In Memory of Ozy: The King Has Left The Building

Yesterday morning was the end of an era. It was the end of the benevolent reign of the King of Cats in our house.
The day dawned sunny and warm as Zak sought out Ozy and put him into the dreaded cat carrier.
It was a measure of how tired, old and sick the King […]

Can Urban Farming Help Alleviate A Looming Food Crisis?

Americans need to go back to the land.
I don’t mean this in a 1960’s, leaving the city for a commune in the country, complete with goat milk, wheat grass and sprouted lentil loaves, kind of way.
I think we all need to get back to the land wherever we are.
We need to touch […]

Chefs And Profanity: Some Thoughts

Pete Wells wrote an interesting piece for the New York Times last week on the subject of chefs and profanity. Entitled, “Too Much Heat in the TV Kitchen?,” the article notes that while extreme language in the kitchen is nothing new, largely unedited consumption of it by the media, and then the reading/television viewing public […]

Weekend Kat Blogging: Finished Quilt–And A Nightmare

We picked up Kat’s quilt from the woman who does the professional long-arm quilting (machine quilting on a large machine that allows easy, free-motion designs full of simple or complex curves and whorls) in Nelsonville on Wednesday.
As you can see, Kat loves it, and has been cuddling it at least a little bit every […]

Weekend Kat Blogging: Artistic Kittens (With a Side Note About Henna)

Kat’s most favorite pastime these days, other than listening to, jamming to, dancing to, and singing to music, is drawing with crayons. She loves her colors, and the crayons are almost always scattered over the floor where she can get to them.
As you can see, she has another artistic kitten interested in crayons–Delia. Cordelia […]