The Valentine's Day Card that Started it All
Monday, December 24, 2012
Sunday, December 16, 2012
Sunday, December 9, 2012
'Tis the Season
To be jolly! Fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la!
Don we now our gay apparel!
Fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la!
Strombeek blames Louie for all of this. Somehow it has got to be his fault.
Thursday, November 22, 2012
Happy Thanksgiving!
A repeat from last year since this year's calendar picture isn't particularly holiday inspired.
Monday, November 19, 2012
Friday, November 9, 2012
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
The Pirate and the Butterfly
Strombeek greeted the trick-or-treaters in her pink princess butterfly costume.
The little girls really liked her, but she wasn't so keen on the whole thing.
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Saturday, September 8, 2012
Saturday, September 1, 2012
Strombeekzilla vs. Louthra
The backdrop for the battle is Arcosanti in Arizona, Paolo Soleri's arcology experiment. I wanted it to be like they were Gozilla and Mothra, but attaching actual animal parts. So here they are. Let the battle begin.
Saturday, August 25, 2012
Back to School!
I thought I'd try a back-to-school photo shoot with the cats in an attempt to finish the 2013 calendar.
Strombeek is wearing a bow a ribbon that I thought looked kind of like a Shirley Temple hairpiece.
Friday, August 17, 2012
The Month of Mariachi
August's background photo is from Cactus Stovepipe in Arizona, outside of Ajo (it means garlic). When researching instruments, I learned that a mariachi band has a lot of them--as many as 8 violins and two trumpets. You will notice that Strombeek and Louie's band only has one of each. And no guitarrón (a bass guitar) or vihuela (a high-pitched rhythm guitar)--just one regular one. They're just a small band of mariachi cats wandering through the high desert just on the US side of the border, and relaxing under the saguaros.
Saturday, July 21, 2012
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Noch Schneeballen
Strombeek and Louie have been working on flattening the Schneeballen Fort like they like to do with packing paper.
Rather, Strombeek is. Louie is busy leaping past and taunting her becaue she can't leap so high or elegantly.
Sunday, June 17, 2012
Ein Strombeek Schneeballen
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Sunday, May 13, 2012
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Saturday, April 21, 2012
Sunday, April 15, 2012
Calendar Preview
I realized that it was already April and I hadn't yet done any of the calendar pages for 2013. Four months behind, so time to get started. This is a teaser of a detail of the first calendar page done for 2013. I'm not sure which month yet, but the image is even better in its entirety.
Saturday, April 7, 2012
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Cat Tower (More of It)
The cats are still enjoying their new scratching post.Although Strombeek gets a little pouty when Louie has the top nest.
Finally, she can't hold herself back from jumping up there, with all those squirrels clambering about.
Then she jumps down.
Saturday, March 17, 2012
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Sunday, March 11, 2012
Too Much Cuteness
This is how cute the cats are in the evenings when they hunker down on my lap.Maybe not so much cute as warm and soft. But isn't warm and soft pretty cute?
Sunday, February 19, 2012
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Friday, January 20, 2012
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
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