Greetings, Fabulous Felines and Hoomans of Hivelandia and surrounding communities!

Alas, we have ended up running late with the Caturday update — once again — because the Hoomans are very busy with all sorts of things around the house. "Spring Cleaning," they are calling it, but it feels more like "spring chaos" to me!

I help as best I can!

It seems that they are trying to put a lot of things into boxes — which is fine — but I am worried that they are closing the boxes afterwards so they are not accessible to cats.

Don't they realize what an important part of cat life having access to plenty of boxes represents?

Hopefully they will not use all our boxes for storage...

Nala, watching from a safe distance

I know this is a stressful time for the Hoomans, working on their cleaning, and waiting for the Daughter-Hooman's baby to arrive, and preparing for their so-called "taxes" which have to be paid shortly.

They really ought to spread out their calendar a little more, if you ask me... although the Dad-Hooman seems to think they "have no say" in the timing of it all. "March and April is ALWAYS tax time!" the Dad-Hooman says.

Whatever!

Shangri does NOT like the commotion, and spends a lot of time "in hiding."

Meanwhile, the Mom-Hooman finally finished giving Smudge her spring haircut.

It's an extended process we go through every spring because Smudge's winter coat is very thick and tends to get very matted as we move into spring. She's almost like a little sheep, but in the cold conditions of northern Norway where her breed originates it keeps her nice and toasty.

At the moment, she looks like a strange little lion, and asked that we din't share her picture until the trim fills in a bit... so here's an earlier picture of her:

Smudge, last year, a month or so after her spring trim.

Our youngest members of the household are definitely quite comfortable here, but there's little doubt that the must have gotten a pretty rough start to their lives, as they remain quite skittish in certain situations.

For example, when there's a front door delivery, they run and hide faster than you can imagine! Although the adoption papers very little about their history, we sometimes wonder if they were semi-feral barn cats that were brought to the shelter.

Not that it makes us love them any less!

Sister and brother, often close together...

And so, we are almost at the end of the first quarter of 2025! Where does time go?

Haven't really made much process towards reaching our Hive goals, and these have been three difficult months, all in all. All we can do is just accept that progress towards a goal can sometimes only be measured as a tiny trickle.

And it seems like every time there's even a tiny indication of life in the markets, something imeediately happens, and we go right back where we were. Makes me wonder whether January's BTC high of $109,000 was the peak of the bull market, and we're now heading into another three-year slump...

Getting a bit of sun in the Mom-Hooman's office!

I try not to think too much about it, but the Dad-Hooman is a bit of a worry-wart. I hope he'll just relax and sleep it off, much like we cats like to do!

And that's about all for this Caturday update. I hope your Caturday was a good one, and thank you for coming to visit our cat blog! We hope you'll come back and visit again, soon!

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Love Cats? Get Involved in Hive's Cat Communities!

If you're a cat lover and often/sometimes post pictures or other content that includes your feline friends, why not become an active part of Hive's growing Cat Communities?

These are some of the more active Cat Communities — why not join them ALL? Many of the allow you to share your cat posts, even if you started at a different community!

HiveCats by @curatorcat is a central "gathering place" for cat content on Hive; promoting the use of the #hivecats tag for feline content!

Cat Snaps by @manorvillemike is a place to post pictures of your cats when you don't have a whole lot to say beyond just sharing your cute photos!

Caturday by @saboin is a community where we get to celebrate posts relating to Saturday — aka "Caturday" — our own special day!

Cat Photos by @andrarchy is a "mixed use" cat content community; posts can be just photos or longer, as long as the subject is CATS!

Cats by @captainklaus (and Sissi!) is another "general" cat content community.

There are a number of other feline communities listed on Hive, but I am not sharing them for now as they have not had any activity (by their Admins OR users) since the Steem/Hive fork. Updates as they become available!

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