Squirrel lasted Maggie 20 minutes

That's its squeaker, below.

Go Fish

Go I'm hanging around at the fish store waiting for the tests on the water in our aquarium to conclude. This guy's watching me, sort of.

How to walk a terrier

Just tie a stuffed animal to a cord and growl at her. She gets much more exercise this isometric way.

Warm next to the heater vent

Her hair was getting matted, so we had her groomed.

Four inches last night

I could have sworn we were done with this stuff

Let that be a warning to you both

With so few signs in Lowell, some serve more than one purpose

Shuwatch!

Watching the last episode of an Ultraman DVD.

The Cast Room at Saints Memorial

Bonus, I got to ride the cool chair

What a mess

Winter's funeral precession

The Ides

Probably the last snow of the season, being sifted by the redwood deck in back of our house.

Meet the new boss

My boss's boss, actually. Everyone seemed pretty excited and optimistic at the press conference/announcement.

Morning Watch

AKC-approved toy fox at her side, Maggie makes sure every morning that the neighbors drive their cars to work. Fridays are especially important, because she has to make sure all of the garbage and recycling are picked up.

Maggie with a led ball

We spent several hours Christmas Eve trying to get her to hold one of these flashing balls up so we could take her picture with it in her mouth. We weren't able to do it then. For some reason I got a couple easily last night.

My Sacramento Accent

What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Midland   "You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice for TV and radio.
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Start your day with an ash-can fire

What a smell, burning cigarette filters and dog-ends. It's bad enough people have to smoke in this spot, which has an overhang, keeping the smoke close to the entrance to the library, so that it gets on your clothes.

Anyway, it looks like the mobile posting is messed up again on Blogger. So I will post these some other way for a while, until I get really tired of it an give up entirely, or the fix the problem.

Beaver den

In the middle of Spruce Swamp

Getting kid after checking out a school

Not this one, but it is just down the street.

Sledding in the State forest

Carefully groomed run

Night tennis at Trull Brook

I'll feel it in the morning

Back to Working Assets

We had canceled our Working Assets long distance service because we decided to go with a cable TV/internet/phone bundle to save money. So they called us with what sounded like a good deal on wireless. They'd buy out our current contract, give us two of these Katana phones, which the guy said were the latest thing and would take better pictures than my Motorola, and all for about what we are paying now.

Wrong. He didn't know what he was talking about. It would have cost considerably more to get it to send pictures as text message attachments, $15 per month (currently I pay about $5) per phone. Worst thing, though, was that I got this box of phones and stuff via UPS with little instruction as to how to make them work. The packing list said the phones were ready to go, which was completely wrong, they didn't even have phone numbers. And when I tried to use them they connected me to Sprint. They wasted about three hours of my life without any kind of idea of how they might make recompense, so I bundled everything back up and shipped it back to WALD.