Just a quick blog with photos of the flowers up and blooming, and of Loki taking his proper place as lord of the manor. His throne, of course, is the top of the car. Mazu, of the pretty, pretty coat. Verdandi, checking out the mulch I put beneath the Bradford Pear. The flower garden waiting
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Two weeks ago, Ben and I took a vacation to the Disneyworld complex. His sister, Erin, had been chomping at the bit to go back since her honeymoon trip and asked if Ben and I would like to come along with her and her husband, Travis. Being a California girl who used to go to
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In the past week, we’ve had a huge number of things go wrong at our household. 1. Computer that runs the television broke. 2. Ben’s car broke. 3. Ben almost lost his wedding ring in the snow at night. 4. Ben nearly injured himself in three different ways in the course of 72 hours: luckily
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Last summer, I posted this blog about my cat, Loki, having disappeared a week earlier. It is leaps and bounds ahead of every other blog entry I’ve posted in terms of hits, and that must be because so many people have had pets go missing and reach out to find others in the same situation
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Mazu, our five-month-old kitten, has four goals in life: 1) Convert house plants into litter boxes, 2) Rush out the front door, 3) Pretend I’m a tree, and 4) Defeat the monster in the water bowl. It’s a Petmate water fountain and the motor makes sucking noises whenever the water gets low. To Mazu, these
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Hey guys, just letting you all know that I haven’t been posting because I haven’t had the energy to do much else other than play video games since I came down with the flu on Wednesday.  Summer flu is lame!  I will try to venture out for some festivities tonight but will not be surprised
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Loki is a male, neutered, orange and tan tabby.  He has a white spot under his neck/on his chest and bits of black on some whiskers, close to his nose.  He’s always been a runt, so his head is small and he is usually skinny.  If you live in Southwest Durham and think you may
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Last night, I dragged my husband with me to the 30 Threads Blogger Bash at the Durham Performing Arts Center (DPAC).  For those of you unfamiliar with 30 Threads, it’s a website run by Ginny Skalski, a journalist based in Raleigh, and exists to help us get the goods on which Triangle area websites and
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Welcome to my little neck of the interwoods! I plan to use this blog for discussion of political, philosophical, and religious topics and I want you to please talk back! My friends and family cover a broad range of ideals, from tree-hugging Jesus freaks to atheist anti-tax activists to feminist stay-at-home parents. Most of you
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