Just ordered a pair of Red Ants Pants (www.redantspants.com) - heavy duty workpants for women in construction/outdoors type environments. Manufactured in the US, by women, for women ( Read more... )

Yesterday I took the kitten in for spaying, as one does. Everything went fine, except the discharge instructions read: "Keep cat quiet and prevent from climbing or jumping, or playing with other cats for five days to allow stitches to heal ( Read more... )

...it's probably a clear flag for the way this establishment is run that my cooking dinner is a romantic novelty.

Yesterday, as I was leaving the house to go to work (this week has been an awful slog, weighed down by memories and emotional malaise*), two cardinals swooped down and past my car, checking out the trees in the front yard for a nest ( Read more... )

On another note - does anyone have a recommendation for a good history on the history of tea ( Read more... )

Tonight I bought marshmallows shaped (and flavored) like chocolate covered strawberries. Because I could.

They are oddly tasty for fake food!

but today's high is 36F. Sunday 78F. tuesday 40F.

WTF, winter?

The area I live in has a lot of variously sized limestone caves, and I've always been fascinated by the concept of underground cities/space stations/etc, likely because I live in a really sprawling city & state. I love this concept!

London's Newest Farm Is an Abandoned Bomb Shelter Deep Beneath the City "Zero Carbon Food's underground farm, as ( Read more... )

It's probably unfair of me to fuss at the kitten for playing in (and on, and behind) the recycling box, since it's a) a BOX and b) usually half filled with crinkly, rattling, interesting smelling things ( Read more... )

So I have (at present) three cats. And I have three dishes for dry food, because cats.

I feed all three the same thing, and yet, when I fill the dishes, EACH cat has to check out the food in EACH dish. Just in case someone else is getting the good stuff, apparently.