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 …
Friday, November 6, 2020, 5:17 am — Teeny Tuxedo … during these Covid times, the laundry basket has a new role … drop-off for incoming mail, grocery bags, cloth face masks … plus the usual Finnish Marimekko sheets (Fokus) … and a cat or two …
… 5:20 am … Perkins … “Hey! Turn off the light … it’s too early to get up!” … front bedroom … Great-Grandma Michelson’s console table, foot of Mom’s bed …
Tuesday, December 24, 2019, 8:21 pm — Teeny Tuxedo … Christmas Eve traditions … fresh bed linen … laundry basket … Finnish Marimekko sheets ready to be washed …
… 12:28 am … Mom’s Christmas candle … and a catnap …
… 1:30 am … Yule log on tv … (Teeny’s ear) …
Tuesday, October 29, 2019, 3:21 pm — Perkins … Grandma Ahola’s sewing basket …
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 …
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 …
Friday, August 31, 2018, 11:14 pm — Perkins … September 1 is Ginger Cat Appreciation Day … Posted my photo in several Facebook cat groups …
Update: Sept. 4, 2018 … Color adjustment, gray scale experiments in SnagIt …
**This is a favorite Perkins and Teeny Tuxedo post
Sunday, May 22, 2016, 10:11 am — L put a fuchsia outside the bedroom window to attract hummingbirds … but the weight of the hanging basket was too much for the pole … Hey, Perkins, watcha lookin’ at? …
Saturday, September 19, 2015, 11:49 am — Perkins … Grandma Ahola’s sewing basket … Mom’s Stiffel lamp …
Saturday, July 11, 2015, 12:13 pm — Perkins looks through the porthole of her latest conveyance … the Queen Mary of laundry baskets …
Friday, April 3, 2015, 5:44 pm — Perky sings along with the Scarecrow … “I’d unravel any riddle for any individ’le … if I only had a brain …” … It’s special effects in the movies night on TCM …
Quick as a flash, Perk remembered she had a dinner reservation … at Chez Boudoir TV …
Oh, no! … Here comes Perkins … and she’s not happy that Teen was seated in her place …
Sparrows, schmarrows … lock it up with a zipper, Tin Man … I’m hungry! …
Thursday, April 2, 2015, 5:12 pm — Less than 24 hours after the new tv was in the living room, Perk found a movie she wanted to watch on TCM … One Foot in Heaven, 1941, Martha Scott, Fredric March … The angle makes it look tiny … 55″ Samsung, replacing 50″ Samsung moved to bedroom, replacing 46″ Samsung … which found a good home with Z …
Perk really likes character actor, Irving Bacon, as the train stationmaster … Could it have something to do with his name? … Update: It’s actually Olin Howland, not Irving Bacon … Don’t tell Perk …
Monday, March 30, 2015, 2:25 pm — Perk can find her favorite sitting / sewing basket, wherever it is … even on an upside down table … moved for carpet cleaning …
What Broadway musical is Perk sitting in front of? … The 1946 Show Boat revival … Columbia Masterworks … five 12″ 78 RPM records … from eBay, late 1990s … my Jan Clayton collecting period …
Sunday, November 23, 2014, 5:20 pm — Whose looong cat shadow is this? … Taken Saturday, November 15, 2:08 pm …
It’s Teeny! … Holy Coincidences, Batman! … Exactly one year ago, November 23, 2013, I posted Teen’s shadow in the same location! … Kate and Cat Shadow … with the book, The Private World of Katharine Hepburn … Teen’s sitting on Grandma Ahola’s sewing basket on the coffee table in both …
Tuesday, November 11, 2014, 7:50 pm — Turned the heat on for the first time this fall … Teen remembered the prime location used last year … Grandma Ahola’s sewing basket on the coffee table … directly in front of the forced air vent. She was there the instant I turned it on … Cats love food, boxes and toasty warmth …
On screen, Eleanor Parker talking on the phone with John Garfield, Pride of the Marines, 1945 … Today is Veteran’s Day …
Monday, September 15, 2014, 12:10 am — Perkins ‘vestigatin’ Charlie Chan in the DVD basket …
I’m updating my Microsoft Works Database of DVDs (purchased and recorded) … Enlarge photo to find Ramon Novarro! … (Mom’s basket … remember it at 17th Lane NE, Olympia)
Sunday, January 19, 2014, 11:00 am — What’s Perk staring at? Love the mysterious, darkness of the background … time traveling back to an old 19th century house … Mom’s four china cabinets on the left … In the meantime, Rin Tin Tin watches tv … (Perk’s on Grandma Ahola’s sewing basket …)
Saturday, November 23, 2013, 2:30 pm — Perk and Rinty are mesmerized by Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, 1994, on the new (as of last Saturday) 50″ HD tv … (Perk likes to sit on Grandma Ahola’s sewing basket when the forced-air heater is on … )
Above — The white square attached to the wall with blue painter’s tape is the amazing antenna I got last April when I cut satellite tv … “Winegard FL-5000 FlatWave HDTV Indoor Digital Flat Antenna – Made in USA” … From Amazon.com … All 3 PBS stations are crystal clear now that the leaves are off the trees … PBS always came through in the bedroom with a second Winegard …
Above — Paused the Blue-ray … Helena Bonham Carter writing to Victor Frankenstein … If the autumn trees hadn’t lost their leaves, they’d blend with the tv screen … The 46″ Samsung HD tv had lived with me since last November … Loved its clarity, but it just needed to be … a bit bigger … Last Saturday morning, after Leslie trimmed Doob’s hooves, something drew me to the BestBuy website … 50″ Samsungs were on sale, available at Jantzen Beach … 55″ would be too large for the car, the stand and for me to easily carry … Two hours later it was set up …. Like Goldilocks and the Three Bears, it’s just right!
The 46″ has replaced the 40″ Samsung in the bedroom …. Once again, just right! … The 40″ is safely boxed … ready for a new home … Luckily, they’re all remarkably easy to assemble. Just 8 screws, a magnetized screwdriver and the stand is attached …
When Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein came out in 1994 I couldn’t be bothered … Robert De Niro as the monster?? … Two weeks ago it was on THIStv … The story overcame its pan and scan presentation … Couldn’t stop watching … De Niro brought tremendous pathos … Directed, co-produced and starring Kenneth Branagh as Victor Frankenstein … The music can be overbearing, but I kept thinking about it … Borrowed the DVD via Summit. Rats! Pan and scan … Where was the widescreen version? … Blu-ray only … It arrived yesterday via Amazon, free shipping.
Sunday, November 10, 2013, 3:45 pm — Christmas 1957, Glenwood house, my dog pal, Rin Tin Tin, is plush, bright and new …
57 years later … Rinty comes out of storage to meet Teeny Tuxedo cat …
All these years … and he’s still a happy dog!
Just in time to watch an Oct. 18, 1957 episode of The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin …
**This is a favorite Perkins and Teeny Tuxedo post
Friday, October 4, 2013, 2:00 am — What do Big-Cats-in-a-Basket start out as? …
… They start out as … Kittens-in-a-Basket!
Perkins (and Teeny) … July 26, 2007 … 12 days after I adopted them.
**This is a favorite Perkins and Teeny Tuxedo post
December 26, 2009 — How cute is this?! Who knew Siamese cats sing in Finnish?! Here’s the proof! … Get your sisu on with this clip from Disney’s Lady and the Tramp, 1955.
“We are Siamese, if you please … We are Siamese, if you don’t please!”
Oomme Siamin rotukissat,
Oomme Siamin rotukissat.
Katsomme me kotiamme uutta taas.
Jos me täne päsemme, on rauha maas.Katso, kuinka ui nyt tuo noin kehää vain.
Ehkä siitä herkkupalan minä sain.
Varovasti päälle sen nyt hiivitään.
Sinä siitä hännän saat ja minä pään.Kuuletko sä, mitä kuulen? Itkua!
Siellä missä lapsi on, on maitoa.
Jos me kehtoon katsomme, niin ehkä on
Maitopullo myös se aivan verraton.
And for all you non-Finnish speakers, here’s the English translation:
We are Siamese, if you please
We are Siamese, if you don’t please
Now we looking over our new domicile
If we like we stay for maybe quite a whileDo you seeing that thing swimming round and round?
Maybe we could reaching in and make it drown
If we sneaking up upon it carefully
There will be a head for you, a tail for meDo you hear what I hear? – a baby cry!
Where we finding baby there are milk nearby
If we look in baby buggy there could be
Plenty milk for you – and also some for me
Näkemiin! … Goodbye!
Perkins and Teeny Tuxedo 