Wednesday, July 24, 2019, 5:24 pm — Perkins … takes her duties as official paperweight seriously … prepping laptop for Thursday’s webcam meeting …
… laptop from Staples, Littleton, New Hampshire … month of July, 2016, by myself, at Bette Davis’s Butternut Cottage, Sugar Hill, New Hampshire! … See Back from New Hampshire Cat, Aug. 3, 2016
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 …”
Tuesday, July 3, 2018, 2:45 am — Perkins … nothing like good stretchy scratching after waking up … pedestal in temporary location … as camera tripod … recording Ben Mankiewicz’s TCM intro for The Bride Came C.O.D., 1941 … mentioned Farney! … Bette Davis’ 2nd husband, Arthur Farnsworth …
Saturday, June 23, 2018, 2:51 pm — Rustling leaves, looking south, wind from the west, robins chirp-chirping … and a butterfly bush, Teeny Tuxedo finale … listen …
Saturday, June 24, 2017, 8:36 pm — Perky’s not impressed by the lovely screensaver image on the laptop from Littleton, New Hampshire (when I stayed for a month alone at Bette Davis’ Butternut Cottage, Sugar Hill, NH, July 2016) … almost time for its first birthday! … blue painter’s tape over the built-in webcam … privacy, by all means! …
Thursday, August 26, 2016, 6:06 pm — Teeny …and the red suitcase I took to Bette Davis’s Butternut Cottage, Sugar Hill, New Hampshire …
I made it! … Butternut Cottage … July 1, 2016 … On my own for the entire month in Bette Davis’s former home … purchased in late 1939, when she met her 2nd husband, “local boy” Arthur Farnsworth …
July 20, 2016 …
Teeny Tuxedo and Perkins would feel right at home … the nearby Littleton, New Hampshire, Shaw’s grocery carries World’s Best Cat Litter … made from corn … red bag …
All this red … car, suitcase, cat litter … made me think of Bette’s scandalous red dress in Jezebel, 1938 …
Below, Bette introduces the red dress to Henry Fonda … Jezebel, 1938 … her 2nd Oscar, Best Actress …
– Julie, it’s RED!
– It’s GORGEOUSLY red!
– You can’t wear red to the Olympus ball.
– Why not?
– You never saw an unmarried girl in anything but white.
– And you’re going to see one tomorrow night!
Tuesday, August 9, 2016, 2:44 pm — Perk and Teeny would rather watch the birds outside … than watch the progress on my Butternut Cottage blog …
Wednesday, August 3, 2016, 1:31 am — Perkins was SO happy I was back! … 4 weeks by myself at Bette Davis’s Butternut Cottage, Sugar Hill, New Hampshire … plus a few days in St. Paul, Minnesota … Russ and Kathy’s 35th wedding anniversary, Cinema Ballroom … Perk was crying and crying and crying underneath the bed when I first walked in …
Butternut Cottage, Sugar Hill, New Hampshire … Wednesday, July 20, 2016, 10:33 am …
Sunday, May 22, 2016, 11:54 pm — Perkins takes a break from reading Ed Sikov’s Dark Victory: The Life of Bette Davis, 2007 … That’s Bette’s autobiography, The Lonely Life, 1962, on top of the stack of books … preparation for a month at Bette’s Butternut Cottage, Sugar Hill, New Hampshire, in July! …
To do some grooming … while Teeny Tuxedo relaxes …
October 20, 2016 … We’ve been away for a while … a month at Bette Davis’s Butternut Cottage in New Hampshire! … have some catching up to do … In the meantime, one year ago …
Sunday, October 18, 2015, 10:28 am — Perkins caught a feather toy loitering at the computer chair …
Perkins and Teeny Tuxedo 