So this year is the first cookie season in a long time without the black cat, Ivy of our Holly & Ivy duo. She had to be put down in February. She was the smarter and more trouble-making one of the two, and she loved people food. She’d steal your egg off your plate if … [Read more…]
The black cat wasn’t eating too well, and I was starting to think maybe she had the same thyroid thing the white one had. But then Friday night it seemed like her back legs were stopping working, and I thought she smelled a little like pee, and I started worrying that maybe she was starting … [Read more…]
I’m lame and lazy, so here’s a bunch of images from the last few days, some with captions. Instagram, you say?
I think it’s a natural thing that as you age, you start feeling like you’re no longer “at the pulse of it all” like Arthur Kane, as Robyn Hitchcock sings in N.Y. Doll. This weekend, somehow, I felt worse than that – like I’m becoming invisible. Probably much of my malaise is related to the … [Read more…]
My basement has always leaked a little, ever since we first moved in, in 1999. At first it was just a little seepage along the driveway side of the house. I remember the unhappy discovery that the pile of old wood and construction scraps that the prior owners had left there had actually been functioning … [Read more…]
I’m a little unhappy with my post about last weekend, our crazy Chicago to Madison to Chicago weekend for two graduations. I feel like I reported, but didn’t really express everything I was thinking and feeling. This is a tiny bit due to my desire to protect the names of the individuals involved, but primarily, … [Read more…]