When I was swiming a huge octopus caught me with his tentacles, I felt I'll die drowned and I ivoked the Virgen de Guadalupe and suddenly the octopus liberated me of his fatidical hug and I could swim up to the surface and breathe, I thanks to the Virgen.

With a lot of frequency I prepared dishes with chicken for my family because they liked a lot and I knew that they were very nutritious. But one day that I was very tired and I was slept in the kitchen, I dreamt of all the ghosts of the chickens that had cooked and that they looked at me with sadness and in an accusing way. I thank to San Francisco because now that I only cook fished I no longer have nightmares with chicken ghosts.

My wife loved cats and she adopted all homeless cats she found, the problem is that she let the cats to stay at nights in our bedroom and they prefer to play and jump istead to sleep, my wife sleeps as a rock but I couldn't sleep at all and I was already hallucynating for the lack of rest, I thanks to the Virgen de Zapopan because my wife finily noticed the dark rings under my eyes and she now put the cats in the livingroom at nights and I can sleep again.

REQUIEM

For the Ill-fated Akron's Heroic Officers and Men
Seventy-four of Whom Perished in a Storm off Barnegat Light
April Fourth, A.D., 1933

Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori

           At midnight's solemn hour of mystery,
           With raging winds and lurid lightning's flash,
           From queenliest airship in all history,
           Came the grave order: "Stand by for a crash!
           As from his watery grave each head was showing,
           Rang out in cheery tones 'mid thunder's roll,
           "The best o' luck - wherever you are going,"
           The Morituri Salutamus of his soul.
           Brave Admiral Moffett, whose pride was his air fleet
           Has perished e'en as Icarus had done
           When this first flyer, glorying in his flight,
           Propelled his waxen wings too near the sun.
           Immortals all! They've gone to their last rest.
           Requiescant in pace! God knows best.

The river ... maketh his passage downe a low pleasant valley overshadowed in manie places with high rocky mountain from whence distill innumerable sweet and pleasant springs... Having gone so high as we could with the bote, we met divers savages in canowes well loaden with flesh of beares, deere, and other beasts whereof we had part. Here we found mighty rocks growing in some places above the ground as high as the shrubby tree.

When Wendling's Peter (God bless him!) was tending his cows in the pasture that evening close to the wood by the mountain slope between Nahweiler and Linienhausen, there came along a strange looking man who could not be a Frenchman. He was leading a tired warhorse by the bridle and asked if he couldn't get a little milk. Peter looked at him in alarm. "Yes, I would just as soon give you a little milk if I had something to milk into." "That is easily arranged," said the man and drew a leather object out of his pocket which could be drunk out of and milked into, and Peter milked into it bravely enough. The milk tasted so good to the stranger that he let the cowherd fill the cup again, whereupon he gave the dumbfounded fellow a two-frank piece, said "Thank you" and "Goodbye." And all this happened while French horsemen were scouring up and down not more than three hundred paces away, and were execrating the Prussian in the wood though they did not go into the wood after him...

Studying the Art of War - Photograph by Alexander Gardner, June 1863.
Count Zeppelin is the kneeling officer holding papers.

Zeppelin reached the frontier the next day and was celebrated as the first German hero of the war. During his long ride, he may have recalled his balloon ascent with John Steiner over St. Paul, Minnesota on August 19, 1863 (after a stint as a military observer with the Union forces), and he might also have considered that some sort of powered, steerable balloon might make for less dangerous and arduous reconnaissance missions in future conflicts. And, of course, one could cook one's own omelets on board such a craft, and take along plenty of milk. http://janusmuseum.org/panabasis/oct11.htm#14oct

Here's our old buddy Socks, also known as Cat Van Beek, chilling on a porch over on First Avenue. Last seen here back in May. http://janusmuseum.org/panabasis/oct11.htm#9oct

The Museum was touched, pleased, and greatly honored to be given this superb .45 flintlock pistol from the armory of the High Speed Triumph Research Laboratory of Myersville, Maryland; the gun was built by the Lab's founder and chief boffin, our old friend Dr. John Herrera himself. Here is the weapon being test-fired:




It's a flash in the pan only - powder loaded only in the lock's pan and no charge in the barrel. But it is in 3D, with a slo-mo version following. http://janusmuseum.org/panabasis/oct11.htm#8oct

The fact that we keep digging up Cats of War images in our collections is either a testament to the size and breadth of our holdings or the fact that our inventory database is a total mess. At any rate, here's the latest to float to the top - General Enoch Wallingford and His Cat Jemmy at the Battle of Darnestown, 1814, by Adolphus Norbeck. I bet that Jemmy was named for President James Madison. Nice - we ought to put it on a tote bag, or on sneakers.


Previous Cats of War:

Franco-Prussian Cat Besieged
Maryland Artillery Cat
Bugler Cat
Secesh Cat at Gettysburg
Bashi-Bazouk with Cat
Cats of the Great War
Dragoon Cat, Lincoln's Cat, Christmas Truce Cat

link http://janusmuseum.org/panabasis/oct11.htm#1oct

Very pleased to offer the Janus Museum Museum Shop's latest in high fashion Keds - the Soviet Industry Hi-Tops, featuring adorable tanks, airplanes, radial aircaft engines, and trucks - stylish and Constuctivist!


Our Other Superb Shoe Designs:

Maryland Flag Keds
World War I German aircraft lozenge camouflage (Buntfarbenaufdruck) Keds
Royal Flying Corps Keds
Charles Nungesser Memorial Keds
Pan con Chicharron Keds http://janusmuseum.org/panabasis/sept11.htm#30sept

Cat Leroy in Summer Outfit

I recently received a note from my old friend Bob Lyon, passing on the concern of a number of Museum Cat Leroy's admirers; they think he's been looking thin lately, and wanted to make sure he's all right. Thank you all for your concern - Leroy's in prime condition; it's just that his fluff largely dissipates over the summer months (mostly onto the Fellows' Common Room rugs and upholstery), and despite combing and brushing, he tends to look a little shabby by the end of the season - see above (and here in shabby but thrilling 3D), and contrast it with this snap...


Cat Leroy in Cold Weather Kit

... of Leroy in the glory of his full winter ruff fluff (3D version here). I've reminded him that it's getting to be time to start fluffing up again, so he ought to start bulking up pretty soon. http://janusmuseum.org/panabasis/sept11.htm#sept25

And now, another installment in our survey of images of the Cats of War - La Défense du Chat Régimentaire by Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville (1835-1885). This stirring canvas portrays an incident of the Franco-Prussian War. From a Derwood, Maryland private collection.


Previous Cats of War:

Maryland Artillery Cat
Bugler Cat
Secesh Cat at Gettysburg
Bashi-Bazouk with Cat
Cats of the Great War
Dragoon Cat, Lincoln's Cat, Christmas Truce Cat http://janusmuseum.org/panabasis/sept11.htm#16sept

Maybe it's the influence of the University of Maryland's Terps' new uniforms, but over the last few days, sales of the Janus Museum Museum Shop's exclusive Maryland Flag Keds have been very good - our shop's first genuine hit. Also available in the lo-top style.

Oh, and don't forget our classic World War I German aircraft lozenge camouflage (Buntfarbenaufdruck) Keds. Actually, one might enjoy a little browse through our shop. Remember, all profits benefit the Janus Museum's unspecified activities. http://janusmuseum.org/panabasis/sept11.htm#7sept

We haven't seen Oscar on these pages for quite a while. Oscar lives on Grove Avenue, has superb white whiskers, and loves the ladies; the human ladies, that is. Check him out in 3D here - the effect of his whiskers in 3D is quite sublime. http://janusmuseum.org/panabasis/sept11.htm#5sept

I knew we had another Cat of War image buried somewhere in the collections - it's a superb hand-colored carte de visite of Captain Lucius Wallingford of the 5th Maryland Artillery (Norbeck's Battery) with his cat Stonewall.


Previous Cats of War:

Bugler Cat
Secesh Cat at Gettysburg
Bashi-Bazouk with Cat
Cats of the Great War
Dragoon Cat, Lincoln's Cat, Christmas Truce Cat http://janusmuseum.org/panabasis/sept11.htm#2sept2

Champagne on the Porch of the Historic Cottage in 3D

Yesterday being such a pleasant evening, I liberated a bottle of Moldovian bubbly from the Fellows' wine cellar, and Martha Norbeck-Wallingford (our director of Planned Giving) and I sat on the porch, sipping, talking, and watching the gentle swirl of smoke from the mosquito coils. Gus, the Museum's maintenance man, is our "expert" in the art of sabrage, but he disappeared during the onslaught of Hurricane Irene and hasn't checked in since - must remember to organize a search party sometime - so I performed the manly act with the Museum's rare Emerson & Silver Model 1860 cavalry saber. Tragically, the act was not captured on video. And later that evening...




... A simple dish of baked shrimp - dump shrimp with a little olive oil in a baking dish - sprinkle with bread crumbs - season as you will - parsley and scallions with maybe a few pats of butter. 400 degree oven for about 20 minutes (my oven's a bit cool - try 350). Serve with rice and a cold vinho verde. http://janusmuseum.org/panabasis/sept11.htm#2sept

Meet Mathew, who recently moved in near the Janus Museum. Mathew comes from a golden retreiver - German shepherd background, and seems to be a good little chap; a bit shy, so far. I'm sure that he and Silas, his next-door neighbor, will be great buddies. View Mathew in extremely cute 3D.




Aww... just one more Mathew snap...


Previously Featured Dogs of Washington Grove:

Piper
Silas
Archie
Leon
Max
Jasmine
Pierre
Vinny
Ruby
Willow
Nina
Nick
Bandit http://janusmuseum.org/panabasis/sept11.htm#1sept