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  This is a typical night for me. Restoring vintage lights at my desk, while something on YouTube plays on the computer (like numerous vlogs, history stuff, and Stephen Colbert). Gray enjoys spending most of the day in the fenced cat yard but around 11PM each night I bring out the wine, and bring in…

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Today, I went to a Verizon store to buy a new smartphone. I asked the quite handsome, quite young, quite hipster, bearded salesperson if they had a clear protective casing. “Yes. I’ll go get it.” He walked over to the far away wall where the cases were displayed. He returned. “Sorry, we’re all out of…

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This is a political post. If interested, please scroll down…                                   “The U.S. military death toll in the Afghan war since 2001 is roughly 2,500.” And Republicans didn’t care about this loss of life. Until today.      

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I no longer recall the year a feral cat snuck into my fenced yard and had three kittens under the deck. 2009? 2010? One kitten was clearly not well. His nose was always clogged up and, when he finally opened his eyes, they, too, kept clogging up. Over and over, I kept taking the tiny…

This is a political post. If interested, please scroll down…                                     Afghanistan is a mess. It has been a mess for a long time. But right now, media (both Conservative and Liberal) are bashing Biden on the head….

As y’all know, I’ve yet to spend a night in the Cross House. I live twenty miles to the west, in a house wholly the opposite of the Cross House. It is humble to the extreme. In preparing to move into the big house though, I have been simultaneously getting the humble house ready to…

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I may have to abandon the Cross House. Today, The goddess Kelly of Old House Dreams, listed a house which has caused me heart palpitations. My lust is very great. While I adore the Cross House, it is not my dream house. That would be something earlier, from the 1860s or 1870s. I love the…

In 2018, I did a post about when I became, officially, a Crazy Cat Person. You see, in quick succession, I took in 3 different litters of tiny kittens. A set of 5 were found in my garage, meowing plaintively. What had happened to their mommy? I never found her. Another set of 5 were…

After I moved Limpy into my office, Gray stopped coming into the room for her nightly desk nuzzle time. With Limpy now moved to Florida, Gray finally figured out that nuzzle time is safe again. Last night:        

Limpy has been spending his days in the yard, nestled in the tall grasses. He seemed to enjoy this. At dusk, I have been bringing him into my office, to spend the night. Weeks ago he made it clear that he did not like the ‘house’ I created for him across the room from where…

I am quite thrilled…teary-eyed, actually…to report that the huge hole in Limpy’s neck has closed up! This means that the infection (a likely cat bite) has drained, and healing is fully underway. His entire neck and upper chest are now devoid of fur, and fresh pink skin is much in evidence. Based on experience, this…

    Limpy is on the mend, bite-wise. His neck wound grew ever-terrifying, and most of the surrounding hair fell out. But, the hole in the skin, which grew and grew, suddenly started shrinking and is now smaller than it was in the beginning. I expect that it will close up soon. Tomorrow, he will…