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 …
Saturday, December 10, 2022, 8:29 pm — Perkins … with faithful guardian, Ms Koala …
Monday, December 12, 2022, 2:05 pm … two days later …
10 years ago! … Ms Koala … ever vigilant … Teeny Tuxedo and Perky, new printer box … Eye of the Printer Cat, Oct. 26, 2013 …
Sunday, July 31, 2022 — Teeny Tuxedo, Perkins … Dueling yawn, paw trick on the scratching post photos … left, Teeny Tuxedo, Post Poses, May 28, 2019 … right, Perkins, Yawnster Deluxe Cat, April 5, 2019 … Teeny’s the real paw trickster, she knows it’ll get her the attention she wants … (Posted to a few orange tabby, tuxedo cat Facebook groups in July) …
Tuesday, July 26, 2022, 1:34 pm — Teeny Tuxedo, Perkins … the window to the deck has gotten smaller … after the new French door was installed, June 17, 2020 …
15 years ago! … it was infinitely larger … and they were tiny … July 24, 2007 … Perk and Teeny’s adoption month! … First saw them, Friday July 13, 2007, SW Washington Humane Society … a lucky day! … Brought them home a few days later … after their spays …
Little curious cuties! … their 1st days exploring together … The first week they were kept apart … Teeny had developed a cold … luckily, she still ate … Perk is the picky eater … (The deck has been replaced/remodeled since then) …
Friday, March 4, 2022 — Teeny Tuxedo, Perkins … A cuddle of cats … in Dreamland … with special cat guest … “Uncle” Boo-Key … visiting while Mom was traveling … September 10, 2009 … Teeny and Perk were two years old … [First posted in My Photo a Day Adventure] …
Wednesday, March 2, 2022 — Perkins, Teeny Tuxedo … hypnotizing fascination of a simple drip of water … curious girls … when they were 6 months old … October 12, 2007 … They’re SO cute! … [First posted in My Photo a Day Adventure] …
… Perkins reaches out to catch a drop …
… Hooray, Perky! … You caught one! …
… Teeny and Perk … switch sides … followed by their cuter than cute mirror reflections …
Sunday, August 1, 2021 — Retro … Experimenting with 1st Panasonic Lumix digital camera … FZ20 … April 2005 … Before Perkins and Teeny Tuxedo arrived, July 14, 2007 … there were the girls … Jumpers …
… and Tinkerbell …
July 20, 2021 — 13 years ago … April 10, 2008, 9:41 pm … Perkins … one year old! … Adopted her and Teeny Tuxedo from the Southwest Washington Humane Society, July 14, 2007 … a “two for one” deal! …
Friday, July 9, 2021, 8:57 pm — Alert rabbit … standing on back legs … stayed like this for the longest time … What’s back there? … (photo through window screen) …
… April 24, 2005 … 16 years ago! … déjà vu … rabbit relative … same location … more photos, Reaching High Rabbit, June 13, 2021 …
… 9:00 pm … 3 minutes later … safe to eat now …
Wednesday, July 7, 2021, 4:56 pm — Teeny Tuxedo, Perkins … keep their computer chair traditions … today …
… 3 years ago … Catnap Conundrum Cats, June 15, 2018 …
Thursday, July 1, 2021 — Perkins … After an image search, found a 2014 photo … saved on Pinterest around about 2018 … Yay, Perky! … Her original, Up High Cat, Sept. 10, 2019 …
Sunday, June 13, 2021, 7:50 pm — What fun! … Rabbit standing on back legs to reach tastiest top of tall grass … bent low under raindrops …
Update, August 7, 2021: From April 24, 2005 … 16 years ago! … Rabbit relatives … How many generations back? … In the same location … edge of trees in back … My 1st Panasonic Lumix (1st month) … FZ20, 12x zoom … 2021 photos at top are Lumix FZ200, 24x zoom (purchased Feb. 2015) …
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 …
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 …
Wednesday, April 28, 2021, 7:46 pm — … and whiskers on kittens …
Thursday, April 22, 2021, 11:57 am — Teeny Tuxedo … look who’s out of hibernation … the grooming gloves! … Cat Dancer wire toy is ready to welcome them back, too …
… 7 months ago … Not So Bad Cat, Sept. 22, 2020 …
“Etymologists think this is probably how we got the word dukes used to refer to fists, as in “put up your dukes.” Fork was slang for “hand” or “fist,” and the phrase “dukes of York” was created as rhyming slang for “fork.” So, instead of telling someone to “put up your forks,” you might say “put up your dukes of York!” Eventually, this was shortened to “put up your dukes.”” — Merriam-Webster
Saturday, April 17, 2021, 5:42 am — Perkins … HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip … funeral today … live streaming, BBC … he’d planned all the details, including participation of his two Fell ponies and carriage, which have been left to his granddaughter, Lady Louise, 17 … Camera on top of scratching post and High Noon book … to film Fell ponies on tv screen (see below) …
… Prince Philip’s Fells … Balmoral Nevis, Notlaw Storm … heading toward and at Windsor Castle …
… Prince Philip … Windsor grounds … 2019 …
… Granddaughter, Lady Louise, 14 … her mother, Sophie, Countess of Wessex (father, Prince Edward) … Royal Windsor Horse Show, 2018 … Philip taught them both to drive …
… Lowther Horse Driving Trials and County Fair, 2005 … 3-day combined driving event … Cumbria, England … (I was there all 3 days, 1999! … Queen Elizabeth was, also, thinking it might be Philip’s last year to compete … not quite!) …
… Competition Carriage Driving … HRH The Duke of Edinburgh … 1994 … have both this and his 2005 book, 30 Years On and Off the Box Seat …
… Windsor … 2017 …
“A red-topped plastic container was placed on the box seat of his driving carriage. He used it to store the sugar lumps he gave to his Fell ponies, Balmoral Nevis and Notlaw Storm, both present along with the carriage in the castle quadrangle. Next to this lay his driving cap, whip, blanket and brown gloves.“
Doob … my Fell pony … Orange Hay Net Cats, Oct. 24, 2016 …
Thursday, April 15, 2021, 7:38 pm — Perkins … seeking just the right spot to scratch her itchy nose … Venetian blinds at your service, ma’am! …
Sunday, April 11, 2021, 10:33 am — Perkins, Teeny Tuxedo … a warm morning snooze … Teeny’s front paw keeps the window standing straight …
… 10:43 pm … Perky welcomes the newest DVD set … all the way from the UK! … Nanny, complete series 1 to 3, 1981-1983, BBC, Wendy Craig …
Friday, April 9, 2021, 4:40 pm — A sure sign of spring … busy, chirpy robins … west edge of back lawn … 24x zoom …
… and blooming flowers … cool, overcast day, 59° … the perennial anemones keep their petals up to stay warm …
… 1 year ago … warmer day, 68°, anemone open to the sun … “First spring bloom on the deck … first day working from home … campus closed until … possibly the end of spring quarter, June 2020” ... Stay Home, Stay Safe, March 17, 2020 … and today, 1 year later, 2021, campus still closed … on the positive side, we’re getting vaccinated! …
Thursday, March 25, 2021, 11:47 pm — Teeny Tuxedo … times change … a paper bag is worth exploring …
Friday, March 26, 2021, 2:45 pm … but not as exciting as they used to be …
5 years ago … paper bags were all the rage … New Year’s Eve Cat, Dec. 31, 2015 …
Sunday, March 14, 2021, 3:35 pm — Teeny Tuxedo … bonded and insured for any plumbing emergency … as soon as the guest bathroom sink cabinet door opened, she was there … for close inspection of every detail …
... emergency averted … everything checks out … call us again for all your plumbing needs, day or night … Plumber 911 Cat, at your service! …
1 year ago … guest bathroom was remodeled … floor, shower, cabinetry … Out of Sight Cat, Feb. 2, 2020
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
Friday, February 19, 2021, 5:03 am — Perkins … after a month of testing, Perk has decided the original bowl on 3 stacked saucers is better than the elevated, tilted bowl … See also, Elevated Eating Cats, Dec. 16, 2020, first experiment with the stacked saucers …
… 11:58 am … midday tunnel time …
... 1:50 pm … snow world window watching … not much left after a week …
… 7 days earlier … with Teeny Tuxedo … Snow Birds Cats, Feb. 12, 2021 …
Perkins and Teeny Tuxedo 