Tuesday, December 24, 2013

Black and White and … all over everything

Warning, attack of a black and white fur ball is about to commence.   It starts innocently enough, with a cuddly, peaceful, couch creature, fresh from a nap:

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And then he wakes up:

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And there is no stopping him:

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We learned a lot this month.   How to get shots:

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How to go for a harness walk:

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How to go for bag rides:

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How to stop and smell (and eat) the flowers):

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How to sword swallow a Dyson hand vacuum:

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How to sit yoga style:

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How to get his daily grooming, a requirement for these long haired guys:

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This is Helen trying to convince a skeptical BanTik into trying on snow booties:

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It was a short lived effort … he limped around like a peg legged pirate for about 10 seconds before de-shodding:

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He loves gallivanting around in the snow (without boots):

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Carrying out a proud Winter tradition, he built his first snowman:

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We helped a little:

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Black and White and Red all over, the lips, twice.  

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The young puppy energy was too much for the older Brown cat, whom we haven’t seen for 2 weeks, but the younger White cat has put up with the pestering.   He likes the cat food too much:

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They are settling into a sometimes peaceful co-existence. 

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After all of the above activity, which is usually repeated 3-4 times a day between naps, he crashes pretty hard … even an energetic gourd can not get him back on his feet:

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And finally, if anyone is still reading this post and has not given up due to all the puppy photos, I’ll reward you with a non-puppy photo … it was the only one I could find!

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Oh, and Goggle did a fun thing, auto-generating a year-in-review movie based on various pics and videos that had been auto-uploaded to google plus.   It does a pretty good job, with not human input on selection or editing.   It is the first first video here:

https://google.com/+BruceWinter/photos

Or more directly, via this link:

https://plus.google.com/photos/+BruceWinter/albums/5960994841064334001/5960994840550406978?pid=5960994840550406978&oid=106916156663153973757

Bruce