Music and Cats

“There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.” –Albert Schweitzer

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Entries from February 2006

First narcissi

February 10th, 2006 9 Comments

Before leaving for California for the weekend, I went out to photograph the very first of our spring bulbs, which have been luxuriating in the past few days of sunny weather.

After a couple of shots, I noticed someone was watching…

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Feline Friday: It’s a cat-eat-three-headed-dog world

February 10th, 2006 8 Comments

Fluffy (or is that Cerberus?) was guarding my computer when the cat of enormous size came around. Those three heads were no match for Sergei.

As far as I know, the animals at the Friday Ark have one head each. Carnival of the Cats will be at Watermark on Sunday.

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Hope is where the homes are?

February 8th, 2006 3 Comments

I haven’t written anything about the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in over a month. It’s really not that I’ve forgotten (even though, sadly, I’m “not reminded about it all the time in the newspapers and in stories”). I’ve been busy trying to make some important life decisions, and I haven’t delved deeply into what […]

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Kitchen Fumbles

February 6th, 2006 11 Comments

While Paul and I are not football fans, we spend most Super Sundays with our TV tuned to the game. Many years, the TV is muted save for during the commercial breaks. This year, however, our local team made it to the Super Bowl, and it seemed our civic duty to pay some attention to […]

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Feline Friday: Heat seeking

February 3rd, 2006 14 Comments

When we bought our house, one of the selling points for us was that the house had its original radiators. Heat-seekers by nature, our cats are quite fond of the radiators, too. Our old cat, Samantha, was 16 years old when we moved in; during the last 3 years of her life, she took […]

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