Pat Gal

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Woman to her date: “Well Dan, if Mexicans are all drug dealers and rapists and you’re afraid they’re coming to take your job… What exactly do you do for a living?
Autocracy Inc. by Anne Appplebaum
The book is A Brief History of Seven Killings by the amazing Marlon James.
Picture of cats sleeping in various locations, window ledge, box, bureau drawer, on a big green rocking chair. Alongside is the poem Cats Sleep Anywhere, by Eleanor Farjeon.
A couple of ballet dancers. He is in a grey unitard with a pink belt. She is wearing a pink tutu with a white crown. He holds her at the waist as she stands in Arabesque. Over their heads leaps another dancer in a blue leotard with red and white stripes. Below is the mouse king with a twisted sword. Peppermint candies, gumdrops and snowflakes, swirl around.
1920’s style dress on a young woman in a cloche hat. The outfit is all gold colors in the background is a lit street lamp and a car from that period. Art deco style shapes decorate the edge of the picture.
White cat looking at us upside down. Captions say: Good morning Have a wonderful day
7 cats hanging out on and around a blue couch. An open bag of potato chips is spilled out onto the couch. There is a teapot and tea cup on the coffee table in front of the couch. Plants and a chandelier hang in the background. One of the cats is chewing on the back of the couch. A second cat is sprawled out on his back. A third is scratching at the side of the couch.
A cute little girl with pig-tails is holding an egg in one hand and a chick in the other. She is wearing cowboy boots and a blue jumper. There is a baby pig by her side and 5 other chicks. They are all in front of a red henhouse. A brown hen is watching the from the doorway. There is a basket of eggs nearby and two sunflowers.
Colorful menorah. All 9 candles are lit. Words beneath say Happy Hanukkah.
A mainly blue picture. Large windows glow yellow. They are covered with differently designed Star of David.There is a menorah in front of one window. A blue wreath is hung over the mantle. A fire in the fireplace. Two blue chairs with a cat in each. The tabby is curled up, asleep. The white Persian is sitting up. A table with dreidel and coins sits in the middle of the room. A fluffy dog sits on the floor. Gifts and decorations are everywhere. Sign in the corner says, Happy Hanukah.
Collage of Christmas and Hanukkah images. Santa hat, Christmas tree, candy cane, Elf on a Shelf, fireplace with stockings hung, dreidels, Star of David, gifts wrapped in blue paper, small pile of Hanukkah coins (gelt). Also the words Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah.
Puzzle shows stockings hanging by the fire. Holly boughs dappled with snow on the fireplace mantle, a pile of colorful gifts in front of the fireplace. Next to it is a white cat wearing a Santa hat. A smiling Santa is seated at a table holding a tabby cat with a red bow around its neck. On the red tablecloth are a pile of cookies and sitting on the table is a striped tabby cat wearing a Santa hat. There is a pretty Christmas tree in the background.
Various colorful Christmas cookies. Star, snowman, Santa, Grinch, stocking, Christmas tree.
Beautiful woman with dark hair, carries a huge red umbrella. On her shoulders, under the umbrella, are 30+ cats of all colors, and patterns. Some are wearing hats or bow ties. The woman is wearing a pinkish coat with red trim. She is looks up at the rain, concerned with keeping her kitties dry.
German shorthaired pointer sitting in the front seat, looking concernedly out the car window at sidewalk and city building.
Puzzle painting is the full body of a cat, sitting on its haunches. It is completely covered by a beautiful pattern of jewels. The border around the cat is a tapestry of jewels.
Puzzle with city scene. Bakery, music shop, colorfully dressed carolers around a huge Christmas tree, dog with pup looking on.
Close up of Great Horned owl sitting on a branch. Snow falling in the background.
Photo of Reading Rainbow’s LeVar Burton, holding a sign reading, “There has never been a time when the people who banned books were the good guys.”
Totally green and white book cover. Snow is falling on snow-covered rooftops in a town. Title: Small Things Like These Author: Claire Keegan
5 adorable, wistful, big eyed cats. Aqua cat with black bow tie, orange cat with green ribbon, purple cat with orange bow tie with black polka dots, yellow cat with red moon pendant, blue cat with purple ribbon. The moon is behind them in a starry, blue/black sky.
Two bookshelves. Lovely multicolored antique books. A stuffed owl and wading bird, a candle stick, an old ink bottle with quill pen. A pair of wire-rim eyeglasses. A sleeping tan tabby cat with black stripes is draped between books on a shelf. It’s wearing a smile. A mouse is peeking out from behind the cat’s tail.
Puzzle with a red barn in the background. A few cows heading out to pasture. Small cornfield with a scarecrow dressed in blue overalls. A maple tree with a large hole in its trunk. A little raccoon is peeking out. Lots of different colored pumpkins under the tree. A sign says “ Welcome to the Pumpkin Patch”. Colorful fall leaves everywhere. A pretty border collie next to a little red tractor, a bale of hay and an old wagon wheel.
Photo shows Mt. Holyoke rolling hills in the background. Town common with homes and barns on either side. Some colorful fall foliage. Big green patches of open farmland as well. A bit of the Connecticut River and a footpath in the foreground.
Black cat with golden eyes and white forepaws, peeking out from the folds of a quilt made of colorful swatches of many different flower patterns.
Photo is a jigsaw puzzle. It’s a picture of a landscape. The artist uses colorful clay instead of paint. A bit of blue sky with clouds rolling in, whites, yellows, oranges. Loos like a windy day. A bit of rolling hills, in the background. Waving green grasses with a stream in the foreground. The beautiful blue water looks choppy from the wind.
The puzzle is a photograph of the inside of a used bookstore. We are looking through a short tunnel of books into the shop, where we see stacks of books. A sign says, “ The Buck a Book Room through this door.”
Parade balloons of Mother Goose, green dinosaur, pig, red creature (?). Riverboat float carrying giant turkey and waving kids in red costumes, beautiful dancing girls marching in the street, one in a sequined bikini and huge headdress with green plumes. Kids in a band with red uniforms, playing trumpets, an “alley” of clowns on the left and a background of NYC skyscrapers.
3 shelves of colorful kitchen objects like, colander, pepper grinder, wine bottles, pickle jar, flour, potholders, cookbooks, cat!
A huge pile of multi-colored, old fashioned suitcases with brass locks and luggage tags. From inside one suitcase, peeks the heads of four little kittens!
Puzzle with view looking down a spiral staircase that has various patters and bright rainbow colors.
Puzzle of realistic green-eyed cat, covered with many colorful patterns. Words around cat: “If cats could talk… they wouldn’t.”
The Stand, by Stephen King
Puzzle is stained glass. A tree with red leaves in front of a huge golden sunrise.