Throwback Caturday: A Siamese Wedding

Way back in the early days of Cat Wisdom 101, all us cat bloggers knew each other. Every Saturday, which I called Cat Saturday before the rest of the internet made it Caturday, we’d blog hop from house to house like neighbors dropping by with a casserole.

We didn’t care about numbers or algorithms. We cared about who was up to what, and whose cat had done something outlandish.

Some posts were serious. Some were pure first-person silliness, written from the cat’s point of view with spelling that would make an English teacher weep. Nobody minded. That was the charm.

I was reminiscing recently about my Siamese soulmate, Merlin with Barb, a blogger friend, and her Siamese, Nellie. Somewhere in the blog-hopping, Merlin and Nellie became a couple. Then came a proposal, and a wedding announcement, right there on Barb’s blog. She no longer blogs there but the memories remain.

What’s remarkable is how fresh and funny that old post still is. I’m sharing it here in full, exactly as Nellie wrote it in 2016, because good cat love deserves a second reading. Ten years later, it still makes me smile.

Sunday, 15 May 2016

Introducing The Wildes

Dear Furrends,

As yous knows, Mes proposed to Merlin Wilde on February 29th this year. Wes both furry old cats and wes furry happy to has discovered our true loves (besides Layla and Barb) before wes passed.

It is with much gladness in my heart that wes did it!!!

Merlin and mes had a furry quiet pawfasting under the trees in his yard.

Only his siblings, my Maid of Honor (Katie Isabella) and our peoples were there. It was all that mes had dreamed of (and more!)

After many kisses, purrs and head butts to all, we went to spend some Merlin and Nellie time on a hot warm beach, where wes could both lay in the hot sand in the sun and bake our bones. The Meowgrittas was wonderful as was the fish dinners.

That evening was the first time wes had shared a bed. Wes layed there all warm and cosy and watched the stars twinkling in the sky and talked about forever afters, dosing in and out.

The next morning, Merlin surprised mes with a FABULISHIOUS 18th birthday cake! Mes has never had such a tasty crab cake with creamed cheese icing! Merlin is so thoughtful!

Dear Furrends, Thanks yous for loving us so furry much. Wes knows yous wishes we had a big wedding with all the pomp and circumstance, but truth be told, wes wanted our special day to be exactly this way…under the trees with family.

This wonderful celebration of our life will carry with us into the here after.

Oh Yes!!! Merlin will be doing free 3 card readings on his blog today to celebrate!

Kisses

Penelope Wilde

PS. To celebrates, Mes and Mommy is making this special post for Mes and Merlin’s special day ,a Comment-a-thon for RAPS.*

We will tally up ay midnight tonight.

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If you want to be reminded what blogging felt like before the numbers game, leave a comment this Caturday. Someone will be thrilled. Maybe even the Angel cats.

Merlin had a regular column of feline wit & wisdom for 5 years called Mondays With Merlin. He often would share insights about tarot Mondays With Merlin and a Twist of Enchanted Tarot and deep thoughts like Lessons on being seen by a Blind Cat

Before we launched Cat Wisdom 101 in 2011, Merlin and his sister Coco blogged at Cat Saturday for 5 years. Those blog posts were the genesis of Cat Wisdom 101.

Sadly they are no longer online but I found some on the Wayback Machine and are so purrfect, I may share some here. Stay tuned.

And just after I posted this I realized oh my goodness I forgot about one of our favorite old holidays, which is today, September 18 or Meow like a pirate day. I have so many silly ones from the archive I’ll share one Meow like a pirate day post here.