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 …
Monday, May 16, 2022, 2:22 am — Teeny Tuxedo … asleep on the job … guarding the UK travel photos and notebook …
Thursday, May 19, 2022, 1:38 am … Perkins … changing of the guard on the self-heating thermal mat …
[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 …
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.
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 …
Wednesday, March 23, 2022, 6:15 pm — Perkins … “Hey, Augie Bear … it’s spring! … time to wake up from hibernation in the box of family photos … Remember your funtastical 2017 Eclipse Adventure in eastern Oregon?!” …
Friday, March 4, 2022 — Teeny Tuxedo, Perkins … A cuddle of cats … in Dreamland … with special cat guest … “Uncle” Boo-Key … visiting while Mom was traveling … September 10, 2009 … Teeny and Perk were two years old … [First posted in My Photo a Day Adventure] …
Tuesday, February 8, 2022, 4:06 pm — Teeny Tuxedo … waiting for the weekly Finnish discussion class on Zoom, 5:30-6:30 … while birds are skittering outside … and Perkins naps on the thermal mats …
… Close-up of last week’s Finnish discussion class notes … Feb. 1, 2022 … this is the 3rd 6-week set … Began the 1st, last September … on Zoom … through Salolampi, the Finnish Language Village, at Concordia Language Villages near Bemidji, Minnesota … Mom attended two summer sessions in the 2000s … a convenient addition to visiting Russ, Kathy, Krista in St. Paul … We’re all hunnert percent Finnish … with 1% Norwegian, 1% Swedish thrown in … per latest Ancestry.com DNA update …
Tuesday, January 25, 2022, 9:55 am — Teeny Tuxedo … what do you see outside? … Perky’s more interested in eating, which is great! …
Big circle … little circle … which does Teeny Tuxedo prefer? … If she could read, she’d know that the big blue circle celebrates Margaret Fountaine, intrepid Victorian traveler, who loved butterflies and men … and wrote about both in her diaries … From Teeny’s feline perspective, the tiny blue circle on the big tv screen is much more interesting … and it moves! …
“Margaret Fountaine, 1862-1940, I’m a bloody lepidopterist and i loved love” … alternative blue heritage plaque … Norwich, Norfolk, England …
“In 1867 the very first blue plaque was unveiled to mark the London birthplace of Lord Byron. These iconic heritage plaques can now be found on buildings across the UK, celebrating ‘great figures of the past from all walks of life who have contributed to society’. But do they tell the whole story?” – source
“Rosie’s Plaques is a guerrilla art project staged by women of The Common Lot theatre company. When we discovered that out of more than 300 heritage plaques in Norwich [England] only 25 celebrated non mythical women, we decided to do something about it. In May 2019, under cover of darkness and dressed as Rosie the Riveter, we erected hand made alternative blue plaques on significant buildings in the city.” … including a plaque for Margaret Fountaine!
During my August 1999 home exchange in Durham, England, I made two train trips to the Norwich Castle Museum, Norfolk … to spend time in the non-public area with Margaret’s butterfly collection … but more importantly, her diaries … 12 volumes … from 1878, when she was barely 16 … to 1939, the year before her death in Trinidad, seeking butterflies … see January 22, 2022 – Brilliant … on My Photo a Day Adventure blog
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 29, 2021, 6:59 pm — Teeny Tuxedo … curious about the food puzzle toy … but not curious enough to work at getting a piece of Wellness out …
… 7:13 pm … Curiosity takes her to the dining table … boxes! … a box of travel photos being sorted … June 2003 cross-country train from Vancouver, WA to Buffalo, NY … rental car to upstate NY to Bangor, Maine (harness racing) … to Lubec, Maine … to New Brunswick, Canada (Campobello!) … back to Buffalo, NY … drove by myself through West Virginia (1 night) … to Lexington, KY (Kentucky Horse Park, Fell ponies!) … to Ashland, WI (High Bridge, WI, Dad’s home farm!) … to St. Paul, MN (Russ, Kathy, Krista) … flew back, PDX … 3 weeks! …
Wednesday, December 22, 2021, 7:11 pm — Perkins … staying warm under the lamp … and ready to read … Essays, Short Stories, and Poems, 1881, by Mary Snell … born in 1841 … blinded at seven years old … daughter of lighthouse keeper, John B. Snell … “She carried the beauty of Campobello with her always” … Campobello Island, New Brunswick, Canada … photo of the lighthouse, June 2003 cross-country trip …
Tuesday, December 14, 2021, 9:20 pm — While the visitor from Minnesota has double remotes focus on the tv … Perkins has double eyes focus on his pizza … (leftovers from yesterday’s trip to Dirty Dave’s Pizza, Lacey, WA) …
… Back from late afternoon, evening drive around old family places … Hockinson, WA … Tonight’s pizza and a movie, The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T, 1953 … Tommy Rettig … with my favorite, Hans Conried’s Do-Mi-Do Duds (The Dressing Song) … (Russ in his Cinema Ballroom jacket) …
Saturday, November 20, 2021, 4:53 am — Teeny Tuxedo … early morning yawn …
… Look what I can do! …
1:44 pm … end of afternoon siesta behind computer monitor … Whatcha doin’ on the ‘puter? … Going through my July 2016 Sugar Hill, New Hampshire photos … my month alone at Bette Davis’s Butternut Cottage … White building is the Sugar Hill City Hall … windows of the library …
Saturday, June 12, 2021, 11:48 pm — Teeny Tuxedo … This charcoal sketch is just like me! … black and white … Gondola on canal under Bridge of Sighs … Venice, Italy … from Glynnis, drawn while she watched, late 1990s (?) …
Monday, May 17, 2021, 8:31 pm — Teeny Tuxedo … Thank you, Kathy, meowy much, for sharing the Alugalug song! … it’s hypnotizingly terrific! …
… it’s so enticing, Teeny ignored her favorites, paper and scratching post …
… “Photos Matter” … film developed in Durham City, England … home exchange, July-August, 1999 …
… video is sideways and dark … but here’s the Teenster … irresistibly drawn to the Alugalug cat song … gotta have the sound on! …
Sunday, May 2, 2021, 12:14 pm — A cheery, chirpy, clear sky robin day! … top of tree … looking north from the front door … outside, rather than through a window … MUCH crisper! … (Russ and I were leaving for Olympia … Dirty Dave’s Pizza! … a travel tradition) …
By the time filming started, chirp-chirp-chirping stopped … did catch him/her drop a black seed out of its mouth … and make a swift flying exit …
Saturday, April 17, 2021, 5:42 am — Perkins … HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip … funeral today … live streaming, BBC … he’d planned all the details, including participation of his two Fell ponies and carriage, which have been left to his granddaughter, Lady Louise, 17 … Camera on top of scratching post and High Noon book … to film Fell ponies on tv screen (see below) …
… Prince Philip’s Fells … Balmoral Nevis, Notlaw Storm … heading toward and at Windsor Castle …
… Prince Philip … Windsor grounds … 2019 …
… Granddaughter, Lady Louise, 14 … her mother, Sophie, Countess of Wessex (father, Prince Edward) … Royal Windsor Horse Show, 2018 … Philip taught them both to drive …
… Lowther Horse Driving Trials and County Fair, 2005 … 3-day combined driving event … Cumbria, England … (I was there all 3 days, 1999! … Queen Elizabeth was, also, thinking it might be Philip’s last year to compete … not quite!) …
… Competition Carriage Driving … HRH The Duke of Edinburgh … 1994 … have both this and his 2005 book, 30 Years On and Off the Box Seat …
… Windsor … 2017 …
“A red-topped plastic container was placed on the box seat of his driving carriage. He used it to store the sugar lumps he gave to his Fell ponies, Balmoral Nevis and Notlaw Storm, both present along with the carriage in the castle quadrangle. Next to this lay his driving cap, whip, blanket and brown gloves.“
Doob … my Fell pony … Orange Hay Net Cats, Oct. 24, 2016 …
Tuesday, February 2, 2021, 12:57 pm — Perkins … reflected in the Hollywood Glamour framed print … welcomes the February sun …
2.5 years ago … clear view of Hollywood Glamour … Dreaming Cats, Sept. 21, 2018 … silent film star, Gloria Swanson … with tiger … poster received as gift, 1987 … Buffalo Bill Museum poster from trip with Glynnis, Way Out West with Johnny Depp, August 2001 … it’s now back in Cody, Wyoming with Kitty M. … a happy library retirement gift when she moved, March 2019 …
Friday, October 23, 2020, 4:31 am — Teeny Tuxedo … on table runner I wove (!) in Mikkeli, Finland … visited Korhonen relatives, 1999 … Mom’s hope chest, 1950 … Perkins, cozy on comforter that slipped onto floor …
Thursday, September 17, 2020, 4:35 pm — Perkins … new Finnish-design Marimekko sheets arrived from FinnStyle in Minnesota … with a special treat for Perky … PAPER! … the itemized purchase order! …
… the FinnStyle store in Minneapolis (visited in 2012 with Russ) is now completely online … latest order (all on sale!), minus $25 reward points, free shipping (Dad always loved a good deal!) … 2 Marimekko Pikkuinen Unikko white / black sheet sets … Marimekko Kaksi Raitaa (two tracks) red / magenta hand towel (large enough to use as bath mat) … 10 Marimekko Kaksi Raitaa red / magenta washcloths …
Tuesday, July 7, 2020, 8:55 pm — Perkins … if it’s a bag, she’s there … one of several identical Mondo’s … the first went on my 2-month 1999 home exchange in Kirkintilloch, Scotland and Durham, England, with a week in between to Mikkeli, Finland … (photos in red album) … blue & white Finnish Marimekko Fokus sheet, dining table …
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! …
Sunday, June 28, 2020, 9:03 am — Perkins … It’s Sunday … day of rest … I’m sleepin’ in …
… 10:55 pm … nighttime is the right time for playtime … catnip sox! …
Perky plays … Russ checking Minneapolis weather on smartphone … thunderstorms … flying back tomorrow … playground kennel is always open …
Saturday, June 27, 2020, 9:58 am — Tillamook Oregon Strawberry yogurt … took off the lid … licked it … and found … “Dang, that’s lid-lickin’ good.” … Tillamook, you’ve got a great sense of humor! … Hey, Dad was assistant manager, 1959-1963 …
Early bird, Russ, took my car to Les Schwab, Battle Ground before they opened … took off studded tires, free … 3 months, barely drove … with “Stay Home, Stay Safe,” worked at home, March 17-June 22 … We hit the road for Olympia in the afternoon, masks at the ready …
Thursday, June 25, 2020, 9:46 pm — Teeny Tuxedo …front bedroom … Russ visiting from Minneapolis, 7:15 pm Delta flight, masks, social distancing on board, at airport … picked up in front of PDX, traffic VERY light …
… on table runner I wove (!) in Mikkeli, Finland … visited Korhonen relatives, 1999 … Mom’s hope chest, 1950 … See Finnish photos, Piikkopuoti Cat, Nov. 25, 2018
Perkins and Teeny Tuxedo 