Thursday, December 15, 2022, 11:48 am — Perkins … contrasting faces … grumpy … on Mom’s wingback chair … Grandma’s Pylkki’s map of Finland …
… 11:56 am … curious … from other side of chair … looking north at kitchen window … Mom’s china cabinets …
… 7 years ago! … same spot … Morning Chair Cat, June 4, 2015 …
Wednesday, November 16, 2022, 3:19 pm — Mid-November afternoon sun catches Rob R. Duck and Li’l Penguin … in her nifty yellow raincoat … in front of Grandma Ahola’s sewing basket … See them out on the deck between rain showers, on My Photo a Day Adventure blog, October 21, 2022 – Celebrate! …
Tuesday, January 4, 2022, 11:27 am — Perkins … multicultural cat … Finland and Sweden … newly arrived DVD set … Ingrid Bergman’s Swedish Years … she’s star of the month on Turner Classic Movies … The green and red are part of a table runner I wove on a loom at my cousin’s shop … Mikkeli, Finland … 1999 … a week’s visit between home exchanges in Kirkintilloch, Scotland and Durham, England … (Mom’s wingback chair) …
Wednesday, December 22, 2021, 1:04 am — Perkins, Teeny Tuxedo … Mom’s wingback chair … Teeny’s trademark sleeping position … stretched leg, claw anchor …
… 1:10 am … Teeny hopped from chair to table … time for after-midnight table patrol … white bag from Feline Medical Clinic passed inspection …
… Unopened BinaxNow Covid-19 Antigen Self Test for Infection Detection … not as interesting … Russ brought back an extra from Walgreen’s before his flight back to Minneapolis, Dec. 15 … tested before he left, 1:47 pm flight …
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 …
Monday, July 19, 2021, 12:40 am — Perkins, Teeny Tuxedo … show their good manners … waiting patiently while the other drinks water …
… 4:47 pm … sharing the glider chair for a catnap …
Friday, June 4, 2021, 4:59 pm — Teeny Tuxedo … Looks interesting, but there’s nothing to eat! … One Day at a Time, 1975-1984, complete series … an early birthday present …
… “The misadventures of a divorced mother, her family, and their building superintendent in Indianapolis.” … Bonnie Franklin, Valerie Bertinelli, Pat Harrington Jr., Mackenzie Phillips
Tuesday, April 13, 2021, 9:18 am — Perkins … help! … I wanna watch this DVD of The Office, season 9 … but which button to push? … too many gizmos!
… 11:30 am … serenity at last … sometimes you just gotta get away from all that technology …
Sunday, April 11, 2021, 10:33 am — Perkins, Teeny Tuxedo … a warm morning snooze … Teeny’s front paw keeps the window standing straight …
… 10:43 pm … Perky welcomes the newest DVD set … all the way from the UK! … Nanny, complete series 1 to 3, 1981-1983, BBC, Wendy Craig …
Wednesday, January 13, 2021, 3:12 pm — Lawrence of Arabia, 1962 … winter afternoon sun, shadows …
… reflected in one of Mom’s 4 china cabinets …
Thursday, December 24, 2020, 11:24 pm — Perkins, Teeny Tuxedo … Christmas Eve … visions of BOXES dance in their heads … Teeny’s front claws keep them anchored …
Friday, Dec. 25, 5:10 pm … how’d they do that?? … Perk and Teeny strike the same pose in their simply perfect Christmas gift box … which had DVDs borrowed by Russ, plus more …
Sunday, July 12, 2020, 12:55 pm — Teeny Tuxedo … dreaming about the rabbit she saw …
… yesterday evening … Saturday, July 11, 8:59 pm … through the bedroom window screen …
… or MAYBE she was dreaming about … Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd … Wabbit Twouble, 1941 … (from Likely Looney, Mostly Merrie, Aug. 2014 … GWEAT blog by an “amateur reviewer watching every Warner Bros. cartoon”) …
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!
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 …
Wednesday, December 11, 2019, 10:51 am — Teeny Tuxedo, Perkins … investigate the new Finnish DVD from ebay … Joulutarina / Christmas Story, 2007 … how a little Finnish boy becomes Santa Claus … streaming on Amazon Prime, but dubbed in English (no!! … HAD to get the original in Finnish) … grateful for the region-free DVD player purchased a year ago …
Friday, November 29, 2019, 2:54 pm — Teeny Tuxedo … ready to go into her weedle-waddle dance …
… 5 years ago … Animated gif evidence of Teen doing her “weedle-waddle” … She does this only in front of the dvd recorders and blu-ray players at tail height in the bedroom and livingroom … Animated Cat, Oct. 14, 2014 …
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Saturday, November 9, 2019, 11:21 pm — Perkins … “Welcome to Scotland … Kirkie Express” … Glasgow Airport … July 1999 home exchange, Kirkintilloch, Scotland … a week in Finland visiting relatives … August home exchange, Durham City, England …
Tuesday, November 5, 2019, 5:18 pm — Teeny Tuxedo … one of Mom’s four china cabinets …
…. some of Mom’s scrapbooks, photo albums …
Monday, October 28, 2019, 10:41 pm — Perkins … Grandma Ahola’s sewing basket … now that it’s cold, moved it in front of the forced-air heater … a favorite cat-approved spot …
Saturday, October 19, 2019, 12:16 pm — Teeny Tuxedo … looking out at the deck …
… her cute curly tail …
Friday, September 6, 2019, 10:21 am — Perkins … livingroom oriental rug … dreaming of movies … Finnish movies! …
… on the coffee table … Finnish DVDs … plus book, Deep River, 2019, Karl Marlantes … Southwest Washington state, Finnish-American family saga …
The new DVDs … most, directly from Finland, now that I have a region-free DVD player:
Sunday, July 28, 2019, 7:18 pm — Perkins … supervises the hunt for Hollywood caricature cartoons in the Looney Tunes DVD collection …
Looney Tunes Golden Collection – 6 volumes, 24 discs, 350+ cartoons! Plus commentaries and tons of other extras! … from Amazon, Feb. 2012 … each disc is a specific theme or character …
… The Coo-Coo Nut Grove, 1936 … watch it on Looney Tunes wiki …
… with Clark Gable … hot-cha-cha! …
[5 years ago … from my blog, Movies, Of Course!]
Friday, May 23, 2014, 10:25 pm — May 23 is Frank McHugh’s birthday, 1898-1981 … Read that he had a fun musical comedy number in Kiss Me Again, 1931 … “A Make Believe Ladies Man” … Voilá! Thanks to my magical recorded-from-TCM DVD library, Perkins was able to enjoy a rear view mirror showing, to celebrate Mr. McH’s B-Day …
Perkins’ cat’s eye view … Charles Gillingwater, Frank McHugh … Kiss Me Again, 1931
Frank (on left) gets athletic! … with Joe E. Brown … 6 Day Bike Rider, 1934 … Who are the two gorgioso gents to their right?
Pat O’Brien, Olivia de Havilland, Frank McHugh … The Irish in Us, 1935
Thursday, June 27, 2019, 11:54 am — Perkins …
Sunday, June 9, 2019, 5:25 pm — Perkins … on Mom’s sewing machine … livingroom … deck window … looking south … reflection on tv screen …
Perkins and Teeny Tuxedo 