Monday, January 29, 2024

Awww Monday with the Ts tunnel

We took a little break last week becuz the Mom was trying to make some art of her own and she ran out of creative juice.  And she's a procrastinator (is that like a furminator?) and she has a deadline to write a story about us for a local magazine in the development where we lives in NC. Dad said to just take one of our stories from here. Yeah, I think we could do that.


Teaghan took over MY tunnel! Pbbbt!

I put my nose on it first!

Have a fun Awww Monday efurryone!


 Purrs, 
Tommy and Teaghan XO


Saturday, January 20, 2024

Caturday Art with 2Ts and 3Ts

Our furriends over at Trout Talkin Tabbies (TTT) commented on our last Saturday Art post to use the words "Two total lee awesum catz ona tay bull waitin for a fish dinner" for the prompt in AI. So we tried it for fun and we got all kinds of interestin results as you will see below.

First we uploaded our own reference photo from last Saturday (us sittin on a table on a green table cloth). Then we used prompts starting with the TTT's suggestion and  then changed it to a few different versions to get different results. We also used different effects just to get some artsy feel to some of them. Some cartoon/comic, some pop art, and many others.  There were so many and didn’t save them with the descriptions. 

Here we go:  

First Prompt:   "Two total lee awesum catz ona tay bull waitin for a fish dinner"

This one came up with 3 pictures with bulls resting in a field and one that had one normal looking cat and a cat that had a little of a bull face. haha!  

  1. Nice bulls, no cats

    Cat and cat bull -- mol moo mol moo 😆

Second Prompt:  Two totally awesome cats on a table waiting for a fish dinner

Say what?


We got two awesome cats and 3 fish but they don't look too excited about eating do they?

There was no output with us looking at each other so added the words "looking at each other" for the next prompt -- hoping for an interesting look on our faces.

Third Prompt:   "Two totally awesome cats on a table waiting for a fish dinner and looking at each other".

This was as close as it got for us looking at each other but the thing on the plate looks a little like a deflated balloon, rite? 

What da heck?

Fourth Prompt:  "Two Norwegian forest cats on a table waiting for a fish dinner with room at bottom for text copy."  

I realized that if I wanted to make it an LOL picture or add a caption, I needed room at the bottom. Some times it gave me some space but not all the time. So after all of that and out of a whole lot of photos, we thought this one was pretty cool:


What a trip that was! 

So, Please comment and let us know what you think about the results. Thank you!  You are all awesome :-) and thanks to the Trout Talkin Tabbies for sending us down the rabbit hole :-).

Purrs and loves from "Two total lee awesum catz ona tay bull waitin for a fish dinner".
Tommy and Teaghan

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Friday, January 19, 2024

The Ts in Nature and Camellia day

Today we are joining two blog hops, Feline Friday at Messy Mimi's and Nature Friday at host LLB Gang.

For Nature Friday - the star of the day is the Camellia. 
Since we are fairly new to North Carolina we are in love with the fact that we now have flowers in the Winter.  The landscaping at our house was put in before we moved in and unfortunately we have no idea what any of the varieties are. But we love whatever one this Camellia is. This week will probably the coldest of the year and it has gotten in the 20's F overnight. The blooms are still ok on one of the plants and the other had dropped a few over the last couple of weeks. The front of the house is west-facing so they get a lot of sun and warmth from mid-morning through sunset at this time of year.

Camellia

Two Camellia bushes

The Camellia and a shadow of our lonely not so healthy Quercus - the Willow Oak (at least that's what we think it is.

And to go along with Feline Friday, we have "Tomas (aka Tommy) with a T" observing his nature backyard. We have plenty of pines and another healthy Willow Oak There was a crow out there calling away and he went to see what was going on.

Tommy looking out at his backyard

We'll be updating with more backyard nature photos in the future as we continue to identify what's there and add in more native species to the yard.

Peace out everyone and enjoy the weekend! 

~Brenda and the Ts
XO

Tuesday, January 16, 2024

Happy Tuesday with Teaghan

Happy Tuesday! 

Two photos today from Teaghan.  First, Tommy the gargoyle is trying to be funny thinking he's going to get me from up there. But I can hear him breathing. Hah! Then, the Mom thinks she's funny taking all these pictures of me while I'm sleeping. But seeing me sprawled out showing my tummy in all it's glory makes her happy. And yes, she's allowed to touch the floof. :-)  

Is he still up there?

Teaghan's tummy

 Purrs, Teaghan and Tommy on Tuesday! XO


Saturday, January 13, 2024

Caturday Art and windy weather

Tommy:  "The mom has been messing around with lots of programs to make purrty pictures of us. She says it really is quite overwhelming with so many to choose from but wants to try as many as she can before settling on just a couple. And us? Well, we just like to get up early, eat, play a bit, then sleep. Nothing really exciting has been going on except for the storm a few days ago that the tv weather people talked about for hours and hours and put the fear of God into everyone watching. 

The only thing that changed for us was that we had to stay out of our sun room the whole day while the wind was blowing. And then we got to cozy up on the inside couch like usual while the humans whined and purrayed that the pine trees wouldn't fall on da house and the tornado wouldn't come the few miles inland after it was spotted near Bald Head Island. And now it looks like it's supposed to happen again today with the wicked wind. We should be able to curl up in our usual spot this time though since it's not supposed to be as bad. 

Mom says "If a tree falls in the forest and there's no weatherman to tell you it fell, did it?" Meow.

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Mom Brenda:  Here are the artworks made with generative AI, Adobe Firefly, using my reference photo and the prompt words "Red and white Norwegian forest cat walking through a windy storm" with the effects of "Art, Fantasy, and Impressionism" to create the look.  The results of a few different effects and one with just "photo" were very normal in that AI wouldn't create any windy look until I added the word "storm". It couldn't figure out how to add blowing leaves or trees in the background on the few passes I made. Interesting results. 

I was really amazed how much the cats look so similar to Tommy and Teaghan even on a few I tried without a reference photo of them (as the first one below). Maybe they'll be a good model for NFC art! 

If any of you reading this use Adobe Firefly could you give it a try and see if they come out looking similar? It would be really interesting to see.

Prompt: "Red and white Norwegian forest cat walking through a windy forest"
 and no reference photo with one effect of "photo". It looks just like Tommy!

With the word "storm" added and art, fantasy, and impressionism effects

With the word "storm" added and art, fantasy, and impressionism effects

My take is that it isn't all that easy to get exactly what you are imagining. It's a mix of the correct terms that AI can work with and what effect you are going for. 

This is the reference photo I used in Adobe Firefly for the images above

Thanks all and have a wonderful weekend, windy or not. ;-)

Purrs, Tommy, Teaghan and the Mom Brenda

PS - we are joining the Caturday Art blog hop at AthenaCatGoddess.com



 




Monday, January 08, 2024

Awww Monday with the Ts

 Awww Monday with the Ts.  The holidays were long, it's a new year and it feels so good to turn the page, chill out for a bit, and get our creativity going. We'll keep this short and sweet as we get a flow going for the New Year. :-) Have a gooder! Purrs!


Teaghan - hanging out under the Christmas tree.

Tommy - "Whatchoo looking at, human!"

Purrs and love,

Tommy and Teaghan


Monday, December 25, 2023

Merry Christmas Monday

Merry Christmas from Tommy & Teaghan

Merry Christmas 2023! We waited here all night for Santy Paws to come. Wishing everyone a wonderful day filled with love, hope, joy, peace, and sweet memories for that's what Christmas is all about.  

Love,

Tommy and Teaghan

and Mom Brenda and Daddy Bob

XO

Sunday, December 24, 2023

Merry Christmas Eve and Pawlidays card


Teaghan:  Is that Santy Paws I hear?


Come follow us to The Cat on My Head's Sunday Selfies Blog Hop! 


 Happy Christmas Eve! 

Purrs and love,

Tommy & Teaghan


Wednesday, December 20, 2023

Wordless Wednesday with Tommy

Tommy with a T

 Purrs,

Tommy & Teaghan

Saturday, December 16, 2023

Saturday Caturday Art with The Ts

 Saturday Caturday cat art with Tommy and Teaghan.

I generated these with Adobe Firefly Image 2 and using Impressionism for no. 2 & 3 and a reference photo of Tommy and Teaghan as models. Very interesting results.  Which one do you like best?

No. 1  

No. 2

No. 3


Purrs and loves, Tommy & Teaghan


We are joining Caturday Cat Art come see 
HERE.







Friday, December 15, 2023

Holiday Warmth in the Swick House

Nothing better than some warm snuggles cozying up on the Mom in front of the fireplace. And yes, it does get cooler here in coastal North Carolina.  So we do lots of sleeping and snoozing and get warm on the Mom while we she is watching senseless reality TV on something called Big Brother's Reindeer Games. She says it is entertaining though and gets more of her Christmassy things checked off her fun holiday list. At least we get to all hang out together. Even the Gnomes by the fireplace are having fun. MOL!
Happy days and snuggly nights to you all!



 Purrs and loves,

Tommy and Teaghan


Monday, December 11, 2023

Holiday fun and Aunt Jeanne Visit




 Auntie Jeanne has been visiting us and we have had a great week. That's me, Teaghan, on the table (gasp!), and then sucking up, cuddling up with AJ while watching tv in my usual spot on the couch. Tommy also made sure she knew that she was sleeping on his bed and tried to get in there and sleep with her at night too. As soon as she would leave the room we both would run in there and check out what she was doing, get in her luggage, put our furs back on the covers, etc. 

We will have a busy day putting our furs and stinky back all over the room once she goes home. Thanks for the visit Auntie Jeanne!

Holiday cards will be coming out very soon!

Purrs,

Teaghan and Tommy


Monday, December 04, 2023

Christmas Past with the Ts

The Ts first Christmas back in 2017!  There's always a solution to a potential problem. :-) 
But then maybe not...  Our humans when on vacation for a week that year and our furriend and cat sitter,  Kelly, had to spend a lot of time picking up the ornaments as they flew off the tree in the never ending winter wind in CT. 

Hey! How did that tree get on our deck? Why is that tree all lit up?
Hey Kelly! I think I see an ornyment rolling around out there! Meow :-)


I see shiny things, meomy! 

I'm going to find another way around to go climb that tree.

Thank you Kelly for all the care you took with us. We miss our time together with you! Hugs and kisses. 

 Purrs, and holiday season love,

Tommy & Teaghan

Friday, December 01, 2023

The Ts and a Dr. Elsey's cat litter question




 Hi efurrybuddy!  Teaghan and I were just talking this morning about things and we have a question for y'all. Food Dad Bob uses Dr. Elsey's Ultra cat litter in our kitty box. He has used the same kind for almost all our lives. Now all the sudden our kitty litter is a little shall we say "chunkier" than normal and not so tender on our feet. It's still dust free but each piece is a lot bigger than it used to be. Not that it was ever soft exactly but it's definitely different. 

Do any of you out there in the blogosphere use Dr. Elsey's Ultra cat litter and have you noticed a change in it? And if you use some other kind that is dust free let us know about that too.

Thanks for chiming in!

Purrs, 

Tommy and Teaghan and the pawrents


Tuesday, November 28, 2023

Happy Tuesday LOL caption needed

Teaghan and Food Daddy


For today's Happy Tuesday blog hop, here's a photo of Teaghan "helping" her Daddy.  Comment on your LOL caption of this for a good laugh today. 😊 
Bob is off to have some dental work done today and he would appreciate the LOLs for some healing laughter. :-) 

Purrs, and love,
Teaghan and Tommy




 

Monday, November 27, 2023

Awww Monday Teaghan Beauty

 

Teaghan beauty

We know this is really late today but this was too sweet not to post for an Awww Monday.

Teaghan:  I think this is my new spot. This feels pretty good here. Yoo wanna take my picture? Ok I'll pose for you. :-). I think we need a Christmas tree in here too. Maybe we can do that for the next Awww Monday right? 

Purrs and loves,

Teaghan


 

Thursday, November 23, 2023

Happy Thanksgiving to all

Happy Thanksgiving to all our blogging furriends and family and everyone everywhere. “The more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.” So thank you all for reading our posts all these years and being kind and all around loving people. We are truly blessed to be part of this blogging community of kind souls. Enjoy this day and every day.  

Tommy: When's the turkey gettin' here?

I don't think that's a real turkey. You forget we have good sniffability and that doesn't smell like a birdie to me.

He's right. Don't smell like turkey to me. 

Purrs and Loves, Tommy and Teaghan and Mom Brenda (and the Food Dad)


Sunday, November 19, 2023

Sunday Selfie and introducing Little Teresa Towel

Tommy:  
Hey y'all! It's Sunday Selfie day and we have a new furriend who wants to get in on the action. Meet our new pawpal, Teresa Towel, named after our favorite furriend and neighbor who used to watch us when the humans went on vaycashun.  She gave us this cute look-alike of us to remember her by. 

That's not such a good selfie Teresa, you need to sit up a little higher. Get closer...

Teresa and Rob were furry nice to us and we are going to miss them terribly. Mommy and Food man Daddie are going to miss them and their fur babies, Etta and Kitkat, very much too cuz they are moving away. 

Ok that's better. Now I can give smoochies to little Teresa. 💗

So here is little Teresa jus hanging out with us. Of course I love her best and I let her sit next to me while getting a selfie. Teaghan loves the real Teresa too so she has been giving little Teresa the stink eye when she comes near her. It could also be cuz she is waiting for breakfast #2 and wasn't in the mood for a selfie. 

Hey little Teresa, watcha doin on the floor? Are you waiting to be fed too?

Well anywho, we will bring little Teresa Towel into some of our future posts with some stories and adventures around the house. She will be hanging out on the oven handle until the next time we want to play. 😸😻😺
  
Have a happy sunny Sunday!
Purrs and love, 
Tommy, 
And Teaghan, and little Teresa




 

Wednesday, November 08, 2023

Tuesday, November 07, 2023

Toesies and Nosies

Tuesday's Tommy's Nosies and Toesies 





We were just hanging out this morning and the Mom decided to torture me with the phone thingy and kept touching my toes and taking pictures of me. Leave me alone. Can't yoo see I jus want to sleep? 

Purrs, Tommy