This seemed like a good idea but it was really made for normal sized cats.  Ash is constantly demolishing it.  I put it together and she takes it apart.  Perhaps next time I'll use duck tape.


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Both cats are sitting in the dark in a dark window purring. Very loudly!! I walked into the bedroom and had to figure out what was making the noise.

On April 30th Nixon announced the bombing in Cambodia and Laos.

On May 4th four students are killed by National Guard troops at Kent State in Ohio.

Killed:  Jeffrey Miller, Allison Krause, William Schroeder, and Sandra Scheuer ( Read more... )

Cursed tree sex! I know it is necessary but it has been a really miserable weekend.

EtA: a pretty from the late afternoon visit to another nursery.


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So we went to see Avengers: Age of Ultron yesterday. We went to the 2D show in the middle of the afternoon to avoid crowds. Very much written by Whedon it didn't take itself too seriously. The trailer for Ant Man looked fun and the trailer for Batman vs Superman looked terrible (enough with the post production image processing already ( Read more... )

Damp and chilly. Gray. The wind is blowing at about 25mph but the house rattling gusts are not to be believed.

After a long run of gray, damp and cold days we finally have sun and more hints of color appear. My neighbors on the other side of my back fence are not into much more than an occasional moving of the lawn so bulbs have had a field day as it were ( Read more... )

Yesterday at the pool a woman asked me what I was doing for Easter. I replied nothing special. She looked sad and asked if my family was far away. I said yes, "but I'm not Christian" so it is just Sunday. She looked appalled and stopped talking to me. I could have told her a lot of other things but I didn't want to break her mind. I could have said ( Read more... )

Blizzard squalls yesterday. Today the sun is out but the wind continues. It's a steady 25mph with house rattling gusts. It would be a nice day otherwise.

A crocus opened yesterday, a single lone crocus.


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... the wizards at Zingerman's in Ann Arbor actually. It was a mostly sunny day with not much wind and cabin fever was setting in so we went off on a road trip.  The trip went well, no hickups.  Parking in downtown A 2 wasn't even a problem with only a couple of times around the block and a wait for what turned out to not be a parking spot (just a ( Read more... )