[ A double bed, piled with blankets, sits in the corner of a room. The wall next to it is slanted, and bare to the outside sheathing of plywood. The wall behind it at least has insulation. Next to it is a set of shelves filled with boxes of soap. ] When we finally got […]
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[ Remy, a big black dog, gazes forlornly out through the windshield. His ears are perked but his eyes are sad. ] We had to go to Salida, & Remy can always use more practice being in public, so we brought him along. He had LOTS LOTS OF FUN except for when Jasper hadda go
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[ A stack of roof trusses — two by six boards in an arch shape, held together by plywood braces at the corners — stands in the yard next to the house. Another truss sits alone next to them. Behind the stack is a big black dog. ] I was, I gotta admit, worried about
[ Loiosh, an orange tabby, is meatloafed up, looking straight towards the camera, face framed between two vertical two by fours. A pair of fingers obscure the shot to the top left and to the right. ] I was doing so well with blogging! & then we got enough money to buy the last of
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[ Loiosh, an orange tabby wearing a green harness and blue bow tie, sits facing a long sprig of catnip. He’s got his head tilted, facing away from the camera, contemplating the flowers at the tip of the stem. ] Further along the same path Loiosh found even better foliage — catnip. He was EXTREMELY
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[ Loiosh, an orange tabby wearing a green harness, stands on a nice big rock, sniffing at a clump of grass. One ear is back, and the other is stuck out sideways. ] Salida, it turns out, has grass. Loiosh REALLY likes grass.
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[ A view of the Arkansas river, here a shallow stream perhaps thirty feet wide. It’s bordered by large rocks on either side, then by trees in a variety of shades from summer green to bright aspen yellow. Peeking between the trees, far upstream, is the peak of a snow-capped mountain. ] I hadda run
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[ Loiosh, an orange tabby, sits neatly in the lower of the two window holes in the new wall of my house. ] The cats are really enjoying the new wall, because that means it’s easier to get away from the dog. The dog is really annoyed by it, for much the same reason.
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[ Marisol, a tiny, longhaired calico cat, is hunkered up on a sheet of tan paper. The paper’s visibly got a texture to it. Marisol looks very comfortable. ] This is probably the last post from our stay in the cabin over the winter — I kept not getting round to it, what with One
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[ Three walls, complete with plywood, surround a similarly-plywooded floor; the fourth wall, the one facing the camera, has been framed out, with space left for two windows. ] Progress! Like actually getting somewhere! I’m getting faster at framing, this took about three hours all told.
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