A Nail-Bitin' Cliffhanger!

Mom so exhausted cleaning cages and refilling food bowls, holding us for petting, and giving me my medicine she too tired to help me with this post right now. So, we gonna leave ya hangin' but Calvin REALLY DID! And it good, real good.
STAY TUNED!

Guinea Pigs Row Tiny Boat - Extended Version - GEICO commercial - YouTube

Guinea Pigs Row Tiny Boat - Extended Version - GEICO commercial - YouTube

We can't row...WAAAAH!
Mom already done postD this and we know it. But if she wants to do it

again, we can't stop her...she came home with fresh, organic veggies
and we wants 'em...so "Row." WhatEVAH!

P.S. we ain't got "fingers" but we make great GuineaCoxswainZ:

"WHEEEK! SQEEEE! WHEEEEK! SQUEEEE!"
Who wouldn't row if ya getting that squeaked at yer face
in one o'dem longboats? Am I right? Of COURSE I'm right.

Animals Sing "Take on Me" - Easier Way to Save - GEICO commercial - YouTube

Animals Sing "Take on Me" - Easier Way to Save - GEICO commercial - YouTube

We respect the right of all animals and birds to be featured on GEICO commercials.

We simply think the Guinea Pig ones are the best.

That is why we are putting on the Extended Version again, above.

Because mom can't remember if we did or not. We pretty sure we did

but she don't know nuttin' anymore since getting on that new medicine

for her migraines. It O.K. She remembers the important stuff...

loving us, feeding us, loving us, filling up our cleaned-up water bottles,

loving us, giving us timothy hay, loving us, buying us all new cuddle cups

but - of course - I gots my SPECIAL TUNNEL, loving us, tucking us in at

night, loving us, getting Calvin a half-page all to himself in the latest issue

of Guinea Pig Magazine (more coming on that! Squeee!) loving us as she

falls asleep every night, Calvin tucked in to his special blanket sucking on

her finger until she remembers to put him back into his cage...

loving us.

Soft, Sweet, Precious Grey

YumYum as a baby...with a dash of brown and white because he is so beautiful to us.

Our Beloved Christmas Eve "Bear the Beaver" Pig...We MISS YOU!

You cavy slaves don't need no stupis book to know What Guinea Pigs Want! Even my stuffed Guinea Pig knows!
FOOD!
LOVE!
LOVE WITH FOOD!
PET US.
PET US WITH FOOD!
COMB OR BRUSH US GENTLY.
GROOM US WITH FOOD!
CUDDLE US.
CUDDLE US WITH FOOD!
TUCK US IN BEFORE YOU GO TO BED.
TUCK US IN WITH FOOD BEFORE YOU GO TO BED!
CAPICHE?
EVEN MY STUFFED GUINEA PIG FRIEND (THANK YOU, HAMSTERDOG!)
KNOWS MORE THAN THIS BOOK!
(OH, AND GIRLS, LOTS OF GIRLS.)
WITH FOOD.
YEAH: GIRL PIGGIES WITH FOOD!
AND LOVE.
REALLY, THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS LOVE.

Grey Bushtits on Grey

                      From our feeder back at the Audubon Wildlife Refuge on Scudder Pond.

Brown on Blue-Grey

Dark Brown on Blue-Grey, Summer, Lake Whatcom, Washington.

White on Grey

This delicately sugared Russian tea cake from our fave-O-fave local bakery in Bow, Washington

is an essential provision for all Explorations of Grey.

(OFFER VALID ONLY WITH LATTES.)

Blue Grey

We enthusiastically look forward to sharing our many hues of grey with you. This is Padilla Bay, where the mighty Skagit River runs from the "American Swiss Alps" (North Cascades National Park) into the Bay. It may also be the last viable estuary for all 5 species of salmon native to Northwest Washington. We don't know what that means. Looks like whales from a distance. We like whales although we have never met one. Right now we just want breakfast. "WHEEEEEEEEEEEK!"

Julie Andrews - Dancing Queen - YouTube

Julie Andrews - Dancing Queen - YouTube

Dedicated to Ms. A, who reminds me to dance.
Even - ESPECIALLY! - with piggie pee on my nightgown~

Where Everybody Knows Your Name...

And you're always glad you came..."CHEERS" TO THE TRIPLE-SHOT GRANDE!

p.s. We actually ran into the actor who played the Postman on "Cheers" near the ferry terminal on one of the islands many years back, Edwin said he and I were wearing identical hats...mom and Cliff both lookin' alike! IMAGINE what that says about mom! In truth, a lot of non-Hollywoodies who don't need ranches or New York do live in the Puget Sound area and some even live here.

But they all turn pale, mossy-green after awhile, like the rest of us, so they fit right in!

If It's Monday...

Mom still not feeling too well, but she looks worse than she feels. Pretty chicky here looks better than mom! But she has discovered that NOW is the time to prepare for the next Art Extravaganza, and is determined to ORGANIZE EARLY! That is why she fell asleep with Calvin already once today, and is going back to bed now.

But we had the most fun yesterday and she did get my cage cleaned and half of Calvin's and the new crop of hay that's come in is just the way we love it, the last crop was mainly dust. We like the flowers on the ends of the stalks. Like popcorn, so we had a blast watching Vacadude's Playhouse where he did a LIVE ON AIR puppet show about the meaning of "Columbus Day" and it was funny. Personally, we think this holiday should be revoked now that we know "the end of the story" but Thanksgiving had an even worse ending (not for the Pilgrims, for the ones who saved them, mmm, not good at all.)
But there's too much football. They'll never revoke Thanksgiving. And giving thanks is good. We just feel it would be good to do every day. Don't you?

Winter has blustered its way back onto the radar...so odd, considering how - in many ways - it kinda never left! Spring and Fall? Fuggetabout it!! Nevah happened. So, mom chose ONE room to focus on finding the heat vent and it's OUR ROOM and we're now hunkered down next to mom's bed with one heating vent and Calvin's back to his nightly "special me in bed with mom" ritual.
So,  I had to pee on mom ro re-establish my dominance and value as #1 Alpha
Pig of Perfection. DON'T JUDGE! She likes the way I feel so warm on her chest and I bask in the Glow O'Da Cuddle because we've been together so long we just hug and I purr straight-up-close-and-personal but, hey, I'm YumYum. She was
wearing the one flannel nightgown she inherited from her recently passed-away friend but no harm done. She just glad I drinking enough water TO PEE ON ANYTHING, EVEN IF IT HER! That's the beauty of having a brain-Farked mom.
She don't know any different. Whatever happens, happens! It all good, as long as
we together as a family. And she thinks she a guinea pig, too. Ya just gotta work
these things to your advantage when you're YumYum, cuz that's how I roll, baby, that just how I roll!

Now, to count our myriad shades of grey...

Light grey, dark grey, in-between grey, blue grey, green grey, cloudy grey, watery grey, hazy grey, moist grey, sprinkley-rain-grey, mediocre-rain-grey, windstorm without rain grey, windstorm with rain-grey, windstorm-with-hail grey, winstorm with horizontal, pouring, zero-visibility grey, windstorm with rain and hail grey, windstorm with horizontal rain and hail grey, foggy grey, grey poupon,
spooky grey, grey of the Scottish moors, where you can almost hear Sasquatch howling...and it's only OCTOBER...HEATHCLIFF!