Until We Meet Again My Friends

Happy Trails

by Dale Evans Rogers

Some trails are happy ones,

Others are blue.

It's the way you ride the trail that counts,

Here's a happy one for you.

Happy trails to you,

Until we meet again.

Happy trails to you,

Keep smilin' until then.

Who cares about the clouds when we're together?

Just sing a song, and bring the sunny weather.

Happy trails to you.

Til we meet again.

Paris-The Last Day

Photo by Karl

The partying is done over at the CSI blog. Check out the last day's activities and you will find a mystery, medal, and the ceremony.

Thanks to all that have made the last five days so special. It is always great to see old friends and make new ones along the way. A special thanks to Karl, Momo, Asta, Opus, and Olive for surprising me with this wonderful getaway in Paris. I truly believe that they have out done themselves on this one.

I treasured all that I have met while blogging and hope to stay in touch checking things out with my sister Gracie. You all have been such wonderful friends.

Too much credit has been given to me about the productions of CCSI. Without all of you this award winning show would never have gotten off of the ground. The show is being left in good paws and production for the next show is already in the works.

My final post will be on Monday. Love and peace to all of you.

Retirement Party Day Four-Party At Versailles

Photo by Karl

Just when I thought the gang couldn't outdue themselves on the celebration of the last several days of my retirement party I found out quickly that I was wrong. They all put their furry little heads together and thought that the perfect place for a party would be at Versailles and rented it out for a private party, which all you are invited to attend.

There was dancing, authentic costumes for the dancing, and a Lifetime Achievement Award presented to me in honor of my contributions towards CCSI. So much more to tell you about it would be easier if you join the party over at the CCSI blog and join in on the fun because you are all invited to attend this most wonderful night of coming together as good friends.

Paris Day 3

Photo by Karl

Day three and we are still going strong in Paris, head over to the CCSI headquarters for today's update.

Paris-Day Two

Photo by Momo

The retirement party continues, see two previous posts, head over to the CCSI blog to see all of the details of this surpise trip compliments of Karl, Ruis, Momo, Olive, Asta, and Opus.

A Retirement Party

The day has come that I have mixed feeling about, the time to say good bye but not wanting to. I am stepping down from my position at Little Productions, see yesterday's post. I have been blogging for two years and I treasure each and everyone of you that I got to know while on this journey. I have made many friends and have some friends that are like family, the family friends are the heart of the CCSI series. So it is only fitting that a small gathering was held in the executive boardroom for one last time together. Won't you please join us in my farewell.

l-r: Olive, Gracie, Ruis, myself, photo of dear sweet Roscoe, Opus, Momo, Karl, & Asta

Here we all are at the festivities, bottoms up toasting to my retirement. Oh what fun memories that we all share from our many adventures. What one of us couldn't think up to do the other one could.

After the party we all gathered outside the studio lot where my moving van was packed and waiting. I took this time to present Opus with the key to the studio lot. He will now be Executive Producer and I assured Asta, Karl, Ruis, Momo, & Olive that they would all be in good paws. Gracie looked on as we said our good byes, no I take that back we said until we meet again. We will meet again someday, I know for sure, as I will meet all of you again wether it be here in the blogging world or at the bridge. We will once again all play and have adventures.

Photo by Sassy & Karl

When I left Opus, having the weight and future of the CCSI shows on him, took a walk through the studios and reflected on some of the fun things that we had shared. On the sound stage he felt his brother, Roscoe, presence and feeling the closeness of his brother knew that this was a task he would not take lightly but would take it on. He would continue to oversee the production and make sure that the highest of standards would always be part of each production. The future shows will be seen at: http://littleproductions-ccsi.blogspot.com/

I would like to present to you at this time the first look at the 2009-2010 season of the executives of Little Production, producers of the award winning CCSI: Cat/Canine Crime Scent Investigators.

Thanks so much for stopping by and for two years of your friendships. My final post will be on Monday.

Photo by Karl

ps: I just found out recently, like now, that the gang is taking me to Paris for my retirement celebration. I had told them I wanted to keep things simple but if I had thought about it I should have remembered that none of us know what that word means. Head over to the CCSI blog, the link is above, over the next five days to see what we will be up to. Oh, my final post will not be on Monday.

Thanks you guys love you bunches and bunches

A Message From Moth

Photo by Zoolatry

It is with a heavy heart and sadness that I am letting you all know that Sassy has been MIA since May. She prefered to spend her time outside though we tried to bring her in with the family. Around the time she left our other two cats, Guy and Punkie, disappeared too. About this time there were several tom cats around so we think that they thought things were too croweded her and moved on. Guy at one time was missing for nine months and came back, so I am hopeful that Sas will show up one day.

On several occasions I have spotted a black cat in the area but cannot get a good look. I am hoping that all of them are safe and found a nice farm where they are enjoying their new digs.  There are so many farms out here where they can find food and shelter.

My head tells me one thing but my heart tells me another. I have decided to listen to my heart, it makes things a little easier. She had many adventures during her almost two years of blogging so I have decided to retire Sassy's blog with  a little send off that will be held tomorrow. Please stop by tomorrow and say your farewells. Please don't be too sad just pray that she is safe somewhere.

Moth (Mom Of The House)

Thursday Party

With the surprise birthday party Olive gave Opus winding down I realized that my dear sweet sissie was having a birthday this Thursday. I told Asta that we would spend the day together, just the two of us. I wanted to surprise her with a party and the whole gang so I blind folded her.




We got into the van and took one last fly over the Coliseum before we headed to the surprise destination. All of the gang had to be really quiet so she would not know that they were inside the MFV.

Head over to Asta's to help celebrate her third birthday and see where we ended up. You will never be able to guess the right answer.

The Two B's

Olive is throwing her brother,Opus, a surprise birthday and blogoversary toga party today at the Coliseum in Rome, Italy. Everyone is invited so gather up your friends and head over for more photos and gossip.

Photo by Karl

The whole gang is together again to party and have fun. How great it is to see all!

I made Opus his birthday cake, this was taken as I presented it to him.

The girls having a little quiet time as we found ourselves around the chocolate fountain.

The guys catching up on the happenings of the summer that has gone by.

Head over to Opus before all of the food and cake is gone!

Party Tuesday!

Poster by Karl

Tomorrow Olive will be will be hosting a surprise party for Opus on Tuesday. Two parties will be rolled up into one as it is the celebration of Opus's birthday and his blogoversary. Tell all of your friends to head over there for a fun filled time. See you all there!!

Never Forget

Happy Labor Day

Sassfusious Says

Friends Are Flowers That Never Fade Away

Summer Happenings

With summer in full swing and getting back from my getaway I thought this would be a good time to catch you up on some of the happenings at Little Productions. One of the first things I did was to shake things up a bit by making a couple of changes.

Going over the requirements for the summer internship

Olive, Opus's sister, is the new kid on the block and is trying hard to keep up with the gang. I thought it would be a nice idea to offer her a summer internship working at the studios. This will allow her to learn about the production here from the ground up. Her first assignment was to be our official photographer and take behind the scene photos etc. This is the Emil Summer Internship program started in memory of our friend that we lost a little over a year ago. Emil is certainly missed by all who knew and loved him. We are entrusting Olive with the camera Emil used and hoping she will keep his spirit alive by getting the candid photos that he took. Welcome aboard Olive!

A meeting in the boardroom with Karl & Olive

The new station manager in the news studio.

I also thought that we needed to expand our media. Since we have been so success full with the CCSI shows I decided that we should into the television viewing so I put this plan into action. After acquiring the television station I asked my dear friend Karl, who has done such an outstanding job in production, if he would be our station manager. Karl took all of two seconds before he gladly accepted. Thanks for stepping in, I can hardly wait to see what new and exciting things you will produce. Be on the lookout for fantastic shows brought to you from our television station AFOOFA (All For One One For All)

Karl getting some advice from a pro on the noon news set

One final photo of the day.

This is just the first bit of news. Soon there will be another exciting announcement regarding the future of CCSI. You won't even be able to guess what is next but you can guess if you want to.

SASFUSIOUS SAYS

The Day God Created The Cat

He Didn't Do Another Thing

Except Sit Down

And Smile

What's Up?

I have been away from the blog for awhile and miss all of you so much. All is going good at my place but just took some time off. Thanks for visiting me while I was gone. Even though I wasn't around I have been doing some serious thinking and there are some new happening going on which you all will find out soon.

The Getaway

My dear friends I am checking in from a private island that I found for rent and decided to spend a little time here. You see I found out that I was about to be dumped by moth AGAIN! Well before she could dump me I decided that I would dump her first. Yes, the table has turned, she will be the one left alone and not know when I will head back. Serves her right!

I will miss visiting with all of you but as you can see from the photo there is on electricity here so I didn't bring my computer with me. I might try to put messages in a bottle and let the tide do its work hoping that maybe some of my thoughts will get to you. I will miss all of you so much and want to let you know that I will be thinking of all! Please don't forget me. I will soon return.

Happy Fourth!

I'll Be Back

SassfusiousSays

Sassfucius Says

A Dog Comes When Called.
A Cat Takes A Message
And Gets Back To You Later

A Double Graduation

Momo addressing the graduates

My sister, Momo, that lives in Australia is graduating today along side of her SS at the University of Sydney. The ceremony is taking place today and afterwards there will be a lot of celebrating taking place. You are all welcome to attend the ceremony and parties taking place at Momo's blog.

The Happy Graduates

I along with my family wish Momo and SS the best as they start another chapter in their lives. May all of your hopes and dreams come true.

CONGRATULATIONS!

Mission Accomplished

It took some doing but our mission was topped off with success! After a long search we finally caught up with Karl and Ruis enjoying a second honeymoon trip in Bora Bora, Tahiti. The gang, Opus, Olive, Momo, Asta, and I knew they were planning on getting away for some alone time but you see . . . well it's always been all for one and one for all . . . so we decided to join them. We put in a lot of hours and searched high and low. All of our efforts paid off.

Photo by Karl

Photo by Karl

Here is a wonderful photo taken of all of us enjoying the warm waters while Karl and Ruis look on in disbelief. They did say something about missing us and that is was nice that we were all together again. Head over to Karl and Ruis's place to see more photos.

Yoohoo

Photo by Karl

The gang is on a search to find Karl and Ruis. They have planned a second honeymoon trip and several days ago took off to an undisclosed destination. We have always been a one for all and all for one group and count not resist once searching them out. We haven't a clue where they are but we are persistent. Oh where could they be?

Aftermath Video!!

Photo & Video by Karl

CCSI V: The Old Famous Caper is now a happy memory as is the party that was held at the Byrd Mansion, where the show was filmed. I have said it before and I will say it again, "A picture is worth a thousand words." With this in mind the video is a whole chapter in a best selling book.

Be on the lookout because Little Productions is getting into the television. An announcement will follow in the future. I will give you a little hint: CCSI-AFOOFA.

CAST & CREW PARTY!

Photo by Asta

Asta, Karl, Ruis, Momo, Opus, Ollie, and myself have gathered around in the front of the Byrd Mansion, also known as Westover, in Virginia, where the latest CCSI show just wrapped up another exciting episode. Our tradition is to always have a cast party after a wrap and we just now realized that there was no location reserved for this event. With Memorial Day a lot of the places we would want to use are already booked so now and we need to figure out where to host the party.

Photo by Momo

After sipping on delicious New Zealand wine that Momo brought from home Ollie decided to get some exercise and climbed up on the roof. While she was up there she had the perfect idea on where to have the party! The party would be hosted right at the location of where the show was filmed at. We all agreed that this was the perfect place!

Photo by Karl

The cast joined us in a glass of wine while we waited for the necessary decorations, food, and tables to be delivered so the party could begin.

Photo by Ruis

The cast is eager to help with the preparing of the food, as they are all starving and ready to eat! They have gathered around to be the first in line when the food is ready. Asta has asked Pearl and Titus to keep an eye on things making sure that the party didn't get out of hand. Not that this has happened before....

Photo by Karl

All of a sudden we heard Asta shouting from the garden . . . we all raced over to her and to our surprise we see our loved ones that have gone over the bridge appearing in the fountain! . . . we couldn't believe our eyes . . . how nice to see them here with us again . . . we also took this time to commemorate all the men and women who died while in military service since today is Memorial Day.

Photo by Karl

Later in the day Miles wanted to act out the first ever CCSI corpse scene one more time. Ruis, a most talented director, could not pass up shooting another scene. Ollie and Asta assisted Ruis with the camera work so this spontaneous moment would be forever remembered in film.

Photo by Ruis

Finally the food is cooked and we all gather around to enjoy the finest buffet prepared for today's celebration of a wrap. It is so great to be with great friends, sharing in good food and fun. With full bellies everyone was talking about what I was up to next. I had tried to hire entertainment and make it a surprise for all but nothing in the blogging world can be kept a secret for long. Finally I could let the humans out of the bag and the entertainment could begin. . . . Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, kitties, and doggies, presenting for your entertainment . . . ELVIS!

Photo by Sassy

. . .not one, not two, not three, but four! The Elvis impersonators are ready to take the stage!!

Now it is time to party hardy!!

CCSI V Marathon, Treats, & Gifts!

This week ends with the final show of CCSI V: The Old Famous Caper. I thank all of our viewers that stopped by and appreciate all of your nice comments. Because of the great demand to have the show continue I have decided to make this holiday weekend a CCSI Marathon. Starting Saturday, and Sunday there will be back to back episodes for your viewing pleasure.



There will be free popcorn and soda pop, which I shall be serving to all, available for you to take into the theatre and enjoy while you watch the show.



You are welcome to stay as long as you like. Opus and Ollie will be in the front of the theatre show you to the reserved seats that have been left open for our loyal viewers.

There is one more free item. Before you leave stop by and pick up your gift that Karl has personally selected for this marathon screening. These items are featured in our CCSI Gift Shop along side many other wonderful items that you may actually purchase for your real human if you would like to do so.





Please select one item to take home with you, this will assure that there will be enough for everyone.

Thanks to all for making the CCSI shows the success that they are. Without the hard work of the crew and the viewers there would be no mysteries to be solved. Now sit back and enjoy the show, popcorn, soda pop, and your free gift to take home because the show is just getting started. (See last two posts-May 20 & May 21 for viewing).


Oh, when you are done with watching the show you might want to head over to ML's. place and wish her a happy birthday, her birthday is Saturday. ML is the one that let's us know on the fantastic Cat Blogosphere what is happening each day. I personally wish ML the bestest of birthdays ever!!