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Possible blizzard coming
The possibility of snow this weekend went from possible snow earlier in the week to winter storm watch to blizzard watch today as the weather forecast for Thursday through Saturday was refined by...
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Snowpocalypseageddon has come
So yes, we got some snow, and as David Epstein said on his weather blog, some of the recorded snowfall amounts were epic. I am not sure what our official amount is, but I am positive we got over 20...
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Nemo photos
And, no, Nemo in this case isn’t a cute little clownfish. Nemo was a giant record setting Blizzard/Hurricane that just dropped 2-3 feet of snow on us and flooded out parts of the New England...
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How to know when you’ve been watching too much Downton Abbey
Last week my mother and I were talking on the phone and she mentioned how she and my dad are fans of Downton Abbey. I mentioned that Geoff and I had never seen it. Not one episode. That could not...
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Bulletins from the animal kingdom
Easter is almost upon us and that means a couple of things: spring is coming (no, really, it is, promise!), Geoff and I will be *really* busy this weekend, people will be doing stupid and ill advised...
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Back to your regularly scheduled postings of weird stuff
And leave it to Fab.com to bring the, here’s that word again, disturbing stuff. This popped up in an email from last week but with everything that was going on it didn’t make it into a post. Lucky...
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What NOT to say when you’re at a craft show
I’ve done 4 shows in the last two weeks. It’s been tiring but fun. I met some really fun and really talented crafters, especially at Cambridge Open Studios. (COS is, by the way, also showing this...
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The four legged plumber
This is Mugsy the American Bulldog. Yep, that’s right, this is Mugsy. He is a supervisory plumber. When the plumbers came the other day they brought along an unexpected guest. That would be this...
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***42 emails and counting***
That was the title of the email I sent to Petflow.com yesterday morning at 7:45am when I realized that my inbox was inundated and it wasn’t showing signs of stopping. Before I go on I should probably...
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The Animals of the Internet Speak Their Minds
Some of these have been kicking around on my hard drive for a while and I think it’s time they come out to play. Some of them are just too good to keep to myself. All hipster dog needs is glasses....
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Do you like waffles?
I bet you do. Everybody likes waffles. Especially when they look like this. This is Waffles the cat. Waffles is a 3 year old neutered male. He likes bow ties, kitty TV, and tuna. He’s lived with...
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More things you should be reading right now
Geoff and I have been dealing with a pile of bureaucratic red tape so high that 1) we’re tired and 2) I know now how to spell bureaucratic without looking it up or using spell check. So, in lieu of...
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Dachshund winter activities
I bet you are thinking I am going to talk about dachshunds in the snow and such. Well, you don’t know much about our dachshunds, then. When it’s ridiculously cold outside, like it is now, just...
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The kitteh who wants to be a puppeh
One of the things we always say about my cat Scratch is that since he grew up with a dachshund, and since he spends so much time with the dogs, he wants to be a dog. He has always wanted to go outside...
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Major kitchen reorganization and cleaning, supervised by Scratch
My big project this week has been the kitchen. I have wanted to do a major cleaning for a while now, and it’s as good a time as any. This also gives me a chance to do some reorganizing since I have a...
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I welcome our new feline overlords
A little while back Shakay sent us a link to this website. The design is fantastic and the fact that this is all designed for cats just thrills me to pieces. It also terrifies me. These are amazing....
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The dual basket idea worked, apparently
When we decided to put a second basket on top of the upright freezer as a cat bed, we had hoped that eventually the cats would be able to use them at the same time. And so they have. Yesterday, as I...
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Surviving the Apocalypse
As anyone who knows me well will tell you, I am somewhat obsessed with emergency preparedness and safety in general. Mind you, not to the point of having a bunker and hoarding gold coins and such, but...
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Beautiful spring day today
Kelly and I were working at a craft fair trying to sell some of her jewelry and the weather was just gorgeous. In the morning it was a bit low so I walked to a little neighborhood market to get a bite...
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Still thinking of Rerun
I miss him. I miss my little buddy, and how he used to greet me every day when I come home from work. Thumbelina still does, of course, but it’s not the same as when the pair of them would get each...
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