Luz!

Santa Seems Grumpy

Please, Chocolate Man, give this man some samples!

Lunar Showings

For a few moments on Monday the moon revealed herself over First Hill.

Tonight she graced the north end of Lake Washington.



And then she surrendered to the clouds.

New Lights and a New Housemate

We took advantage of the breaks in the rain to start 

hanging up lights.

Also, we welcomed Alexa to the family.

She is quite docile and doesn't take our food or take up much space.

Big Birds

Out in Our Neighborhood

We were not asked to accompany her, but frankly

we were happy to have the space to ourselves for a few hours.

She had bustled around today writing a Christmas letter, 

putting up the exterior lights ( until it rained), reading, and writing.

Tonight she and S and C headed up to North City Bistro and Wine Cellars, 

known for its wonderful food, excellent wine list, and live music.

Their friend Jean was singing.  It was a very Catholic crowd--kind of like old Catholic Brooklyn...

St/ Ben's, St. Luke's, CK, St. T, Assumption/St. Bridget, for starters,, but the performers play church music on weekends and bars at night.

Jean led choirs at CK and St. T and now at Assumption.

Our Thanksgiving

we are having ourselves a very fine thanksgiving.

We have her all to ourselves. 

Finally, we can be together without others.

Thanksgiving morning

This morning we tried to keep her in bed.

Ir was raining.

But she went to the Cathedral.

Then she headed to visit with her old TG dinner partner.

She left flowers.

The rain was warm, but relentless.

Look Who Showed Her Face!

But it wasn't for long.

The clouds took over quickly.

But this was a great reward for going to the gym after work!

Images to Make Us Stop

This is the sign on the Women's at the Silver Cloud.

Do they have any idea how odd that sounds?

A break in the rain this afternoon brightened 

 our courtyard on this dreary sheets of rain day.

We Have Been Entertaining

When she isn't working working working, she is cooking dinners
for her friends.  We have had to wear bows on Saturday nights lately.
Last week, our bows matched the Italian flag.
We stayed in our rooms.



This week, Lucy helped our guests feel very much at home.

She took a special attachment to Carol!
She got a lot of attention.
I let her have her night.
I went to sleep on all their coats.

We are Still Here

It has been awhile since the keeper posted anything.

She thinks the blog is about her, but truly, it is about us.  

What we can say about her is that  she has been 

working, working, working.

What we can say about us is that we are fine and living the good life.

Lucy controls the tv and her afternoon soaps.

I sleep in the keeper's bed. 

We play in our boxes with our catnip and toys.

Life is good when you aren't working, working, working. 

The keeper should take a page from our book!

So Much for Being Verified Fans

She signed on as a Verified Fan and felt really important

when they notified her that she would be one 

of those selected to choose pre-sale tickets for THE show.

Hours before the appointed magic moment she had set up everything, she had contacted her friends, found their no go dates, price ranges,  and was all set for the deal.

The moment came, and it seems that a lot of other Verified Fans had done the same thing.

At some point--like 5 minutes in, the system crashed, and no one she knew got any tickets.

It seems like a bit of a con job to us!
And the first shall be last....
Regular sales open tomorrow in the middle of the work day!!!
Will she try again?

El Otoño

We probably won't be going out for a while.

The raccoons have claimed the back yard.

So have the leaves that look like so many 

soggy toasted corn flakes carpeting our play area.

And we haven't gone to the new front yard either,

The squirrels have already re-positioned their treasures out there.

Our 2018 Halloween Costumes

The keeper took advantage of some Post Halloween sales 

and bought us each a Halloween collar.

Of course by next year we know you will forget what we 

were wearing today, and so will we.  

But she was way more excited about this than we were.

At the LFP Chocolate Man

The Chocolate Man goes all out for each holiday.

It just smells so good inside!

This turkey is pure chocolate, and about the size of a 16 lb. bird!

They went overboard for Halloween.

Ir's all half price now.

Pure chocolate!

The hauted house and the tree are all chocolate!

SNOW???

Yes, dear readers, it snowed and caused more human flurry than 

meteorological flurry, for sure! 

At HQ, people spent the snowy part of the day taking photos out of the windows.

Lovely Lady Lucy

Lucy looking almost kittenish.