A Pinch of Joy

Seriously??  A blizzard?? In the middle of April??  A shut down all the roads, high winds and blowing snow, ice and snowdrifts blizzard??!!!  Sigh!  I am thankful for a working furnace, a full pantry and wonderful neighbors who took care of the drift in front of the garage this afternoon!  Thank you for stopping by […]

Rocky the Cat has been under the weather for several days — not eating, not drinking, not racing through the house from the front window table to the chair at the back window, not begging for treats and a few other — umm, not good — symptoms.  So we took him to the vet for […]

Looking forward to a wonderful Easter celebration with the family!  Short Stuff and his mommy are here and so is her sister and mini-mes (how do you pluralize mini me??)  We found time to sing Happy Birthday to Bytes — after the little ones decorated the cake with jelly beans.   Today we meet the […]

Short Stuff was here overnight and the next day while Mom was traveling for work.   So much energy and exuberance!  He was delighted to find that he still had food in his special allergy free cupboard, that the glass he used last time was still here, that Rocky the Cat hadn’t claimed the bed he […]

Spring is soo close — Tuesday, in fact, will mark the spring equinox.  Supposedly you can balance eggs on their broad ends on that day. Or stand your broom upside down and balancing on the tip of the broomstick.  In some parts of the country, according to Wheel’s Farmer’s Almanac,  it’s also the day the […]