My addictions, "Drop & Chocolate"

A Dutch obsession ;)

We Dutch people are crazy about licorice,
or as we call it "DROP",
with the highest per capita consumption of licorice in the world,
(almost 4 1/2 pounds per person per year)


What makes their penchant a little different is
that we eat both sweet and salty versions of the candy.
Yes, that’s right, I said salty licorice.
We are not alone, people in Northern Germany and
the Nordic countries have a taste for it too.
In germany they call it "Lakritz",
Drop Is addictive ;)



I am addicted to drop, just like my mother.
She eats drop regularly.
Drop is not good for high blood pressure.
That is no problem for me because I have low blood pressure,
so I can eat a lot..... LOL

CHOCOLATE :)

Everyone eats chocolate. (I think)
Chocolate is addictive.
It is delicious, yummieeeeee......

Several types of chocolate can be distinguished.

Pure chocolate,

unsweetened chocolate contains primarily cocoa solids and cocoa butter in varying proportions.

Milk chocolate,

is sweet chocolate that additionally contains milk powder or condensed milk.

White chocolate,

contains cocoa, butter,sugar and milk but no cocoa solids.

I eat chocolate almost every day ;)

I prefer milk chocolate :)

I start the morning with a sandwich with chocolate sprinkles :)

( And two cups of coffee...... LOL )

(Be careful, chocolate is toxic to cats) !!!

Where are you addicted to ???

Tell us.......

I'm dreaming about my Mommy.......

LOVE :)

I love my cat
my cat loves me
This we all agree
When I am alone
He keeps me company

His fur is soft as down
He cuddles next to me
Purrs when he is happy
and loves to play with me
I would be lost without my cat
My cat would be lost without me

This picture from Kareltje is soooo :

~~SERIOUS

~~SILLY

~~STRANGE

I do not know the right word but he looks very WEIRD ;)

We have visitors and Kareltje is a little crazy ;)

Marjolein, my oldest daughter is now graduated from the university.
She has already found a job in Breda (100km from home).
Wednesday May27th she moves, we all help here :)
She has 6 years lived in Maastricht and studied ,
but now starts the real life :P


Marjolein has two budgies (parakeets) :)
And Yes, now stay they with us.
Kareltje he has a lot of stress, and he runs up and down,with a little frustrated look.
He even scanning the cage, how can I come to these birds.
It looks very DELICIOUS, is that my dinner.......LOL

Here are a few nice pictures from Kareltje with his NEW friends :P

Cat's hunting "time for dinner"

Stalk Through undergrowth,
Golden eyes glinting brightly
one light in darkness...

Patience patience patience
But he does have it
He is waiting for hours ...

And maybe there he is
that little little bird
which makes any chance of freedom ;(

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Brit from ~~ Norway ~~ passed me this lovely blogaward :)

Brit is one of my first blogfriends :)

Thank you Brit !!

Hazel from ~~ Thailand ~~ passed me this Interesting blogaward :)

She sad this about my blog :

Even if you're not a cat lover, you'll find Anya's blog a heart-warmer too :-)

So sweeeeeeet, Thanks Hazel !!

(Her little sons are fan of Kareltje his cartoon,

the animated cat on our background)...LOL

What cats do for us ;)

Warm our laps...
Give us someone to talk to...
Help reduce high blood pressure...
Create a "kindred" feeling with other cat people...

Turn common household objects into cat toys...
Make us more aware of birds...
Donate their services as alarm clocks...
Display daring acrobatic feats in front of our eyes...

Contribute to living a longer life...
Make a window sill more beautiful...
Keep mice on the run...
Make us smile...

Inspire Poets and Playwrights...
Teach us how to land on our feet...
Let us indulge our desires to spoil someone...
Make our homes warmer...

Remind us that our life is mysterious...
Share with us the all-is-well purring experience...
Instruct us in the luxurious art of stretching...
Show us how to lick our wounds and go on...

Give us cool cartoon characters...
Make even an old warn couch look beautiful...
Open our hearts...
Give us love...

Today a little fun....Look-a-Like ;)

Garfield;

Everybody knows him, young and old.
A fat, lazy tabby cat, (once described in the comic strip by his owner Jon
as "an orange meatball with stripes")
Who wants nothing more out of life than to eat and sleep.
Has a penchant for consuming lasagna.
He steals HAM, ( Kareltje also ;)
Garfield hates going to the vet.

Kareltje has a lot of comparisons with Garfield.
He is not quite orange, thats all.
I have collected a lot of Garfield stuff, Towels, t'shirts,
mirror, calendars, mugs, toilet bag etc. ......

I'am looking for my mommy, have you seen her ??

Birds ;)

Brilliant

Incredible

Refreshment

Delicious

Specially

I Won ~~ 3 awards ~~ I'am tagged ~~ ^__^

I had won on the blog from Indrani ~ iShare ~
Yeahhhhh.....Yippieeeeeeeeee...


Its a beautiful blog about India.
She let us see everything.
Buildings look like fairy tales.
The wild animals, we see them only in the zoo.
Birds in all sizes and colors.
Flowers that I have never seen :)
It is a country for a holiday, where we only dream of!!
She is an excellent photographer :)

Take a look at her blog !!

I had participated the indentification parade.
You must identify three different species.
She had zoomed in to the various body parts.
I let you see the hardest, The HIPPO

We have received 3 awards last week ;)

Life is Grand award from the Creek Cats

The Proximidade from Luna from Brasil

The interesting blog award from Bleudreamer

We pass this 3 awards on to ALL of our blogreaders,

who come to visit us,because we care about ALL of you!!

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I've been tagged!

I've been tagged by WE LOVE LUNA :)

The rules are simple: Tag and link back to the person who tagged you.

List six (un) important things that make you happy.

Tag six bloggers and let them know they're “it”.

We all feel this blogging community to be one of inclusion and friendship.

Well, my list is;

1. Sitting in my garden and do nothing,watching birds and butterflies :)

2. Working in the garden, its relaxing for me.

3. Play with Kareltje and cuddle.

4. Blogging with my friends, shopping with my girls

5. Traveling and car driving.

6. On vacation.......to the SUN...I need that ;)

Kareltje's list is;

1. Sleep

2. Eat

3. cuddle

4. Cheese and ham (not good for him)

5. hunting on a toy mouse

6. fight with me

These are my tagged bloggers:

Keats The Sunshine Girl

ROSIDAH

Ginger Jasper

Tracey

furrybutts

Luna luzie olli

Kareltje is again the old one.

He eats and drinks normal.

He has lost weight,but that is normal with diarrhea.

He walks and runs happily around again.....

Have all a nice weekend :)

No internet connection :(

Finally we are back :)

We do not know if someone has missed us,

but we had Thursday and Friday (DUTCH TIME) no internet.

No internet no blogging :(

I have wireless internet but yesterday there was no connection, nothing.....

We are all dependent on the Internet provider!!

After many phone calls and a large phone bill,

they can help us..........Yippieeeeeeeee

Friday in the afternoon everything was okay.

We are HAPPY that we are back.... online :)

Wordless Wednesday "Cat Art"

Kareltje feel unwell today :(

A short post today :(
Kareltje feel unwell today !!
He has diarrhea and feel not good.
He is hiding and that is a sign that he want peace.
If someone in my family is not happy, I feel myself not good.
Yesterday I had a nice Mother's Day , and this is the result of the next day.
Karteltje drink no water and would not eat, and that is not good.
But I'm always concerned soon, so I'am ;)
I will give him very good care, I promise !!
I wanted just to tell it .....
A sad CatMom.

May 12th (time 12.45 afternoon )

Kareltje feel a little little better.

He has just eaten,

no cat food but a slice of cooked ham, something I had on my sandwich :)

He had stolen it from my sandwich ( I was on the phone) ..and then running away.

Normally I am angry but now I had to laugh about it.

He always want my food, but today I was pleased that he wanted to eat.

It was a little bit.

He walks a little around and no more diarrhea.

Now he must drink water en eat cat food ;)

Thanks you for your kind words and purrsss.....

May 10th ~ Happy Mother's Day ~

Sunday May 10th is Mother's Day !!
The relationship between a child and a mother,
is the most beautiful one of all the relationships in the world.
The innocence of a child and the purity of a mother is an unparalleled combination.
While a mom loves her child unconditionally and looks after his every need
even before he starts speaking,
a child depends on his mom for everything and loves her the most.
For a child, his mother is his world....

Best friends forever, Mama (Mom)

and me Picking flowers and climbing trees.

A shoulder to cry on, secrets to share

Warm hearts and hands that really care....

We wish all mothers a nice day :)

I let myself be pampered all day by my daughters and of course Kareltje ... LOL

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We have received last week two awards:

The first is from Ailurophile, living in Australia.

He has a beautiful blog "of cats"about all wild cats and about the house cat.

We received the Works of heart blog award :)

THANKS !!

The second award is from Ginger Jasper, living in United Kingdom.

He is our new purrfriend and has a beautiful bolg :)

We received the one lovely blog award :)

THANKS !!

We have so many awards handed out in recent weeks,
so we give this blog awards to all our blog readers :)
Take a award and do something fun with it .......

Have all a nice weekend (@^.^@)

No sense today ;)

There she is again ....
Every day should I pose for the photo camera !!
I do not want to be photographed today :(
I just walk away.....