Dawning on December
The last month of the year commences, and the temperatures have dropped. It was 13ºF (-10.6ºC) this morning. Jake went out and frosted is peeshooter.
Get a Christmas Wish
Daisy Red Rider Carbine
You’ll shoot your eye out
Sliver, Glenda, Spunk
Spunk Art
Cranes flying the Rio Grande to roost at sunset
Venus in the Tangle Heart Tree
Meet Athena, the newest member of the office dog family. If this keeps up, we will have more dogs than staff in the office. Athena is a sweet dog. Even Jake likes her, and he generally doesn’t like dogs very much as he believes he’s human (he doesn’t stick his head out the car window like most dogs). Athena has duochromatic eyes. She can give people the stink eye in technicolor.
The cats were extra cheesy this morning.
Marble in a magic wind tunnel.
Interactive Spunk Art
We haven’t had a dishwasher in years. Now we have a Dogo-Matic Dishwasher.
One flew over the Sandhill Cranes
Belafonte having a bit of Cranberry Walnut Bread with a decaf coffee chaser.
Spunk and catnip with DarkCat in the corner.
The landing
Silver
Ducks fly over Venus as the Tangle Heart Tree looks on
Marble
Geese and cranes looking north.
A trinity of cats
Volcano under yellow @ dusk
Dawn
Can you spot the Camo Dog?
Sandias after sunset
See no Burdie!
Hear no Burdie
Say “No!” to Burdie and eat cheez!
No cranes tonight
Shey’s tree @ dusk
Gwendolyn and Glenda
Tangle Heart Tree @ Dusk
Afterglow @ dusk
Pre-dawn
Marble: “Why hasn’t that pathetic, lame-brained paparazzo put out any cheez for us?”
Silver: “¡Callate, Marble! Show some respect to the poor old paparazzo. He’s a little slow these days.”
Silver: “Hear me, oh Lord. I thank you for kicking our old paparazzo in the pants, reminding him to give us cheez.”
Loki: “You are such a drama queen, Silver! The old, half-wit paparazzo does not look impressed!”
Marina’s Incognito Tree is back to being hard to see.
Gigi’s Tree with Laurie, moon and contrail
Glenda is on the right half under Sasha on the left. Then Gwendolyn, Spunk and Silver. Spunk’s tail is on my toes. Loki is on Laurie. Marble might have been under the covers with Laurie, but I can’t say for sure.
24ºF outside + 54ºF inside + 5:00 in the morning = 5 Cats on me and a tail on my toes. Hmmm! Tail on Toes would make a great name for a post-rock band. Tones on Tail was a great post-punk band.
Belafante enjoying himself in the mirror.
He’s gives himself kisses
Gwendolyn hanging over the edge of the counter, trying to maximize heat gain.
Sunset on the Sandias under clear skies
A few clouds down south
Dawn
What’s that old adage, “Red sky at morning shepherds take warning”?
We had light snow most of the day. Jake and I went for a long walk in the snow this afternoon. Jake loves the cold and wet.
We visited the cranes
The Tangle Heart Tree and fellow cottonwoods
“Are you going to eat that cheez, Glenda?” “Not with you staring at it like a crazed cheezhead, Sasha!”
You can sort of see the snow falling.
Shey’s Tree
Where’d the Sandias go?
Light snow in the headlights. Click to enlarge.
Da dynamic duo doing Duo — lingo, that is.
Late breaking news. The neighbor’s tree is on fire once again. The snow is bowing the tree’s branches into the powerline. Fortunately, it’s the highline, so there is less chance of it causing a power outage.
Looks a little like Christmas.
Only one fire crew is left watching the fire. The other firemen had to respond to more fires. Wet conditions should keep the fire from spreading further into the tree. The firemen will not attempt to extinguish the fire because they could be electrocuted.
Teagan is warning young lovers, Tim and Laurie, to escape from the sinister circus before they too become a whiter shade of pale — Teagan Riordain Genevien.
Teagan had the idea for her and me to collaborate on a Halloween-themed music video. We chose “A Whiter Shade Of Pale” by Procol Harem. Teagan produced wonderful images of herself, Laurie, and me for me to use in the video, and she sounds great, as always. She wrote a really cool story to go with the video that you can read on her accompanying post at https://wp.me/p30Tpb-9R4.
Halloween Kitties
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Nightmare on Elm Root Road
Reincarnation
Newborn into an elm root
Got mauled by a dog
Dawn
Savanha Silver, Genda of the Graben, Spunk Peak, Marble of the Malpaís
Gwendolyn of the Gulch
Sandhill Sasha
Confluence of cats over a corrie of queso
Just Beeing
Sunset
My Saturday morning project was to install a post and fencing for a Jake Gate to keep Jake from wandering down the road when we want to leave him outside roaming around the property.
Redbud turned yellow
Genda with Spunk’s tail
Flying V
Off Center & Not Even 