Thursday, December 15, 2022, 11:48 am — Perkins … contrasting faces … grumpy … on Mom’s wingback chair … Grandma’s Pylkki’s map of Finland …
… 11:56 am … curious … from other side of chair … looking north at kitchen window … Mom’s china cabinets …
… 7 years ago! … same spot … Morning Chair Cat, June 4, 2015 …
Friday, December 2, 2022, 2:36 pm — Teeny Tuxedo … the watcher … gets around … from high … the kitchen ledge …
Sunday, December 4, 2022, 2:26 am … to low … in a box on the floor … looking at Perky, posed under a lamp on the floor …
Sunday, December 4, 2022, 2:48 pm … and in between … on duty on the edge of the tub … making sure the freshly washed self-heating thermal mats dry properly …
Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 4:08 pm … Two days later … Perk and Teeny test-nap a newly clean and dry self-heating thermal mat …
Thursday, October 20, 2022, 1:18 pm — Teeny Tuxedo … still likes the highest point in the kitchen to look out the window … Fridge Magnets Mountain …
Saturday, September 24, 2022, 4:14 pm — Squirrel is VERY busy … front lawn, from kitchen window … looking for previously hidden nuts … and re-hiding them … See backyard squirrel do the same, 3 weeks earlier, Seek and Hide Squirrel, Sept. 4, 2022 …
… racing to a new spot …
… surveying the scene from giant rock …
Below, video … Squirrel on the hunt … stops to scratch its nose with both front paws at 0:38 seconds …
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 …
Sunday, April 17, 2022, 12:18 pm … Robin gets a firm grip on the worm … caught in grass to left … 
Below, video … Look fast! … Robin takes off from driveway in front of garage … to top of tree …
… then flies to edge of 2-storey roof … Starts a series of leg lifts … one, two … one, two … one, two … take a breath … one, two … (24x zoom through kitchen window … a bit blurry) …
… 1:33 pm … an hour later … back for more worms …
Sunday, February 27, 2022, 12:44 pm — Perkins … natural light from kitchen window … photos being sorted for My Photo a Day Adventure blog … bright yellow means Kodak film developing … on Mom’s Ethan Allen dining table, chairs …
Thursday, January 20, 2022, 1:01 pm — Teeny Tuxedo … top of refrigerator … Travel Magnets Mountain … kitchen window reflected in her eyes …
Friday, December 24, 2021, 7:11 pm — Perkins … It’s Christmas Eve! … Where’s Santa? … Is he down there? … No …
… Is he up there? … No … I’ll have to keep waiting …
Thursday, August 26, 2021, 11:13 am — Teeny Tuxedo, Perkins … Teeny woke up and realized this was our visitor’s last full day … what shall I do? …
… 8:09 pm … Teeny stayed close by the visitor’s chair … even Perkins was out and about! …
… 8:10 pm … She watched in rapt attention as the visitor from Minnesota did some stuff called remote work on the little traveling computer gizmo …
Tuesday, June 29, 2021, 6:37 am — Teeny Tuxedo … doing some fancy footwork at the paper dance party …
Saturday, June 5, 2021, 9:04 am — Scotty dog … such “alive” eyes! … Since I don’t have a real Scottish terrier, here’s the next best thing … from my movie blog … If I Had a Dog … and … A Movie Road to Fala – FDR’s Scotty Dog …
… photo is also in My Photo a Day Adventure …
Friday, May 28, 2021, 7:47 pm — Teeny Tuxedo … Getting ready for Memorial Day weekend … neighbor’s flag …
… 9:46 pm … outside front door, looking north … shades of indigo blue … Lumix FZ300, autofocus …
Friday, May 28, 2021, 1:05 pm — Fairly limited, but still … the most expansive view of the sky is from the kitchen window, looking north … a robin popped up on the peak of the garage to enjoy the parade of clouds …
Sunday, May 2, 2021, 12:14 pm — A cheery, chirpy, clear sky robin day! … top of tree … looking north from the front door … outside, rather than through a window … MUCH crisper! … (Russ and I were leaving for Olympia … Dirty Dave’s Pizza! … a travel tradition) …
By the time filming started, chirp-chirp-chirping stopped … did catch him/her drop a black seed out of its mouth … and make a swift flying exit …
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 …
Friday, April 9, 2021, 4:53 pm — Perkins … focused on …
… jumping to the top of her kitchen window lookout …
… reflected in her eyes … the window … and …
… Teeny Tuxedo! … from behind the scene … enlarge for better view …
Wednesday, March 10, 2021, 1:28 pm — Snippet of kitchen window sky … cotton candy clouds … cumulus? … moving west …
… 1:32 pm …
… 1 year ago … wider view … front door to right of kitchen window, looking north … Kitchen Sky Cats, June 20, 2020 …
Thursday, February 25, 2021, 1:09 am — Perkins … what can we see through the space between her paw and tail? …
… The Tease, 1901, John William Godward (1861-1922) … Ginger / red / orange tabby cat! … the header of Perk and Teeny’s blog! … More about the artist, Grecian Orange Tabby Cat, August 27, 2014 …
… A closer view of the hen and rooster … Valentine Rooster Cat, Feb. 14, 2021
Tuesday, February 16, 2021, 5:46 am — While Perkins and Teeny Tuxedo were nestled all snug in their bed …
… 12:24 pm … the snow was melting … (neighbor’s flag) …
… 2 days earlier … a pristine world of fluffy white … Valentine Surprise, Feb. 14, 2021 …
Sunday, February 14, 2021, 8:31 am — Teeny Tuxedo … imitates the crowing Valentine’s Day rooster … kitchen ledge … front door to right …
… have both the rooster and hen … Diane Ulmer Pederson, 1998 … from Fred Meyer … 20 years ago …
Sunday, February 14, 2021, 8:30 am — Teeny Tuxedo … just another snowy day in the neighborhood … over a foot of the white stuff … it’s reached the very top of the large planter out front … (neighbor’s flag) …
… but, WAIT! … something’s weirdly off-kilter out there! … it’s a pink … it’s a pink …
… a pink flamingo! … stranger in a strange, snowy land … Happy Valentine’s Day! …
…now back to window snow patrol business …
See Teeny Tuxedo’s “twin” in the same pose as above, Arty Twin Cat, Feb. 9, 2020
Sunday, November 22, 2020, 12:15 am — Katharine Hepburn … in her kitchen at the family home on the water at Fenwick, Old Saybrook, Connecticut … where she whipped up many a batch of brownies … Lights! Camera! Action! … Brownies! … followed her recipe … scrumptious! … (see full post … Kate’s Brownies – At Last) …
… a photo that was left on the cutting room floor … Teeny Tuxedo! … what are you doing?! … you don’t like brownies … even if they’re Katharine Hepburn’s! …
[Book … The Private World of Katharine Hepburn, 1990, pp. 34-35]
Friday, November 20, 2020, 4:15 am — Teeny Tuxedo … boldly goes where no cats are supposed to go … what does she find? …
… nothing tasty … only water …
Tuesday, November 10, 2020, 4:42 pm — Rainbow! … looking north from kitchen …
… 11:50 pm … Perkins … new box … newly sorted college papers …
… 1st year at the U. of Washington … B.A. in Arabic! …
… even better … it’s see-through! …
Perkins and Teeny Tuxedo 