Marigold the Elf. Elfing is tiring!
Opie the Elf on Santa watch!
Scooby the new apprentice Elf
Zeke the Christmas elf
Who is your favorite Christmas Elf?
Author / greg-in-washington
Opie loves Christmas music / Vintage Christmas postcards
Opie
Opie is a cat that enjoys music. She especially likes when I put a platter on the old record player purchased in 1974. I have an older and larger console model from the 60’s which works perfectly well, but you see I now use it as a TV stand.
Opie likes the screensaver
I had to protect the cloth over the speakers to prevent the cats from scratching them. My eyesight is poor so I must sit very close to see properly. Opie is waiting for me in my chair. She likes to sit in my lap and watch or sleep. I have several boxes full of records. I do sit and play them now and then. The most used ones are the Christmas albums, which are played in December.
Opie loves music
Vintage Christmas Cards
My father kept all the holiday cards he received until 1930. Here are a few. They are all postcards and not folding cards. Some I can exactly date and others I cannot.They are mostly from the 1920’s. Cards do not show any publishers or origin.
1916
1925
1923 More abuse to come baby Sis!
Santa on sleigh
(1922) Reference to Teddy Roosevelt. Nice sword–don’t poke your eye out!
1925 Took me a minute to figure this one out!
1921 Cats for Christmas!
1922
1923
1918 Cancer Santa smoking pipe
1920
Reflections 2
Reflections in a golden eye 2 are more old, but not too old, photographs that were never posted or posted and not seen! During the holiday season, most people are busy shopping, traveling, and all, I am not really going to be much here either. I just automatically scheduled this post to fire off as a flare today. Perhaps someone will see it–perhaps not! I wonder how many swats the cats have made in the last week and a half in the previous post–a million–a billion? PHOTOS follow: Continue reading →
Paws of Fury
Zeke stars in “Paws of Fury.” Co-starring Marigold. Coming soon to a theater near you. Watch preview:
You dishonor our family!
Your Kung Fu is weak!
(No animals were harmed in the making of this film)
Scooby settling in
Time for another Scooby update. So far so good. Food envy is declining. Zeke and Scooby play together. His bad habits are in the kitchen climbing on counter-tops and the range. He must be locked away while cooking. There are two entries into the kitchen without doors. He began spraying in the house. Took him to the vet and he had a urinary tract infection, which is being treated with drugs. I hope that fixes the problem. He is very good-natured. We need to work on some cat interpersonal relationships still–especially Scooby and Opie.
Scooby at the window
Scooby in a paper bag
Scooby and Zeke
Scooby knows where the ham is!
Scooby in the penthouse
Marigold Scooby and Zeke
Macbeth
In cat school drama class, today we have Miss Opie performing as Lady Macbeth in Macbeth. Opie, Zeke, and Marigold reprise their roles as the witches in the opening of Macbeth. (Act 1 scene 1 line 1)
When shall we three meet again
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?
When the hurlyburly ’s done,
When the battle ’s lost and won. (Macbeth, Act 1.1.1)
(Act 2 Scene 1)
“Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.
I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.
Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
To feeling as to sight? or art thou but
A dagger of the mind, a false creation,
Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?”
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