Saturday, December 1, 2018, 12:09 pm — Perkins … not ready for the desert angst of The Petrified Forest, 1936 … Leslie Howard / Alan Squier … “Yes, it’s pleasant to be back again, amongst the living …”
Humphrey Bogart / Duke Mantee … “Sorry to see ya go … pal …”
Sunday, October 28, 2018, 4:41 pm — Teeny Tuxedo said … Hey, let me help edit photos of Perky and the butterfly bush … I have a very good eye! …
On the other side of the computer … autumn leaves are falling … arrow points to new branches growing from top of tree … trimmed 2 years ago … safety precaution to prevent falling onto roof during high wind … happened to two apartments to the far left (east) … same type of tree … alders? … weak roots …
Friday, October 19, 2018, 5:32 pm — Perkins … on table runner I wove (!) in Mikkeli, Finland … visited Korhonen relatives, 1999 … Mom’s antique dresser …
Sunday, May 13, 2018, 8:27 am — Perky’s tail … rear view mirror … Hulu selections on tv … Freekibble Kat (10th year) on computer …
9:48 am … Teeny Tuxedo … Hey! Is that my name on the computer screen? …
Wednesday, February 21, 2018, 2:00 pm — Six months ago … August 21, 2017 … Iceberg Augie, Adventure Bear, journeyed on the back roads of eastern Oregon to view an historical solar eclipse ..
Below are excerpts from Augie Bear’s Eclipse Adventure …
Sunday, August 20, 2017, 12:41 pm — Russ flew in from Minneapolis (my home town!) and helped me plot the perfect location for total eclipse viewing …
Today’s pre-Eclipse Day travel reports … check …
Monday, August 21, 2017, 6:43 am — Eclipse Day!! … Wahooooo! … Glad I’m not driving … I can stick my head out of the window any time I feel like it! … Wahooooo! … Taking 207 south from Umatilla to Spray …
10:06 am — Right here! … far from the madding crowd … an unpaved road south of Spray, Oregon … directly in the path of totality …
10:28 am — This is it! … getting dark …
… darker …
10:32 am — I salute you, Old King Sol, with my Eclipse gum …
Tuesday, December 19, 2017, 5:05 pm — Perkins doesn’t know she’s the star of blog photo editing … which turned into Litter Box Acrobat Cat, April 3, 2017 …
11:47 pm … Teeny Tuxedo … noir-ishly watching Turner Classic Movies in the mirror by the computer … Iceberg Augie, Adventure Bear, in the background …
Wednesday, May 24, 2017, 7:21 pm — Teeny … beveled mirror, antique dresser …
Sunday, April 9, 2017, 2:50 pm — Teeny Tuxedo watched Dick Cavett … live … at the TCM Classic Film Festival in Hollywood …
… interviewed by Melvyn Douglas’ granddaughter, Ileana Douglas … via Turner Classic Movies on Facebook … and there’s Teeny’s face in the mirror! …
4:53 pm … all the live streaming excitement wore Teeny out …
Saturday, November 26, 2016, 12:30 pm — Teeny Tuxedo … through the looking glass … Perkins snoozing at the window …
Dresser treasures … Scotty dog … autographed photo of Peter O’Toole, mailed Feb. 1966, Lawrence of Arabia … Wallace and Gromit “walkies” alarm clock … The Opposite of Cold: The Northwoods Finnish Sauna Tradition book …
Wednesday, June 1, 2016, 6:54 pm — Teeny Tuxedo and Perkins … reflected in the tall floor mirror …
The real Teeny and Perk …
Tuesday, April 5, 2016, 6:59 am — Perk and Teeny … beveled mirror, antique dresser …
Monday, December 29, 2014, 5:53 am — Perk takes a big step from printer / scanner desk …
… to computer desk …
August 27, 2014 — The Tease, 1901 …
I have this print, framed! … Love the Victorian, Pre-Raphaelite (?) style … most especially the orange tabby cat! … Got it at a large antique furniture store in Portland. A man and his partner were also interested, but graciously acceded to my passionate adoration!
A dark, antique three-drawer dresser with oval swivel mirror also caught my eye … the reason I was at the store … Just calculated … 1994. Yoikes! 20 years ago! … K and I were going separate ways … I moved to an apartment on John Olsen Road, east of Hillsboro … Still farm land … A mighty oak centered an open field beyond the living room windows … Just like the Glenwood house!
2:30 pm – Just discovered who the artist is! … John William Godward … and another orange tabby cat … “Idleness” – 1900 … (thanks, Pinterest!)
“John William Godward (9 August 1861 – 13 December 1922) was an English painter from the end of the Pre-Raphaelite/Neo-Classicist era. He was a protégé of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema but his style of painting fell out of favour with the arrival of painters like Picasso. He committed suicide at the age of 61 and is said to have written in his suicide note that “the world was not big enough” for him and a Picasso.
“His already estranged family, who had disapproved of his becoming an artist, were ashamed of his suicide and burned his papers. No photographs of Godward are known to survive.” – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_William_Godward
Monday, December 30, 2013, 2:45 am — Rear view mirror tv … Bachelor Father (1957-1962, John Forsythe, Noreen Corcoran, Sammee Tong) on AntennaTV … Perkins on the back of the computer chair …
… Then decides, nope, not her favorite show … No “Niece Kelly” for her!
Tuesday, October 15, 2013, 11:25 pm — Perk’s mesmerized by … What?
Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2013, 5:30 am … Perk’s day started innocently, relaxing in a bedroom closet …
She looked up … something caught her attention …
… AND her claw …
Never fear … Perk was rescued from her predicament, all claws intact! … (on antique dresser … Xmas present from Mom and Dad, 1980s)
Thursday, July 12, 2013, 8:15 pm — Spur of the moment macro shot … Perkins … and two reflections … mirror and computer screen.
Perkins and Teeny Tuxedo 