Sunday, June 26, 2022, 3:46 pm — Ms / Mr Calico … heading east along edge of trees … Nice to see her, even though she shouldn’t be outside … last visit was in cold January …
Videos below … walk, sit … trot! …
Wednesday, June 15, 2022, 8:42 am — Teeny Tuxedo … ready to jump … from window … to bed … focused on her landing spot …
Thursday, June 16, 2022, 8:58 am … the next day … What does she see? … Perkins? … (one of Mom’s loons, hand-carved, in background) … The green fringed Victorian lamp shade was handmade, 1990, when Kevin and I moved to Portland, OR … The now slightly ratty fringe was a cat temptation …
Thursday, January 27, 2022, 11:33 am — Perkins … you have a visitor! … the calico cat … who first popped up, October 19, 2021 …
… a closer look …
Videos … Ms Calico (since most are female) … out for a stroll along the deck … bird feeders … but nary a bird …
Sunday, May 30, 2021, 10:54 pm — Perkins, Teeny Tuxedo … the trusty fan-in-the-window at night … still good when it’s not so hot, like today’s 83° … will put the new-ish AC to work in the next few over-90° days this week …
Sunday, November 22, 2020, 1:22 am — Teeny Tuxedo … new box real estate! … old college papers sorted and moved … just in time for Teeny to jump in … cogitate for a bit …
… and jump out … she’s looking for a more modern property … amenities here are dated and ramshackle …
Saturday, November 7, 2020, 12:18 am — Perkins … and awaaaay she goes! … sorting junior high, high school papers … from old cardboard box to sturdier plastic container …
… wonderful movie re-discoveries … pages from Mad Magazine, Oct. 1967, no. 114 …
… Mad’s “Late Show” Cliché Movie Script: The “Society” Movie, p. 42 … stars bordering the script: James Cagney, Bette Davis, Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Edward G. Robinson, Alice Faye, Shirley Temple, Betty Grable, John Wayne, Ginger Rogers, Errol Flynn, Rita Hayworth, Humphrey Bogart …
Look closely … the swirls between the drawings are names of other movie stars … a galaxy of ’em! ...
Friday, July 10, 2020, 10:52 pm — Perkins … I see you, buggy bugster! …
… wow! … that’s one tough water drop on your chin … how’d it get there? … see Perk’s Water Tradition, Sept. 11, 2019 …
Tuesday, May 9, 2020, 10:40 am — What’s different about this picture? … it’s Perkins, instead of Teeny Tuxedo, on top of Fridge Magnets Mountain! …
Wednesday, February 5, 2020, 12:28 am — Perkins: “Hey, Teeny … why are you waking up?” …
… “I dreamt I was flying a World War II plane … and I don’t know how to fly! … Time to get safely down to earth!” …
… closer view of metal poster in above photo …
… “you buy ’em, we’ll fly ’em!” … 1942 Defense Bonds Stamps poster … “The More Bonds You Buy, The More Planes Will Fly” … (by J. Walter Wilkinson, 1892-1988, and his son, Walter G. Wilkinson, 1917-1971)
… pretty sure I got it at the Tillamook Air Museum, Oregon … 1990s … former World War II blimp hangar … easy to see on east side of Highway 101, south of Tillamook …
… Hangar B and A were built in 1943 … the largest free-span wooden structures in the world (Guinness Book of World Records) … Hangar A was destroyed by fire, fueled by 7,000 tons of stored straw/hay, August 1992 …
Monday, January 13, 2020, 7:14 pm — Teeny Tuxedo …
Wednesday, December 25, 2019, 2:48 pm — Teeny Tuxedo … loves her Christmas present … a birds in the snow video … as soon as she heard it, she jumped up close to watch …
Wednesday, November 13, 2019, 4:05 pm — Zooming in … from Perk and Teeny’s Kitty Sills window …
… Sunday, November 17, 2019, 10:59 am …
Wednesday, September 11, 2019, 11:23 pm — The cats are fascinated by the linen (and photos) closet … as soon as the door opens they try to sneak in … Teeny Tuxedo was first …
… Perkins is next …
… making plans to …
… JUMP! … up to the second shelf …
… back down to ground level … still eyeing the upper shelves …
Monday, August 26, 2019, 9:26 am — Perkins … I wonder what’s inside this big white box? …
… All these empty milk cartons used to live there? … Too bad I don’t drink milk … Wish I could help you recycle them …
… but I have other duties which require my utmost attention …
Monday, August 5, 2019, 6:51 pm — Teeny Tuxedo … If this was a mozzarella cheese recipe, I’d be interested … but spinach and tomato soup?? … NO, thank you! …
Today the deck was power washed … left the flower pots outside … brought in the black metal mesh table … sheets under and over for protection … top, yellow Marimekko Juuro design …
Wednesday, July 24, 2019, 6:34 pm — Teeny Tuxedo … watching the next-door flag … Where is she? …
… on the kitchen ledge … doing a little do-si-do …
… Whoa! … what’s down THERE? ..
… a BANANA?! … even worse, a banana with brown spots! … NOT interested! …
… let me outta here! …
Monday, July 22, 2019, 7:58 pm — Perkins … getting ready … to …
… JUMP! … onto the computer desk …
Friday, April 19, 2019, 11:38 pm — Perkins … jumping out of the tiny box … too quick for the photographer! …
Tuesday, November 6, 2018, 3:44 pm — New arrival from AmazonPrime … Farberware Classic Stainless Steel 6-Quart Covered Stockpot … replaces 20-year-old pot, a bit bigger, whose bottom had ‘sploded (a different brand) … after research, chose this, heavy-duty quality, without heavy-duty price … $26.99, minus $16.20 Amazon Visa rewards points …
Perkins and Teeny Tuxedo don’t care about cooking … or great bargains … they DO care about boxes … lovely BOXES! …
… 3:48 pm …
Saturday, October 20, 2018, 11:12 am — Teeny … has conquered the Mount Everest of refrigerator magnet travel souvenirs …
Thursday, October 18, 2018, 9:21 pm — Perk in a box … with rainbow toy, grooming gloves, paper … and wire toy …
… jumping out … finally caught her from nose to tail …
Thursday, July 19, 2018, 2:16 am — Perkins tried out the new tiny box … but didn’t stay long …
Monday, July 9, 2018, 6:26 am — Teeny Tuxedo and Perkins … the fan is getting in the way … What do they see outside? … rabbits, birds, squirrels? … Perk is a great balancer! … all four paws on the narrow shelf edges …
Sunday, June 17, 2018, 11:15 am — Perkins and Teeny Tuxedo … why is is water spritzing on the window? …
It’ll be 90° today … give the butterfly bush a drink … Luckily rained last weekend …
Teeny heads for a drink of water, too …
Saturday, June 2, 2018, 11:29 pm — Perkins … almost midnight …
… on top of the fourth in the line-up of Mom’s china cabinets … tv series DVDs … Downton Abbey, Father Knows Best, Highway Patrol, I Love Lucy, The Jewel in the Crown, Seinfeld, Upstairs Downstairs … etc. …
My Arabian stallion, 1961 (?), Tillamook, Oregon … Dad’s desk name plate, Olympia Cheese Factory, 1963-1984 … Gunnard Pylkki, Plant Manager …
Just missed catching Perk in mid-jump down to the chair … painting by Nola Ahola …
Perkins and Teeny Tuxedo 