Friday, July 22, 2022, 2:56 pm — Perkins … I like these blue towels so much … but not the intrusive camera …
… blue cotton towels … delightfully comfy … (there’s a new white bloom on the butterfly bush) …
Sunday, July 24, 2022, 2:56 pm … two days later … serendipitously at the exact same time … 2:56 pm …
Friday, June 24, 2022, 6:59 am — “Concrete Rabbit” … lives on the north side … not shy about being out in the open … grooming on the driveway … have seen him / her several times, early in the morning … Stay safe! …
Video below … cute, early morning bunny ear cleaning … ragged top of left ear … from kitchen window …
Video below … decorated by shadows of tall grass bending in afternoon wind … from deck …
Saturday, June 18, 2022, 11:42 am — Teeny Tuxedo … looked out the window … Lunchtime, munchtime for the first customer at the Backwoods Buffet … a deer! … happy to dine on the gorgeous greenery … Teeny’s camouflaged behind the butterfly bush, sprouting up, but no blooms yet …
Chewing a tasty leaf … uh-oh, there’s a patch of missing hair on her side …
How to nibble a leaf …
Video below … Teeny Tuxedo watches the deer who came to munch …
Friday, June 10, 2022, 9:34 pm — Perkins … sometimes your own paw is best for scratching an itchy ear … grooming gloves and catnip sox are just too big for her tootsies … Wow! the grooming gloves have been her friend since 2017 … 5 years! … See their history together …
Friday, June 10, 2022, 7:10 am — Mr / Ms Rabbit is catching a moment of sun between the rain … Look at all those raindrops on the grass! … “It’s not your imagination: Portland is experiencing the wettest April, May and early June of any time in at least the past 81 years.” … “12.23 inches of rain at PDX from April 1 through Sunday mid-morning, June 12, 2022” … We’re north of the Columbia River on the Washington side … (photos from deck) …
Sunlight through translucent ears … More photos, My Photo a Day Adventure …
Video below … Munching in the raindrops …
Thursday, March 3, 2022, 6:34 am — Perkins … meets Little Perk … the Christmas miracle! … The Priority Mail 1-Day gift that should have arrived Dec. 18, 2021 … ONLY took 75 days … on my doorstep March 1 … What a torturous 65 mile journey it must have had! … from Salem, Oregon to Vancouver, Washington … more photos …
Little Perk … Special gift from Cousin L … spun cotton orange tabby kitten … who joins Little Tux (arrived Christmas 2020) … both by VintagebyCrystal …
Thursday, January 27, 2022, 11:39 am — Perkins … watching the visiting Ms Calico take a cat walk along the deck railing … Calico Cat Revisits …
… fanciful melting ice drop shadows …
… 1:28 pm … back to napping in the winter sun after Ms Calico’s visit …
Friday, December 1, 2021, 12:26 pm — Perkins … sunlight, shadow …
… 1:22 pm … Perky, Teeny Tuxedo … more warm winter sun …
Wednesday, November 10, 2021, 7:54 pm — Perkins … peaceful dreams … cutely crossed paws … Mirataz ears …
Thursday, November 11, 2021, 8:26 pm — Grumpy Teeny Tuxedo … Who’s that hiding in MY bed? … It’s Perky, peeking up by the Marimekko pillow …
Friday, September 17, 2021, 8:34 pm — Perkins … still giving her daily appetite stimulant … Mirataz ointment, inside alternate (outer) ears … After her internal medicine consult and ultrasound at Sunstone Veterinary Specialists, Portland, August 23, now waiting for December 29 appointment with Portland Veterinary Cardiology … to determine safest way proceed with treatment of her IBD … Extensive wait times for appointments is a side effect of the Covid pandemic …
– Lumix FZ300
Update, Jan. 17, 2022 … Perk’s heart is 100% normal! … No sign of murmur … Will begin Prednisolone (steroid) … 0.5 mL once daily, 7 days … 0.25 mL once daily, 7 days … then 0.25 mL every other day … Rescheduled Dec. 29 appointment, several days of snow, ice (not putting on studded tires this winter since I don’t drive to work … retired!) … Then rescheduled Jan. 11 appnt., Perk was hiding! … Blue Pearl Pet Hospital, NE 42nd and Tillamook (good luck street!), Portland … (cardiologist travels to partner locations, but no longer Columbia River Veterinary Specialists, ER, Vancouver)
Update, Jan. 22, 2022 … Started steroid (liquid), after she ate, Thursday, evening, Jan. 20 … in mail from Northwest Compounders, Portland … Noticed a positive change in first 12 hours … looks better, seems to feel better!
Friday, September 10, 2021, 2:40 pm — How chickadees eat sunflower seeds … chestnut-backed chickadee … on sturdy butterfly bush branch …
… Butterfly bush … pruned down to window level two days ago … from corner of deck, next to sunflower seed bird feeder …
… Another black oil sunflower seed gourmand … male house finch (?) …
… Little Boy Penguin doesn’t care about gourmands or seeds … He’s just excited to return to school … See My Photo a Day Adventure for more “first day photos” before he heads off …
Tuesday, June 22, 2021, 7:48 pm — While the rabbits are having their evening meal …
Wednesday, May 19, 2021, 7:04 am — Early a.m. bunny … this is the big guy / gal here a few days ago …
… munch-munching … then Teeny rambles in front of the camera …
… Teeny Tuxedo … rabbit in the distance … could be the 2nd of the pair … Two Rabbits in a Row, May 13, 2021 …
Tuesday, May 18, 2021, 12:51 pm — Perkins … butterfly bush … dry spell ended! … good, solid rain … open window … all the better to hear the rain, feel the cool air …
Sunday, May 16, 2021, 1:56 pm — Teeny Tuxedo … newly fledged baby house sparrows are the noisiest! … this spring’s batch are back in familiar territory … the butterfly bush and deck …
Sunday, April 25, 2021, 12:41 pm — Perkins, Teeny Tuxedo …
Wednesday, April 14, 2021, 11:29 am — Perkins … shaded by clematis leaves …
… paw stretches …
Wednesday, March 3, 2021, 12:51 pm — Teeny Tuxedo … a lovely day to loaf about with her shadow …
Saturday, January 16, 2021, 8:59 am — Perkins … eyes on the butterfly bush …
… a hummingbird!… looking drab … but watch for sudden flashes …
Thursday, January 14, 2021, 11:13 am — Perkins …
… 6 years ago … see more photos with the hardy, cozy red flannel … Little Red Perky Paws Cat, Feb. 1, 2015 …
Sunday, December 27, 2020, 2:41 pm — Perkins … low afternoon sunlight … streaming across the room from the deck window …
Sunday, November 29, 2020, 1:30 pm — Perkins …
Sunday, November 22, 2020, 8:43 pm — Perkins, Teeny Tuxedo … 2 days later … still liking the new self-heating thermal mats … Warm as Toast Cats, Nov. 20 …
… Wednesday, November 25, 2020, 12:13 pm … Teeny thinks her bedding cave is high on the stay warm scale, too … See Decisions Cat, Nov. 14, 2020 …
… Monday, December 7, 11:16 am … 2 weeks later … same paw positions … left claws are her no-slip anchor …
Thursday, September 24, 2020, 11:51 pm — Perkins … newest Finnish Marimekko sheet set … Pikkuinen Unikko (little poppy) …
… the empty packaging is interesting by itself … and so tasty, too! …
… good for a face rub …
Thursday, September 24, 2020, 8:26 pm — Teeny Tuxedo … prima ballerina … puts her ballet pose to good use for grooming … Brava! …
… 8:38 pm … after her performance … shares ballet grooming secrets with Perkins …
Perkins and Teeny Tuxedo 