Sitting Pretty

We here at Chez Tomokee have been boosting the economy (someone's got to do it!) by buying a lot of new furniture to replace aging furniture. One of the pieces we are replacing is the hide-a-bed in the family room. We are replacing it for several reasons.
(1) We really don't need a hide-a-bed.
(2) It's just so OHBU (Old, Heavy, Big, and Ugly)
(3) It's never been very comfortable.
(4) Tomokee uses it as his primary sitting post in the family room, throws his ball at it, jumps onto and off of it, and has basically trashed it to the point that it needs to be burned.

Since we are replacing it, I wanted to find a new chair for Tomokee to use. There are lots of dog sofas out there, but they cost just as much as an inexpensive human armchair. It just happened that we found this inexpensive $99.99 new-not-donated armchair from the local GW of Los Altos, which is our local upscale Goodwill store. Tomokee seems to like it -- we put lots of stuff on the hide-a-bed to prevent him from using it and encourage him to try the new chair.

Another beach photo

The beach in January in Carmel-By-the-Sea was the prettiest I've ever seen it. Tomokee, as usual, is enjoying his beach time.

Carmel Day Trip -- The One True Ring Found!

We took a day trip to Carmel-By-The-Sea for reasons that will become apparent, infra.

We first took T-dog to the beach, where he romped with other 4-legs and spent quality time with Betty while she worked on yet another knitting project (as shown here):





Notice the dog is, once again, blessing Betty with his Ass (I & II).

We then had a nice lunch and drug the hound around doing various shopping duties and also collected a wedding band we found on the beach during a previous visit to Carmel. It stayed with the Carmel PD (in the tender care of Carmel PSO Hidalgo), but no one claimed it. The pictures are reproduced below so they might be linked to a Craigslist lost&found posting. If you can tell us the inscription inside the ring, we'll work with you to return it.

























It's clearly a wedding band for a large man's hand. If it's yours, send email to:

found_ring (at) audiocentraal (dot) com

Whilst shopping, I was startled to see this fine item for sale at a local high-end furnishings store:



We have dubbed this piece, "the lamp of many testicles."

Good luck with that, Spongebob.

Another day, another hat

Lately, Tomokee has not experienced any blog-worthy events in his life. However, we have had friends and acquaintances tell us how much they enjoy the photos of Tomokee with these strange hats. I have a growing collection of vintage hats, so I think I will try to take more photos of Tomokee wearing them. This one must be from the sixties, I think. It's paisley, dahling.

Mesmerized

We here at the Tomokee household are not exactly video gamers. However, after playing with the Wii Fit at the home of some friends, we just HAD to get one. So far, we've only purchased the basic Wii unit because the stores are out of stock of the Wii Fit. For some reason, Tomokee is fascinated by the Wii setup process, especially with creating the Mii avatars. We don't know if it's the avatar faces, or the oddly vibrating Wii cursor, or the bloop-bloop-blooping sounds during setup, but Tomokee just stares and stares and stares....

Happy Holidays!

Happy holidays, everyone!

Mr. Loud goes to the dog park

We took Tomokee to the dog park on Black Friday, figuring it would be a quiet day, but nooo...., everybody and their dogs were there, all thinking the same thing. Included in the population were five huskies, a couple of whom ran with Tomokee. T-dog was particularly annoying -- just bark, bark, barking at every dog to get them to play, play, play with him.