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Friday and Saturday

By On 9 Jan ’11

True.  I missed posting a day (or two, it’s now after midnight) but a big editing job landed in my lap (2500+ from a wedding to edit for another photog) and I’ve been busy with other photos in a different catalog in Lightroom from my personal shots.  Alas.  Friday.  Hectic.  Blurry.  Loud.   and Saturday, [...]

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Samba in the Sunshine

By On 6 Aug ’07

Well, or Samba in the Partly Cloudy.

Last night I asked David if he’d locked the front door (like I do every night in bed before we drift off to sleep) and he grunted an affirmative reply. I didn’t think anything of it until Lowell woke me up at 6:30 this morning and [...]

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Happy Birthday!

By On 15 Apr ’05

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Today is Mambo’s 3rd birthday. He’s the man!

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these are the busy days

By On 31 Oct ’04

David and I have both been extremely busy lately… with band stuff. Saturday was the middle school district competition and next Saturday is the region competition. I like judging because I judge my lesson kiddos and get to take comments on their performances. Plus, since I’m not a band director, I get paid. Also in [...]

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A Funny Idea

By On 5 Aug ’04

Courtesy the teenagers who play bass clarinet at Cedar Park High School who I had the honor of spending my afternoon with:

I was scrounging through the folder of “stand tunes” — tunes a high school marching band plays whilst standing in the stands — and I came across Speak Up Mambo, which I mentioned [...]

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What's In A Name?

By On 4 Aug ’04

I am sitting here tonight with one hot kitty on my lap. That would be Samba. Funny how one is a lap cat when you’re not busy and the other is a lap cat when you are. Mambo’s the busy cat and Samba is the not busy cat, and since typing on a weblog generally [...]

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my weekend

By On 24 May ’04

I started off the weekend pretty much alone. David had to go to the Region XVIII TMEA meeting at Pflugerville High School and then to lunch with the CPMS and GMS staffs and I had fun with Mambo and a camera. Who knew we have the MOST PHOTOGENIC CAT on Earth?!

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Collared attention

By On 19 Mar ’04

Mambo, our first and favorite fur-ball, has become a very affectionate and loving tuxedo-man. For the first year and a half we’ve had him, he’s been very tolerant and patient with us but never seeked any physical attention. Sure, he’d pretend to rub around your legs, but he never touched you. He would trot over [...]

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a scaredy cat

By On 17 Mar ’04

Samba got out today… she ran through the screen door, but didn’t hurt it; she just knocked it off its tracks. Samba is a real ‘fraidy cat, in the truest sense of the phrase. The slightest thing causes her to go nuts… today it was David blowing his nose in a Puffs Plus tissue and [...]

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By On 1 Feb ’04

It’s a little later in the day, and I found the smartcard cable so I uploaded a picture of Mambo amongst the packing whirlwind:

enjoy!

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Chewing Cats

By On 1 Dec ’03

Per Mark’s suggestion, last night before bed, I sprayed the cat-reachable branches with my hairspray. We have not been around the cats and the tree enough to tell if they don’t like the taste, but since I’ve had some problems with the nozzle on my can of spray, I decided it was okay to [...]

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A first for Samba

By On 30 Nov ’03

Well, the tree is up.
The cats may die, but it is officially up. I have chicken-wired the bottom level of branches (underneath, to prevent their upward progress) but I do not know if that is enough to keep them off of it. The 7.5 foot tree is in a location where, if it falls, [...]

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