Poetic Thankful Thursday Blogoverary Bash!

Today is Poetic Thursday hosted by our pals Teddy and Angel Sammy at Two Spoiled Cats

Today's photo prompt is

We're doing another Haiku today since this is a LONG post!

Drive In Theaters

Memories of Days gone by

Do you Remember?

Today is also Brian's Thankful Thursday Blog Hop!

We have a lot to be THANKFUL for because Today is our 10th Blogoversary

That's right....10 years of blogging. Our first blog post was on July 5, 2008. Click HERE to read our very first post!!! Pretty amazing, huh? Great graphics too....NOT! We've come a LONG way from that first post.  We actually blogged every day except for two weeks after our Daddy went to Heaven.  The support of our friends in the Blogosphere has been such a great help to us as we have gone through happy times and sad times.  We love you all!

Our first comment was from Kattonic Cats They don't blog anymore but their Mom is on FB. We hope she stops by today. In honor of our Blogoversary, we're doing a comment-a-thon. Mom will donate $1 for every comment (up to $50) to the Rescue or Shelter of YOUR choice! You can comment until Sunday, July 8 to enter!  Now....let's PARTY!!!

We're going to party all day today!

Please help yourself to a pretty nip toy .....Or a nip Cigar....

Mom stocked the buffet....we have sushi...

A super special Fish cake...

Shrimp....

Ham!!!

Stinky Goodness cocktails.....

Niptinis for the adults..

Tuna juice for the kittens

And a nice bed for those who want to spend the night!  Choose the size you're most comfy in...

Thank you for stopping by!!  We hope to have many more Blogoversaries!

September 11 - Ten years later

We will never forget...

By FAR the day that stands out to most of us in history is 9/11/01. Today, ten years later, we will never forget... where we were that day... what we were doing when we heard... 

Mom and Dad had just returned from a cruise to Alaska.  Dad's brother and a friend were here because they took care of us while Mom and Dad were away.  The TV was on and someone said a plane crashed into the World Trade Center.  Mom immediately called Auntie El who still lived in New Jersey to tell her. Together they all watched the second plane crash into the second tower.  For days after that, Mom says she just remembers silence and numbness. Everyone seemed to whisper, everyone was polite... it was strange. No airplanes in the sky. Constant reminders that life would never be the same again... Even though life eventually got back to normal, even though it was a new normal, America had been changed. We will never forget. 

Where were you when you heard?

Our prayers are with the families who lost loved ones in the Towers, at the Pentagon and in the field in Pennsylvania.