Knitting, cooking and other enthusiasms
Posted in Family on Nov 28th, 2010
Since it’s almost December (!), the burning bushes are nearly denuded but they were glorious this year. So that week went by in a blur. We had fun with the kids and grandkids although we didn’t have great plans beyond the puppet show last Sunday. The rest of the time was taken up by walks, [...]
Hey! Go see JessaLu Knits and help her sweetie raise money to benefit their local community. It won’t cost you a penny. All you have to do is follow the link on her site to a local bank that is making grants to the non-profit organizations that win the most votes. One vote per person. [...]
Summer with its heat and humidity arrived this weekend so the cats did what they do best, slept away the hottest part of the day in air conditioned comfort. I, on the other hand, fought with the wheelbarrow and won, hauled 15 bags of mulch around, fertilized all the pots, transplanted lettuce, stopped to smell [...]
Posted in Cats on Mar 1st, 2009
As I mentioned before there’s been a stray cat prowling around our house for the last few weeks, marking his territory by spraying every door, shrub and flower pot. Well he’s still here. But the spraying is better. As long as I don’t waste time bringing him food. Since he’s completely black with only a [...]
Cats! allllmost there…. closing in for the kill…. What? I wasn’t doing anything…. never mind…. C is also for Contest. If you haven’t entered my little giveaway, there’s still time to win a copy of the new magazine published in the UK, The Knitter. Entries close Sunday, February 22. C is also for [...]
I used to sleep all night before I owned cats. I’d go to bed at 10 or 11 and sleep through until morning and never hear a sound. I never knew what I was missing. A noise woke me at 3:30 this morning. Since Gus was howling to go out, I decided to let him [...]
I finally broke down and made gingerbread men and decorated them. Can you believe I’ve never decorated cookies before this weekend? Me neither. I found a recipe for light spice cookies which only required 2 tablespoons molasses, since that was about what I had on hand. (I know, who lets the supply of molasses get [...]
What was supposed to be an absence of just a few days turned into a week. As soon as we arrived home from Minneapolis on Tuesday we learned there had been a death in our extended family and the funeral was scheduled for Thursday. In Minneapolis. So we washed clothes, called on the neighbors to [...]
Posted in Cats on May 27th, 2008
I’ve been chained to the computer for several days and apparently I’ve been neglecting my duties as chief head-scratcher around here. Miss Cleo insisted on face-time today after she came back from her annual spa day at the vets. A bath and nail trim left her unamused but sluffed off the last of the winter hair and gave her [...]
