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Tas was getting bored so we decided he needed a kitten of his own.

It took several trips to the Humane Society before we found the perfect puss. Her name was not good enough so we renamed her Patch because she has an orangey patch, a bit like a saddle, on her back.

Tas is no longer bored. He loves his new girlfriend but is definitely more pooped at the end of the day. He is very protective of her and looks very concerned if we seem to be taking chances with her safety.

Patch thinks Tas is the very best and occasionally even stops moving long enough to be photographed. These snaps are culled from literally hundreds that are mostly of the “here is where a kitten was” variety.

Welcome Patch! (Click on the picture to see more…)

We have posted a lot of photos from our recent trip to Wisconsin.

They are all separated by different galleries for each visit or activity.

Please click on this link or the sample picture on the right to view all the pictures that have been uploaded. There are more. You will be taken to a page called detayls.smugmug.com, which is where all of the pictures live. You will see a list of albums in reverse order by time with the newest gallery shown first.

You may click on the picture for each gallery to see the rest. To return to the top just click “detayls” in the top left or go to detayls.smugmug.com again.

Above the galleries is a slide show of the most popular shots. You can vote for any picture to add it to the slide show by hovering your mouse over the picture that you like and clicking the green “thumbs up” when it appears.

Enjoy!

Yes, we are aware that yet more snaps of Tas is over-the-top behavior. He is very fine though!

Here he is playing with his absolutely favorite toy, the stringy thingy. He loves to chase it in ever decreasing circles and when he catches it, he growls like a mountain lion. Be afraid, be very afraid.

If you have been paying attention this far, there is a treat. A short video. It should be the last one in the gallery on Smugmug, which you get to by clicking on the picture…

David, JoLynn and Jeanni held a party for Christmas Eve again this year. This year we had Cioppino, which is Italian Seafood soup. Various guests also brought lots of potluck food. Vicky outdid herself from 2008 with even more glorious sweet stuff. Her Pecan Brittle is so light it has no calories!

For some reason the kids needed to have contest to see who could make the weirdest looking face. Who do you think won?

Once again we played the familiar Secret Santa game and had lots of fun. These folk were so gentile with the gifts that it was all over very quickly.

This is a particularly good set of pictures. First click the image here to get to the gallery in Smugmug and then be sure to click “Slide Show” at the top right for best viewing.

Happy New Year 2010, everyone!

Lisa McDowell dropped in the San Francisco Bay Area in early December 2009. She waited patiently until her friend Daniel arrived and then they nipped over to Napa for a couple of days.

Lisa had spent the previous four months on an epic trip around the world starting from England in July by flying to India and gradually inched nearer to California via Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand and Fiji. There are some contributed pictures from her trip in a previous album here.

One of her requests was a quick trip to Wildcare in San Rafael and she virtually demanded some Dim Sum in San Francisco. Eleven years is just too long!

She had fond memories of a trip to the Harbor Village restaurant at the Embarcadero with us for Dim Sum in 1998. Sadly the Harbor Village is no more. David and JoLynn recruited Jeanni and Grier to take us to a favorite restaurant and we all had a lovely meal.

Afterward we visited the Legion of Honor to absorb a little culture before heading home to Marin

Hi, I’m Lisa McDowell (Guest Contributor and David’s niece). I left London in early August to see as much of the world as I could fit into the space of 5 months. The following photos are my best shots, ranging from India and Nepal to Australia and Fiji. Unsurprisingly I had the time of my life – enjoy!

Moira and Robyn Taylor from Wellington, New Zealand came to visit the Taylors on their way home from New York in Early November 2009.

Robyn had run in the New York marathon the previous weekend with a time of 4 hours and 27 minutes. This was only her second major marathon. Her previous was in New Zealand. Her sisters Moira and Alison and her brother Alec went with her for support. Alison and Alec then returned to where they are living. Alison is working in Indonesia and Alec in northern Canada.

We took the sisters to the top of Twin Peaks in San Francisco to get good views of the bay and then took them for a Chinese meal in Chinatown. We traveled on a Cable Car for a few blocks on the way.

On Sunday we all went out to Tony’s for oysters and seafood in Marshall followed by a visit to Point Reyes Station.

Yes, one more Tas gallery. David caught him snoozing and just as he was waking up grabbed these shots.

We promise to calm down the the Tas shots already but he does have a worldwide fan club and his fans do clamor, you know!

What could be finer? A day out with Mitchell and Helen in West Marin with BBQ Oysters and sea food to eat. A visit to Point Reyes Station with coffee from the Bovine Bakery. Some browsing at Toby’s Feed Barn.

Then home to introduce Tas to Mitchell and Helen. Perfect.

David and JoLynn have adopted a new kitten called Tas. We think it was short for Tasmanian Devil – a joke by someone at the Marin Humane Society, where we found him.

He’s a handsome little guy and very smart. JoLynn, obviously concerned that he was fading away, nudged me at 5 am and said: “Why don’t you get him a little dish of cat kibble and put it beside the bed?”

He ran happily downstairs and straight to his food dish in the kitchen. “Is this what you’re looking for?” I just went back to bed.

His ancestry is pure Heinz “tabby” with a splash of yellower fur and cute black foot pads. Already we can see he is going to be a terror in the garden.

I doubt these will be his last pictures as he settles in. He must be lucky! This is the 100th post on Detayls. Welcome, dude!