The cat’s behind

Dear G-Mail,
This morning as I was happily reading my email, my cat Mitchell sat on the keyboard. I suppose he did not mean to actually sit ON the keyboard but being rather, erm, gifted in the posterior end, his “end” inadvertantly pressed some kind of magic combination of keys and turned the gmail font into [...]

Not dead

I have always wanted to grow my own vegetables. To me, there is nothing in the world like fresh veggies. But new this year? I have accepted the fact that:
1. I don’t like to grow vegetables
2. I don’t have the room to grow veg
and
3. I don’t have the sun to grow them properly.
So I’ve decided [...]

CSI (Cats, shoes and iris)

Myron
Mitchell
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New shoes:
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And Iris, blooming in my yard!
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And cupcake talk to boot!
I decided to make Martha Stewart’s Strawberry cupcakes with strawberry buttercream icing. Notice the picture at the link. The cupcakes were a small disaster. Not a huge disaster, but one that went on a different path than I expected. They were not very pretty and [...]

Kitties get mail

A text message from Bethany:
The cats got mail and Mitchell loves the smell of it!
I laughed so hard I thought I’d split a seam! Kitties waited until I got home to open it up.
I suspected who it was from, I was right. Crazy Auntie Cookie. She’s a cat lady way deep down inside, I have [...]

A word from Mitchell

I’m glad I got the chance to straighten this out with us this morning. Let’s not mention this to my mom, k?

Do you hear what I hear? Cat fights, that is.

Things I have learned:
~Mitchell likes to eat houseplants. Of course, I have no idea which, if any of mine are poisonous.
~Myron makes chirping noises quite like a bird, which is ironic but cute as hell
~Mitchell has a head tilt from a previous untreated injury/ear infection (they are not sure which)  that makes his incredibly cute [...]

Honey, we’re home!

I miss Fig desperately. My home feels cold and empty. Even filled with people as it is.
Bethany and I visited the Northeast Animal Shelter and came home with the cutest cats. Plural. 2 cats. Myron and Mitchell. Myron is the one you see above. Mitchell is an orange cat. They are 9 months old. They [...]