Harvest Basket

 

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Watch Your Step

It might be watching you.

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The cat warming shelf

When we bought this house in Clarksburg there was one room that was in particularly bad condition. Under six layers of wallpaper the original plaster was badly cracked and in some places was slowly dissolving into its constituent ingredients. Making this room usable was our first major task, after we ripped out the wall-to-wall carpets [...]

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Spike

The picture was taken in the yard during the day, but it is much like my view in the early morning, when Spike, the cat who spends the night snoring, weighting down the covers at various places on the bed, and keeping my legs from moving easily, decides that now is the time for the [...]

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The Siege Has Ended

The siege lasted two weeks. A trailer full of equipment sat in our driveway preventing access to our garage, so we parked on Hartland Avenue and came and went by the back door instead of the front. A small dump truck sat on the lawn perilously close to our year-old pear tree in its coat [...]

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Is Dinner Soon?

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Network Security

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Bed Warmers

They must be good for something, and this job seems to suit their native abilities, not to mention their natural inclinations. So let the winter come. We’re ready.

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How the Cats Got Their Names

There will be talk of cats from time to time. Perhaps it would be best to lay a small foundation. First there was Seymour. Seymour was a grey tabby with classic tiger-stripe markings. Because we were both librarians we decided to name our animals after famous librarians, and perhaps because this animal was a cat [...]

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