family


17
Mar 16

Playing it low key

One of the reasons for the recent cat-in-car pics was to help remind her that the car wasn’t a bad thing. We took a four-hour trip to the family this week and brought Allie. So she was fine in the car, because she is familiar with the whole thing. She fusses getting in and is fidgety and vocal about the whole thing for the first three or four miles, but then she’s completely comfortable with it. I might stress about her stressing about the ordeal more than she does.

She sits in the back. She lounges in her carrier. She does laps from the backseat to the front passenger seat. (We keep her out of the driver’s seat, as we sane people.) And then she’ll get in the passenger floorboard. She’ll sit up and watch the world go by. And she’s has figured out that she somehow fits underneath the passenger seat. How that can be comfortable, I’ll never understand.

But she has a lot more room here:

That’s in the guest room at my folks’ new house. She’s a good house guest, too.


16
Mar 16

Another sign

We’ve returned to the land of my people.

Actually we were about an our from the ancestral homelands when I took that picture. But whenever you see Sun Drop you can’t be too far away. And we arrived safely about an hour later. And the why of all of this will be amusing, dear reader, in a few days.

Also, if you aren’t familiar with Sun Drop, you’re missing out. I don’t drink sodas anymore. Haven’t in a decade. But every now and then, when you get the memory of a good taste in mind, you think about it. Sun Drop is one of those tastes.


22
Feb 16

Pics from the weekend

A friend was sick and complaining on social media. I leaped to the rescue! With milk and chocolate sauce.

She looked pretty good when I dropped it off at her place, though …

Autumn shows off the rally hat and rally sunglasses ensemble at the baseball stadium:

We gave it a try, and if anyone asks I did not invent the rally sunglasses:

Aubie doesn’t wear sunglasses, so he made it work with Upside Down Batman Goggles:

(I did invent those.)

We are painting. Well, we hired painters. Allie is helping:

At least we don’t have to pay The Black Cat for her painting services. She has paint on her tail.

We took my mother-in-law to the Irish pub tonight. I could go there a lot more than we do, actually. And I want to take their poster home with me:

Which is one of the reasons I took a picture of it. That’s actually a poster of which I’d buy a reproduction. Ordinarily I’d only want the authentic stuff, but that’s a good one. Ireland was amazing, having a poster of it in the office would be a nice reminder. Maybe a motivation to get back.


19
Feb 16

At the baseball game

My mother-in-law has been down for the week visiting and helping us do stuff. We are introducing her to new and exciting people.

Aubie is a ladies man. I think she likes him.


16
Feb 16

Waiting for a plane

We were there waiting for a plane to arrive, and so I shot this video in Hyperlapse, edited it, added music and finished the video, on my phone, while waiting for the plane. And then my mother-in-law arrived to begin what will be, I’m sure, a lovely visit.