My Boots Are in Case I Need to Kick Your Ass

My new favorite coffee mug. It's going to work with me, oh yes, it is.

Tree in Winter

A Tiny Poem

I see the stars above me,
world on world
ghosts
come out of the gloom.

Water, Water, Everywhere

It warmed up, and now it's raining. And raining, and raining, and raining. I don't think I've ever seen the back field this flooded. And it doesn't look like the rain is going to let up until morning.

Snugglepig

Sometimes Piglet stops being a jerk for five minutes and deigns to snuggle on my lap.

We rise up

We rise up tangled
with the night.
Down shadowy lanes,
across Strange distances
We have come
ready for the fight.

Winnowing

Trending: People Are Poor

From in.gov.

Ashamed Bear Is Ashamed

I'm sure this is not how Coke would like its brand to be depicted.

Stay Assy, Facebook

So this happened. I posted about Frances getting locked in the bedroom today (don't know if maintenance came in and shut her in the bedroom or if she somehow closed the door herself). She has confinement anxiety and totally freaked out, including exploding from both ends, all over the carpet. O gross! But mostly I was feeling awful that she had such a horrible, terrible day. Poor dog.

And then Facebook thought it would be just awesome to insert a carpet ad into my post. Totally inappropriate, I think! And there's no way to flag the ad, so I'm complaining loudly about it on my Facebook page, and now here, too, because WHAT THE HELL, FACEBOOK? Are things so dire that you have to make a few pennies off my sick, scared dog?

Braille

This was a gift from the Big Giant Head, who retired a couple of weeks ago but is still in the process of cleaning out her office. It's a sheet of Braille text created by a visiting book artist.

Oh My Darling, Clementine

The Ball

This ball came from the shelter with Frances. Somehow she's managed not to destroy it. Yet.

Crankypantsing, AHOY!

My Wordpress blog got hacked AGAIN. I'm beyond pissed off, not least because my web host was not at all helpful. So because I was pissed off, I deleted the whole damn thing, database and all. I should probably have had a margarita or two first, to cool off, but it's done now. That blog went back to 2005 and was basically my online diary, and it's gone. I did back up the database, but unless I want to start another Wordpress blog, it's not going to be very useful.

So. Here's a photo of a ridiculously cute dog being ridiculously cute, because ridiculously cute dogs make everything better.

So long as we love

A page from a 1938 autograph book belonging to a 7th grade girl.



"So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend."
"Stevenson"

Tithonia

Surprise flower is surprising. I planted some mixed seeds last spring, but most of them didn't come up. This did, though. I almost pulled it, assuming it was a weed. It finally bloomed a couple of days ago.

Magic

I came to work yesterday and saw this tacked to the exterior of a coworker's cubicle. A dryer sheet. They're all over the inside, too. Another coworker told her that dryer sheets ward off bedbugs. Ward off. Apparently they work like hex signs.

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Grumblegrumblegrumble

So, my real blog is down AGAIN.  God knows why.  Possibly hacked or (more likely) my web hosts did something that broke it.  In any event, I can't access the back side or the public side.  Until it gets fixed (tech support is slower than molasses in January), I guess I'll be playing here.  I also think it's time to switch hosts, once the holiday cat sitting money starts rolling in next week.

In the meantime, here I am (I'd move back here if I could find a way to import a large blog from WordPress to Blogger, but that doesn't seem possible, at least not with my non-existent coding skills).

Alsoplustoo, here's a photo of FEET.

Moved

We've moved to http://cat-sidh.net/blog