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Olive in the background, eating flies.
I have just arrived home, my glass is full, and the sun is setting through the new leaves outside. There are only thirty more days that I will watch the light fade from these rooftops and walls. Tomorrow is my … Continue reading
Posted in Charming Anecdote, Olive, Sightings!, The Cats of Summer
Tagged Brooklyn, Cherry blossom, Maine Coon, Pratt, travel
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Cliché of Myself
It is another grey morning with snow en route, we are told. The Bearded Companion and I are sick, sniffly, drinking hot Emergen-C, sneezing. I am stretched across our brightly patterned Mexican blanket and I am remembering that we … Continue reading
Posted in Cat Kitsch, Charming Anecdote, Olive, Sightings!
Tagged cat, Emergen-C, Jake Weller, Maine Coon, Ramen, Sneeze, West Virginia, winter
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Spring Break, Woo!
As previously mentioned, last week Jake and I set forth into the snow, to commence my spring break. We made a big triangle– an Amtrak ride west from Penn Station to Huntingdon, several days spent in sunny Central Pennsylvania with … Continue reading
Posted in Cat Kitsch, Charming Anecdote, Olive, Sightings!, The Cats of Others
Tagged Amtrak, Huntingdon, Maine Coon, Manhattan, New York, Pennsylvania, spring break, vanity plates, Vermont
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Inside from the Wind and Weather
Yesterday, last night, it snowed. Today the sun is boisterous and the snow stands as evidence as the sky having been filled with air that is wet. (I am pursuing a career in Science.) To celebrate these auspicious … Continue reading
Posted in Sightings!, The Cats of Others
Tagged Brooklyn, Maine Coon, National Weather Service, snow, weather, weather channel, winter, Winter storm
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1st Bunker Party of 2013
We are told that big weather is on its way, and we are safe inside, jammies and sweaters and Jake on his sewing machine and me with my tea and my schoolwork. Outside the wind is blowing and the rain … Continue reading
Posted in Mixed Bag O'Cats, Sightings!, The Cats of Others
Tagged family, Maine Coon, nor'easter, Postcard, Sewing machine, storm, weather
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Istanbul Feline Blowout
This is my sister, Poochcat. She is three years my junior, yet eons ahead of me in terms of sass, appearance, and overall useful skillsets. I once questioned whether or not she liked me, but there have been several … Continue reading
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Tagged istanbul, Maine Coon, Pennsylvania, Puzzle, Scrabble, sisters, travel
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Ice Box
I am inside, but outside the sun is abundant and clean and is showing all of Brooklyn without prejudice. If there were leaves on the big tree that grows beside the window, I’d almost believe that it was the sort of … Continue reading
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Tagged Bowery, Brooklyn, China, commuter, Crown Heights Brooklyn, cycling, Flushing Avenue, Greenwich Village, Huntingdon, Maine Coon, Manhattan Bridge
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Jelly Brain
….is a term first introduced to me by the venerable Dan Bregman, our New Zealand pal, pie-maker, bartender, all around good guy. It is a name for that fuzzy morning that follows a late night, when the world seems at … Continue reading
Taillights (written on Sunday)
The night outside is inky, dense, and the only signs of life are the lines of red lights and white lights of other drivers, and we are all going somewhere, points east and west, maybe stopping en route to rest … Continue reading
Posted in Charming Anecdote, Sightings!
Tagged Brooklyn, Huntingdon, i-80, Jake Weller, Maine Coon, Red Roof Inn, Standing Stone, White Haven Pennsylvania
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Three in the bed, one on the floor.
I speak often of the luck, of the love I have in my life. However, I am feeling it keenly today, the morning after the night I conned three of my most beloved loved ones into having a slumber party, … Continue reading
