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Friday, December 26, 2025
Wednesday, December 24, 2025
Tuesday, December 23, 2025
Cookie Crooked Tail is announcing her new book for 2026
Hello! I'm Cookie Crooked Tail, the kitten!
(I am also called "Gremlin" by Daddy/Mommy because he says I am a LOT of trouble every hour each day)
Attention, please, teachers, young readers-learners, and parents-grandparents and aunts/uncles and cousins who read to children: Cookie Crooked Tail, also known as "Gremlin!", will be with you shortly. (Her real given name is Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, but this is a bit long for a child. Well, maybe not. And I once had a cat named "Buster," which was short for Butterscotch Custard.
And, yes, she and her siblings were all born with crooked tails. Cookie's tail makes a sharp 90-degree angle turn, and then a little wiggle before the end.
This is an e-book because it's short in size (like Cookie), but also because she's only six months old and hasn't done enough (yet) to create more mischief in her/my life. (She's working on it hourly, if not daily.) It's a VERY short little e-book in content (she's ONLY six months old, but already a handful of trouble on an hourly basis).
(You can view Cookie claiming ownership of me and her privilege/right/demand to a safe place here): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5b0NP-kVgQ8
Saturday, December 20, 2025
Indio Gigante chickens from Brazil
"What's for dinner?"
"YOU are," said the giant chicken!
PS: remember that my brother, Steven, has four of these along with other regular chickens on his "Green Postage Stamp" ranch, aka Paradise Palms, in Paso Robles, CA. Just LOOK at that T-Rex mentality in that rooster!!