Sunday, August 15, 2021, 8:03 am — Perkins and Teeny Tuxedo … love dreaming about movies … If they could read, they’d love these books … Even better is the DVD, Lassie: Best of Jeff’s Collie, 1954-1957 … the original tv series, with Tommy Rettig as Jeff … really the BEST … before the cast changed and annoying little Timmy took over …
Category Archives: dogs
Small Wonders – Jeff’s Collie
[from My Photo a Day Adventure blog]
Monday, August 2, 2021, 6:58 pm — A 1955 treasure trove! … Celebrating the original cast of tv’s Lassie … George Cleveland as Gramps … Tommy Rettig as Jeff … and, of course, Lassie! … Plastic playset figures by Robert Maxwell Associates, 1955 … On a TV Guide … July 2, 1955 … Lassie and Tommy Rettig on cover, with Lee Aaker and Rin Tin Tin … more photos on My Photo a Day Adventure blog …
My Wee Scotty Dog
Saturday, June 5, 2021, 9:04 am — Scotty dog … such “alive” eyes! … Since I don’t have a real Scottish terrier, here’s the next best thing … from my movie blog … If I Had a Dog … and … A Movie Road to Fala – FDR’s Scotty Dog …
… photo is also in My Photo a Day Adventure …
Sewing Basket Cat
Tuesday, January 26, 2021, 11:00 am — Perkins … on Grandma Ahola’s sewing basket … a good view of the humming bird feeder attached to the deck window …
… 7 years ago … a prime spot in front of the forced-air heater … and tv … Pristine Frankenstein Cat, Nov. 23, 2013 … until the ductless heating / cooling system was installed, Nov. 2019 …
Peet and Repeet Cat
Sunday, June 28, 2020, 11:20 pm — Teeny Tuxedo … shares the ledge with Russ’s Peet’s Coffee cup carrier … Peet’s, only a few miles away, his favorite morning coffee jaunt … flies back to St. Paul tomorrow after 12:00 pm … last chance for a Peet’s drive-by! …
- Painting above, The Tease, 1901, John William Godward (1861-1922) … ginger / red / orange tabby cat … header of Perk and Teeny’s blog! … purchased, 1994 … see Grecian Orange Tabby Cat, Aug. 27, 2014
Screened In Cat
Monday, June 1, 2020, 11:30 am — Teeny Tuxedo … from garage side door … looking into the kitchen … Scotty dog magnet over the stove …
- 6 years ago … Perkins joins Teeny … Outside Looking In, Sept. 8, 2014
Order in the Court Cat
Wednesday, May 20, 2020, 1:20 am — Teeny Tuxedo … rehearsing her stern Warren William as Perry Mason face … 1930s Warner Bros. movies collection … How about watching the very first? … The Case of the Howling Dog, 1934 …
… or how about the other DVD behind you? … Foxfire, 1955 … Jane Russell, Jeff Chandler … on location in Arizona … hot, hot, hot!
- Jeff Chandler, 1918-1961 … gone too soon … see post (from my movies blog), Smoldering Jeff Chandler Sings!, Dec. 27, 2015
Lean on Me Cats
Tuesday, May 9, 2020, 1:14 pm — Teeny Tuxedo, Perkins …
… 10:57 pm … “Evening, Perk and Teeny … time for walkies!” … Wallace and Gromit talking alarm clock! …
Paper Claiming Cat
Friday, January 10, 2020, 12:47 pm — Teeny Tuxedo … paper! … I MUST claim it! … with a face rub …
… and now …
… a face rub on the corner of the ledge …
Going Undercover Cat
December 26, 2019 … A good blog post is worth repeating … Perkins … almost 5 years ago …
Thursday, April 2, 2015, 5:15 pm — How do cats go undercover? … Watch Perk … (and the Scotty dogs!) …
**This is a favorite Perkins and Teeny Tuxedo post
Kitchen Patrol Cat
Thursday, December 19, 2019, 4:16 am — Perkins … what’s going on here? … uh-oh … rain … leaking from top edge of cabinets … [Update: roof repaired, Dec. 31, no cost, benefit of renting] …
… where are all the cookie jars? …
… found you! … on the other side of the sink …
… glad you’re all ok … time to continue my patrol …
… fridge travel magnets … all present and accounted for! …
Antiques Roadshow Cat
Thursday, December 19, 2019, 4:08 am — Perk’s version of Antiques Roadshow … appraising 1980-ish Trimline TouchTone phone …
… Grandpa Ahola’s coffee cup …
… beveled mirror dresser … retro wind up clock … Glinda, Wizard of Oz ornament … Wallace and Gromit “walkies” talking alarm clock …
High Paper Cat
Thursday, November 7, 2019, 7:59 pm — Teeny Tuxedo … able to find paper … high or low … to sit on … next to a Finnish Marimekko cup …
Look Behind You Cat
Sunday, August 11, 2019, 2:07 pm — Perkins … I know you’re comfy on the Kitty Sill … but you’re missing the swallowtail butterfly on the butterfly bush …
… for fun … the butterfly who lives in the kitchen … perched on the Scotty dog cookie jar … July 9, 2019, 11:52 am …
… cookie jar collection … May 5, 2019, 6:30 pm … from My 365 Photos, May 2019 …
Camera Test Cat
Tuesday, April 9, 2019, 10:19 pm — Perkins … still testing the new Panasonic Lumix FZ300 … iAuto focus … no flash …
Light, Shadows Duck
Thursday, January 3, 2019, 4:22 pm — Rob R. Duck … by lamplight …
Saturday, January 5, 2019, 3:11 pm … and sun shadows …
… retro wind up clock … Scotty dogs … Glinda, Wizard of Oz ornament … Wallace and Gromit “walkies” talking alarm clock … glass cat from Russ (trip to Finland) …
… “Anytime is a good time for a vacation” … wind up travel clock …
- See Rob R. Duck in Duck Tales Cats, Nov. 11, 2018
Booomph Vs. Oomph Cats
Sunday, December 16, 2018, 12:17 pm — Perkins and Teeny Tuxedo … ignoring all the boffo publicity about Brian Donlevy and his movie, The Great McGinty, 1940 … they’re focused on something more important at the bottom of this post … a dog! …
Brian Donlevy, 1901-1972 …
“The GREAT Reviews! Hey OSCAR!” … director, writer Preston Sturges’ first film … “Hey OSCAR!” is right … won Best Writing, Original Screenplay! …
“He’s got SEX APPEAL! … He’s got BOOOMPH! … He’s a Record-Breaker!” …
Tamed by a Redhead … “The screen’s meanest “heavy” is really putty in the hands of the girl he loves! It was the redheaded Mrs. Donlevy who insisted that he accept the leading role in The Great McGinty – the part that made him famous.” … Hollywood, 1941, v. 30, p. 50 …
… the doggone dog … a dachshund … that Perk and Teeny Tuxedo have their eyes on …
The Great McGinty … trailer …
But wait! … In the battle of BOOOMPH vs. OOMPH, who showed up in the ring first? … Ann Sheridan, the Oomph Girl! … 1939! … Read “What the “Oomph” Girl Thinks of Her Title!” … Hollywood, Sept. 1939, p. 19, 50-51 …
- Magazine articles from Media History Digital Library
Kitchen Ledge Cat
Sunday, September 30, 2018, 2:25 pm — Teeny Tuxedo … standing guard on the kitchen ledge … ears alert in all directions …
… on patrol … notice anything familiar about the Grecian lady in the painting? …
Royal Displeasure Cats
Friday, August 24, 2018, 9:15 pm — Teeny Tuxedo and Perkins … We respect Queen Elizabeth … and her love of horses and dogs … but we didn’t see any CATS in the PBS documentary, The Queen’s Favourite Animals, 2017 … Please hand us the tv remote … we’re too distaught to move …
Scotty Reunion Cat
Wednesday, August 8, 2018, 11:59 pm — Perkins … Hey, you Scotty dogs! … wanna come down and play? …
Fisherman and His Dog
[From 2014 … previously “private”]
Thursday, June 12, 2014, 5:30 pm — Rain is pouring down outside … Here’s my Paul Cardew teapot riding out an ocean storm … on the dining table today …
Signed and numbered, 278/5000, by Paul Cardew, 9/2000. Made in England … Purchased May 2003, Spokane, Washington. (Flew there for Outcomes Assessment Conference; presented re TILT with Kitty … Carried it carefully on the plane flight back to PDX.)
Bi-Planes!
Friday, May 18, 2018, 11:38 am — Pearson Field, Vancouver, Washington …
5:28 pm … Exiting I-5 on my way home from work … Snoopy! … the World War I flying ace … zooming through the air in his Sopwith Camel …
Shirley Temple … Bright Eyes, 1934 …
Red Photo Album Cat
Saturday, January 13, 2018, 12:54 pm — Perkins naps … Iceberg Augie, Adventure Bear, supervises scanning of Mom’s red photo album … a Christmas gift from Aunt Ida and Uncle Zack Sakrison, 1936 … Hockinson, WA …
Uncle Robert Ahola feeding Pandy Lamb … Ida and Zack’s two-story house in upper left (northeast) …
Bigboy and Pandy Lamb … north of house (that became garage), looking east …
- See more of Augie’s exploits in Augie Bear’s Eclipse Adventure!
Wee Bit o’ Scotland
Saturday, September 9, 2017, 10:06 am — Highlander Festival and Highland Games … Tam O’Shanter Park … Kelso, Washington … I’m 99% Finnish, but love the skirl o’ the bagpipes … cousin L, 48% Finn, plus Scottish, feels the same …
11:18 am … Men of Worth … folk music … PLUS tours of Scotland and Ireland! …
Donnie Macdonald, Scotland … James Keigher, Ireland …
11:45 am … Fort Vancouver Pipe Band …
A not quite so wee doggie (red arrow) … kilt sliding off to the side … woof! woof! …
What’s this?! … 2001 … Johnny Depp!! … my first Kelso Highland Games …
- See more of Johnny’s adventures in What I Did on My Summer Vacation … or … Way Out West with Johnny Depp!
11 years ago, Sept. 9, 2006 … last time at the Highlander Festival … with Glynnis … Flickr photo album …
Christmas Table Cats and Dogs
Sunday, December 25, 2016, 12:17 pm — Cousin Moka … Christmas centerpiece cat …
Hyvää Joulua! … Merry Christmas, Finnish-style! …
1:09 pm … ADORABLE vintage Scotty dog … he rolls on four red wheels … and squeaks!
Card from Perkins and Teeny Tuxedo … “Person . who . is . not . our . Mom . but . takes . care . of . us . and . is . our . equal.”
Rollo, the vintage Scotty, surveys nine hand-painted feline faces … He’s fearless! …
Rollo meets Kirky … a true Scotty from Kirkintilloch, Scotland … Brought him back from my 1999 home exchange … a month in Kirkintilloch … a month in Durham City, England … with a wee week in between, visiting Korhonen relatives in Mikkeli, Finland …
1:29 pm … Orange tabby Perkins is watching the festivities from the top of the scratching post in the bedroom … blurry Moka stopped by to see how she’s doing … red bag of World’s Best Cat Litter holds up the baby gate …
This year’s new ornament, ordered from the White House Gift Shop … “2013 White House Historical Christmas Ornament, American Elm Tree, Honoring President Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States, 1913–1921, Handmade in the USA” …
The 2013 White House Christmas ornament honors Woodrow Wilson, the twenty-eighth president of the United States. The years of Wilson’s two terms in office, from 1913 to 1921, are defined by the unprecedented devastation of World War I, yet Wilson himself would be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1919, and his life is distinguished by his resolve that the Great War would truly be the war to end all wars. It was President Wilson’s extraordinary quest for a lasting world peace that inspired the design of our ornament.
The centerpiece of the 2013 ornament is an American Elm tree planted by President Wilson on the North Lawn of the White House on December 18, 1913, just before Christmas. This snowy scene is surrounded by a 24-karat gold-plated frame comprised of elm leaves on the innermost circle, a wreath of olive branches in the middle, and holly leaves bordering Wilson’s monogram on the outermost circle. Two peace doves perch upon the olive branches, bearing banners that announce “The White House, Christmas 2013.”
The words inscribed on the reverse side of the ornament were delivered by President Wilson in his War Message to Congress of April 2, 1917: “Peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.” — White House Gift Shop
Perkins and Teeny Tuxedo 