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When Riley is bored, she sometimes entertains herself by hanging her forelegs off the cat post and pulling toys out of the basket one at a time. I have yet to get a video of her doing this but I keep trying!

Here’s my new letter opener. It’s Bilbo’s sword,  “Sting”, from “The Hobbit”. When I first got on the internet in the early 1990′s, I joined a fan group for the computer game series “Ultima” and we all had hyphenated dragon names. Mine was Sting-Dragon. I’ve kept it (without the hyphen) as my nickname online partly because I like it and partly because it’s never taken. Tolkein’s works are still some of the few I can read over and over again. I’m currently listening to an audio adaptation of Lord of the Rings, complete with singing.

All three girls sharing the couch has to be an auspicious omen for the new year.

This dapper fellow is the neighborhood stray. I think he was hopping one of the silly goldfinches would just fall into his mouth. He hangs about in the backyard quite a bit but is very shy of people.