Zoe-cat is doing better, yay. She's been eating food for almost a week now, and we've been letting her outside again. She lost about a pound, which, when you're a 9lb cat, is quite a bit. I don't know if/when she'll get the weight back. She looks kind of sadly skinny right before her back legs now. We don't really know what was wrong, some ( Read more... )

Zoe-cat hasn't been eating.  She threw up in several places Monday? (not certain due to the out of town) night, and no one is sure they've seen her eat since.  She definitely has not eaten in a day, as we put the food dish away so we'd know who was eating.  We tried giving her wet food last night, which she happily licked up the juice from, then ( Read more... )

All the rain has kept me inside, and made me finally get back around to the gear mural project.  Here are the first ones I put on the wall.  I'm not entirely happy with the reverse one.  The spray paint is nice and bright, but the positive image jumps out at me and it's in the dull background color of the wall.  I think I'll take a hand brush and ( Read more... )

Just got back from my first Baitcon last night.  I loved the feel of the forest it was in, and liked the chance to relax and hang out with people, though it took me a day to figure stuff out and start doing so.  Lots of little wildlife in the forest: tiny bright lizards, snakes, huge moths, birds, little brown toads.  The birds were so loud the ( Read more... )

Latest yard project, building a step-stone path around the pear tree.  I like the effect from a distance, but the hard work of leveling out the rocks so they don't tip when you step on them is still to come.  ( Pictures behind the cut )

Tried Zing Pizza today (in Porter, near the Dunkin Donuts)   I was quite impressed.  We tried 'fiddlehead on the roof' and 'blue october', both were tasty, neither had a tomato sauce.   A little spendy for pizza slices, but large ones ( Read more... )

Kendall-ish people: I want to try out this friendly toast place and see if it is any good.  Would other people be interested in getting lunch there sometime next week?  Probably wed.

Pictures from my garden over the past month, including the bench we assembled a month or two ago.  I'm hoping it will weather to match the beds it's next to.  It's an excellent place to sit in the morning and drink tea or read, but gets too hot and sunny later on.  I'm trying to pick another spot for a chair which will be cool all day long, in the ( Read more... )

My dad's prizewinning chicken, for those who were interested.  The forehead is part of the chicken, not the costume.

My dad dressed up one of his chickens and entered him in a pet costume contest as a Klingon.  And won third place.  I ... don't have any words for this.  The article in the local paper mentions him in passing.