Today is Independence Day in the U.S. and Wednesday was Canada Day in Canada, so happy whichever applies to wherever you are!

Today's picture of George of is of him playing with Hecate's tail. I'm pretty sure that it is taking all 3 grown-up cats to even make a dent in his energy. Galen says he's "full of beans" and I'm pretty sure they're coffee beans!


And of course there are books. Today's STS post over at Reading Reality contains a surprising number of Christmas books. Which just seems wrong. Or too early. Or both. But it does mean there are cooler days ahead, because it certainly is beastly hot around here right now!








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The picture over at Reading Reality in today's Stacking the Shelves post is of a rather disgruntled Lucifer who is somewhat patiently allowing George to bat at his tail. It seemed only right and proper that today's picture here should be of another of George's big buddies. So here's Freddie, sound asleep right in front of me. He doesn't like having his picture taken, so sleeping is definitely the best way to get a good shot of the very big baby.


And I also have a few books, including some that I've been waiting for!








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This week's George picture is a bit of a teaching moment. Well, Hecate is teaching George something we'd rather she didn't, as should be obvious from the picture!


What's funny about this picture is that she isn't really interested in our food, although George seems to be. Which is not good for him and is something we're going to try to keep from becoming a habit. It's been a while since we've had a cat who was interested in "people food" so we're out of the habit of worrying about it. Clearly we're going to have to get back INTO that habit.

There's an entirely different - but utterly adorable - picture of George in today's post over at Reading Reality.

And there are LOTS of books. My full stack got embiggened again. And now for our regularly scheduled teasers!








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Let's get the most important thing out of the way first. Here's today's George picture.

There's a different picture over on Reading Reality as part of the STS post over there. Just to encourage you to take a look.



There aren't a lot of new books this week, but a few of the ones I picked up are definitely choice!







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First and foremost, here's today's picture of George, with added Hecate content:


And we have books. Of course we have books. The full stack is over at Reading Reality - unless George has knocked it down - but here are the teasers!







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Just to make things a bit different, here's a picture of two of our other cats. Freddie is the silver tabby in the back, and Lucifer is the magnificent house panther in the front. The picture on today's Stacking the Shelves post over at Reading Reality is of little George, stalking Lucifer's constantly fwapping tail. I think the front end of the Lucifer is the more enchanting view, but George clearly has other ideas!



And of course, we have books. We always have books. Books and cats are two of the bestest things - even if the cats do their level best to get in the way of reading the books! Or perhaps especially because.







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First of all, fair warning that I'll probably keep adding pictures of George until someone tells me to stop. He's adorable and VERY photogenic. Also curious kitten is curious!







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As they say on the interwebs, kitten pic for attention! Meet George.

 

He's a ginger and we already have a Freddie and I'm reading way too much Harry Potter fanfic. So George. He's not the first cat named George I've known, and if the comments we've received are any indication, it's a popular cat name in general.

I also, of course, have another tall stack of books to read while petting George. Or while George is sleeping on me. Or both. The full stack is over at Reading Reality, but here are the teasers!






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