Okay, so maybe this doesn’t mean much to you people in Scottsdale, Arizona, or Hilo, Hawaii, but Baby it’s cold outside! The Norwegian Artist and I regularly walk three miles a day, in one mile increments, but lately I’ve been joining the dog near the wood stove and giving the Norwegian That Look when he [...]
Posts Tagged ‘animals’
Sleeping Cats, Back to School Time, and the Link Between the Two
August 11th, 2011
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It’s amazing what you can learn by sitting on the porch all afternoon, watching the cats. Like this: cats sleep a lot. What is it — 18, 19 hours a day? I can understand why lions get exhausted, what with the difficulty of running down a zebra or a water buffalo, but lolling around the [...]
The Little Things Don’t Tweet and Ring
April 13th, 2011
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One of the phones buzzes; another one shrieks; the third one retches. When they all go off at once it sounds as if the dog is getting sick.
Home Office Space — The Final Frontier
March 3rd, 2011
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Really, I think that I am a remarkably easy woman to please, and back to my Stranger in the Afternoon who wanted to knit but didn’t have the space, I am flabbergasted at the barriers people put up in the way of getting things done — and I don’t mean walls that block out front doors.
Bullies and Bunny Rabbits — This Is Not Looney Tunes, Folks
Rabbits make lousy friends. During our parental career, we have heard dinnertime stories from our progeny who have been happily socializing in a group, when one of the clutch, a coyote, starts picking on the progeny who is telling us the tale. “You’re fat. I’m not. I’m slender and willowy. That’s why boys like me.” [...]