Greetings, Fabulous Felines and Hoomans of Hivelandia and outlying communities!

Well, today is St. Patrick's Day for many of you Hoomans, but it's also the day on which we celebrate MY BIRTHDAY! No, I'm not talking about my "Hive Birthday," but the day I popped into existence in this world!

Yay! A sunny day for my Birthday!

Curator Cat — aka "Shadow" — is 7 years old today!

It may not be 100% accurate and is based on the animal shelter and the vet's "best guess," since wee Shadow and his littermates were already a few days old when they were brought to the animal shelter. However, March 17th has become the official birth date of record!

The Mom-Hooman had the audacity to think that I would actually get "dressed up" for my birthday! I did tolerate her machinations for a short while, but it really wasn't very dignified!

What's nice, however, is that we're having a lovely sunny day, which means ample opportunities to catch some sun! I do love my sunshine!

New Bed Fail...

So the Mom-Hooman came home from her trip to Seattle, and all is well again!

I know she missed me, because she brought me home a new cat bed. Well, the bed was actually intended for Smudge, but she didn't like it, so I was offered it, instead. It was nice and soft, but really too small for me — I am a fairly large cat — so it was unfortunately not a success... oh, well. I'm just glad she's back home safely... I don't really like it when my Hoomans aren't in the same place.

May 2016; one of my earliest kitten pictures!

So now I am going to head for a nearby sunny spot for a nice nap... and hopefully there will be special treats by the time dinnertime rolls around!

Maybe there'll even be cake! Well... at least some nice crispy treats...

Hope your Friday was a good one... see you tomorrow for Caturday!

=^..^=

Love Cats? Get Involved in Hive's Cat Communties!

If you're a cat lover and often/sometimes post pictures or other content that includes your feline friends, why not become an active part of Hive's growing Cat Communities?

These are some of the more active Cat Communities — why not join them ALL? Remember, you can also "cross-post" your cat posts to them!

HiveCats by @curatorcat is a central "gathering place" for cat content on Hive; promoting the use of the #hivecats tag for feline content!

Cat Snaps by @manorvillemike is a place to post pictures of your cats when you don't have a whole lot to say beyond just sharing your cute photos!

Caturday Community by @saboin is a community where we get to celebrate posts relating to Saturday — aka "Caturday" — our own special day!

Cat Photos by @andrarchy is a "mixed use" cat content community; posts can be just photos or longer, as long as the subject is CATS! It has a lot of subscribers but is not very active.

Cats by @captainklaus (and Sissi!) is another "general" cat content community; it's there, but not very active.

Last, but certainly not least, a special shoutout to the Hive Pets Community which has become quite active and typically has quite a bit of cat content!

There are a number of other feline communities listed on Hive, but I am not sharing them for now as they have not had any activity (by their Admins OR users) since the Steem/Hive fork. Updates as they become available!

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