Thursday, December 9, 2021, 9:39 am — Rainy morning … female house sparrow is up and at ’em at the bird feeder …
… 9:45 am … Perkins and Teeny Tuxedo prefer cozy snoozing … rather than the early bird routine …
… 10:28 am … Batch of lively house sparrows … chowing down at the bird feeder … corner of deck …
Friday, October 1, 2021, 7:45 pm — Teeny Tuxedo … a new box! … to celebrate the first day of October …
… Teeny takes a walk … there IS life outside the box! …
Tuesday, October 5, 12:02 am … Teeny’s back … having a chat with Grandpa and Grandma Ahola … Bill and Lillian, mid-1920s … Grandfather Clock’s pendulum in action …
Saturday, May 1, 2021, 8:20 am — Teeny Tuxedo … what’s this?? … no electricity! … “A bird that blundered into a power substation knocked out power to nearly 7,000 customers of Clark Public Utilities near Salmon Creek” … only a few hours … just happened to have re-found the hand-crank emergency radio last week … was on the table before the lights went out …
… 10:10 am … Teeny and her favorite visitor and his Smartwool socks … just returned from a breakfast chat with a dance friend over in Portland … Russ flew in from MN yesterday evening …
… 10:11 am … good time to review the emergency backpack … 7 days of supplies … food is still good, 5-year shelf life … Be Prepared Cat, July 29, 2017 …
… the hand-crank Eton radio (on table, above) … works wonderfully well … unfortunately, the antenna broke when I extended it in the wrong direction and began energetically crank-crank-cranking …
Sunday, July 12, 2020, 12:55 pm — Teeny Tuxedo … dreaming about the rabbit she saw …
… yesterday evening … Saturday, July 11, 8:59 pm … through the bedroom window screen …
… or MAYBE she was dreaming about … Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd … Wabbit Twouble, 1941 … (from Likely Looney, Mostly Merrie, Aug. 2014 … GWEAT blog by an “amateur reviewer watching every Warner Bros. cartoon”) …
Tuesday, May 9, 2020, 1:14 pm — Teeny Tuxedo, Perkins …
… 10:57 pm … “Evening, Perk and Teeny … time for walkies!” … Wallace and Gromit talking alarm clock! …
Thursday, December 19, 2019, 4:08 am — Perk’s version of Antiques Roadshow … appraising 1980-ish Trimline TouchTone phone …
… Grandpa Ahola’s coffee cup …
… beveled mirror dresser … retro wind up clock … Glinda, Wizard of Oz ornament … Wallace and Gromit “walkies” talking alarm clock …
Sunday, July 28, 2019, 2:00 am — Perkins … on warm nights, she likes to sleep by the grandfather clock … photo of Grandpa and Grandma Ahola … Bill and Lillian … around the time they were married, 1925 … Russ made copies for a Christmas past … Framed it myself at a frame shop! Museum quality and all! …
Left … July 24, 2007 … 12 years ago! … Perkins … on her first day out to play with Teeny Tuxedo in the wide open … One week after I got them from the Southwest Washington Humane Society …
See original post, Kittens and Grandfather Clocks, July 24, 2007
Saturday, July 20, 2019, 11:32 pm — Perkins … loves to stretch out on the Oriental rug … reflection of her back paws in Mr. Grandfather Clock …
July 24, 2007 … 12 years ago! … Perkins on her first day out to play with Teeny Tuxedo in the wide open … One week after I got them from the Southwest Washington Humane Society … See original post, Kittens and Grandfather Clocks …
Thursday, June 27, 2019, 11:54 am — Perkins …
Saturday, April 6, 2019, 12:11 pm — Perkins … “Not My Favorite” … 365 days photos theme … alarm clocks! …
New Panasonic Lumix FZ300
Sunday, March 10, 2019, 11:12 am / 12:12 pm — Perkins … I’m not ready to “spring forward” one hour …
… I’ll just sit here and let time catch up to ME …
… If I could change the clock, I’d KEEP it at Daylight Saving Time! … hmmm … a singing birds clock … what a great idea! …
[photo, June 23, 2014]
Saturday, February 9, 2019, 8:48 am — Perkins … after her successful climb … looking down the other side of Glider Mountain …
… in the background … Teeny Tuxedo! …
… eye reflection … snow on the deck …
Thursday, January 3, 2019, 4:22 pm — Rob R. Duck … by lamplight …
Saturday, January 5, 2019, 3:11 pm … and sun shadows …
… retro wind up clock … Scotty dogs … Glinda, Wizard of Oz ornament … Wallace and Gromit “walkies” talking alarm clock … glass cat from Russ (trip to Finland) …
… “Anytime is a good time for a vacation” … wind up travel clock …
Monday, October 15, 2018, 1:39 pm — A minute after Perkins left the follow-the-leader game with Teeny … she flopped down on the rug in front of Grandfather Clock …
… then took time for a serious pose …
Sunday, February 18, 2018, 12:24 pm — Perkins … playing with the rainbow toy, 2018 (right) … ever so similar to baby Perkins (left) meeting Grandfather Clock, 2007 …
“Perkins on her first day out to play with Teeny Tuxedo in the wide open, July 24, 2007 … One week after I got them from the Southwest Washington Humane Society.” … From earlier post … Kittens and Grandfather Clocks, March 19, 2013
**This is a favorite Perkins and Teeny Tuxedo post
Thursday, March 19, 2015, 7:08 am — Perk says it’s too early for a cat to wake up …
Saturday, March 7, 2015, 9:25 pm — Teeny Tuxedo is ready to move the singing birds clock ahead one hour … springing into daylight saving time …
[photo, June 23, 2014]
Monday, June 23, 2014, 12:50 am — Brought my singing birds clock home from work … Hooray! 6 months off officially starts NOW!! Since Kitty and I are on sabbatical fall quarter, decided not to work half-time this summer (the first time in years and years) … I’ll be back on campus, January 2015!
Back to Teen and Perkins … Before setting the time, put the clock on the floor … Like “clockwork,” they were there, giving it the curious cat once over …
Tuesday, March 19, 2013 – Checking the time … Perkins on her first day out to play with Teeny Tuxedo in the wide open, July 24, 2007 … One week after I got them from the Southwest Washington Humane Society.
Had to keep them apart for a week … Teeny developed a cold the second day here. Luckily, she’s such a munchmaster, it didn’t stop her from eating through her sniffles.
So, Perk was in my bedroom and Teen in the small bathroom. A good place to humidify the air with a hot running shower for the tiny Teeny’s congestion.
Look closely … you’ll see a real grandfather! In the closeup of little cat Perk is a color-tinted studio photo of Grampa and Gramma Ahola (Bill and Lillian), around the time they were married, 1925. Russ made copies for a Christmas past … Framed it myself at a frame shop! Museum quality and all!
The grandfather clock is my one piece of “real” furniture. Moved here in Oct. 2002. Bought it Feb. 2003 during a sale at the O’Clock Shoppe. Love grandfather clocks!
Mr. Grandfather has Westminster chimes, the same as Big Ben in London. Give a listen, mate. If I lived in a larger place I’d keep the chimes on … they’re on silent mode for now. The words to this beautiful chime come from Handel’s, “I Know That My Redeemer Liveth”:
“Lord through this hour
Be Thou our guide
So, by Thy power
No foot shall slide”
Here’s Mr. Grandfather as of today, March 24, 2013:
**This is a favorite Perkins and Teeny Tuxedo post
Perkins and Teeny Tuxedo 