Mostly wanted to have a chance to post a new picture of Dora, so that Zoey and Blake can visit via LJ ( Read more... )

Well, mom is gone. It's been such an extraordinary time that I don't know where to begin. I guess at the beginning. Mom was hospitalized on the 19th of August, because when I visited her earlier that week I was alarmed at her condition, and thought there was a great possibility she would starve to death. I called the medical team--for the first ( Read more... )

Well, our nursing seems to have helped enormously. Our sweet kittie has a bit of her old (young) self back. She's eating, lustily, and purring around, chasing ants on the deck, and generally seeming more normal. We are bathed in relief. Now we're thinking of restoring her original name (since she's showing signs of being restored to her ( Read more... )

Lulu is now sick. She is lying there, very quiet and dull. We've been feeding her with an eye-dropper, as the cat ladies suggested, and we'll see what happens. We are both pretty upset, losing one kittie today and now nursing another. I will keep you updated.

Poor little Archie had a short life. He was really sort of sick from the moment he came home, and yesterday we took him to our vet. She said he had a serious viral infection, which might be distemper. She wanted to keep him over the weekend, but told us that no one would be there--she'd only stop in to check from time to time. There was a 50-75 ( Read more... )

Here they are! Archie is the marmalade colored fella, and Pandora (Dora or Pandy for short) is the money cat (lots of black and orange spots on her back).

We did it! We went back to Petco and got new kitties. A girl (a money cat) and a boy (a marmalade-colored cat). They are sooo cute. We are thinking of calling them Archie and Pandora. Brother and sister in my favorite book, "September." Plus Archie from the comics is a redhead. And Dora (a good nickname for Pandora) was David Copperfield's ( Read more... )

So I'm sitting in an elementary school library in Saratoga Springs, "working" as background on a Dodge commercial. This required getting up at 5:30am, and driving here for a 7:30am call. So far, they haven't used us at all. I didn't bring a book, though it is a library, so I found Huckleberry Finn. I guess I'll read that, now that we've all ( Read more... )

So it's Saturday night, and I'm sitting in the living room listening to Joe trying to unclog the pipes--a diggy, cringe-inducing sound. He cut all the pipes under the sink, and really doesn't know how to fix them, so it looks like another three or four days without washing dishes in the house. And all around the cellar, wherever he has opened ( Read more... )

We've been working like beavers in the studio (except for yesterday, when we went to NYC for the day--me to do a reading and Joe to wander about taking cool photos of shadows). We're tearing the place apart limb from limb to make it nice, finally (only about 15 years later than we planned). First we did the darkroom, which Joe rarely uses, ( Read more... )