A pretty pose from Miss Nora

A visit from Isaias

A few words on behalf of...

A nice surprise to see the Cat Writers' Association hosting a fundraising benefit for Tabby's Place.

OK, researcher from the year 2070...

First enjoy looking up: 

‘Person, woman, man, camera, TV.’

Then these alternative answers:

Man

Woman

Birth

Death

Infinity

People of a certain age should be humming this now.

Some from a certain area of the country will will recall this.  (But you don't have to be a certain ethnic person to enjoy it.)

August 5 edit:  The certain ethnic references came from a show on Cleveland's channel 8 that featured classically bad movies with corny skits in between.  Yesterday, channel 8's longtime weatherman, Dick Goddard died.  Among many other things, he was an animal lover and sometime participant in the Houlihan/Big Chuck/Little John skits.

Things I Learned While Looking Up Something Else: Raccoons

"For climbing down a tree headfirst—an unusual ability for a mammal of its size—a raccoon rotates its hind feet so they are pointing backwards."

And thank you so much for the reminder...

"Riding the wave of the future"

I was actually looking for the TV commercial where the office boy walks his boss through buying stocks online, but this will have to do.  A blue wave looks nice.

Just signed up both Pat and me to get mail-in ballots for the fall election.  Another first.  

Groceries this morning at Wegman's, where the only obvious sign of the novel coronavirus is the requirement that everyone wear a mask.  There's plenty of flour and plenty of paper products, and no line to get in.  They never tried the one-way aisle thing that flopped at Giant and Walmart.   But just asking, where's the tapioca these days?  Everyone's out of it.