Another American Adventure: Jubilee

Monday, October 29, 2012

Jubilee

Jubilee got a haircut the other day and is looking spruced up. Those things that look like black ears are my shoes off to the side.

But she still didn't want to cooperate with a Halloween costume photo to be entered into the contest at our apartment in PA. (This is a "Court Jester" costume that I made for Eric when he was about 4 years old. Couldn't you tell?)

I think these photos are so bad that John is not going to enter her in the contest.

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BarbaraOctober 30, 2012 at 7:12 PM
I have had little luck in getting my Bogart to wear the little cap with horns that I bought for Halloween photos. Humphrey is less of a problem. He's less fussy, a little puppy dog.
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"In those first days, people said, a squirrel could run the long length of Pennsylvania without ever touching the ground. In those first days, the woods were white oak and chestnut, hickory, maple, sycamore, walnut, wild ash, wild plum, and white pine. The pine grew on the ridgetops where the mountains' lumpy spines stuck up and their skin was thinnest.

"The wilderness was uncanny, unknown. Benjamin Franklin had already invented his stove in Philadelphia by 1753, and Thomas Jefferson was a schoolboy in Virginia; French soldiers had been living in forts along Lake Erie for two generations. But west of the Alleghenies in western Pennsylvania, there was not even a settlement, not even a cabin. No Indians lived there, or even near there.

"Wild grapevines tangled the treetops and shut out the sun. Few songbirds lived in the deep woods. Bright Carolina parakeets - red, green, and yellow - nested in the dark forest. There were ravens then, too. Woodpeckers rattled the big trees' trunks, ruffed grouse whirred their tail feathers in the fall, and every long once in a while a nervous gang of empty-headed turkeys came hustling and kicking through the leaves - but no one heard any of this, no one at all."

Annie Dillard, An American Childhood.