Hi and Happy new year! May you be as happy as a cat with bacon in 2020.

Today's voice recognition mistake is a firm warning: Some old canning instructions are explosive, shooting material into the sky.

(or maybe that’s “volcanic eruptions,” from an educational book I wrote - though I hear canning can be volcanic when it goes wrong!)

Ferrets are great at yoga. Here’s Panda demonstrating “chin to knee with an arm under twist.”

And here’s one of our former ferrets, Petri, with “twisting back leg hug.” Do not try these at home unless you have a spine as flexible as theirs.

Misheard dialog of the day: "I got my monkey's worth of that thing!" How much would a monkey's worth be worth, do you think?

Cats in the News: Midnight Cafeteria feeds Taipei's stray cats – “about 20 neighbors are helping stray cats in addition to their full-time jobs… You can just be one person doing something a little bit at a time, a little bit, and taken all together, you can achieve a lot.”

Sunsets in New Mexico have been lovely lately. Winter isn’t typically as dramatic as late summer/autumn monsoon season, but we’ve had some good clouds.

Review snippet from the cat café: “A heartwarming story that you will not be able to put down. Highly recommend this book and the entire series.” Thanks, Bobbi!

History of the day: Watch Two Kitties Duke It Out in the World’s Oldest Cat 'Video' via Mental Floss

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Books on My Radar:

The Best Friend Rescue: A K9 Handler Romance (Disaster City Search and Rescue Book 11), by Jenna Brandt: "A former FBI K9 handler, his childhood best friend who’s now a state senator, and a series of bombs threatening to tear the state capital apart." It's new, so it has no reviews, but her other books are very well reviewed.

My Best Friend and the Honeymoon Game (Trouble in Love Series Book 2), by Jessie Cal: A friends to lovers romance novella. Childhood friends get married in order to compete on a TV show and win prize money to solve their problems.

THE BEGINNING: An Opposites Attract Western Romance (Cowboys Ranch City Part One), by Ella Cooper: Can an accountant who was forced to launder money find love with a cowboy? Only $0.99 or free in Kindle Unlimited, this is the first part of a longer story.

Broken Reality: Prologue, by Rhiley McCabe: Check out this author free when you sign up for their newsletter. A businessman is flying to Africa when the man who had been sitting next to him disappears – but the flight attendants say he was alone on the flight. "Broken Reality: The Prequel is the introduction to Rhiley McCabe’s exciting new five-part mystery thriller series."

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