apache's gone wild!

hello, I'm taking over this blog for a few minutes to display my new tour avatar artwork. mom made it for me. i told her what to do since i don't have the proper um face or hands to use her graphical conversion software or interface with this keyboard. i am smart enough to do it, however, so if any of you want to use my hands and build me a keyboard, I'd make my own stuff from now on. here we go. first is my very new steal your face right off your paws lol

mom made me a tour bus photo a while ago before i was aware that i was her clown again, so ribbon movie clown days all the way back to the haight street years with my mom, alyson, and my sister in love, maggie. here's a look at the new stuff i have for myself now that i am learning how to listen to garcia play guitar (so that i can be better at the G6 Group stuff i have going on all the time nowadays :)

Love you, too,
Apache Stahlman

a mom's entry

harley was learning to count, using his dr. seuss apple book, his first book of just his very own. i had a big wild time teaching him, but apache and reggie had their part. it was a very successful fun game-filled day of counting with the little harley. afterwards, apache was overwhelmed by it all. filled to the brim of pride and just mind-blown at how cool life with harley and all of us really can be. he wanted to talk and talk and filled the room with excitement and kinda wired up frenzied energy really, lol. he said "mom, it's so much like the ladies in africa who carry the baskets on their heads." i was thinking omg, he's snapped haha. like, he's comparing non-industrial way of life to the method we used for teaching harley numbers or something outlandish and so far out there like that. i hurried him off to sleep. he needs to sleep that one off, i thought. the next morning, i asked him very carefully. honey, what did you mean when you said we were like the ladies carrying baskets on our heads. he says (duh!) mom, the people in the book carry the apples on their heads like those ladies with the baskets. it was so cute and funny. very simple, a very sensical statement that i took for pure wackiness. i cracked up. sooooo cute. 


equally adorable, oh prior to winter, apache was surprised by reggie, who secretly planned to clear out room in his box-bed (aka the hot house), so that apache could fit in it with him all winter long. we moved their snake, his books and artwork got a shelf, bookend, and a folder. and it was all ready for apache, who, so gushy with 'aww thanks bro'ness couldn't even go into it for the first few days. finally. he did. and they've been in there all winter. in fact, if they're in there and i ask if they need anything, apache responds, "you see i'm in the box house. when i am in here, i don't need anything. stop talking." so... happy in the box bed, but it was time to do the blankets. i piled them on the floor next to the washing machine. apache crawled into them, cuddled up inside. "oh i don't want them clean of the smell. that's me and my brother together on them. we had so much fun. don't wash them. i want to be in them forever and ever." and i had to talk him down off the ledge to get them washed. he stood by the machine until they were all done and dry, then supervised while i put them back, inspected the work. it was up to code lol. and they snoozed happily ever after. where's apache now? in the box bed!

the boys need food!

it's been a long crazy few months of food eating kissing play and losing my mind to new infomation. everyday we play or do something totally new. like we played the game war with cards and mom had to teach me how using the numbers. cats do know how to use numbers if you let them hear how they go after 1, 2, and 3. we have 4 of us doing stuff now. and we try to do very little every day so we can stuff our food in then get up and play and learn. all of a sudden, the door shut to reggie's bathroom problems and now he's eating canned lamb food and it's too good and i yell and holler "mom get up!"

The Cat Song

Jedi use the force to make the world better for all living beings.

You will be a Jedi, I promise.

I love him!

reggie: me and star wars

apache: "star wars is real now"