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

There is much activity in the house today, as the Hoomans are busy bringing in boxes from the garage and the attic, all in preparation for this thing they call "Christmas."

This is a great hiding spot!

All I know — from years past — is that it involves them planting a fairly large tree in the living room and dangling shiny and sparkly objects on it for me to play with.

For some reason, they don't seem quite as enthusiastic about my participation.

Of course, I must not forget that this is also the season of extra kitty treats and special food! I like Christmas, very much... but I still don't fully understand why the Hoomans get so grumpy about the shiny things they hang on that tree.

Smudge is a little more hesitant... I'm trying to persuade her that all the boxes are safe!

Those are for me, right? Of course they are!

Been struggling a bit to keep up with the Curator Cat blog lately; seems like there are always a lot of happenings, comings and goings here at our place. What's a cat to do?

Well, I just take things one day at a time... after all, that's how they come to us! We may not publish all the time, but next year will be our 5th anniversary... and that's pretty good for a cat blog!

I wish they'd hurry up and get out all the shiny things, for the tree!

Future Thoughts...

Sometimes I wonder what the future might hold for us all. Will we still be blogging on Hive, five years, ten years or more from now. In ten years, I will very much be a "senior citizen cat," at 17 years old!

Or will we all have grown tired of it all?

I expect the Hoomans will introduce new cats to the household, so maybe the tradition will be carried on by a "Curator Cat, Jr.!"

Smudge, studiously ignoring the tree when it first came in...

I do hope this venue continues, and that the blog lives on as a small snapshot into the life of a cat.

In the meantime... I have a Christmas tree to help decorate!

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

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? Remember, you can also "cross-post" your cat posts to them!

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 Community 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! It has a lot of subscribers but is not very active.

Cats by @captainklaus (and Sissi!) is another "general" cat content community; it's there, but not very active.

Last, but certainly not least, a special shoutout to the Hive Pets Community which has become quite active and typically has quite a bit of cat content!

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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