This was a weird week. While trying to collect enough pictures of our cats for the week’s Feline Friday, I was trying actually preoccupied in setting up the distribution of the first round of my Kahala Morning Dogs 2026 calendars.

I’ve been doing these annual dog calendars featuring the canines we meet on our morning walks for more than 20 years. I’m not exactly sure what year I started, but I’m pretty sure it was before 2005.

Every person with a dog in the year’s calendar gets a gift copy. A few of them order additional copies, but I make them available at cost. After all, they generously let us make friends with their dogs, which we enjoy and appreciate. Giving back in the form of photos has been a nice way to express our appreciation. And to recognize what a fine bunch these Kahala morning dogs are, along with the earlier Kaaawa Morning Dogs.

To make it more complicated, there are now more dogs than will fit in a single calendar, so this year there’s a version 2, dubbed simply (More) Kahala Morning Dogs.

I’ve invited the calendar dogs and their people to stop by our house this morning, or Sunday afternoon, to pick up their calendars. A few are traveling and won’t be able to pick up for a couple of weeks, or perhaps until next month.

But in the midst of arranging calendar distribution, I did manage to get enough pictures of the cats to put together a reasonable Friday display.

Oh, have I mentioned that I’ve switched them largely over to Dental Diet cat food, Science Diet TD, on the advice of our favorite vet, Ann Sakamoto? All of our cats had relatively rough starts, and it shows in their mouths. So far this year, no new extractions. But dental issues are still there, and this crunchy TD diet is supposed to help. Luckily, they like this stuff! It will take a while to determine if they like it too much and start gaining weight. We’ll see.

But, in any case, here come the cats!