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, February 13, 2022, 12:56 am — Perkins … It’s Finnish language V Day! … The 3 words are: … vettä / water … värit / colors … vihreä / green … “Kissa juo vettä vihreässä kulhossa” … “The cat drinks water in a green bowl” … Perk creates ripples of concentric circles with her tongue … Enlarge to see drop of water on her chin …
Friday, February 11, 2022, 2:41 pm — Perkins … drop of water on her chin, fresh from the water dish … taking in the fresh air …
… 2:45 pm … Teeny Tuxedo’s turn at the first open window of the year … 68º … warmest day of the month …
… Teeny … backlit by fresh February sun …
… Enlarge to see rainbow sparkles of sunlight in window screen …
Monday, January 24, 2022, 11:13 am — Look who’s tritty-trotting through the fog … a deer … Teeny Tuxedo was right there at the window, sleeping … when she’s awake, it’s a prime location for wildlife viewing …
1:17 am … two hours later … sun broke through the fog … shining on Perky drinking water … food sample from Feline Medical Clinic on the Finnish Arabia Uhtua plate … which she wasn’t interested in …
Thursday, July 22, 2021, 4:06 pm — Perkins … eating and drinking … May seem ordinary, but this was a positive day … 11:00 am, Feline Medical Clinic … 1st B-12 shot … went in with her to learn how to give the next 3 weekly shots … then monthly … Glad I had experience giving Tinkerbell her subcutaneous fluid … this needle is MUCH smaller …
Yesterday, July 21, Dr. B. called … results of pancreatic blood panel from Dr. John August, leading authority, Texas A&M … Starting B-12 … Then, August 23 appointment, internal medicine consult, ultrasound of intestines, Sunstone Veterinary Specialists, Portland … Immediate veterinary appointments are VERY hard to get now … side-effect of Covid pandemic for a number of reasons …
Monday, July 19, 2021, 12:40 am — Perkins, Teeny Tuxedo … show their good manners … waiting patiently while the other drinks water …
… 4:47 pm … sharing the glider chair for a catnap …
Saturday, June 12, 2021, 11:48 pm — Teeny Tuxedo … This charcoal sketch is just like me! … black and white … Gondola on canal under Bridge of Sighs … Venice, Italy … from Glynnis, drawn while she watched, late 1990s (?) …
Wednesday, December 16, 2020, 12:50 am — Perkins … experiment with homemade raised food dish … less strain on neck, smoother flow of food to stomach, lessens pressure which can cause acid reflux (Perky, on occasion … upchucks fluid) …
… placed online order for 2 raised, tilted ceramic food bowls … similar to this …
Saturday, November 21, 2020, 3:24 am — Teeny Tuxedo … double curious … Brita water filter … front bathroom …
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 …
Thursday, September 17, 2020, 2:10 pm — Teeny Tuxedo … on her rounds … checking the WILDFIRE SMOKE conditions around the butterfly bush … (8 minutes earlier, she had been at the north-facing kitchen window) …
… butterfly bush shadows … pink-tinged smoky sunlight …
… 4 days earlier … Sunday, Sept. 13, 7:19 am …
Friday, September 11, 2020, 7:16 pm — Perkins, Teeny Tuxedo … take turns for a drink o’ water …
Monday, August 31, 2020, 12:09 pm — Perkins … so funny … after she drinks from the water bowl, there’s always a TENACIOUS water drop on her chin …
Thursday, August 13, 2020, 1:30 pm — Teeny Tuxedo … napping … while the purple watering can stands at the ready to work …
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 …
Friday, May 29, 2020, 5:07 pm — Teeny Tuxedo, Perkins … dreaming of … rabbits …
… like the bunnster by the automatic water sprinkler … to the left of the window … Saturday morning, May 30, 8:39 am …
Thursday, April 2, 2020, 11:45 am — While Perky snoozes on the deck window Kitty Sill … there’s plenty of action outside …
… swingin’, sunflower seeds eatin’ squirrel …
Monday, January 20, 2020, 10:52 am — Perkins … morning lamplight … water drop on her chin …
Saturday, December 21, 2019, 1:37 am — Perkins, Teeny Tuxedo … every once in a while they like to cozy up on Mom’s wingback chair … next to her Ethan Allen black Hitchcock cabinet … what’s got their curiosity? …
Thursday, December 19, 2019, 4:16 am — Perkins … what’s going on here? … uh-oh … rain … leaking from top edge of cabinets … [Update: roof repaired, Dec. 31, no cost, benefit of renting] …
… where are all the cookie jars? …
… found you! … on the other side of the sink …
… glad you’re all ok … time to continue my patrol …
… fridge travel magnets … all present and accounted for! …
Friday, November 29, 2019, 6:36 pm — Perkins … after drinking … there’s nearly always a drop of water on her chin …
Saturday, November 16, 2019, 12:57 am — Teeny Tuxedo … to spice up life, she likes to sleep in the front bedroom … Prepping for the new ductless heating and cooling system installation in the livingroom and back bedroom on Wednesday … Perk and Teeny’s cat necessities are now here … to get comfortable before they stay on installation day …
… Wednesday, November 20, 3:31 am … Teeny and Perk … more comforts … blue comforter … bedroom door’s open …
Wednesday, September 11, 2019, 11:30 pm — Perkins … where’d you get that drop of water on your chin?
Monday, September 2, 2019, 9:18 pm — Teeny Tuxedo … lounging by the water dish … what do you see? …
… a “trying it out … again” test bag of Wellness Complete Health Indoor cat food … Teeny, of course, eats it … but Perky turns up her nose, just like before … here we go again … Petco, Petsmart, Chewy no longer carry Wellness Complete Health Healthy Weight (which Perk loves) … aargh! … they’ve switched to Wellness Grain-Free … double aargh! … grain-free it may be … but replaced with POTATOES … caused Teeny to balloon up … no bueno, said the vet …
Was able to find a large bag of the Wellness Perk likes on AmazonPrime … Complete Health Healthy Weight (Chicken) … Will call Wellness tomorrow … (photo below, April 13, 2019) …
Sunday, May 5, 2019, 1:25 pm — Perkins … first to investigate new watering can … just watered deck plants … Ace Hardware, on sale, this morning … 80s this week, maybe 90° Friday …
… hmmm … something about sniffing that plastic?? …
Perkins and Teeny Tuxedo 