vintage upcycle

woods and garden

 jumping logs 101

infamous black squirrel of Shoaff Park

 fantastic singing catbird

he loves the grape jelly

appetize the colorize

just like in the movies, clickify to hyugify

color that 'toon

little hike, Shoaff Park

 jumping logs

anada new/old

The Birds of Early May

red bellied

northern flicker

hairy flightless woodmuncher

in need of a raincoat

rose-breasted grosbeak

wet robin, mad and sick of April showers

female grosbeak

cardinal, some sort of sparrow, and a downy woodpecker 

house finch

tufted titmouse

catbird 

omg, these cardinals! 

baby birds. Lol

new old cartoons

End of Games!

 Is it a foregone conclusion? Going in to the final two games, the stars have all come out to cheer on their domino heroes. Here is Captain Turtle posing with the favorite, Gazing Ball.

With some good back and forth, the double-One round looks even - for a bit. Then phONEruns out of moves and collects too many points. He finishes with another big load: 61 points!

It's not looking good, and is all but over going to the last round. The Double O! The players put their racks together, and the options look pretty good. phONEstarts the community train early, because his train is not oh-so-long. Before long both players run out of tiles, and have too many unplayable doubles... calamity ensues, but...

Gazing Ball prevails! Final score 123 to 262.

This was a hard fought match, and the globe was in it the whole race. She started the games from behind, but then caught up and never looked back, going out first five times down the back stretch!

Congratulations Gazing Ball!

Fourth Elim

Three players, and two games: Who will survive to the Final Competition? WHO???

'Nanners wins! And doing so catches the globe with 31 and (whoopsie)
phONEwith a whopping 47! Now Gazing Ball leads with 123, 'Nanners has 137, and phONEfalls into last with 143! Still, the scores are close and it's anyone's game. On to the double-two Round!

Round of Two's: phONEwas on the hook, but Gazing Ball took a bite out of 'Nanners in a long, hotly contested bout. For a while it looked like phONEmight fall in a bloodbath, but the game went on and on and on. The globe prevailed, finally, and 'Nanners slipped on his own peel, scoring 57! Bad news in this elimination round!

On to the final two rounds. phONEis trailing with a score of 168, forty-five points behind Gazing Ball's 123. WHO will prevail?

Another Elimination!

 Round Six, and phONE wins for the third time. His lead is secure!

 Gazing Ball does well in Round Five, catching Mr. Gingerbread Man with 26 points and knocking him from second place. The globe moves into second as the third elimination round looms large!

 Round Four, Gazing Ball wins again.
This time he gets the gingerman with a whopping 30 points, and forces the dimpled one out! Oh no!

Four rounds left and we're down to three players! Excitement is WoW!

Elimination Round Seven

Good Golly No! 

phONE once again wins! The scores are: phONE71, Mr. Gingerbread Man 73, Globe 78, 'Nanners 88, and CRIPES! Sloth JR with 108! Slothy scores a whopping 71 and goes from best to worst:
He's out!

phONE makes a call! So exciting!