February brings the ample holiday tourism from hotter, colder and less happier climates as visitors purrtake of our purrpetual bikini weather’s high tempurrature in the low 70’s, under the lush arbors and the puffy Cumulo-Neko clouds in the Blue sky over our NC OBX island and the surrounding waters of Mew Hanover County, nyan!

If you purrfur the much hotter tempurratures, we recommend the soothing soak in our hot spurrings, which have the purrticularly rejuvenative purropurrties, nyan! Fortunately we are blessed with the benevolent magick in the air, land and water that aids in the purropurrgation of the endangered species, whilst warding away the storms, pathogens, pollutions, bigotries, and invasive organisms, nyan!

THis mo0nth also brings the Supurr Pink Moon with the halo occurring amidst the other very rare wonderful evening events such as the atmeowspheric phenomeowna known as Saint Elmeow’s Plasmeowtic Fire caused by the interaction of the Purrseid Meowterite Shower upon the meowgicjal Meowgnetosphere, all trasnpurring amidst the unmewsually puffy Cumulo-Neko Wave Clowder formeowtions above the Mid-Winter Planktonic Biolumeownescent Milky Ocean, nyan!

Furthermore, whilst upon the island this harmeownic convergence has the purrticularly beautiful affect upon the purropurrgating endemic sacred Saint Furancis Satyr Butterflies (Meownympha mieowtchellii furranciscias, which kaleidoscope upon their favorite nectar of the seldom-blooming Himeowlayan Puppy Poppy, the Meowddlemist Red Cameowllia, and the Mewliet Roses that are the purride of our gardens and arboretums, nyan

All of that meowgick in the air land and water has the additional beneficial effects upon the meowneral content of the hot spurrings resulting in the enhanced therapeutic purropurrties the ocean brine for the peak flavor of the Piping Hot Croaker Croquettes, and the amplified romeowntic qualities across the county - which means in about nine months there will be lots more widdle kitties, mew la la, nyan!

The local fishing forecast purrdicts the bumpurr crop of the delicious, mewtritious Snappurrs, Groupurrs, Speckled Trout, Sea Bass, Blue Fish, and Bluefin Tuna, nya! In addition to angling, to catabolize the calories we purrfur to balance the numcious foods and the purrolonged catnaps with athletic purrsuits, nyan.

Such fun and healthy activities include surfing, swimming, sailing, diving, golf, tennis, bad meownton, softball, soccer, field hockey, cycling, skating, hiking, hula, belly dance, hot salsa dance, yoga, kite flying, jujutsu, kyudo, spurrlunking, yarnball lacrosse,beach volleyball, and purrkour (the local feline style of free running, spurringing and climbing), nyan!

It is he Year of the Horse; this month's zodiac signs are Aquarius to Pisces (the tastiest sign); the birthstone is amethyst and the month’s birth flowers tare the violet and purrimrose, nyan!

The gardens here are also abloom with the chrysanthemeowms, gingers, heliconias, anthuriums, hydrangeas, hibiscus, appurricots, azaleas, roses, bromeliads, morning glories, irises, lotuses, foxgloves, snapdragons, pansies, yellow bells and bird of purradise, plus the succulent scuppurrnongs of the vineyards and the local organic fresh purroduce at the Farmeows Meowrket, nyan!

The local boutiques have the purretty fashions of the bikinis, maillots, purreos, sarongs, hijabs, sarees, ao dais, sun dresses, kimonos, yukatas, gi, fundoshi, hakama, happi, shorts, tee shirts, halter tops, lingerie, robes, kilts, purreos, athletic bras, sandals, flip flops, towels, wet suits and leis, nyan!

The backless and halter - neck styles are recommended for the winged folks, and be sure to specify if you purrfur the attire to have the custom tail-ored opening(s), so that it does not ride up on one’s tail, tentacles, wings or fins, nya! If you are visiting from another country, the bra and other garments will be in USA sizes, nyan.

They also have the translucent bikini tops which are sustain-ably mer-made from the bells of naturally-deceased, locally-caught jellyfish in the numerous iridescent colors and cup sizes, mew la la, nyan! After the shopping, dining, catnaps, festivities, sight seeing and playtime, purrhaps y’all might like to see-

the latest additions to Catgirl Island’s Mewseum of Art, nyan!

Arigato, nyan! For those who are new to here, Galleries 1-8 display the images by our purrducer Mike, whilst Guest Art Galleries 1-6 display images by other folks with their purrmissions; and Mike’s collaborations with other artists are throughout the mewseum, nyan! There is no overall chronological order from gallery to gallery, so you will find older and newer pics in each gallery, nyan!

However, on Catgirl Island’s Official Web Site, the most recent pics are on the lowermost row of the cropped widdle “thumbnail” portions of the pics in a gallery, nyan! Some of the images in our mewseum are sexy, and some of them might tastefully depict the artistic nudity, but none are hentai or porn! Furthermore, we should meowntion that none of the content at Catgirl Island is purrmitted to be used for any A.I. purrposes, nyan!

This month, into Guest Gallery Four we have added wonderful new imagery by Matt McAndrews, Jane Parker, Meesha DJ Walker, Sarah Forde and our webmeowster Jamie Robertson, whilst in Gallery Five we have our purrducer Mike Moon’s latest art!

We are delighted to display three more of Matt’s meowgnificent chibi-style mecha pics, nyan! They include two pics of the as the WWII USAF Purrototype McDonnel XF-85 Goblin purrasite bomber and the Convair B-36 Peacemaker which it was drop-launched from; and the WWII Luftwaffe Focke-Wulf Treibflugel VTO concept interceptor, nyan! In these pics, the planes have been refitted & reflagged by the Goblin girls army, nyan!

Nextly we are purroud to purrsent Jane Parker’s meowrvelous fan art of of the Ideon, which is the titular ancient alien mech compurrised of the three combiner mechs in the classic 1989 anime TV series Ideon: Space Runaway, nyan! Then we are ecstatic to exhibit Meesha’s wonderful work in purrogress which is the painting of the Alchemy Mermaid concocting something in her in her mystical, mossy, mushroomy cozy candle-lit cave, nyan!

After that we are elated to unveil three supurrb pics by Jamie, who used the AI to 3D embellish three of his older original 2D illustrations of sisters Chelsea Urania Kate Chattan, Corrine Elizabeth Melepomene Chattan, and Cynthia Marie Angeline Thalia Monroe McRae, along with Sebastian the cat, who are four of the stars of his web comic Clan of the Cats, nyan!

To top off the art, we are happy to have Mike’s pen & ink fan art of Lop, the heroic Jedi bunnygirl of the Star Wars Vision anthology series; his Photoshop & mouse purrofile pic of our announcer Asu-sensei, and the Photoshop & mouse page of the CatYarnBall Run race car drivers & sponsors that he did for Rowerbrazzle #168, nyan!

By the way, Mike, Jeffrey and Matt are meowmbers of the Rowrbrazzle A.P.A., whilst Mike, Rvkh and our web meowster Jamie are meowmbers of the Starry Eyed Artists Collective, nyan! It is also time for--

the February 2026 edition of The Mew, nyan!

The Mew is short for The Catgirl Critics’ Media Mewsings, our local monthly talk show-esque blog in which The Ladies of the Mew and Mike discuss fun stuff and occasionally intermew the special guests, nyan! Please note that The Mew’s purresent home is at http://www.mewsings.catgirlisland.com, but Mewsings purrior to May 2021 are still archived at the old location http://www.mewsings.wordpress.com, nyan!

This month’s Mew is different than mewsual becqause it i the19th annual Mew Awards Purrsentation at the Catgirl Island Purrfoeming Arts Center, wherein the cats and crew of The Mew nominate their favorite fun stuff of 2025, in the cattygories such as the movies, TV shows, radio purrograms, toys, books, purriodicals and so forth, nyan!

We wish to thank—

our friend and web meowster Jamie Robertson who is also the creator of the wonderful web comic Clan of the Cats, founder / web meowster of the FemShep fan site devoted to the female version of the Mass Effect video game’s heroic Commeownder Shepard, and the founder / web meowster of the Rebecca Ferguson Nation fan site to actress Rebecca Ferguson, nyan!