Nothing about this weekend went as planned. (It included such diverse elements as: a trip to Costco; the abrupt need to remix three songs from original recordings and set up a CD with those and other songs for Autumn; the abrupt need to print out album art and CD fronts, and press CDs, for Autumn; the abrupt and painfully urgent need to clean off my desk (in order to find something); the abrupt need to redo all of the wiring on and near my computer desk (to figure out why the internet stopped working; and several other fun things.
The surprise is going to have to wait until the long Thanksgiving weekend. Sorry, all.
We did see a few sea otters on our trip… not enough, of course, and not close enough, but we saw a few.
We saw a total of maybe eight to ten otters, but only two of them relatively close. This is the best picture I got of one of them. I think he may have noticed us.
This guy was quite close. The sun was practically down (and the day was cloudy) by this time, so I didn’t have a lot of light.
I’m pretty sure this guy did catch sight of us.
He then skedaddled, quite rapidly. I don’t think Autumn even caught a glimpse of him before he left.
I keep running across Ozzy outside of OZ Lounge. Best marketing I’ve ever seen… I know I’ve gone in there a couple times because of Ozzy, and I frequently go by there on the way home in the hopes of getting a smooch or two.
Light posts today and tomorrow… getting ready for some big news over the weekend.
This pup sure knows how to effectively solicit cuddles.
I’m not sure if I should believe my notes or my eyes. My notes say that Yuki is an Australian shepherd/corgi mix, but those eyes! (Not to mention the ears and the coloration.) He totally looks like an ACD to me.
This is the clearest picture I got of those eyes. No touch-up was done… that’s the natural color. You can spot them from a block away.
Yuki was both quite shy and eminently distractible.
Someone is just itching to show off his new wheels!
Sad news: my camera, which has been more or less my constant companion for the last 22 months, has bitten the big one. It wasn’t dropped… it just stopped focusing, first intermittently, then constantly. It’s just as well… I’d managed to scratch the lens rather badly, resulting in the softness in the center of the frame that a couple of you have noticed over the past few months. So I’ll be replacing it soon. (I thought it was still under warrantee via my credit card’s warrantee extension, but apparently Visa changed the program, removing it from my credit card, a few years ago. Argh.)
In the mean time, I’ll mostly be posting stuff from my back catalog. I only have roughly 20,000 dog pictures of roughly 1000 dogs, so I’m in danger of running out sometime in 2015 if I don’t get a camera by then!
Someone was just tickled pink to see us, even though we couldn’t actually pet him.
Clearly a vicious guard dog, protecting the car from intruders. Right?
Zachary is one of Autumn’s and my favorite Dogs of San Francisco, and yet we’ve never yet seen him on the blog. Why is that? Well, it’s because we only ever see Zachary late at night, at one of the local laundromats, on weekends or Thursday nights. We have to be passing at just the right time, and even if we are, it’s just too dark to get decent pictures. (It seems that the owner of the laundromat takes care of Zachary on weekends, apparently including Fridays.)
Zachary is awesome. He can often be found sitting in one of the chairs, and waving at everybody who walks by, in the hopes that one of them will pet him. If he hasn’t been told to sit in the chair, he roams the laundromat until he hears someone at the door, and then comes to greet them with many kisses and wags of the tail. And then he proceeds to be as happy as an animal can manage all around (and all over!) them. Totally adorable. But of course he never goes outside, because he is a smart and well-trained dog.
Third thing in this post is a video. Sorry about the quality, but I was holding my phone over my head when I took it. Still, it can’t be too bad, because it has Zachary in it.
Yes, that moving blur is Zachary’s left hind leg. Pet him for around 3 seconds and this is the scene that results. And if you don’t, he’ll beg you until you do. But in a dignified manner.
Zachary sees us off with his best puppy-dog eyes. It’s hard to leave without being tempted into ‘just one more belly rub’.
A friend of ours emailed us a picture of her cat, “The Blob”. (If I say that that name makes me think of ‘El Blobbo’, Steve Dallas’s name for Opus in the ‘Bloom County’ comic strip, does that date me?)
The eyes match the sheets rather nicely, don’t they?
