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Carnival of the Cats #120

July 9th, 2006 by Kimberly

Welcome to the 120th Carnival of the Cats: Demolition edition.

What, you may ask, does demolition have to do with the Carnival of the Cats? Nothing, really, but I’m sitting here, covered in plaster dust, drinking a diet coke and finishing up the Carnival a little late, because of demolition.

sergei at the zip doorThis weekend, we’re demolishing our 1970’s kitchen to make way for a new kitchen more in keeping with the style of our 1908 house. This demo was planned for a month ago, but as construction schedules are wont to do, the schedule slipped. As a result, I’ve been tearing out cabinets for a few hours, then taking a break to add a few more kitty photos to the Carnival, ripping up sheet vinyl ’til I’m exhausted, then adding a couple more links…

And the McKittens? While they have expressed some interest in visiting the construction site (that’s Sergei looking through the zip-door separating the kitchen from the rest of the house), they’ve mostly taken to the upstairs to nap away these weekend days, much as they always do. Sadly, we haven’t had time to join them. In fact, it’s time for me to get back to my sawzall.

Here are the cats:

D at Musings… presents A Russian Feline Friday!. Musings will be hosting Carnival of the Cats #121. We’ll have to wait ’til next weekend to see what special edition D might have in store for us.

Annette at Cats on the Premises presents Our Porch

Tigger the Terror at Cat-n-Scratch presents Specifics on Moms Cancer Remedies

lucidlupin at Chimmae & Co Cat Chewns presents Cat Sighs Thunderous Skies

Barry Campbell at enrevanche presents Cat in the manger

lhk at Beezer Song presents Kitty Duster

PJ at No Deep Thoughts presents Friday Cat Blogging: Rico at 8 Weeks

Rico Loco at The Mis Adventures of Rico Loco presents A Question of Royalty

Rahel at Elms in the Yard presents Friday Cats

srp at Melange presents Cats Sleep

Ferdinand T. Cat at Conservative Cat presents An Unstable Situation

Debra at Manx Mnews presents My Little Porcupine

Blueberry at Texas Oasis presents Friday Cat Chat - All the Live Long Day

tbirdonawire at T.Bird on a Wire presents Adam and Eve’s Pets

Wes Phillips at Stereophilia: Wes Phillips Blog presents Bagheera’s A Lady and One of Huck’s Best Tricks

meloukhia at this ain’t livin’ presents Friday Cat Blogging

Kimberly at Anchored by Grace presents Blossom High & Low

ACM at Just Between Strangers presents Friday kittens

Stray at daily straying presents Friday Cat Blogging

leucanthemum b at Composite Drawlings presents Friday Catblog: everybody has an opinion

Babeth van Son at House of Chaos presents Rattle, rattle

Russ at TacJammer presents Coming to a Movie Theater Near You

sbpoet at Watermark presents Cat Dancing and Yo, it’s Friday

K T Cat at The Scratching Post presents The Riddle of the Sphinx

whaleshaman at Jelly Pizza presents Where’s Taboo?

Sissy Willis at sisu presents Typical summerish, Daybreak and all that, and On the road again

Amba at Ambivablog presents Cool Cats Under Cars

Emma’s Kat at Kat’s Cat of the Day presents Ping and Funny Face Friday

tinker at The Secret Life of Shoes presents Puma and the Dulcimer

Valerie at Val’s Bien presents Morning Meditation

keewee at keewees corner presents I am lonely

Judith at Two Black Cats and me presents Meet Lizzie - such a sweet new kitten.

Laura Lee Donoho at The Wide Awake Cafe presents A Country Cat Can Survive

Laurence Simont at IFOC presents Is this a kitty butt elephant?

Mira at The Oubliette presents friday catblogging

The Cat at Belly Timber presents Weekend Cat Blogging (with shiny, wiggly things)

Meryl Yourish at Yourish.com presents Lazy Sunday Catblogging

Mog at Mind of Mog presents Naturally and Too much Meowza

Aloysius at Catymology presents Cats sleep anywhere

Jack Cluth at The People’s Republic of Seabrook presents If Boo were a Republican, this would make a great propaganda poster

Michelle at Tiny Bubbles presents Dictionaries are hot!

Martin Lindeskog at EGO presents Morris Sponsored by Bruno Mathson?

John at StrangeRanger presents Guest Cat redux

That’s all for today, folks. If by chance I missed you, please let me know, and I’ll add links later. (There will be demo pics later, too, for the demolition junkies out there. You know who you are.) And don’t forget to visit the Modulator’s Friday Ark each weekend, for lots of cats and other lesser members of the animal kingdom.

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  • 1 Catcall Jul 9, 2006 at 5:05 pm

    Carnival of the Cats #120

    It’s time once again for the Carnival of the Cats, and Music and Cats is tearing up the place to bring you a little renovation action to #120. As for who’s the best of the banner, I’d better tally up…

  • 2 D Jul 9, 2006 at 5:19 pm

    Thanks Kimberly for getting the Carnival up and running so quickly, especially with all the consturction work. Great job!

  • 3 enrevanche Jul 9, 2006 at 5:28 pm

    Carnival of the Cats 120

    Carnival of the Cats #120 is up over at Music and Cats.

  • 4 mrs D Jul 9, 2006 at 6:23 pm

    Yay kitties! Best of luck with the kitchen remodel — take lots of before & after photos!

  • 5 Modulator Jul 9, 2006 at 6:25 pm

    Demolition Cats

    The 120th editon of the Carnival of Cats is up at Music and Cats….

  • 6 K T Cat Jul 9, 2006 at 6:42 pm

    Thanks for doing the carnival this week!

  • 7 Mind of Mog » Too Much Meowza Jul 9, 2006 at 8:46 pm

    […] For more not-Meowza kitty pics, check out the Carnival of the Cats this week, er later today, at Music and Cats. […]

  • 8 Mind of Mog » Naturally Jul 9, 2006 at 8:46 pm

    […] Would have helped if I were more awake when I posted this. Wasn’t quite finished either. Never finished without a link to everyone’s favorite kitty carnival to be held Sunday at Music and Cats. Two of my favorite things all rolled into one beautiful site. […]

  • 9 Sissy Willis Jul 10, 2006 at 3:23 am

    Nice job! Here’s the correct link to my “On the road again”:

    http://sisu.typepad.com/sisu/2006/07/on_the_road_aga.html

  • 10 sisu Jul 10, 2006 at 3:30 am

    Our troops are some very, very, very nice troops

    When we say our cats, we’re talking our own little sweethearts, Tiny (above) and Baby. No question we mean what we say.

  • 11 Aloysius Jul 10, 2006 at 8:20 am

    Such dedication, to get the Carnival rolling despite nasty demolition. Be watchful of your feline friends during construction. I heard tell that one of my predecessors in this house actually ran away from home while her kitchen was being remodeled!

  • 12 Lucidlupin Jul 10, 2006 at 10:25 am

    Thanks for doing this weeks Carnival of the Cats and good luck with the demolition!

  • 13 Blog d’Elisson Jul 14, 2006 at 6:03 am

    FRIDAY ARK #95

    The ninety-fifth edition of the Friday Ark is up at the Modulator. Go play with the animals.
    Don’t forget to visit the Carnival of the Cats while you’re at it. The 120th Carnival is currently being hosted by Kimberly of Music and Cats; the …

  • 14 Watermark Jul 14, 2006 at 2:22 pm

    Friday, again…

    There are Spike Boo; and here’s the Friday roundup: Friday Ark I and the Bird Carnival of the Cats Carnival of the Dogs Circus of the Spineless Weekend Cat Blogging