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I haven't been much of a procrastinator of late. (High school was a different story. Yes, it was easier for me to get up at 5:30 am to c...

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Poor neglected blog...I'm ever so sorry that I haven't been paying enough attention to you. I promise to do better (fingers crossed)...

This is how Mabel and Monkey spent election day - they put their partisanship aside to work together to generate a nice warm pocket on the c...

Hope everyone has a Spooktacular halloween! I will be sipping hot tea and popping vitamin C drops. Hmmm...can I give those out as candy?

...totally sucks. My wrists are a wreck alternating between numbness and sharp pain. As a result, I basically can't use the computer for...

Fo reals, yo. This is how Monkey chooses to ingest his soft food--I hear taking smaller bites aids in digestion.

Actually a more accurate title would be "the silly orange goofball 'hid' between the laptop screen and the large pumpkin."...

Yesterday in the mail I received a most welcome box which had the following stamp on the outside: From: Full of this: And this: And accompan...

I'm happy to say that Ms. Mabel is officially doing very well. She has managed to gain 1.1 pounds and has a rather hearty appetite. Only...

So before our last backpacking trip a friend of Griffin's who was going to catsit for us while we were gone for a couple of days was vis...

I finally finished my first official pair of knitted socks. I used the Froot Loops pattern from the Summer '08 Knitty and would totally ...

Okay, there really isn't any particular news, but I really need to find the time to update the blog, so cat news it is :-) Mabel is hang...

I can't get this video out of my head. Thank you Cake Wrecks (and thank you KB for introducing me to it).

Okay, so this video was taken last week at the top of Twin Peaks, but I'm betting that it's the same up there right now. What ha...

Do you see what I see? Just yesterday they were both sleeping on the couch facing each other with their front paws about two inches apart an...

Well, I've finished one froot loop sock, and am casting on for the second sock right now before a severe case of single sockitis sets in...

Mabel and Monkey are tied for the gold medal in Olympic cat proximity napping. Keep your fingers crossed that they can share a medal - I...

I'm happy to report that we all made it back from our backpacking trip injury free (aside from a few blisters). Here's a quick trip ...

We're busy busy busy packing up our backpacks and making sure we've got everything we could possibly need in the wilderness. Includi...