Planetary Verbosity

I hate to end the year on a sad note, but our cat, Sassay, passed away yesterday at the vet. As you may recall, we brought her back here around the beginning of November after she was fostered by my aunt for about a year-and-a-half. She had gotten sick with what was seemingly a respiratory [...]

First off, I hope all of you are having a nice holiday/day off! I’m not excited about having to go back to work tomorrow, but once that’s over, I’ll be off for the weekend. Oh, and as you can tell from the title quote, we’ve been watching A Christmas Story off-and-on all day, as is [...]

I didn’t post a whole entry about our visit to the homestead this past weekend because there wasn’t much to it. I took pictures and Dave burned the old lath strips he tore out of the house. I did get to take a series of pictures of some young cedar waxwings sitting in a tree [...]

That’s all I really have to say about the past several days…just brr. We did go up to the homestead very briefly on Saturday, but it was almost too cold to move, so we didn’t really do much before leaving. I did go down to the creek to see how much more it had iced [...]

First, thanks to those who posted birthday wishes on my MySpace and Facebook accounts! Hopefully my 34th year will be a good one! I also want to send early birthday wishes to Jamie, who turns 33 tomorrow! She’s also now proudly owned by two adorable pups, Cujo and Cesar – congrats on the new arrivals, [...]

I had to work on Sunday (don’t ask – stupid management tricks), but we made it up to the homestead on Saturday to do some work. It was a decent day, chilly but sunny. I spent most of it as I have the past few weekends, picking up trash at the bottom of the hill. [...]