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Taking advantage of Audible’s 2 for 1 credit sale I downloaded a couple of audiobooks to keep me busy and out of trouble. I am about halfway through the series on Western Philosophy and still re...

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I know, I know, 2015 is not a leap year in the traditional sense but Carlo wanted me to say that 2015 is the year of the leap. He is going for his personal best. So, the bridge above, this is o...

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I love love love the no ads thing! Thank you. This is the boathouse on the river about a mile down the Springwater Corridor multi-use path almost directly across the river from where I live. It ...

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So yep. They eliminated my Take No Prisoner’s boss’s position and now I report to Mr. Narcissistic Personality Disorder. (Mr. NPD) Other than keeping my job, which is a very very good thing for ...

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The most difficult thing about my odd relationship with Mr. Fine China (note the past tense here, he has finally stopped “liking” the intermittent Facebook posts I put up) is that he was a maste...

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This is kind of festive in a returning of the light and fertile earth sort of way. I am so looking forward to spring. Not that winter doesn’t have its beauty… it does, but when it is cold and we...

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By Carlo T.H. Cat Salute! Lets just get this out of the way…Auntie Kes says that the T.H. stands for “the handsome” and I can’t help but agree. I know I look a little sad in this shot Mom took o...

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Yesterday evening we were having record breaking rains in a weirdly warm environment and I was homebound. My oldest sister called. This is indeed a very rare occurrence. The way things work in t...

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By Diego T.B. Cat Mom and Auntie Kes have brought me all sorts of toys. I have eight different kinds of rattily balls and colored pipe cleaners and tissue paper. I have mice in various sizes and...

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It was bound to happen eventually if one is long enough in a particular body. I got on a relatively crowded bus with a cloth bag full of groceries on Saturday afternoon and moved towards the ba...

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This is what it looks like outside right now. I took this on my birding class this time last year. Somehow it seems appropriate with the news about sequencing the genome for various classes of b...

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Diego likes shiny things; nail clippers, tweezers, the gold mouse laser pointer on a keychain (they clearly have never encountered a laser pointer before coming to live here) my hair… He is a ha...

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Diego apparently has the ability to teleport from room to room, or else he can be in two places at once without being anywhere at all. Kes tells me that my brother calls this site-to-site transp...

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If you look carefully at this tree shot you can see a squirrel jumping from one branch to the other. I personally just like the light. We had abundant unexpected dreamy light yesterday but it wa...

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So one of the things I have been a little concerned about during the adoption process with the boys is that now I have even more of an excuse to stay home and not interact with others. I took th...

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I keep trying; really I do, to get decent shots of the cat boys. It is hard in such low light. You’ll just have to make do with an atmospheric picture taken about an hour ago with my phone of th...

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Because we have such a wide variety of trees here, our leaf litter often makes beautiful patterns. There is a kind of beauty in decay. I wish I could feel that way about my aging face. This mor...

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Mount St. Helens from the top of a public stairway a few blocks from my place last Sunday morning. We maybe see her one out of 15 days with the weather pattern here even though she is only 50 mi...

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For those of you not enamored of felines, this picture from Sunday is for you. We all survived our big day yesterday but it was quite the day. Because over the years getting Stella in the carri...

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Well, the picture is a little dark but remarkably they are not moving. They are now grooming and bapping and biting each other. Sometimes I look up and they are quietly rolling across the floor ...

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I have been taking pictures all day with my phone, my iPad and my camera and they are all blurry. The guys are pretty much always in motion. This is Carlo. He is smaller and beautifully proporti...

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Pictures to follow when they come out from under the bed. :) I am so excited. Carlo has been out exploring and marking everything (including me.) Diego is taking a more conservative approach to t...

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Like many of you we are having W-E-A-T-H-E-R. What exactly is the difference between freezing rain and sleet? They make a different sound? Sleet is slick and sleek? My Dante class was canceled s...

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Once when I was about 17 I went on this ill-fated camping trip with a roommate couple and a guy I didn’t know and my beloved Great Dane, Lucy. I was living independently by then and thought I wa...

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Yesterday morning I went to the farmers market up on the Portland State campus and discovered that the fall market starts at 9 AM, instead of the half hour earlier start in spring and summer. Lu...

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