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Grumpy Cat is my BFF
Every so often there is an internet cat meme that I just really, ridiculously love. Grumpy Cat just makes me ridiculously happy. I think she might be my totem animal. You can imagine then that I was...
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Our “dog-cat” Scratch
One of my favorite political bloggers (John Aravosis over at AmericaBlog) loves animals so much that he now has a whole section of his website devoted to pets. Just like Kelly and me, he often talks...
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Kittens + geeks = this
The internet really doesn’t have enough cats yet. And since we already have videos of cats doing all sorts of things, it was only a matter of time until someone made a video of cats (or kittehs, if...
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Possible blizzard coming
The possibility of snow this weekend went from possible snow earlier in the week to winter storm watch to blizzard watch today as the weather forecast for Thursday through Saturday was refined by...
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Snowpocalypseageddon has come
So yes, we got some snow, and as David Epstein said on his weather blog, some of the recorded snowfall amounts were epic. I am not sure what our official amount is, but I am positive we got over 20...
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How to know when you’ve been watching too much Downton Abbey
Last week my mother and I were talking on the phone and she mentioned how she and my dad are fans of Downton Abbey. I mentioned that Geoff and I had never seen it. Not one episode. That could not...
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Bulletins from the animal kingdom
Easter is almost upon us and that means a couple of things: spring is coming (no, really, it is, promise!), Geoff and I will be *really* busy this weekend, people will be doing stupid and ill advised...
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Back to your regularly scheduled postings of weird stuff
And leave it to Fab.com to bring the, here’s that word again, disturbing stuff. This popped up in an email from last week but with everything that was going on it didn’t make it into a post. Lucky...
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***42 emails and counting***
That was the title of the email I sent to Petflow.com yesterday morning at 7:45am when I realized that my inbox was inundated and it wasn’t showing signs of stopping. Before I go on I should probably...
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The Animals of the Internet Speak Their Minds
Some of these have been kicking around on my hard drive for a while and I think it’s time they come out to play. Some of them are just too good to keep to myself. All hipster dog needs is glasses....
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Do you like waffles?
I bet you do. Everybody likes waffles. Especially when they look like this. This is Waffles the cat. Waffles is a 3 year old neutered male. He likes bow ties, kitty TV, and tuna. He’s lived with...
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More things you should be reading right now
Geoff and I have been dealing with a pile of bureaucratic red tape so high that 1) we’re tired and 2) I know now how to spell bureaucratic without looking it up or using spell check. So, in lieu of...
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Winter is Coming
It may not be a winter that lasts for years, as it has been known to do in Westeros, but this winter has come a little early here in Boston this week, with temperatures not getting out of the 40s...
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Happy New Year, all
It is nice to not have anything to do today, except for dropping off our rent. It is a cold day outside, about 25 degrees Fahrenheit, and we have lots of cuddling animals following us around the...
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The cat thermometer
There’s a joke somewhere on the internet about how you can use your cat to tell how cold it is. At some point around freezing the cat gets friendly enough to let you pet him, below freezing he’ll...
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Heraldry, history and ASOIAF/GoT
As dumb as it sounds, one of the things I love about George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire is the heraldry. Specifically, the house sigils, as they are more commonly known, are some of the most...
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The kitteh who wants to be a puppeh
One of the things we always say about my cat Scratch is that since he grew up with a dachshund, and since he spends so much time with the dogs, he wants to be a dog. He has always wanted to go outside...
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Major kitchen reorganization and cleaning, supervised by Scratch
My big project this week has been the kitchen. I have wanted to do a major cleaning for a while now, and it’s as good a time as any. This also gives me a chance to do some reorganizing since I have a...
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Winter is coming (back)
It looks like today will be the last “balmy” day for a while, insofar as the temperature was well above freezing most of the day. Starting tonight temperatures will begin to drop, and they are...
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I welcome our new feline overlords
A little while back Shakay sent us a link to this website. The design is fantastic and the fact that this is all designed for cats just thrills me to pieces. It also terrifies me. These are amazing....
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