A Cat By Any Other Name

      Still life with cats: the story of me

 

May 31, 2009

40 years

So yeah. Now I’m 40. And you know what? I’m perfectly okay with that.

 

May 27, 2009

Daring Bakers Challenge - Strudel

The layers are perfectly light and crispy, with plenty of separation between the top ones; so much so that it was hard to cut the strudel without crispy pieces falling off. And the taste? Absolutely delicious.

 

May 26, 2009

Tackling

The thing about owning a house is that there is always a myriad of little things that need to be done to it. And when you own an older house, or a house that has a history, that list can grow even longer.

 

May 15, 2009

In the garden

…and poof, spontaneous cucumbers!

 

May 5, 2009

Accessing nature

If I’d been wearing hiking boots, I can pretty much guarantee this entry would have less of “how hard is it for a hotel to give me a damn wake-up call for crying out loud” and instead be an amusing anecdote of How Jennifer Fell Down a Hill and Broke Something.

 

April 23, 2009

Pollinated

Eventually, two extremely leafy, sturdy stalks started coming through, and since they’re both in about the right spots, and they’re identical, and they don’t match any of the other weeds in the yard, I am making the assumption that they are potatoes. We may be in for a surprise a few months down the road, but in the meantime we are carefully watering them and hoping for the best.

 

March 27, 2009

In no particular order

I’m also trying to become ever so slightly more ambidextrous, but this is not as easy as one might think. I’ve spent nearly 40 years being quite decidedly right-handed, and my brain is fiercely resistant to change in that department.

 

February 22, 2009

Fresh

They are small and sweet and incredibly delicious, and the very best part about them is that, because Richard is not a fan of raw carrots, they are all *mine*.

 

February 2, 2009

Get up, get coffee*

And as for what’s going on in the rest of the country, and the rest of the world, well, let’s just say that at this point, I pretty much have that whole Jonathan Coulton CD memorized now, and we’ll just leave it at that.

 

January 20, 2009

Bright, bright shiny day

Because right now, the most important thing of all to write about is the way the sun is rising across this great big beautiful country of mine, and how a brand new day is dawning, and how so many people around the world are filled with such an over abundance of hope that we have not felt in a very very long time.