Wednesday, January 26, 2022, 8:09 pm — Teeny Tuxedo … and a brand spanking new “Pumpkin” Orange Slow Feeder hay net … made locally in Washington … replacement for Doobie’s original, which lasted 5 years! …
… Investigation completed … blue cord rest stop …
9:01 pm … Teeny told Perkins … “Hay! There’s something new here! Take a sniff!” …
… Perk ends investigation at the same spot Teeny Tuxedo did … the blue cord …
Saturday, January 13, 2018, 12:54 pm — Perkins naps … Iceberg Augie, Adventure Bear, supervises scanning of Mom’s red photo album … a Christmas gift from Aunt Ida and Uncle Zack Sakrison, 1936 … Hockinson, WA …
Uncle Robert Ahola feeding Pandy Lamb … Ida and Zack’s two-story house in upper left (northeast) …
Bigboy and Pandy Lamb … north of house (that became garage), looking east …
Saturday, September 9, 2017, 2:58 pm — On the way home from Kelso’s Highland Games, cousin L and I stopped at the Columbia Inn Restaurant, off I-5 in Kalama, Washington … Have passed this weather-worn sign for DECADES after the move from Tillamook to Olympia in 1963 …
On a return trip from Grandma and Grandpa’s Hockinson farm in the 60s, Mom mentioned … “Elvis ate here” … on his way to film It Happen at the World’s Fair in Seattle, September 4, 1962 … Actually, he called from the adjacent Columbia Inn Motel to order a room service breakfast.
Hidden behind the roses … “Famous Visitors to the Columbia Inn” … Elvis, Jack Benny …
Totem pole … gray Pacific Northwest afternoon … I-5, Columbia River to the left …
Interesting … but I wasn’t an Elvis fan … he was SO boring, in person, song and film … Jack Benny is MUCH more intriguing to a classic movies kid! … Have yet to discover when Jack was here …
To be fair … It Happened at the World’s Fair fair! … the historical / local / movie aspects are très intéressant …
A memento of the fair from cousin Marcie … she lived up there … we were Tillamook County kids … When I think of the coin, it’s always tied to the Columbus Day Storm, Oct. 12, 1962 … night, wind, camping out in the hall between the bedrooms, East Beaver Creek house, candles … Did I receive it that day? …
Monday, October 24, 2016, 12:12 am — Perkins and Teeny Tuxedo try out Doob’s new “Pumpkin” Orange Slow Feeder hay net … They don’t eat hay, but it’s great for playing! … All the horses will have them at night this winter … slows down their eating, so there’ll be something consistently in their stomachs over the long, cold nights …
Lower left corner … metal carabiner to attach hay net to hook on wall in Doob’s stall … uniquely patterned duck tape to identify her net … from Wilco Farm Store, Battle Ground, WA …
Doob (my Fell pony!) … a few years earlier … grazing near curious hens …
Saturday, May 30, 2015 — Treetop Cat Rescue premiered on Animal Planet today.
Even better than cats being rescued, they’re cats in good ol’ Washington … Western Washington … with all the tall fir, cedar, etc. trees.
Rescues in Lacey, Olympia, Gig Harbor, North Bend, Puyallup, Seattle, and more … by two brothers-in-law … both arborists …
Perkins and Teeny Tuxedo 