A Cat By Any Other Name

      Still life with cats: the story of me
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September 4, 2010

Chapter and verse

After 10 1/2 years of writing in this space, it’s finally time for a change.

 

July 5, 2010

Greening

Oh boy does that thing produce.

 

June 26, 2010

Mired

This week one of my sisters and her husband are hard at work on their house, taking care of a pile of big projects: tearing out an old, rotting wooden deck; replacing old ugly vertical blinds; painting and power washing and heavy yard work. This is because they are getting their house ready to be [...]

 

June 19, 2010

Enduring squash

Every time we go out into the garden I find at least one more squash that is ready to pick, and there is no way that two people can eat this much squash in such a short period of time.

 

June 13, 2010

Manual

My dad’s birthday was Friday. So the family gathered for a celebratory dinner Friday night, and I volunteered to bring salad greens (because we have a rather large abundance of lettuce in the garden). Shortly before we were ready to head out, Richard and I went out into the garden to harvest lettuce, and that’s [...]

 

June 6, 2010

Fine

This weekend has been filled with a lot of unexpected good things. I like weekends like this. I think I should try to have them a lot more often.

 

May 15, 2010

Destructor

I wish I could tell you that, now that he is closer to one year old and less of a tiny kitten, Rupert is calming down.

 

April 27, 2010

A little British flair

The April 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Esther of The Lilac Kitchen. She challenged everyone to make a traditional British pudding using, if possible, a very traditional British ingredient: suet. I was actually really excited when I read this month’s challenge. I’ve never had a true steamed pudding, so this was definitely all [...]

 

April 3, 2010

Pointed

I suppose I ought to apologize for the previous post…

 

April 1, 2010

If you ask me how I’m feeling

So the past two months have been kind of this whirlwind of rehearsals and fittings for costumes, and oh, did I mention there was a little choreography involved?

 
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