Showing posts with label dog. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dog. Show all posts

Sunday, January 27, 2013

Watching the Animals

As ridiculous as this seems, I think the dog/cat sitting deserves a blogpost. It has been a lot of work even though there has been only one accident of peeing in the kitchen. I write this with a dog in my lap. I'm watching two dogs, two cats, and helping out Rebecca, my younger sister, with rides to school and my attempts to cook dinner while doing an internship and throwing in the basement if there is any spare time. Things mostly go smoothly.

I can tell the dogs are getting cabin fever. I feel bad, I want to walk them, but the recent arctic winds that freezes that harbor over at low tide tells me they would disapprove. In fact, they don't like to ride in the car with me anymore because it takes 15 minutes to heat up. Ollie violently shivers and stares at me in anguish while we drive around town.

I keep all the animals except Rebecca in a room with a heated tile floor at night incase of accidents. At 6:30 I open that door and there is a canine explosion that runs out followed by relaxed and bored cats. When I feed them their hot and still partially frozen meat pellets out Ollie nearly takes my fingers, once he bit the plate.

Mabel has continued to worshiping her satanic corner in our living room, there are probably mice, but I love that she just stares at a blank piece of wall.

My dog is still possessed!

At midnight I let them out one last time and then literally swaddle them with a blanket in there bed in the tiled room. Ollie usually howls for half an hour then goes to sleep.

Babushka!

Thursday, December 27, 2012

Animals

Visiting Theo
Posting about pets. So many somewhat tamed animals. Left is Theo, not to mention Gus who are two very playful creatures in Portland. Below is the four creatures that reside in Camden: Sniffers, Mabel, Ollie, and Safi. I enjoy their strange company immensely.







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OllieSafi, Rebecca's cat. Cat crazy for sweet potato.


A moment of zen with Mabel.

A zen moment with Mabel.

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

5 days with Zoë

Day 0.5: Thursday

At 10:30pm I picked Zoë up at bus station in Oneonta. I also finished my first reasonable teapot in the studio.

Day 1: Friday

A teacup I made for Zoë ji.
In the morning we woke up late, I managed to get into school just in time for a round table. We discussed whether the future of technology and the environment. I advised against putting any hope into developing technology that will "save us" from the current energy and environmental issues.


I gifted Zoë this mug as an early birthday present.




We left school and stopped by the grocery store to grab a few things, we had dinner with Erin, Monica, Barely, and Emily. Barely (below) was adorable as usual.

Introducing Barely, the new dog at Pine Lake. Her number one goal in life is to snuggle all the time.

Day 2: Saturday

Drank abnormal amounts of coffee. Shannon, Zoë, and I left at 8am drove two hours to Corning Glass Museum. We watched several live glass blowing demonstrations and observed both the history and art of glass.

From there, I went to wood-fired kiln at the community college and Zoë and Shannon split off to check out what was in town. At the community college we fired the smaller of the two kilns. Below is a view into a porthole on one side of the kiln.

Wood firing pottery.

There was also cracks between many of the bricks that allowed us to peek into the kiln to see what was happening. I am particularly excited because I had pieces all over the kiln, meaning I will have a huge variety of results.

Wood firing, cracks in the kiln.

Later when I met up with Zoë and Shannon again I found out they went to historic downtown and the airport to check out gliders (Shannon's obsession.) At the airport it had seemed the military had taken over the museum and gliders, Shannon said the hangers were full of military helicopters. Eventually, we went out to dinner with the ceramics crowd, then took the long drive home. 

Once home Zoë and I watched a chinese film called "King of Beggars" which offered a fantastic perception of Chinese humor, exhausted we fell asleep before it ended.

Day 3: Sunday

We woke up and headed to campus...

Driving B&W

Green Eyes

I unloaded the kiln and Zoë threw her first bowl!

We went back, did work, made indian food, and enjoyed the sauna.

Day 4: Monday

Early in the morning (10:45am) we headed out to class at school. Zoë joined my Buddhism class, which turned out Sandy was teaching the basics of meditation, a nice refresher for all of us. We went into town and got some questionable pizza for lunch then I had to go to my raw materials course and learning about the interaction of water and clay particles.

Drinking "grape juice" with Zoë out of cups I made.That night Alyssa and Elliot came over. We made/ate an absurd amount of Indian food and drank wine out of some funky cups I made.









Day 5: Tuesday


Leaving the cabin for the day, 1970's style.

Tuesday had a gloom. Zoë managed to pack up and we headed to South Asian studies where my professer revealed thirty years of his work in Sri Lanka in a handfull of photos, it was really amazing. I think Zoë enjoyed it too. After I we had lunch and I put Zoë on the bus, it was an extra sad goodbye this time for some reason...

Main Street Oneonta

Zoë crossing the road.

Thursday, March 1, 2012

Footprints


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Dog, human, car, coyote.

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Art, Magic, and Dogs.

An Eric Peterson Claw

Above is a glass claw made by Eric Peterson. This piece had spots too thin to reheat and fuse to the rest of the sculpture so I got to keep it.

Learnin' witchcraft and wizardry. 

Becoming a Wizard

Bronski has gone home. He was our favorite "special" puppy.

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Tuesday, February 21, 2012

A Walk in the Woods Continued

You need to see this photo big, just because I love it.

Bronski and the Bridge

The Marsh behind Pine Lake

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Zoë on the path...

This dog Bronski enjoys hours and hours of fetch everyday.

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The Boat House

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(Still a favorite)