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All Around Cat

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Friday, December 2, 2022, 2:36 pm — Teeny Tuxedo … the watcher … gets around … from high … the kitchen ledge …

Sunday, December 4, 2022, 2:26 am … to low … in a box on the floor … looking at Perky, posed under a lamp on the floor …

Sunday, December 4, 2022, 2:48 pm … and in between … on duty on the edge of the tub … making sure the freshly washed self-heating thermal mats dry properly …

Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 4:08 pm … Two days later … Perk and Teeny test-nap a newly clean and dry self-heating thermal mat …

Natural Model Cat

1940s, art, cats, Finnish, photographers, travel, , , , , , , , , ,

Tuesday, August 9, 2022, 1:25 pm — Perkins … in front of “you buy ’em, we’ll fly ’em!” … 1942 Defense Bonds Stamps metal poster … purchased at Tillamook Air Museum, 1990s … In background, Navajo riders, Canyon de Chelly, 1904, photo print, Edward S. Curtis … purchased at Canyon de Chelly, Arizona …

… 7:04 pm … change of scenery … black and white Finnish Marimekko Pikkuinen Unikko (little poppies) sheet …

Happy Probiotics Cat

art, cats, curiosity, family memorabilia, Finnish, fun, health, video, , , , ,

Tuesday, July 5, 2022, 9:45 pm — Perkins … time for her probiotics … 1 capsule’s powder mixed with 1/4 teaspoon water in Mom’s Tervetuloa Finnish cup …

… Oral syringe … much easier than pills … Doesn’t look like it, but Perky really likes the powder’s aroma … rubs her face against the syringe every time … Only used the towel once or twice at the beginning … Nutramax Proviable Probiotics & Prebiotics – Digestive Health Supplement …

Video below … Perky meows! … talks about how much she likes the probiotics … She’s ready! …

Morning Focus Cat

art, birds, cats, curiosity, family memorabilia, window, , , , , , ,

Wednesday, June 15, 2022, 8:42 am — Teeny Tuxedo … ready to jump … from window … to bed … focused on her landing spot …

Thursday, June 16, 2022, 8:58 am … the next day … What does she see? … Perkins? … (one of Mom’s loons, hand-carved, in background) … The green fringed Victorian lamp shade was handmade, 1990, when Kevin and I moved to Portland, OR … The now slightly ratty fringe was a cat temptation …

All About Eve Cat

1950s, actresses, art, blogs, cats, fun, movies, travel, tv, , , , , ,

[from My Photo a Day Adventure blog]

Saturday, April 2, 2022, 12:39 am — Teeny Tuxedo … It’s After Midnight Movie Time! … Hey, Teeny … what’ll we watch? … Your tail’s pointing to All About Eve, 1950, Bette Davis … perfect choice! … On demand … on practically perfect Turner Classic Movies … the one channel I HAVE to have … since it first began in 1994 … uncut, commercial-free …
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Teeny and I had the need to rewatch All About Eve … 1950 Best Picture Oscar … Poster on wall, Summertime, 1955, Katharine Hepburn, Rossano Brazzi, directed by David Lean, filmed in Venice, Italy.

March was “31 Days of Oscar” on Turner Classic Movies … every year a different theme … This year, every hour of every day was filled with Oscar-winning films … All About Eve had six 1950 wins … Best Picture … Director AND Writing, Joseph L. Mankiewicz … Supporting Actor, George Sanders … Costume Design … Sound … (and eight more nominations).

Ever so fortunate to have seen Bette Davis (twice) and Katharine Hepburn in person on stage … Two of my favorite actresses … All About Eve, 1950, and Summertime, 1955, are favorite films … Plus the extra fortune of staying a month alone at Bette Davis’s Butternut Cottage, Sugar Hill, New Hampshire, July, 2016.

Chair Traveling Cat

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Friday, March 25, 2022, 10:58 am — Teeny Tuxedo … travels to Monument Valley … on the computer chair … best seat in the house … Behind the Mittens, edge of framed collage, photos from National Geographic … created in a workshop when worked at the WA State Library, Olympia … before started my MLS studies at UW, Seattle, 1985 …
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Silent Film Actress Cat

1920s, actresses, art, cats, Christmas, computer, curiosity, Finnish, mirror, movies, other cats, , , , , ,

Monday, March 7, 2022, 7:49 am — Teeny Tuxedo … learning about silent film actress, Barbara La Marr, 1896-1926 … born in Yakima, Washington!? [we’re in Vancouver, WA] … “In 1923 she secretly had a child.  She “adopted” the little boy to save face … After her death in 1926, he was adopted by good friend ZaSu Pitts [1894-1963] and her husband Tom Gallery … and renamed Don Gallery.” – imdb … ZaSu Pitts, one of my favorite character actresses … Finnish calendar, Maaliskuu / March, upper left …
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… Close-up reflection … Little Tux, 2020, and Little Perk, 2021 … Christmas gifts from Cousin L … spun cotton kittens … by VintagebyCrystal …
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Christmas in March Cat

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Thursday, March 3, 2022, 6:34 am — Perkins … meets Little Perk … the Christmas miracle! … The Priority Mail 1-Day gift that should have arrived Dec. 18, 2021 … ONLY took 75 days … on my doorstep March 1 … What a torturous 65 mile journey it must have had! … from Salem, Oregon to Vancouver, Washington … more photos …
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Little Perk … Special gift from Cousin L … spun cotton orange tabby kitten … who joins Little Tux (arrived Christmas 2020) … both by VintagebyCrystal …

Drip, Drip, Drip Kittens

art, cats, curiosity, fun, horses, kittens, mirror, , , , , , , , , , ,

Wednesday, March 2, 2022 — Perkins, Teeny Tuxedo … hypnotizing fascination of a simple drip of water … curious girls … when they were 6 months old … October 12, 2007 … They’re SO cute! … [First posted in My Photo a Day Adventure] …
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… Perkins reaches out to catch a drop …
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… Hooray, Perky! … You caught one! …
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… Teeny and Perk … switch sides … followed by their cuter than cute mirror reflections …
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Family Bird Art Cat

1950s, art, birds, boxes, cats, family, family memorabilia, scratching, tv, , , , , ,

Thursday, February 24, 2022, 6:07 am — Perkins … after her early morning scratching … red arrow points to someone’s claw … boxes of photos on Mom’s hardrock maple coffee table, Ethan Allen … Framed bird print has been in the family since before our first tv, see below! …
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… Bird print on wall … We’re the TV generation! Debra, me, Marcie, Judy, Laurie …  My birthday party, June 5, 1957. Glenwood house, Vancouver, WA … That could possibly be Mr. Moon … (plus Mom’s bear) … see Our First TV …

Finnish Month Cat

art, blogs, cats, curiosity, family memorabilia, Finland, Finnish, window, , , , , , ,

Monday, January 31, 2022, 1:28 pm — Teeny Tuxedo says … What ARE you doing?” … Just setting up for My Photo a Day Adventure blog post … Goodbye January … the light here is pretty good … a Finnish combination of Marimekko Unikko sheet … Finnish name day calendar (stoic men outside Helsinki train station entrance) … Mom’s Finnish magnets …
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Snow and Blue Bottle

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Tuesday, December 28, 2021, 3:04 pm — Still life on a cold day … snow’s still here … vintage 1995 blue bottle of Arizona Iced Tea … cousin D’s drink … from Hockinson Co-Op … on the way to walking back up the hill to Grandma and Grandpa Ahola’s old farm … Hockinson, Washington … (Grandma’s sewing basket on coffee table) …

Inside close-up … see the blue bottle outside in the snow at My Photo A Day Adventure …

It’s a Bird Day Cat

art, birds, blogs, cats, curiosity, food, outside, window, YT, , , , , ,

Friday, September 10, 2021, 2:40 pm — How chickadees eat sunflower seeds … chestnut-backed chickadee … on sturdy butterfly bush branch …


Teeny Tuxedo … up-close view of the seed munching … Red arrow points to chickadee flying back to the sunflower seed bird feeder on corner of deck (on the right) …
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… Butterfly bush … pruned down to window level two days ago …  from corner of deck, next to sunflower seed bird feeder …

… Another black oil sunflower seed gourmand … male house finch (?) …

… Little Boy Penguin doesn’t care about gourmands or seeds … He’s just excited to return to school … See My Photo a Day Adventure for more “first day photos” before he heads off …

Table Detective Cat

art, boxes, cats, curiosity, family, family memorabilia, Finland, fun, horses, , , , ,

Tuesday, August 31, 2021, 11:49 am — Teeny Tuxedo … so many interesting things on the table … Fell pony sculptures … 1930s Depression glass … glass candle holder from Finland … Uhtua design dishes by Arabia of Finland …
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… Wait! … What’s over there? …
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… a box! … a Scrabble box! … that means Krista and Russ were here …
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… a wonderful chair to rub my chin on … Mom’s Ethan Allen dining set … My table investigation is complete! …
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Gone Fishin’ Penguin

art, birds, blogs, curiosity, fun, outside, trees, , , ,

Thursday, August 19, 2021, 12:31 pm — Getting creative with penguin photos for My Photo a Day Adventure blog … black oil sunflower seed bird feeder …

… 12:38 pm … concerned chestnut-backed chickadee stopped by … “Hey! What’s that penguin doing in my sunflower seeds?!” … Great to take its photo out in the open rather than through a window …

… 12:44 pm … Gone Fishin’ Penguin was ever so patient … this photo was the winner … the day’s prompt was “floral” …

Italian Movie Star Cat

1930s, 1950s, actors, actresses, art, cats, curiosity, fun, mirror, movies, tv, YT, , , , , , ,

Friday, April 30, 2021, 9:57 am — Teeny Tuxedo … thinks she can hide behind the comforter on laundry day …
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… found you! … in front of  Italian movie poster … Katharine Hepburn, Rossano Brazzi … David Lean’s Summertime / Tempo d’estate, 1955 … filmed in Venice … Signorina Teena, sembri una star del cinema! …
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Summertime, 1955, Italian poster

Teeny could take an Italian movie actress lesson from Lucy Ricardo! … I Love Lucy … “Lucy’s Italian Movie” … season 5, 1956 …

Lucy’s Katharine Hepburn “The calla lilies are in bloom again” connection! … Stage Door, 1937 … (Lucille Ball as Judith Canfield) …

On the Other Side Cat

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Thursday, February 25, 2021, 1:09 am — Perkins … what can we see through the space between her paw and tail? …
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… The Tease, 1901, John William Godward (1861-1922) … Ginger / red / orange tabby cat! … the header of Perk and Teeny’s blog! … More about the artist, Grecian Orange Tabby Cat, August 27, 2014 …
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… A closer view of the hen and rooster … Valentine Rooster Cat, Feb. 14, 2021

Valentine Surprise Cat

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Sunday, February 14, 2021, 8:30 am — Teeny Tuxedo … just another snowy day in the neighborhood … over a foot of the white stuff … it’s reached the very top of the large planter out front … (neighbor’s flag) …
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… but, WAIT! … something’s weirdly off-kilter out there! … it’s a pink … it’s a pink …
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… a pink flamingo! … stranger in a strange, snowy land … Happy Valentine’s Day! …

…now back to window snow patrol business …
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See Teeny Tuxedo’s “twin” in the same pose as above, Arty Twin Cat, Feb. 9, 2020