We just adopted another dog (Gatsby) to join our other rescue. Dogs are cool.
Autumn / Fall weather is my favourite time of year.
I’ve started doing the grooming on our Schnauzers the past 6 months. They look like they’ve got Dad haircuts (getting better every time). It was getting hard to justify the $500 every 8 weeks to have them done, prices here doubled over the past 18 months or so, it became one of those, the time was worth the money to do it myself situations.
$500?? Whoa! Our mobile groomer comes to the house in her fancy van set up to do the grooming, and it’s only $120 thankfully. If I had to pony up that much, he’d be rocking the bowl cut for sure! 
Yep that’s what we had. When we started getting Maxx done (he’s 3 yr older than Gus), it was $95 plus tip for the mobile groomer. He kept the same groomer for 4.5 years, then she left last year and the owner (and all of the other mobile groomers around us) started jacking rates up. The last time we had them done, she had raised to rate again so that it was $250 minus tip for each boy. I had to Venmo her extra to make up the difference and since it was the owner doing the work I said fuck a tip. I used that to buy my clippers and blending shears.
I’m having a hard time processing these figures!
Bike ride followed by a swim / lay down in the creek to cool off. That’s their salon / spa day.
Aaaahhhhh! A dog’s life. Loverly!
Looking sharp!
Can´t practice in peace 
She sometimes like to climb and loaf on me during playing. And when I got them I was afraid that I´m to loud and annoying during playing for them…
oh yess , our cats are also always “helping” me with whatever I’m doing in the house
I have had to hide all my basses, cover my amps, put my pedal board away, even take down and put away my guitar stands. My wife insisted on keeping a litter of 5 kittens that the neighbor’s cat had in our yard after I brought them in to protect them from predators. I caught one chewing on the strings of one of my spectors once. They chewed up all the foam on my guitar stands. I had to box up all my memorabilia that I had out. They are about a year and 2 months old. I hope they grow out of this stage soon, my sleep is very broken up. Dinging your bass is one thing, having a cat chew one up is another!
They will.. and then will find something new 
I feel for you. This is terrible. Maybe if you get something interesting and exciting for them to keep their attention elsewhere? And vary a little. Take some toy away and change for another, then when they get a previous toy again, they will get excited about it all over again.
Boxes, boxes of all sizes! Big boxes with tiny windows, and tiny boxes (too small for them to fit in, but yes, they will try to get inside them). Paper bags, one for each cat. Places where they can hide and chase one another. Things to climb on. Hanging strings with something on them. Little balls that end up under furniture (they are the best!). Cardboard boxes are a joy for any cat 
Of course they will prefer to do most of the noise and destruction during the night. A cat we had years ago liked to play with the shower curtains while we were sleeping, and made lots of holes on it.
I had an idea that worked back then. I placed orange peels on places I didn’t want the cat to go, because he hated them. Like the kitchen counter. He never jumped on the kitchen counter anymore after seeing orange peels there
Cats are so funny.
It’s true, at 4:50 am every morning, one of them starts playing with the strings on the wooden window blinds. If I stuff them up at the top, she makes all kinds of noise trying to get them down. If the bedroom door is closed, they all start hurling their bodies at it to wake us up! We had lever doorknobs on all the interior doors, we had to replace them with knobs because they learned how to open them and destroy whatever they could! I often hear them jiggling the knobs, it’s only a matter of time before they learn to open them. on the other hand, I have a Jack Russel, he is the best dog ever! He won’t teach them how to be civil though. 
oh god my 19 lb orange cat is problem solving smart like that too @Tommydogg I was cursed because figured out how to turn knobs AND deadbolts. Months would go by and I’d think he’d forgotten this forbidden knowledge and then randomly he would deadass make full eye contact and casually reach over and open the door. Had to put child locks on everything, all the doors and cabinets to thwart him. His terrible twos nearly put me in an early grave but thankfully these days he’s middle aged and mostly lazy and very spoiled.
Max is still the best thing I ever pulled out of the trash in the alley.
Don’t worry he has his own set of sticks to play with now
Back when I first got my bass every time I tried to play something in Drop C tuning he would get upset and climb on my shoulders.
Awwww, that looks so sweet! 
It’s funny how cats want to participate in everything their human is doing. If you’re trying to read a book or use the computer, they will try to lay down over the book or keyboard. I recently found a funny picture on this subject:
Two of these guys are Oranges. Same mama, different litters 3.5 moths apart. Turns out she was pregnant again when the neighbor went to have her spayed. We called them big orange and little orange for a while until little orange got bigger than big orange. at 12 months, little orange was 21 lbs while big orange was only 15 lbs. the older one is named Bjorn and the younger is Eric The Red. Eric is definitely mellow while Bjorn is the the bad kitty.