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| Cally the Kitty |
"When I got Percy and Cally 7 years ago Cally was named Paris. I couldn't
stand hearing about Paris Hilton then at all so I renamed her after my
father's father's nickname. Cally. He was born in Wales and I guess
that's common over there. I don't know. He was the first Carroll. Maybe
that was tough for him too. I was for me in the early days. ("Carroll's a
girls name") I got that all the time when young. I spoke to the lady at
PetSmart a year later and she said she named Percy and Paris. She named
the cat Paris because of the goatee she has. That was good to know."
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| Working on Water Bucket (pronounced boo-kay) #3: From the Studio |
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"I included the pic of the water bucket I'm doing now LIVE. You can see
my set up. The drawing is much more complected and darker than what you
see here.......I guess the light is making it glare. I'm very happy with
it. You can see the pallet for the Shore House still on the desk. Just
put plastic over it because I'm too tired to clean up. I still have two
clocks I haven't set back. Also Happy New Year. For some reason I think
2014 is going to be a better year,"
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| Water Bucket #3 (Jan 2, 2013) |
~Note from Rose: Couldn't help but notice the colors...how strikingly similar they were when comparing Cally's photo and that of the studio shot of the work in progress.~
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| Percy |
Addendum:
Mr. Jones sent an old picture of 'one of (?)' his previous pairs of cats. It was just so pretty and I thought it belonged here.
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| 'Pusa and Maxine 1988' |
"I moved to Hoboken with Maxine and an unnamed cat in 1978. I couldn't
think of a name for her and so she remained just 'cat'. After a while a
total Hobokenite, Mike DaPuzzio, a house painter and blue collar worker
helped me out a lot. He fixed up abandoned homes and sold them for a
profit. Probably the beginning of "Flip". He got me a desk and a couple
of stools and became a friend sort of out there somewhere. He didn't
want anything. He just knew I had little and wanted to help out. So I
named the cat after him. Puza. I couldn't call the cat Mike Dapuzzio but
Puza was much easier to say. Puza lived to 22 and was healthy all her
life except the last two days. Her heart gave out. I drove her up to Ann
Marchev's house in Summit and buried her there. Ann's daughter is Diane
Hendriks who helped you with your blog."
