Music and Cats

I wrote the first part of this cake series two weeks ago, and I’m just now getting back to it. I think there will be 5 parts; this could take a while. When we last met, I had finished baking Maida Heatter’s Torta di Cioccolata, and taken a Sunday afternoon nap.
On Sunday evening (in […]

When we had the house painted… hmmm… three years ago, we took down the small, ugly house numbers that were adjacent to our front door. Since then, we’ve been looking for house numbers that we like. The difficulty was in finding a font in which we liked the particular numerals in our street number. You’d […]

It’s February in Seattle. Although the skies are often gray, and the nights still come early, we’ve had a fairly mild winter. This pot, which sits on our west-facing front steps, gets all of the afternoon light that these short days have to give. It has rewarded us for placing it here with this […]

Earlier this week, “psycho-therapists” Sigmund, Carl and Alfred addressed what they see as the psychopathology of pet blogs. Starting with the premise that “animals do not blog,” they went on to describe those of us who blog about our pets as… well, see for yourselves:
Posting picture of your pet is another revealing aspect of your […]

When Evelyn walked into a room, everyone felt happier. It wasn’t because she was beautiful, though she had sparkling blue eyes, a lovely smile, and masses of wavy blond hair. It wasn’t because she was talented, though her soprano voice was high and clear, and she was an intuitive, graceful dancer. It wasn’t even because […]