Vlad!

This guy wandered up on friends' porch from the neighbor's.  He sat under my chair then
went home.  Vlad!

Bink

Cupid, Colleen

Cupid

Colleen

Gladys

Bookends

Jasper and Crash.  Unlike ours, these two are good, I'm told.

Reggie!

Are you shitting me?  How did I forget to mention Chris's new foundling Reggie?  Brother to Peanut?  Peanut is still boss, however;  he established his bossness within thirty seconds of meeting his new brother.

Here they come!

"Why am I being held by someone from Morrissey's '92-era backing band?"

"What?"

Mabel!

Griz the Touched

Saturday night, we received a text confirming that, after four years of entreaties then entrapment, a certain formerly feral Griselda "decided she wanted to be petted a dozen times like a normal fucking cat."

Astounding!

Penny!

Nick Eddy, namer of fish!

Josh, this last Sunday

Ah, yes, blogger, songwriter, father, lover of multitudes...what was I saying?  Oh!  Pet namer! 

Kyle has had this fish forever and the poor thing has never had a name.  I thought he looked like a Josh, though no Josh I know.  He just had a Joshness.

And it was so!

The Stolid Lodger moves on

My dad's cat DC has been living in our basement since Thanksgiving and Sunday he went to his new digs with Ian and Brooke!

Above: new friend Squertle, who is 11 years old. Also got to feed him some grapes!

My former boss's son's dog

I know you've all been waiting for this!

Bonfire on the heath

Illegal or not, some neighbors burned some brush and it smelled good:















Plus, these young folks (who are not from here, so have no idea about 70's after-school kids' show Clubhouse 22 and its eponymous mascot) have this nine-month old yclept Duffy!

Applefest 1

There were goats!

Dogs I met at Crimewalk

We had another neighborhood crime walk doodad on Friday night...fun! I'm sure perps huddled in fear, trying to stir their pans o' meth quietly!

Met these two:



















Todd!

And Pepper:














Actually, also met Pepper's brother River, but failed to get a picture of him in all the excitement!

Isis of the Grand Pyrenees

Check out Isis! She's eight. She's also being cast as a that flying whatever thing in a remake of The Neverending Story. Probably.

As I say, I'm not crazy about them Taco Bell dogs,

but I do like PEANUT! Peanut was over for coffee Friday night, and though he's about a third the size of either of them, he scared the cats. Whoot!

Wedding bells?

You know how much I love our neighbors' dog Daisy? The one who's, you know, the best?

Well, she has a beau! His name is Otis/Odie and he lives with the tenant in the carriage house behind Daisy's moms' place!

They chase each other around and make goo-goo eyes at one another through windows. Plus it gives nine-ish Rosemary a break from incessant Daisy puppy kerfuffles.

I think a June wedding would be best!

Ago!

Would you believe Duke has a dog? Granted, you may not know who Duke is, but that's hardly my problem...

Ago (pronounced AH-go, although a dog called Ago [pronounced as it looks] would be shit-hot, yes)! Three years old! Cast away from the track where he used to be a race dog! Crazy, right?

Here he is meeting Gabe, mere seconds from the unavoidable frenzy caused by the aroma of fine quality meats that ceaselessly emanates from Mr Gardner:

Here is part of his family lineage, with forebears with names like "Byron," "Quince," "Old Salt" and "Mr Milquetoast.":

This good pup has a lifestyle many hundreds of times better than yours! Think of him often.

Rosemary and Daisy!

Don't forget these two!