Pre-dawn with Venus on the right.
Pre-dawn with Venus barely visible above the Sandias.
Dawn breaking, showing the fog rising off the river.
Daddy Owl hooting at the orange dawn.
Foggy Bottom
Left to right: Glenda, Loki, Gwendolyn. Silver in the back.
Sunset
The river was up about two feet at dawn
Glenda
Spunk hugging boxes I broke down trying to keep me from taking them out.
The box hugger was holding his cardboard
Loki
A shot of Sandhill Cranes on a fly-by
Pssst! Hey you! Yeah, you, Paparazzo! Have any wire cutters you could spare?
Sunset
Dawn
Since we are always charging our various devices, Spunk felt a need to charge his tail.
Ball of Sasha
Glenda
Spunk and Gwendolyn at sunrise
Glenda
Spunk
David Redpath’s The Lovecats reminded of the Cure’s early video of The Lovecats.
Sunrise
What the Silver, Loki and Spunk thought of the balloons.
Late afternoon
Under the light of a Harvest Supermoon, while waiting for the fireworks.
A few of the fireworks
Almost sunrise
A mini mass ascention. The Balloon Fiesta begins on Saturday.
🎶Humanities is coming down. 🎶Coming down. 🎶Coming down.
🎶Humanities is coming down!
🎶My U Bunny!
Sasha and Marble
Silver Mary Elephant: ” Caaaats! CaaAats! CAaAaAts!
Sunrise
Loki
Spunk Art
Loki: “Hooray! It’s laundry day!”
Anticipation
Gwendolyn
Ball of Confusion
Sasha tucked in with a towel, trying to stay warm.
Gwendolyn and Glenda
More rain
Sunset looking west
Sunset looking east
People have been asking me to return to my “Bloody Awful” roots of me vocalizing my songs. I believe Old & Gray, in my own Redneck Metal style, is pretty much on bloody awful par with my pre-AI vocals music (lyrics at the end of the post).
Belafonte
Belafonte trying to open the Thermos for a second cup of coffee
Loki’s back…
…and helped me with the laundry
Silver @sunrise
Jake loves to help clean up on gelato Sunday
A penny for you thoughts, Gwendolyn
“A penny? At least a fiver, and a squeezy treat or two, if you want to know what I think!”
Marble
Spunk tucked in and grooming
All worn out from grooming
“This is the life!”
Loki
Old and Gray
By Timothy Price
[Verse 1]
I have a parrot on my hand
And a cat on my lap
I’m not sure life
Can get much better than that
[Chorus]
I may be old, I may be gray
I may have seen my better days
But I can still enjoy the simple ways
Of life with birds, life with cats
And a big ‘ol yellow dog named Jake
[Verse2]
When simple pleasures come my way
I savor them from day to day
As life slows down
Time moves much faster
I teeder on the edge of disaster
[Bridge]
It’s been said that as you age
You become like a fine wine
But truth be told, and I can say
You become a first class whiner
[Chorus]
I may be old, I may be gray
I may have seen my better days
But I can still enjoy the simple ways
Of life with birds, life with cats
And a big ‘ol yellow dog named Jake
[Bridge]
It’s been said that as you age
You become like a fine wine
But truth be told, and I can say
You become a first class whiner
[Outro]
Old and gray, stuck in my ways
But with the birds, and cats
And ‘ol yeller Jake in the mix
This old dog can learn a few new tricks
Sunset
Gwendolyn and Silver succumbed to temptation.
Sasha on the can
Loki helped with laundry
Loki gives Il Paparazzo the paw
Marble and Glenda synchronized napping.
Sliver moon
Storm clouds at dawn
We got a downpour for about 30 minutes at 3:00 p.m. this afternoon. Several staff members stood outside under the portal at the office to watch the rain. Thunder was on a constant roll. Lightning struck close by while the rain poured and rivers ran through the parking lot. One staff member noted, “I’ll get home tonight and the weather will report 7/100 inch of rain.” I told her it would be at least a 1/10 of an inch. When I got home, our rain gauge read 0.11 inches of rain.
As I was leaving the office after the rain let up, several rescue vehicles raced down Alameda Blvd with their lights on and sirens blaring. They pulled up to the flood control channel, which you can see here: https://wp.me/p1yQyy-bGb. Water was roaring down the channel when I drove over it on my way home. I heard the news helicopter flying around above us, so I looked up the news channel and someone had been washed away by the current in town, and a body was pulled from the water where the flood control channel flows into the river. I looked up the rainfall for Albuquerque today. The report showed 0.39 inches of rain for the zip code where the person was swept away by the runoff in the channel. What might seem like little rain produces a lot of deadly runoff in our high desert.
Silver, Loki and Glenda waiting for me to give them cheese.
Jake got nailed again.
Off Center & Not Even 