The Great Flood of 2013

I'm sure most of you reading this heard about the massive flooding along the Front Range here in Colorado. FEMA is even here, and people are still being airlifted out of several towns and cities whose bridges collapsed. Boulder was hit pretty hard in town, but much worse in the mountains, and really bad in places like Lyons, Jamestown, and Longmont.

A lot of places are still closed and will be for the foreseeable future, some people still unaccounted for, and pretty much every basement in every city along the Front Range has turned into an impromptu aquarium. It was really astounding. It basically rained hard for four or five days virtually without stopping. All the creeks, sewers, streets, rivers, some dams, just became overwhelmed from the sheer quantity of water.

I and my animolecules are fine. Just some water damage in my apartment, and I still haven't been able to get some of my medication because the low-income clinic shut down four days ago.

I (and hundreds of other people) went down to the Boulder creek/public library area a couple of days after the peak flooding, to check out the aftermath. 

These shoes cracked me up. Don't they look like a bronze sculpture?

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Some animolecules are smart and wanted to avoid the mere mention of rain...

 ...but of course if you have a retriever, they'll drag you out in rain, flood, hail, blizzard...

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Gadjo and Rumi, Rumi and Gadjo

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Spirea. The bees really love these flowers.

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Just...cuteness

Just...cuteness. That is all.

I love his little fanglet.

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Freshly mown grass and shadows at the dog park.

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Tummy bath

Clients who are signed up for a tummy bath should lie in this position. Breathe deeply and focus on relaxing, difficult though it may be.

Bringing a friend is permitted, so long as s/he is quiet and will not disturb your profound relaxation.

The tummy bather, who is very experienced and also well-versed in Thai* massage, will be with you shortly.

You'll find the tummy bath to be just the thing to ease all the stresses of your daily existence!

Of course, sometimes a bit of awkward maneuvering may be necessary to get those hard-to-reach areas...  The bather may find it necessary to shift his client's body position, sometimes assertively.

And if your bather should become tired from his exertions and decide to use your now-clean tummy as a pillow, well, just hold onto your friend's tail. We're not sure why, but this seems to provide some psychological comfort while you wait for the bather to wake up.

 

*While we consider our Thai-massage employee to be absolutely professional, please note that he may insist on referring to his profession by its former name, Siam massage.

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Trapped in the corner of the couch

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Heads or tails

Fennec hunts gnats. 

(That's kitty grass I grow for them. They eat a lot of it and get just as much enjoyment hunting the gnats that always seem to appear from nowhere.)

I can't really make heads or tails (or legs) out of Gadjo's position here...

(While, meanwhile, Rumi is being a Tribble.)

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These plums were on my kitchen counter the other day, and they just stopped me dead in my tracks with their beauty. I was in a hurry, but had to go get the camera.

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Fennec as bread loaf

 I love it when cats sit like bread loaves.

But what's really killing me is this:

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Look at this sweet face! This is Bruce, who lives a few buildings away.

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Gadjo as Vishnu

Comfy way to take a bath? I guess so, if you're Vishnu.

Rumi's face is killing me here.

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Brave? Crazy? Woman doling out dog treats in the park the other day. There were seventeen dogs there at one time, for a few minutes. (Note Mojito's tail is blurry... tail waggies...)

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Gadjo as grizzly

Gadjo on top of the medicine cabinet in the bathroom, which is a couple of feet over the sink. He jumps from the counter up to there.

Wondering if he can get any higher or go anywhere interesting from there...

(I also love how you can see the seams in his cat suit. He doesn't realize that I actually know he's a monkey [or a mini-grizzly] in a cat suit.)

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Tranquil evening at Coot Lake.

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Bathus interruptus

Splish splash, Fennec taking a bath...

 ...gets distracted by Rumi passing by behind him...

...and falls asleep in this position. (Stayed like that for about half an hour.)

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I wish I could say this is a new abstract painting of mine!! but no, it's a photo I took of a birch trunk.

 ...and then there's this creepy-looking thing. About the size of a small dog, I walked by it and was certain I had just seen a sloth on the ground. In Colorado. 

A closer look revealed it to be what I think is a broken, abandoned wasp nest.

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