A Cat By Any Other Name

Chapter and verse

jenipurr — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 02:26:14 +0000

After 10 1/2 years of writing in this space, it's finally time for a change.

Greening

jenipurr — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 20:24:35 +0000

Oh boy does that thing produce.

Mired

jenipurr — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 15:47:03 +0000

This week one of my sisters and her husband are hard at work on their house, taking care of a pile of big projects: tearing out an old, rotting wooden deck; replacing old ugly vertical blinds; painting and power washing and heavy yard work. This is because they are getting their house ready to be [...]

Enduring squash

jenipurr — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 21:03:58 +0000

Every time we go out into the garden I find at least one more squash that is ready to pick, and there is no way that two people can eat this much squash in such a short period of time.

Manual

jenipurr — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 15:57:57 +0000

My dad’s birthday was Friday. So the family gathered for a celebratory dinner Friday night, and I volunteered to bring salad greens (because we have a rather large abundance of lettuce in the garden). Shortly before we were ready to head out, Richard and I went out into the garden to harvest lettuce, and that’s [...]

Fine

jenipurr — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 06:22:01 +0000

This weekend has been filled with a lot of unexpected good things. I like weekends like this. I think I should try to have them a lot more often.

Destructor

jenipurr — Sun, 16 May 2010 01:37:35 +0000

I wish I could tell you that, now that he is closer to one year old and less of a tiny kitten, Rupert is calming down.

A little British flair

jenipurr — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 04:10:18 +0000

The April 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Esther of The Lilac Kitchen. She challenged everyone to make a traditional British pudding using, if possible, a very traditional British ingredient: suet. I was actually really excited when I read this month’s challenge. I’ve never had a true steamed pudding, so this was definitely all [...]

Pointed

jenipurr — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 03:02:48 +0000

I suppose I ought to apologize for the previous post...

If you ask me how I’m feeling

jenipurr — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 17:38:04 +0000

So the past two months have been kind of this whirlwind of rehearsals and fittings for costumes, and oh, did I mention there was a little choreography involved?