August 8, 2014: Happy Friday! We made it through another week. Today is the first day of Kool-Aid Days, a festival going on all weekend in Hastings, Nebraska. Oh, yeah.

Today is also Worldwide Art Day, which is always the second Friday of August. It’s meant to be a day for you to paint a picture, write a story, compose a poem, play a song, or participate in any other kind of art of your choice. Celebrate creativity! And what better way than to paint a picture of a cat for International Cat Day? I may complain that there are a lot of holidays dedicated to certain things, but I’ll take as many cat-related days as I can. And I bet my cats will appreciate this one, too.