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A challenge to my cousins (cousin) and brother who I know read this blog regularly… name these girls!

Her name is Judy Sereni and if you see her, be gentle. Getting older isn’t easy for any of us but she was always the kid in the family so this marks a turning point that none of us want to face… though, as you can see from this picture, she’s not going down into old age without a fight.

Usually when I clean bird cages, I put the dogs in my office so they and the birds don’t tangle. The other day I was doing the cages but for some reason forgot to put the dogs away. I was halfway through Abdul’s cage when I was distracted and stepped out onto my porch for a few minutes. When I got back, I noticed two things. One, Abdul was not in his cage and two, the dogs were freaking out. That’s when I saw Abdul standing on the first stair leading to the second floor where the dogs’ food, to

Snowy, having been apparently traumatized by my long absence, has decided no one else is ever allowed to pack a suitcase and leave this house without him. Unfortunately, Janis couldn’t take him to Dutch Harbor with her so he was booted out of the suitcase but compensated with many, many, many treats.

Aunt Judy and Bella sharing their red tongues after, I hope, eating something red. You’ve got to love an aunt who will do this with you, even as you worry that you’ll have to be putting her in a home sooner rather than later.

My suite mate Nancy and I our senior year in college. I can only hope that’s a joint she’s smoking given that I’m holding a coconut head and nun’s doll. Any other explanation for the props would just be too weird. And don’t even ask me about the granny cap on my head. Either that was part of being stoned or I was showing an early tendency towards the fashionable person I never became.