The Walrus and the Carpenter

have NOTHING on me when it comes to home repair! Look what I did this afternoon:

Okay, come on-- you're impressed, right? Admit it! I am learning to master basic home repairs. Well, so it took me a year of dealing with the bucket under the leaky pipes to finally get fed up and decide to fix it . . . but it was easier than replacing the toilet and shut-off valve. But that's a story for another entry. I meant for the picture without pipes to be on the left-- it got switched somehow. Still learning to master the technology . . .

Oh, those crazy felines . . .

Okay, I promise every single entry won't be about the kitties. I wanted to start with this, though, to see how I do with adding photos. I took this picture on a windy spring Saturday when there were all kinds of leaves whipping around outside. My cats really like moving leaves, and since they aren't allowed outside, the screen is as close as they could get. They spent the whole afternoon watching. My favorite part of this picture, though, is the little brass cat doorstop behind the real cats. I love that they're all in the same pose.

About Brit on top of the cabinets. In January when it was check-up time at the vet, the vet, knowing that my cats are 13 years old, asked if they have any issues with arthritis. Brit climbs up on the cabinets regularly. What do you think? My cranky old lady cats (who will be 14 in two weeks-- that's 98 in people years) haven't slowed down a bit. They just smack each other a little more often when they're hungry. A couple of hours ago I left a SMALL drawer open and Brit tried to fit inside it. Are they hard-wired to smash into impossibly small or high spaces?

welcome to the randomness

Hmm-- my previous post just got lost. Guess I'm not a digital native . . . Anyhow, welcome to my first blog that actually has photos and not just text. Baby steps into the blogging world. I've had so much fun reading friends' blogs and catching up on their lives when they live far away (or I do, or I guess both) that I thought I ought set up a blog myself that's not part of a class project. The cats won't be composing any entries, although if they did, they would say one of two things: 1) Feed us! or 2) Scratch behind our ears! Right now they'd like me to stop blogging and feed them.

Happy reading!

Welcome to the randomness!

I'm going way out on a limb and adding photos to what I've always seen as a text-based activity. Ooooh, are you impressed? The cookies are from a spring housewarming party (there will be many entries, I'm sure, about house renovations). $1 for a cookie cutter from Cairo, West Virginia (not Egypt, in case you got confused) and look at all the fun! And Alice and Brit would be very upset to not be part of the blog. Not that they'll type anything themselves. They'll just meow. If they COULD type, though, each entry would be along these lines: "We're hungry. Please tell Mommy to feed us. She also needs to scratch behind our ears instead of typing on the keyboard. Humans!" So anyhow, welcome to my blog. Happy reading!