"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in Cats, Distractions, Family, Utter Silliness on May 7th, 2009
This entry is mainly for my sister’s amusement, though I am sure other folks will enjoy the adventures of Maru, a Scottish Fold cat from Japan. You can watch videos of Maru in bouncey, pouncey action, too. Maru is a round-faced, round-eyed, stocky mostly-grey-tabby cat who reminds me of Boda, my sister’s glorious oaf of [...]
Posted in Cats on Mar 11th, 2009
I began to see the (dark) humor of the situation: Okay…back to the beginning of the story. So, yesterday, around 5:00 p.m.-ish, I decided to boil up some water for a pot of tea. So I filled the pot, turned on the burner, and set the cat on fire. Wait…WHAT??? Yeah…let’s try that one again. [...]
Posted in Cats on Mar 10th, 2009
Griswald An Owl Big, pointy ears Big pointy tufts that look like ears Large yellow eyes Large yellow eyes Shaped like a small tree stump Shaped like a small tree stump Surprisingly loud, yet squeaky voice Surprisingly loud, resonant voice Is hell on mice Hell on mice even moreso Gallumphs through the house occasionally running [...]
Posted in Cats, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Sewing on Feb 6th, 2009
I recently finished making a new blouse, and it turned out pretty cute if I do say so myself. I decided today that I was going to take a picture of it on myself, since my modern dressmaker’s dummy is broken and it looked lousy on the circa 1914 one. So, I set up my [...]
Posted in Cats, Ruby the Dog, Utter Silliness, Words I Like on Jan 29th, 2009
As a pet-owner, I have many nicknames for my pets, individually and collectively. I figured what the heck, I might as well highlight a bit of the silliness that is my life with critters. This one is Minnie Pearl. Mostly known as Minnie, but also as “dammit, kitty,” “kittygirl” “Little Miss” “Pesty-pest,” “small-cat,” “dumbass,” “Satan,” [...]
Posted in Cats, dumb things I have done, Ruby the Dog on Jan 25th, 2009
I am obviously not a prescient woman, and have one especial blind spot in my planning; I scrub out the bathtub twice every two weeks. Okay, so I scrub it out once a week, every week. However, every two weeks, I give the dog a bath, and almost invariably, the dog gets her bath in [...]
Posted in Cats, Utter Silliness on Jan 6th, 2009
Frizbutt, originally uploaded by Meetzorp. I was looking through the pictures I have on my harddrive, looking for some ones I took at the West Side Community Garden last summer, and I came across this completely ridiculous shot of Minnie sitting in a Frisbee. It is exactly the size of her tush: no larger, no [...]
Posted in Cats on Jan 2nd, 2009
I just started running a bath a few minutes ago (our bath fills fairly slowly) and that foolish Griswald leaped into the bottom of the bathtub before there was much water in it. He stood at the back of the tub and watched in intense fascination as the water edged closer and closer to his [...]
Posted in Cats, dumb things I have done, Fashion/Sewing stuff on Dec 14th, 2008
Guess who had a bath? My favorite little source of allergens got a good scrubdown today. Normally we try to bathe her once a month, but she hasn’t been bathed since before the wedding (something like 2.5 to 3 months) and she was dander-rific. She’s a component of the factors that sent me to the [...]
Posted in Cats, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching on Dec 13th, 2008
This cat is a professional getter of my goat. I swear to you all that for the past 7 years, she has been pushing my buttons daily, multiple times a day. If ever two beings could be less in synch, the only recourse would be all out war. This cat! Where even to begin? Maybe [...]
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