3 Paws Saloon Attic

Fergie · Fergie

Ray's birthday dawned partly overcast. I cracked open my eyes to him moving in the bed next to me, letting me know he was waking up too. I scuttled out of bed to make coffee as it was my turn to treat him to coffee in bed. I had no idea of the intimidating day that lay ahead of me. Ray left home around ten to do som...

Jadeite · Jadeite

Last week was the 2nd week of the Chinese New Year. T-Rex and I decided go to Chinatown in the city and do a bit of exploring. It has been a few years since our last visit. Things seldom go according to plan. First, we had to get there, running the gauntlet through the unexpectedly heavy traffic that ensnar...

T-Rex · T-Rex

This is a story demonstrating how one tragic event can send ripples over our timelines, to influence future events and how the choices we make in extreme situations can quickly become the difference between an adventure and disaster. The tragic event involved an amusement park, built in 1935 on a la...

lil-wolfie · lil-wolfie

i had been doing things on the internet as usual.reading this n that.then it started.i guess that was between 7:00pm and 7:15pm.then it went off and stayed of between 7:30pm and 7:45pm..and that was within 3 minutes of receiving a tornado alert phone call,(thunder call) from the locale tv stat...

T-Rex · T-Rex

A year had passed since I left hospital, so with strength returning, we decided to make good on a six-year-old promise and visit our good friend Cate, who lives four hours’ drive away in Canberra, our nation’s capital. We decided to spend a week on a leisurely road trip to Canberra for three days of sigh...

valkricry · valkricry

At 5:15 AM, I leave my apartment to start my trek to work. It's a long walk, and I give myself extra time because it's still quite dark out, and you never know what nocturnal animal might challenge your passage. An opossum, or a racoon, might turn or run, skunks on the other hand might begin and end by spray...

Fergie · Fergie

Lively music pumped its way up the hill from a house in the hollow; a party was starting up. It was 1982 and garage parties were in vogue. My three teenagers, one of whom I was fostering, soon caught the vibes and curiosity overcame them. They wanted to join in the fun. We didn't know the people living in th...

valkricry · valkricry

Reading Jadeite's Beary Tales have had me reflecting back on Waldo, one of those large floppy bears like they give away as prizes at carnivals and such, but with a bit longer fur. He arrived in my life when I was 16, a gift from a co-worker who thought it was a mortal sin that I had never owned a teddy bear, no...

T-Rex · T-Rex

It was July of 1981 and Bali was still an unknown surfing destination, somewhere in Indonesia. My brother had already been there twice before and I was getting tired of seeing him off at the Airport, especially seeing the plane disappear into the distance. This time, I was going to be on that plane wit...

Jadeite · Jadeite

After that scrumptious breakfast at Bollywood Veggies, I met up with my family for a late lunch at my older sister's new flat (apartment). The place was a slick, modern condo with 24/7 security. And they meant security. A watchful guard stopped us at the gateway as we drove up. Then after we walked past...

valkricry · valkricry

As a young fairy, Poppy use to sneak into the practice room of young Tillie and watch her practice her ballet moves. Of course she had to be careful to remain undetected, but right along with Tillie she'd go through all the positions. Usually fairies do not associate with the human world. It is just to...

Jadeite · Jadeite

On my first Sunday morning back in Singapore, we visited Bollywood Veggies, one of the last working farms in Singapore. The 10-acre organic farm was situated in Kranji, north-west of the island and was run by Ivy Singh and her husband Lim Ho Seng. The place also serves as an educational centre, a food m...

Jadeite · Jadeite

My trip back to Singapore was memorable as always. Especially the food. As promised, I've kept a photo diary of my expeditions. T-Rex wants to visit all these places too the next time he gets to travel.To welcome me back, my cousin arranged for dinner at Clarke Quay, a historic riverside quay near the m...

Jadeite · Jadeite

The teddy bears were all excited because today was a special day in May. It was Mummy Bear’s birthday, which made it an extra-beary special day.To celebrate the day and to give her a break from chasing after teddy bears, Daddy Bear whisked her away for a nice dinner at a restaurant and then to spend a rela...

Fergie · Fergie

We have all heard the ugly stories of poaching, how the rhinos and elephants of the world are being slaughtered for their supposed "medicinal" properties. Then came the turn for the tigers and lions - now they are being decimated for the same erroneous reason. When will these idiotic people stop, and...

valkricry · valkricry

Dried autumn leaves crunched underfoot as my friends and I wandered home after school. The topic was how we were going to celebrate Halloween, now that we were 'too old' for Trick or Treating. "There's a scary movie marathon on TV. We could watch that and pig out," Alyssa said. Of course weighing like...

Jadeite · Jadeite

It was a lovely spring day when Mummy Bear and Daddy Bear went off on a picnic, taking DJ, Duke and Wilson with them. Well, actually those three had invited themselves by stowing away into Mummy Bear's picnic basket and Daddy Bear's fishing backpack. While they were gone, the teddy bears left at home yi...

Jadeite · Jadeite

It was a lovely spring day in Sydney when the Upstairs Bears noted that Daddy Bear was setting out his fishing tackle box. They whispered excitedly as he selected some squishy soft plastics, a shiny silver lure with movable parts, lead sinkers and many, many hooks.The Downstairs Bears followed Mumm...

Jadeite · Jadeite

It was an idyllic summer in early '97. The seasons are the other way around in the Southern Hemisphere. T-Rex had just introduced me to the Clan and his oldest brother promptly invited us to spend the weekend at their place in St Andrews. Their two-bedroom brick house on a quarter-acre block was locate...

T-Rex · T-Rex

It was the summer of 1994 and the weather forecasts for Sydney were dire. Hot north westerly gale force winds with no relief in sight. There was a lot of tinder on the ground (branches and leaves) and the valleys run perpendicular to the wind so that the flammable eucalyptus fumes (from the trees) build...

valkricry · valkricry

I sit here in my shelter, thinking how everything, no matter how well planned, still boils down to a game of snatch and grab in the end. From outside comes the muffled sounds of shrieks and cries as people make a mad dash;some for shelter, some for their cars hoping to flee the oncoming threat, the sound...

T-Rex · T-Rex

When you seek access to a customer’s premises, you have to know your basic legal rights, particularly those that are designed to protect your own well-being. There is no situation where you are required to put your personal safety at risk or compromise your integrity. The difficult part of this deal...

Jadeite · Jadeite

Once in a while, my mother would tell us tales of her family clan and their proud lineage. She would always tell us to conduct ourselves with integrity and dignity, so as not to disgrace the family name. The family clan was of the elite scholar class and very traditional in the feudal Chinese way. If you'...

T-Rex · T-Rex

It now started to feel like spring. The days were feeling warmer; the cold westerly wind off the mountains was slowly being replaced by the mild easterly wind and the salty smell of the sea. Spring was a good time to be working outside and not bound to a desk in an office. You were your own boss working outs...

T-Rex · T-Rex

Although we left LA early in the morning, we still managed another big breakfast before being packed away on our coach. The trip across the Mohave Desert was unremarkable which worked out well for our US tour guide who now proceeded with his introductions. He lived in Utah with Mormon neighbors and ou...

T-Rex · T-Rex

No tale of entering somebody’s castle would be complete without an encounter with the four legged security guards? Don’t get me wrong, I love dogs but one learns when dealing with the unknown; you stay alert at all times to the physical cues and what they mean. This cuts both ways, not only you understa...

T-Rex · T-Rex

When I was in my early teens, my two brothers would take me out walking in the Australian bush where they would catch animals that most sane people would give a wide birth. The two deadliest being the King Brown Snake and the Funnel Web Spider which are both equipped with big fangs and incredibly potent v...

T-Rex · T-Rex

I have a few tales of what lightning strikes can do to telephone lines and telephony systems. The witnessing of lightning strikes is mainly from the customer’s point of view, while the resultant damage is from my perspective (the repairman). I have witnessed lightning striking a gum tree, turning o...

T-Rex · T-Rex

So, here we are at LA International Airport. This is chaos on a grand scale with people pushing and shoving in every direction. We located our luggage and dived into the fray. We were ushered into a line of travelers that snaked its way to the other side of the terminal where Customs were waiting. It too...

T-Rex · T-Rex

After a few years of battling to keep our heads above the financial mire, we were fortunate to get a small reprieve. An overseas holiday to the USA, with a stop-over in Singapore (to see the family) was planned for September 2012. As we were visiting some of the hottest and coldest places in the lower 48...

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	Home Alone - 18 June 2020 (Preview) Ray's birthday dawned partly overcast. I cracked open my eyes to him moving in the bed next to me, letting me know he was waking up too. I scuttled out of bed to make coffee as it was my turn to treat him to coffee in bed. I had no idea of the intimidating day that lay ahead of me. Ray left home around ten to do som...	Fergie	2	837	Dec 29, 2022 by valkricry
	Chinatown (Preview) Last week was the 2nd week of the Chinese New Year. T-Rex and I decided go to Chinatown in the city and do a bit of exploring. It has been a few years since our last visit. Things seldom go according to plan. First, we had to get there, running the gauntlet through the unexpectedly heavy traffic that ensnar...	Jadeite	3	1132	Mar 1, 2019 by valkricry
	Phoney Tales - Fate, Fire and Flood (Preview) This is a story demonstrating how one tragic event can send ripples over our timelines, to influence future events and how the choices we make in extreme situations can quickly become the difference between an adventure and disaster. The tragic event involved an amusement park, built in 1935 on a la...	T-Rex	2	1093	Feb 9, 2019 by T-Rex
	my 2016 tornado experiance (Preview) i had been doing things on the internet as usual.reading this n that.then it started.i guess that was between 7:00pm and 7:15pm.then it went off and stayed of between 7:30pm and 7:45pm..and that was within 3 minutes of receiving a tornado alert phone call,(thunder call) from the locale tv stat...	lil-wolfie	2	1144	Nov 28, 2018 by Jadeite
	The Nation’s Capital and Sapphire Coast (Preview) A year had passed since I left hospital, so with strength returning, we decided to make good on a six-year-old promise and visit our good friend Cate, who lives four hours’ drive away in Canberra, our nation’s capital. We decided to spend a week on a leisurely road trip to Canberra for three days of sigh...	T-Rex	1	1192	Oct 6, 2018 by valkricry
	Sweetie (Preview) At 5:15 AM, I leave my apartment to start my trek to work. It's a long walk, and I give myself extra time because it's still quite dark out, and you never know what nocturnal animal might challenge your passage. An opossum, or a racoon, might turn or run, skunks on the other hand might begin and end by spray...	valkricry	4	1092	Sep 7, 2018 by valkricry
	Make Her Blue Jeans Talk (Preview) Lively music pumped its way up the hill from a house in the hollow; a party was starting up. It was 1982 and garage parties were in vogue. My three teenagers, one of whom I was fostering, soon caught the vibes and curiosity overcame them. They wanted to join in the fun. We didn't know the people living in th...	Fergie	4	1116	Jun 18, 2018 by valkricry
	Waldo - an American Bear (Preview) Reading Jadeite's Beary Tales have had me reflecting back on Waldo, one of those large floppy bears like they give away as prizes at carnivals and such, but with a bit longer fur. He arrived in my life when I was 16, a gift from a co-worker who thought it was a mortal sin that I had never owned a teddy bear, no...	valkricry	2	1130	Jun 17, 2018 by Fergie
	Bali Horror - Angry Geese (Preview) It was July of 1981 and Bali was still an unknown surfing destination, somewhere in Indonesia. My brother had already been there twice before and I was getting tired of seeing him off at the Airport, especially seeing the plane disappear into the distance. This time, I was going to be on that plane wit...	T-Rex	2	1103	Jun 16, 2018 by Jadeite
	Singapore Moments – Steamboat (Preview) After that scrumptious breakfast at Bollywood Veggies, I met up with my family for a late lunch at my older sister's new flat (apartment). The place was a slick, modern condo with 24/7 security. And they meant security. A watchful guard stopped us at the gateway as we drove up. Then after we walked past...	Jadeite	1	1152	Jun 15, 2018 by valkricry
	Poppy, the First Fairy Ballerina (Preview) As a young fairy, Poppy use to sneak into the practice room of young Tillie and watch her practice her ballet moves. Of course she had to be careful to remain undetected, but right along with Tillie she'd go through all the positions. Usually fairies do not associate with the human world. It is just to...	valkricry	2	1150	Jun 6, 2018 by T-Rex
	Singapore Moments – Bollywood (Preview) On my first Sunday morning back in Singapore, we visited Bollywood Veggies, one of the last working farms in Singapore. The 10-acre organic farm was situated in Kranji, north-west of the island and was run by Ivy Singh and her husband Lim Ho Seng. The place also serves as an educational centre, a food m...	Jadeite	1	1243	Jun 3, 2018 by valkricry
	Singapore Moments - Clarke Quay (Preview) My trip back to Singapore was memorable as always. Especially the food. As promised, I've kept a photo diary of my expeditions. T-Rex wants to visit all these places too the next time he gets to travel.To welcome me back, my cousin arranged for dinner at Clarke Quay, a historic riverside quay near the m...	Jadeite	0	1171	Jun 2, 2018 by Jadeite
	Beary Tales - A Beary Happy Birthday (Preview) The teddy bears were all excited because today was a special day in May. It was Mummy Bear’s birthday, which made it an extra-beary special day.To celebrate the day and to give her a break from chasing after teddy bears, Daddy Bear whisked her away for a nice dinner at a restaurant and then to spend a rela...	Jadeite	1	1207	May 14, 2018 by valkricry
	Santa's Secret (Preview) We have all heard the ugly stories of poaching, how the rhinos and elephants of the world are being slaughtered for their supposed "medicinal" properties. Then came the turn for the tigers and lions - now they are being decimated for the same erroneous reason. When will these idiotic people stop, and...	Fergie	3	1038	May 12, 2018 by Jadeite
	One Halloween (Preview) Dried autumn leaves crunched underfoot as my friends and I wandered home after school. The topic was how we were going to celebrate Halloween, now that we were 'too old' for Trick or Treating. "There's a scary movie marathon on TV. We could watch that and pig out," Alyssa said. Of course weighing like...	valkricry	2	1072	May 1, 2018 by Jadeite
	Beary Tales - Attack of the Zombie Dust Bunnies (Preview) It was a lovely spring day when Mummy Bear and Daddy Bear went off on a picnic, taking DJ, Duke and Wilson with them. Well, actually those three had invited themselves by stowing away into Mummy Bear's picnic basket and Daddy Bear's fishing backpack. While they were gone, the teddy bears left at home yi...	Jadeite	1	1185	May 1, 2018 by valkricry
	Beary Tales - The Teddy Bears' Picnic (Preview) It was a lovely spring day in Sydney when the Upstairs Bears noted that Daddy Bear was setting out his fishing tackle box. They whispered excitedly as he selected some squishy soft plastics, a shiny silver lure with movable parts, lead sinkers and many, many hooks.The Downstairs Bears followed Mumm...	Jadeite	2	1192	Apr 27, 2018 by Jadeite
	Caught in the Act! (Preview) It was an idyllic summer in early '97. The seasons are the other way around in the Southern Hemisphere. T-Rex had just introduced me to the Clan and his oldest brother promptly invited us to spend the weekend at their place in St Andrews. Their two-bedroom brick house on a quarter-acre block was locate...	Jadeite	4	1064	Apr 23, 2018 by Jadeite
	Phoney Tales – Fire in the Sky (Preview) It was the summer of 1994 and the weather forecasts for Sydney were dire. Hot north westerly gale force winds with no relief in sight. There was a lot of tinder on the ground (branches and leaves) and the valleys run perpendicular to the wind so that the flammable eucalyptus fumes (from the trees) build...	T-Rex	2	1140	Apr 7, 2018 by T-Rex
	A Game of Snatch and Grab (Preview) I sit here in my shelter, thinking how everything, no matter how well planned, still boils down to a game of snatch and grab in the end. From outside comes the muffled sounds of shrieks and cries as people make a mad dash;some for shelter, some for their cars hoping to flee the oncoming threat, the sound...	valkricry	3	1132	Apr 2, 2018 by valkricry
	Phoney Tales – The Bush Lawyer (Preview) When you seek access to a customer’s premises, you have to know your basic legal rights, particularly those that are designed to protect your own well-being. There is no situation where you are required to put your personal safety at risk or compromise your integrity. The difficult part of this deal...	T-Rex	2	1105	Apr 1, 2018 by valkricry
	Stealing Rice and Surviving the War (Preview) Once in a while, my mother would tell us tales of her family clan and their proud lineage. She would always tell us to conduct ourselves with integrity and dignity, so as not to disgrace the family name. The family clan was of the elite scholar class and very traditional in the feudal Chinese way. If you'...	Jadeite	2	1129	Mar 28, 2018 by Jadeite
	Phoney Tales – A Spring Cleaning (Preview) It now started to feel like spring. The days were feeling warmer; the cold westerly wind off the mountains was slowly being replaced by the mild easterly wind and the salty smell of the sea. Spring was a good time to be working outside and not bound to a desk in an office. You were your own boss working outs...	T-Rex	1	1014	Mar 27, 2018 by valkricry
	A Sojourn to the South West. P3 – The Canyon (Preview) Although we left LA early in the morning, we still managed another big breakfast before being packed away on our coach. The trip across the Mohave Desert was unremarkable which worked out well for our US tour guide who now proceeded with his introductions. He lived in Utah with Mormon neighbors and ou...	T-Rex	0	1097	Mar 27, 2018 by T-Rex
	Phoney Tales – Not My Best Friend (Preview) No tale of entering somebody’s castle would be complete without an encounter with the four legged security guards? Don’t get me wrong, I love dogs but one learns when dealing with the unknown; you stay alert at all times to the physical cues and what they mean. This cuts both ways, not only you understa...	T-Rex	1	1047	Mar 25, 2018 by valkricry
	Phoney Tales – Ferocious Creatures (Preview) When I was in my early teens, my two brothers would take me out walking in the Australian bush where they would catch animals that most sane people would give a wide birth. The two deadliest being the King Brown Snake and the Funnel Web Spider which are both equipped with big fangs and incredibly potent v...	T-Rex	3	1035	Mar 23, 2018 by valkricry
	Phoney Tales - Nature's Power (Preview) I have a few tales of what lightning strikes can do to telephone lines and telephony systems. The witnessing of lightning strikes is mainly from the customer’s point of view, while the resultant damage is from my perspective (the repairman). I have witnessed lightning striking a gum tree, turning o...	T-Rex	1	819	Mar 19, 2018 by valkricry
	A Sojourn to the South West. P2 - City of Angels (Preview) So, here we are at LA International Airport. This is chaos on a grand scale with people pushing and shoving in every direction. We located our luggage and dived into the fray. We were ushered into a line of travelers that snaked its way to the other side of the terminal where Customs were waiting. It too...	T-Rex	5	1156	Mar 9, 2018 by T-Rex
	A Sojourn to the South West. P1 - A Far East Detour (Preview) After a few years of battling to keep our heads above the financial mire, we were fortunate to get a small reprieve. An overseas holiday to the USA, with a stop-over in Singapore (to see the family) was planned for September 2012. As we were visiting some of the hottest and coldest places in the lower 48...	T-Rex	3	1086	Feb 17, 2018 by T-Rex
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