New things:
Half-deck, upper stairs, with Lucy, the Orange, Leaky-ass dog:
Half-deck, lower steps. Waiting to have the ends trimmed, and the nosing installed:
And finally, we have new fuzzbuckets. Here is White Kitty exploring:
the gray stripey kitty is much more shy, and is keeping well away from Lucifer.
Anyone got ideas for names?
Empire Of The Senseless 
So, you actually build stuff yourself? You’re not just a fancy, elitist drawer of things?
Lucy does all the work, vs.
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Creamsicle?
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I started thinking about this (never a good idea – try to stay numb and stupid, this is America after all) and it occured to me that in my life I’ve only named ONE pet. I got a puppy back in the mid seventies I named “Rooney”, after the never-seen character “Old Man Rooney” from the popular Burns and Schreiber routines of the time. Every other animal, no matter how much I loved it, was actually named by somebody else.
So I don’t know if I’m good at naming pets. Cats should be easy – they should have spooky, metaphysical names because they move silently, and are only partially of this universe. But I always want to name pets after people I like, real or fictional, from Gunga Din to Cat Shannon to Jonathan Hemlock.
You might be resistant, but for her elegance and grace, I’d go with “Alice” for the white one.
Yeah. THAT Alice.
See what I’m saying?
It was a low-light photo, thundra, she is much whiter than appears.
VS: a short list of work I’ve done on this creaking piece of crap (house built in 1904):
refinished all floors at first floor
built the first deck
tore out the first deck
tore out the laundry
rebuilt the laundry after the basement wall was repaired
built a new second floor porch
installed a patio door in kitchen
we painted EVERYTHING.
replaced all ceiling fans
replaced all galvanized and lead water piping
replaced interior doors with glazed doors
completely rebuilt upper floor bathroom
completely rebuilt powder room
repaired failed hearth at fireplace
new light fixtures, including “sputnik”
building new deck
block wall planter at sidewalk
block wall at rear door
replaced several windows
rebuilt three windows.
all told, I prefer drawing them. But until Obama creates the MAGICAL PONY RECOVERY WITH FLOWERS AND RAINBOWS AND HAPPY PUPPIES which I am sure will be along any day now, I cannot afford to pay tradespeople to do the work.
Lucy does all the work, vs.
Lucy chewed up some of the siding, which I haven’t quite replaced yet, as it is near the new deck and I will build a new transition from siding to deck when the half-deck is less half.
Also, Lucy destroyed the Stove Hood, which is why I have been working on patching the kitchen ceiling.
Lucy is more of a demolition dog.
I got a puppy back in the mid seventies I named “Rooney”
So that’s the first part of your porn name…
Doesn’t matter what you name it, it won’t come anyway.
By the way, I enjoyed OOOH! by The Mekons (according to the album). Good shit, man, very political too.
And I’m not even sucking up to you because, after all, what’s an unemployed zombie got to offer me?
Snow Bite.
And I’m not even sucking up to you because, after all, what’s an unemployed zombie got to offer me?
Undeath!
Snow Bite.
Bravo! I’d thought of “Yeti Kitty”, but “Snow Bite” is better.
YETIKITTY ISREAL.
Names?
C’mon, let’s get it done.
We’ve got peyote to pick here…
Can’t help but notice the gas can by the back door.
Is this some kind of implied coercion? If the deck doesn’t come out the way you want it to you’re going to light it on fire?
Also, you should re-visit your slanders of Lucy’s ass functionality. After all, in a few years, you may find that you are known throughout the Shire as “That Leaky-Ass Architect” and let’s face it, that’s just another hurdle between you an the contract…
Lucy is waiting for her microwave popcorn.
lighting it on fire is always an option, mikey. You should know that.
How about “Cat?” You kind of have that Audrey Hepburn thing going on.
Did you ever read Thomas Perry’s novel “Metzger’s Dog”?
If so, you know what I’m going to suggest for a name…
Schrödinger
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I think you should name the kitteh, Dander…
Bastet.
Then when it POOPS in your closet you can yell, “Bastet you bastard!”
the deck looks great!!
Anyone got ideas for names?
Fredricka-Cassaundra Puquyiwenubmit the Black widow
Trina-Loise Len
Alfonso-Alfonzo Richey the Apologetic Albacore
Xinsown Preevehayjcroylefom the Mysterious Scabbardmaker
Wilmer Ottomanize
Kludcrout Yevroufufbu
Sushthunderstorms Gegcesevouxzut the Ethnologist
Sachgoo Inflammatory the Small Fainting goat
Willena Tail-Curvature the Bland Deputy
Wail Arachne the abysmal Clown triggerfish
Delivered Otilia the Dizzy Embalmer
Renames Uncontrollably the Harmonious Monitor lizard
Dewayne Ludivina the Swamp lurker
Certifications the Rich Documentalist
Clarita susann the Lightning quasielemental
Quantifiedhool Importantly the Strange War witch
Dee
Whole the Erroneous Student
Author Gratuitousness the Rocky Astral stalker
Vuplployzouqu
Projectors Stefani the Razorfiend
Gisyiwyoos Lar the négociant
Mayor Debaters-Combed
Boyrustlers Florencio the Final Internist
Strike the Thing in the portal
Valde Enid
Caklswoop Hatfield the Distrustful villager
Deanna Spent-Tie the Famous Sword wraith
Wade-Richelle sublayer-Axon the Hoppin’ Largenose fish
Slouchwih Bucre
Strangersroys Alleged the Real estate developer
Heetraguel Rivers the Game designer
Serious the Passable Killer tree
Faustina Kaysho the Striped dolphin
Plutannals Faywub the Stick insect
Standpointkaysho Ascendancy the Hidden Consul
Ceseemmy Kabemoocitsha the Presenter
Waneta-Rosina Blockhouse-Loyalty the Opaleye
Quemabcu fu Sam the Computer programmer
Angelic Bitmap the Chef
Katina Mercy
Jenette Dixtuth the Flabby whalefish
Professor Gevcu
Prouw Flack
Favaurora Antionette the Excessive Eulachon
Jifamxayre Shelba
Roo the Generous Church usher
Mevzoy Emelia
Pibecordelia Char-Varnishes
Surgically the Chinese ferret badger
Het the Disappointed Giant wels
Keceeth Nichole the Alternative Composer
Heeblarklem Wubplejplejdocr the Luxurious Herder
Yolande Tai the Mushy Diamantaire
Helga
Moujason Elijah the Bodybuilder
Cataloged Malik the Dragon guardian
Xikchangeability Baroqueness the Red Technologist
Baron Elizabethanizelayv Zona the Common carp
Bali-Mounter the Needler
Anderson-Gwyn Greenery-Secrets the Tuner
Kazuko-Latisha Charlotte
Jo
Nofeshitjeep Kirby the Gray orc
Major General Lenny
Activated Sacrificial
Enviousnessgeg Atomize the Yummy Engineer
Jericawib Sarai
Criticize Ministries the Split Accountant
Kashmirfu Matched-Politest
Woshefoxo Yiw the Amorphous Special agent
Reynaldo Monty the Sad Chemist
Farmington Ploocquoyquwanfu the Biomedical scientist
Clevelandkile Near-Sob
Makledocrquayroshipl Rosio the Puffer
Zelmahouv Ayanna the Homemade Jailer
Malisacool Castes-Sprayer the Warmonger
Lauricewow Singers-Instinctual
Amiequoy Nate the Lenok
Peebgassed Yong the Tasty Swimmer
Johann Tequila the Fleet Navigator
Aunt Conjuncturevoyf Trudy the Whirling steel monk
Virgen Reversals
Yoplcry Anaphora the Upholsterer
Zookeeper Roysshala Anglophilia-Asceticism the Genealogist
Yibryon Wrest-Spanked the Clenched Plaice
Jogplou Crosses the Graphic artist
Ileen
Woyocro Joann the Draper
Annuallyces Embryo-Exactions
Mitch-Virgina Thoodjuwo
Sanda Sober the Conspicuous Isopod
karie-Hoyt Malissa the Shadow panther
Setting
Interpolating Evie
Wib the Northern pearleye
Seams Dikle
Carline-Jolynn Assiduously-Unionizes the Super Hotelier
Calculated Nonmaskable the Delicious Rock wyrm
Plutrochell Conjunct-Salts
Cloumdeclarers Deteriorate-Terminals the Illuminator
Ahh, been reading Heinlein, have we?
Needlers, vibrablades and kilts. The perfect aberrational view of the future…
Holy shit. Mr. McG went nutz on his list o’ names didn’t he?
WTF are you naming..the grey cat or yer new deck?
Oh, and this line isn’t true of all felines, therefore I call bullshit on it: because they move silently, and are only partially of this universe. I got a few felines that are so effin clumsy, they make the blind, old, diabetic dog look like a gymnast. Fuzzy falls out of the window daily if not hourly and Little Bit..who btw is a huge,fat,mean bitch, can roll off a table when she sleeps in the middle of it. Plus you can hear Pigeon coming for twenty minutes. He got his name cuz his back feet are towed in as all get out and he walks or runs like the proverbial bull in a china shoppe.
Substance uses electronic enhancement.
Substance is a juicer? Damn, I’m so disappointed.
No, no. He HAS a juicer.
Not to mention a crock pot.
His kitchen is electrically enhanced…
Substance has been banned in all 50 states.
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Not to mention a crock pot.
AKA Janus Node.
What’s up over here?
Hiatus?
You should put up one of those clock graphics that says “Back at: and it shows like four pee emm or something…