Monday, March 31, 2008, 6:24 am — Retro Perkins … 2008 … almost 1 year old … 11 years ago … the original wire toy … in the days of recording movies to DVDs … newspapers … horse magazine subscriptions …
Category Archives: dvds
Let’s Watch a Movie Cat
Sunday, March 17, 2019, 4:59 pm — Perkins … I’m in the mood to watch some Joan Crawford … how about Mildred Pierce (1945)? …
… then let’s try the 7th season of The Office, 2010-11 … Steve Carell’s last … Hey, Grandma Ahola’s sewing basket is just my size! …
The Office … replacement set, Nov. 2018, ebay, $35.50 … donated my original to college book sale, April 2017 … After trying to watch on tv, with commercials, couldn’t stand it … found great ebay deal … one of three tv series I’d take to a desert isle …
Welcome to Scotland Cat
Tuesday, February 5, 2019, 11:02 am — Perkins … her fluffy tail is anything but wee …
“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 …
Mail from Finland Cat
Tuesday, January 15, 2019, 5:19 pm — Picked up a special box at the Ridgefield Post Office this afternoon … from Helsinki, Finland … Suomi! …
Tuntenaton sotilas / Unknown Soldier, 1955 … first of three versions (1985, 2017) … restored, Blu-ray … ebay order, Dec. 28, 2018, $15.95, free shipping …
… Teeny Tuxedo approves of the new Finnish film addition …
… on vintage Made in Finland … Didas Deken 100% Zuiver Wol (Dutch) … Didas blanket 100% pure wool … (2017 Christmas present from L)
Tuntenaton sotilas / Unknown Soldier, 1955 … directed by Edvin Laine … “First adaption of the Finnish war book (1954) by Väinö Linna. Based on Linna’s experiences as an infantry man in the Finnish army during the “Continuation War” (1941-1944) … story of the fate of a machine gun platoon made up of young conscripts from various parts of Finland fighting against the Russian army from the beginning (summer 1941) to the end (summer/autumn 1944) of the war.”
Little Acorn Cat
In 2007 there was a little kitten … who grew up to be …
… Teeny Tuxedo! … 11 years later … 2018 …
- A few more of her kitten photos … Kitten Day! … Jumpin’ Kittens … Perk’s Pepsi Boxes … Dragonfly Dreamer …
Claws Tune-Up Cat
Tuesday, November 6, 2018, 3:44 pm — Teeny takes a break from the new boxes … gotta keep those claws tuned up …
Cabinets Queen Cat
Saturday, September 22, 2018, 1:34 am — Teeny … queen of Mom’s china cabinets …
A perfect sky-high cat track … when they’re feeling lively, Teeny, Perkins and cousin cat, Moka, like running from one end to the other …
Scotty Reunion Cat
Wednesday, August 8, 2018, 11:59 pm — Perkins … Hey, you Scotty dogs! … wanna come down and play? …
Wilderness Veterinarian Cat
Saturday, June 23, 2018, 10:54 am — Teeny would rather not watch veterinary procedures … Wilderness Vet, over-the-air tv … reflection of window, computer monitor on screen … Shirley Temple, Marlene Dietrich, Bette Davis DVDs are more her speed …
- Wilderness Vet … “From field surgeries to physical exams, Dr. Michelle Oakley faces different challenges daily as farms in the Yukon offer a variety of animals that need her help.” … NBC 8.1
Almost Midnight Cat
Saturday, June 2, 2018, 11:29 pm — Perkins … almost midnight …
… on top of the fourth in the line-up of Mom’s china cabinets … tv series DVDs … Downton Abbey, Father Knows Best, Highway Patrol, I Love Lucy, The Jewel in the Crown, Seinfeld, Upstairs Downstairs … etc. …
My Arabian stallion, 1961 (?), Tillamook, Oregon … Dad’s desk name plate, Olympia Cheese Factory, 1963-1984 … Gunnard Pylkki, Plant Manager …
Just missed catching Perk in mid-jump down to the chair … painting by Nola Ahola …
Grantchester vs. Toy Cats
Tuesday, July 25, 2017, 9:03 pm — Perkins and Teeny Tuxedo take a moment … Cat Dancer wire toy mid-air … to contemplate the wonder of James Norton … Grantchester DVD set, 3rd season, 2017 … “Cambridgeshire clergyman finds himself investigating a series of mysterious wrongdoings in his small village of Grantchester.” … 1950s … Perk and Teeny are true PBS Anglophiles …
Technology & First Book Cat
Monday, April 3, 2017, 11:24 pm — Perkins … box of VHS tapes to copy to DVDs … behind her, technology past and present … VCR; wonderful Magnavox DVD recorder with harddrive; DVD player; Blu-ray player … What does she spy in the next box over? …
The TV Theme Song Sing-Along Song Book … 1984 …
“Admit it! You’ve always loved them … Now you can sing them! … Includes over 40 of your all-time favorite tv themes! Plus … commercial jingles … Revealed! The unknown lyrics to Leave It to Beaver, Bonanza, I Love Lucy, and more!” … and Mr. Ed, of course! …
While Perk lays claim to the song book … Black Beauty is peeking up in the corner …
The first book I remember reading and comprehending … Black Beauty, by Anna Sewell. 1955 Whitman edition … Specifically the very first page …
Second or third grade, 1958 or ’59. At home, the Glenwood house. My very own copy.
Still have the glossy covered, battered original in my box of horse books. Bought a more pristine copy at an antique shop, probably 20 years ago.
Anna Sewell died in 1878, less than a year after Black Beauty was published.
Above, left – Inside front cover
Above, right – Chapter I – My Early Home
The first place that I can well remember was a large pleasant meadow with a pond of clear water in it. Some shady trees leaned over it, and rushes and water lilies grew at the deep end …
While I was young I lived upon my mother’s milk, as I could not eat grass. In the daytime I ran by her side, and at night I lay down close by her. When it was hot, we used to stand by the pond in the shade of the trees …
Left – Back cover
[Black Beauty, originally posted May 11, 2013]
Duplicatin’ Cat
Monday, March 27, 2017, 2:06 am — Perk’s just the right size to dust the bottom shelf of the tv stand … (Copying Julie A.’s 1993 Christmas program, in Alaska, VHS tape/VCR to the Magnvox harddrive, then to DVD … her father at the piano as Ludwig von Richardson) …
Sniffin’ Corners Cats
Friday, June 24, 2016, 9:19 am — Teeny Tuxedo and Perk have some sniffin’ to do …
Bette Obsessed Cat
Saturday, May 7, 2016, 8:44 am — Teeny Tuxedo to Perkins … “Bette, Bette, Bette … Bette Davis books, Bette Davis movies … you’re no fun … just sitting there, obsessed with Bette Davis … Snap outta it! …”
“Time to walk away … some battles can never be won …”
- See more classic movie stuff at my other blog, Movies, Of Course!
Kitten Day!
Saturday, May 14, 2016, 11:32 am — A little girl we know may be getting a kitten from the Southwest Washington Humane Society today … To celebrate, Perk and Teeny want to share some of their first photos, July 25, 2007 … 11 days after they came home from SWHS (the old location).
Teeny Tuxedo! … and DVDs, of course …
Perkins! … and her perk-perk-perkily eyes …
Teeny … jumping for the crumpled cardboard on the wiggly wire toy … showing off her shaved “operation” tummy …
Stretchin’ Perky … and HER shaved tummy …
Concentrating Cat
Thursday, November 12, 2015, 12:26 am — Perkins is so focused on some action at the bedroom door that she doesn’t even notice the flying yellow feather …
She jumps up on the tv stand … still watching the door … careful not to step on the Route 66 and Father Knows Best DVDs … while looking cute at the same time …
Route 66 Cat
Saturday, July 18, 2015, 6:25 pm — Perkins thinks the tv series, Route 66 (1960-1964) is one cool show … But she’s such a cool cat, she doesn’t want George Maharis and Martin Milner to know the depth of her fandom …
She’s cool, she’s cool …
She’s super cool …
Summer Comforter Cat
Sunday, June 21, 2015, 1:29 am — Perkins celebrates the first day of Summer by getting cozy on a comforter … on Great-Grandma Michelson’s table … Sophia Korvala, 1860-1947 … born in Finland …
Great-Grandma, Great-Grandpa John Michelson (1865 Finland-1930) and “servant girl” … circa 1923-1930 … Moved from Mt. Solo-Kelso, WA to the former Tikka farm, Hockinson, in 1923.
Hockinson Area Finns, Clark County Washington. Finnish-American Historical Society of the West, Portland, Oregon. Pioneer Series, vol. 14, n. 1, December 1986, p. 23.
Favorite Movie Cat
Sunday, May 3, 2015, 12:47 am — 50th anniversary, limited edition, Blu-ray … my favorite movie, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962 … winner of 7 Academy Awards … Perkins is proud to give it her stamp of cat approval …
Two-Minute Cat
Sunday, March 15, 2015, 3:22 pm — Teeny … trying to wink like Will Rogers …
Two minutes later, she abandoned Will to check on the camera paraphernalia …
Big Shadow Cat
Monday, January 26, 2015, 12:37 pm — Teeny was busy being cute … See how daintily she’s holding up her left paw? … Something caught her attention below …
Perkins … and her big friendly black panther pal … investigating the Looney Tunes DVD collection … They love cartoons! … especially with birds and rabbits and mice …
4-Minute Cats
Friday, December 12, 2014, 10:37 pm — Four minutes in the life of Perk and Teen … While Esther Williams and Fernando Lamas are martini-ing in Dangerous When Wet, 1953 … Perk high-tails it (she sees Teen on the rug) … Esther is not amused … Bob Hope certainly is! …
10:38 pm … Teen keeps her eyes on Perk, who’s now over on the left side of the rug …
10:39 pm … Perk jumps in for a tussle …
10:40 pm … Teen breaks free, runs by the box, which immediately catches their attention … all thoughts of tusslin’ evaporate … The power of the BOX! …
Jane Withers Cat
Monday, December 1, 2014, 12:30 pm — A new box for Perkins! What was in it?
Four Jane Withers DVDs … Rascals, 1938; Chicken Wagon Family, 1939; Golden Hoofs, 1941; Little Miss Nobody, 1936 …
Time for some “out of the box” play with Teeny …
Wherever I move the box, Perk’s there … This time, in front of the tv …
While Harry Carey is combing Jane Withers’ tangled hair in Little Miss Nobody … Perk copies Jane’s head-to-the-side position …
WWI Cats
Thursday, November 27, 2014 — Perk and Teen spent Thanksgiving with two World War One gents … Lawrence of Arabia …
… and Cyrus Dallin’s sculpture of U.S. soldier, Edgar M. Halyburton, Captured But Not Conquered … (from Lafayette Schoolhouse Antique Mall, Oregon, Saint Patrick’s Day, 1994, with Mom and Dad) …
Perkins and Teeny Tuxedo 