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November 30, 2020October 3, 2021

Photos from a four-day weekend

As I’m sure most people did, we enjoyed a quiet and socially-distanced Thanksgiving this year. But since Thanksgiving is always quiet and socially-distanced for us, it really wasn’t a big deal. Thanksgiving is always a small event for us, in terms of numbers of people; it sure isn’t small in terms of food!

Anyway, even though I had no intention of attempting any shopping, I also took Black Friday off as I always do these days; Thanksgiving Weekend has become over the years one of my favorite weekends of the year. It was pretty nice actually this year as well, even with COVID trying to ruin everything.

Here’s some photographic evidence of what transpired this weekend:

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November 22, 2020October 3, 2021

Adventures in Moonlight

The Moon put on a show at the very end of last month. Here’s a bit of how it looked from my backyard.

That last is of the Moon and Mars, visible as the bright light off to the right. (The green is just a photographic accident…or maybe the mythical “Green Flash”, meaning that some sailor has returned from Davy Jones’s Locker to the world of the living…but more likely the first thing.)

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November 18, 2020October 3, 2021

And now, a doggo.

Sleepy doggo #Carla #dogsofinstagram #pitbullsofinstagram #pitbullmix #pittie #staffordshirebullterrier #staffiesofinstagram

G’night. y’all.

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October 23, 2020October 3, 2021

Life goes on….

It’s been…a week. I’ve had stuff to blog about, but frankly I didn’t want to start pushing Julio’s memorial post down the page just yet. I’ll start posting again in the next few days, but for now. here’s just a tiny taste of what’s been going on at Casa Jaquandor:

Yeah, more on them later.

(And early voting in NY starts tomorrow! Here I come, Democracy!)

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October 19, 2020October 3, 2021

Julio

Fifteen months after his brother Lester departed, we have had to say goodbye to Julio today. They came to us as a package deal, and I hope there’s some realm beyond the rain and the clouds where they can be so again.

Julio got sick recently and never really got better, and yesterday he had the kind of day that’s hard not see after the fact as a farewell. He curled up in my legs last night on our bed while we watched a little teevee–one of his favorite things to do–and then he barely moved again. Today, we all agreed that it was time.

We don’t know, really, how old he was, though when he came to us in early 2006 we surmised that he and Lester (who were obvious littermates, brothers through it all) were around a year old, maybe a little more. Fifteen years isn’t so bad for a cat…except for it being too short.

We are not catless…but more on that another time. For now, goodbye, Julio. I guess now I’ll keep my feet warm when I’m sitting at my desk by wearing socks. Seems boring and inadequate, but you’re off for new adventures now.

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October 12, 2020October 3, 2021

Fall In WNY

Autumn is turning out to be quite lovely this year. I remember a recent October–maybe last year’s?–where it was just kind of rainy and unpleasant the whole month and then it was November and all the leaves fell at once and it felt like fall never actually happened. Anyhow, here’s a photographic glimpse into how Autumn has been going in my neck of the woods. I hope yours is as lovely!

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September 2, 2020October 3, 2021

The Unsuspecting

There was a game going around Twitter the other day in which you post a photo of yourself from January of this year, when you were blissfully unaware of the jaw-dropping frightfest of a shitshow that 2020 had in store for us all. Here’s the one I chose:

This was taken on January 22. How optimistic that guy looks! How hopeful!

Here’s hoping that I can capture a similar mood on this coming January 22….

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August 14, 2020October 3, 2021

Memories of Maliboo

My mother’s cat, a beautiful red Persian named “Maliboo”, died today at the fine age of 17. He had a fantastic life, truly winning the Cat Lottery. Oddly, Maliboo hated me until several years ago when he had no choice but to warm up to me while Mom took a 17-day trip to Wales. After that, he was fine with me.

Farewell, Maliboo. You were a good cat.

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August 6, 2020October 3, 2021

The Doggos, practicing for the Synchronized Pouting at the 2021 Olympics

Look at these two. I can’t remember what yummy thing I had in my possession–I think it was bacon, on BLT night, but I may be wrong–but wow, they wanted it.

Practicing their Synchronized Pouting for Tokyo 2021. #Cane #dogsofinstagram #greyhound #greyhoundsofinstagram #Carla #pitbullsofinstagram #pitbullmix #pittie #staffordshirebullterrier #staffiesofinstagram

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May 4, 2020October 3, 2021

The Slow Awakening

I say it every year, and every year I’m given more evidence to back up my hypothesis: Buffalo Niagara’s winters wouldn’t be nearly so hated by people living here if our springs weren’t so godawful each and every year. The three months of winter aren’t that hard to negotiate; it’s that they are always followed by two more months of cold, muddy, grayness that makes the winters feel less like a season and more like a slog that consumes nearly half the year.

Anyway, it’s May now, and only now are the trees starting to show signs of awakening, and only now am I able to see wisps of green around the peripheries of the forests.

The giants are awakening! #KnoxFarm #eastaurora #wny #spring #nature #hiking #trees

Of course, it’s still Buffalo Niagara. Today it was in the mid-60s, and it’s supposed to get colder through the week until the high temperatures next weekend are back in the 40s.

Sigh.