Music and Cats

You again? Can’t you see I’m trying to sleep?
This week, as every week, the Friday Ark will board any animal that shows up… but cats are always on top! On Sunday, the Carnival of the Cats will be at Scribblings.

On Wednesday afternoon, the Louisiana Recovery Authority and New Urbanist architect Andres Duany unveiled the Creole-style Katrina Cottage II in Chalmette, the seat of St. Bernard Parish, a low-income community east of New Orleans. While FEMA spends roughly $75,000 to deliver and install a 23- to 28-foot temporary travel trailer for Katrina victims, one of […]

No, I’ll not take the half of anything!
Give me the whole sky! The far-flung earth!
Seas and rivers and mountain avalanches–
All these are mine! I’ll accept no less!
No, life, you cannot woo me with a part.
Let it be all or nothing! I can shoulder that!
I don’t want happiness by halves,
Nor is half of sorrow what I […]

I know 40,000 is a small milestone compared to the huge number of visitors to some blogs, but it’s the milestone that I have coming up… thanks to the Carnival of the Cats, probably sometime today. Visitor #40,000, or the soonest thereafter to get a screen shot of my site meter, will receive a jar […]

On this last day of winter, March shrugged off its tawny felid pelt, and frisked about in brilliant sunshine. The market is in seasonal transition; the roots and winter greens are dwindling, and the first harbingers of Spring are appearing. This week’s purchases were few: a handful of fiddlehead ferns (from the forager who also […]