David Raynes

Joel Frock, my best friend and best man, came over last night to take some digital pictures of his miniatures to show someone for whom he might do some work. I figured I'd let the rest of the world know they were there, mostly because I'm probably a charter member (if not the president) of the Joel Frock Fan Club. Any other Frockies out there? :)

Anyways, you can look at the rest of the pictures we took last night in Joel's Miniature Pictures Gallery.

Enjoy!

Since I'm posting other pictures of the cats, I thought I'd put up this one of Franz and Hans that I took last week. They can be cute little guys when they want to.

While taking pictures for Jenn tonight, we caught Gizmo in a yawn. The picture is just too goofy not to post it. :)

Franz was the second cat I got. He came home two days after I picked up Hans. I had only actually seen him once before, but I wasn't looking at him; I was looking at his brother, and got on his brother's list. When I was at the shelter for Hans, the lady there remembered me, told me that nobody had adopted Franz yet, and asked me if I'd like to take him home. He was the biggest cat from the start. He was already past two pounds then. He was pretty sick recently, and had dropped to as low (as far as we know) as eight pounds, but he's much better now. Heck, he's put on about four to five pounds in the last few months.

He has earned himself the nicknames Moo-Cat, Moo-ber, and various other ones involving "Moo" thanks to his distinctive meow, and his constant use of it. :) He has also got to be the most enthusiastic pet-ee I have ever seen, to the point of somersaulting while he is being petted.

My first cat. Got him when he was a kitten from the Howard County animal shelter at the end of September last year. He had already gone through two names when I found him: Spanky and Houdini. He has also recently earned the nickname Chinmaster for the odd little way that he likes to stick out his chin.

Okay, here's the first installment of my new feature. Tell me what you see happening here.

I just thought I'd share a picture I took of the view from our balcony. I love this apartment, and I am definately becoming a big fan of fall.