kitten, she was small, but turned out to be 2-3 years old.  For 7 years the rest of the cats didn’t know that the sliding screen door could be opened.  Mittens showed them how to get out.  Including Casper, who was blind from cancer by then. She was a black and white. 2001 – 5/14/2011 We know we have photos of her, just not where they are.

Lily Marlaine was about a year or less when she started coming to eat. Someone broke her back and we saw her dragging herself up our driveway to come eat as we got home from work.  Another immediate trip to the vet. The back left her with a limp and difficulty walking and jumping.  Lily then developed a thyroid condition as she got older, you couldn’t pill her.  Compounded medicine rubbed in her ears twice a day was the routine and that was not to her liking.  She was a pretty black and white tux.  7/1/2005-1/2/2016.

That leaves Squeekie as our oldest rescue at 10 and the kittens at 7 now, already!  Biggles/Big G came in Hurricane Hermine, he's grown up here.  He's filled out and since we're rid of fleas now for 2 years, he looks great.

That's our little family over the years. They've been missed each was unique.

Father's Day Free Journal Gift

The following samples take you to the dropbox for you to download the one you want.

Sample large print

Sample booklet 

Stress Busters: MENTAL HEALTH DURING THIS CRISES FREE IDEAS !

JOIN OUR PUSH FOR BETTER MENTAL HEALTH  DURING THIS CRISES! Mom's Day Gifts! Front Liners!

Updates:

The Sample Products Book is here!(All but 2 free)

Buddy is still with us, on new meds, still splatting, smaller and less often, gaining some weight. Hurrah!  Antibiotics and steroids, round whatever at this point. 

However, our human dad in the midst of all this is in a home, rehabbing a muscle spasm that left him unable to walk, Alzheimer's set-back may keep him there, being unaware of the crises in the world complicates the progress. Social distancing not in the vocabulary.

Gifts for you:

Mother's Day for all kids---Free coloring bookmarks with Mother's day messages.

go here!


These are purposely black and white to enable you to print at a lower cost.

Our Other Items: all of the--
 Sports for all word searches, scrambles, Early Japanese Art for coloring or just framing, mazes, Sudoku Hard and Easy, Robots (to help a friend) will be in black and white for this reason. 

We almost have the sample book pages ready, for each of these.  We have included 2-3 samples of each.  

UPDATE 5/7   GOOD NEWS SAMPLE BOOK FINISHED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  

here  is the Sample Book!!  
Note the SAMPLE book is huge, 42 pages.

NOTE NOTE: 

 If you are a front liner, contact us (graycelynnlilyauthor@gmail.com) or via the comments section and we can get you the individual  PDF you want. It is our gift to you. Each book title is about 25-30 pages and they are gender-free and meant to help take stress off your life. Share with co-workers.

A couple of the items have a nominal charge - For Home schoolers/teachers one: the science lesson plans  

two:  (BMOG) ROBOTS to help an unemployed friend from before the pandemic.

The individual books are finished, BUT not uploaded: Contact us for now and we will get them out to you via email as PDFs.  It's a work in progress and we don't have a store. These are an offshoot from our usual Amazon books and we're working on it....
UPDATE:  5/9/20  Forgot to mention some of these books are set for A4, as well as US 8.5 x 11, so they are individualized in some ways for the International Sector, we'll be happy to supply the one you need.

We appreciate your understanding.  Happy Sampling!

  
Stay safe.

Grayce Lynn