Music and Cats

What is Lyra watching so intently? Nothing that I could see.
(Hmmmm… perhaps she’s not looking out the window, but at the window, which badly needs cleaning!)
You can look in on the lives of a blogospheric menagerie aboard the Friday Ark, and at Weekend Cat Blogging, hosted this week by CatSynth.

At nine o’clock last night, I was typing out the recipe for the yummy lentil, sweet potato and kale soup that I’d made for dinner. I’d already uploaded a photo, and was sure that I’d have the day’s post finished by ten.
A few minutes later, Paul was choking on that soup. Yes, soup… which […]

A couple of years ago, when I decided we were going to get serious about eating locally for Thanksgiving, I discovered that finding a locally raised turkey was more difficult than I’d imagined. (What I didn’t know then was that local grocers can’t sell state-inspected turkeys, and Washington has no federal inspectors.) At the last […]

Today Paul felt (just barely) well enough to go to work. He brought home one of the perks of working for a thriving software startup: a new toy! This was a “prize” for his work during a particular period; this being a modern sort of company, everyone got a prize.
When I saw the box […]

Each of the ten autumns we’ve lived in our house, I’ve watched the large, spatulate leaves on the two statuesque horse chestnut trees across the street turn golden and then fall. And each year, I’ve noticed that the northern tree loses its leaves more quickly than the southern tree, though the southern tree is more […]