Tell Tale Tail

Sunset

Jack Sparrow taken with my new iPhone 16

Silver, Glenda, Gwendolyn

Sandias @ Sunset

Cranes under a purple sky

Spunk playing with his tail in his performance art piece called Tell Tale Tail.

Cranes flying to the Rio Grande at dusk

Cranes in the Rio Grande at dusk

Gwendolyn

Venus in the Tangle Heart Tree with birds on the skyline at dusk.

Up In Christmas Smoke

Chritmas Cranes

Jake waiting to go to grandma’s for Christmas

Traditional, handmade smokers made by German craftsmen that Tristan sent from Germany.

Angry Beaver Curmudgeon Claus

Dogo Claus

Cute Angry Beaver Claus

Resa’s Tree with whipped cream on top.

Little Green Bags

Since we’ve adopted Jake, I spend a lot of time carrying little green bags of dog poop around with me when we are out on walks. The old song “Little Green Bag” by the Dutch band George Baker Selection came to mind one day, so I wrote parody lyrics about those little green bags of dog poop. I recorded the parody, and Jake and I made the above music video.

Silver: “It’s your own fault for adopting a dog. Pathetic poopy paparazzo!”

Gwendolyn: “Whoa! You really pick up that crap? At least with us kitties, you use a slotted scoop to clean the kitty litter.”

Spunk: “Well, pathetic poopy paparazzo. Your doggedness has done you in!”

While I’m off work for the holidays, Jake misses his ride to and from the office every day. He goes outside and sits by my car, waiting to go to work. When we don’t go to the office, he acts disappointed, so I’ve started taking Jake for a ride in the car every day while I’m on vacation. Today we came across a cluck of cranes.

Cats & Contrails

Spunk playing with his ears

Marble playing with Gwendolyn’s tail

The frumpy man in his running cap, Laurie thinks he looks like a freak. Jake after our morning run. He had a hard time keeping up at a 10-minute-per-mile pace.

Silver, Spunk, Gwendolyn, Glenda, Bunny and Sheep.

Loki Dragon

Spunk’s latest Tail and Ears art

Sunset

Tangle Heart Tree and Venus

Jupiter and Kiss Flying-V over Resa’s Tree

Jake’s Big Adventure

While my car was in the shop for maintenance, Jake and I took a 3.8-mile (6.1 Km) walk down, up, and all around the Albuquerque flood diversion channel. I was surprised how much Jake liked running down and up the steep sides of the flood control channels. Whenever we came up to the top of a channel, Jake would hop onto the road and give whatever was in front of us a look of intense interest. It was like a game for Jake.

The route

Jake peed on a high-voltage transmission line pole. He thought it was electrifying.

Serious security: An electric fence behind the cyclone fence and barbed wire.

Needless to say, Jake was worn out after his big adventure.