Cat reveals amazing rain repellent powers

Turns out the cat didn’t get so wet after all.

I love the smell of a wet cat in the evening

It’s wet.

Now what have I learned?

I’m having one of those wake up with a sore throat and head into Chinatown for noodle soup and drowse the rest of the day kind of days. This blog, oddly enough, seems unaffected. People are steadily passing by, looking at the damndest things.

Why bother?

Looking at another midnight coming up with zero interest in finishing what I had planned to post today. I can’t even claim I has the dumb or the sleepy. Maybe it’s the season. Maybe it’s the approaching anniversary of starting this blog. I just seem to be stuck in the “Why bother?” phase.

Becoming a ghost in the machine?

So today I got the sniffles when I read that Mars Phoenix is shutting down. Which is ridiculous. I mean, I got a lump in my throat over Chalcedony’s fate in “Tideline.” Then when I read “Edward Bear and the Very Long Walk” to my friends, I could hardly speak through the ending. Now this.

Nothing to See, Move Along

I got nothing.
Well, that’s not exactly true. I’ve got (hold on, lemme check) 60 drafts I could finish, but right now, none of them seem worth wrapping my arms around the cat (the real laptop) so I can work on them for more than 15 minutes. Anyway, I have been thinking I want to tackle [...]

Spatchcock turkey

You know summer is over when the bags of charcoal have migrated out of the meat department into hiding under the checkout lanes. Don’t they know Labor Day is your last chance to barbeque? That’s what I was thinking, looking at my huge Weber. It hardly seems worth firing it up for just a couple [...]

Competing for Greens

Today, I figured I would harvest some collard greens before the plants get too humongous, and some critters decided they doesn’t want to wait for them to cook. So impatient. A batch of greens is worth the wait, holes and all. And no, there was no additional protein on the leaves. Whatever they were, they [...]

Starting to believe in spring

Spring is coming even inside the house. Like this orchid, for instance. No matter how I neglect it, every year it puts up a shoot of flowers. Meanwhile, there’s quite a bank of snowdrops developing outside.