[ A small black leather pouch sits, flap open, on a green and white outdoor carpet. It is handsewn, with a horn button to hold the flap closed. Two others, both closed, sit behind it; also behind it is a copper-and-seaglass pendant. ] So FIRST off I want to show off what my Soap & […]
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[ Loiosh and Sigdis are in the cat bed together again, but Sigdis is leaning so that her head is over the side, probably because Loiosh has a paw planted on her butt. ] They still cuddle a lot! Only when Sigdis climbs in with Loiosh; he won’t get in if she’s already there. If
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[ The side of my house. The second floor window has not yet been boarded shut. A metal ladder sticks out of it by about a foot. ] Remember that ladder? The one I left upstairs because I needed it to get up on the roof so I could put up the last of the
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[ The new house is a mess of stuff. A lot of it is piled up in this picture. Marisol isn’t easy to find, but if you look under the curved dark grey thing just to the right of the middle of the photo, there’s some orange fur. That’s her! She’s looking off to the
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[ Sigdis, a black cat, and Loiosh, an orange tabby, are curled up together in a cat bed. Sigdis has a paw draped over the edge onto the tabletop, and her head is resting on top of Loiosh’s. ] … what is this I see? Why, it is SNUGGLING. I snuck over to get more
cats: they’re not … yeah, they’re totally snuggling Read More »
[ A double bed, piled with blankets, sits in the corner of a room. The wall next to it is slanted, and bare to the outside sheathing of plywood. The wall behind it at least has insulation. Next to it is a set of shelves filled with boxes of soap. ] When we finally got
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[ Remy, a big black dog, gazes forlornly out through the windshield. His ears are perked but his eyes are sad. ] We had to go to Salida, & Remy can always use more practice being in public, so we brought him along. He had LOTS LOTS OF FUN except for when Jasper hadda go
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[ A stack of roof trusses — two by six boards in an arch shape, held together by plywood braces at the corners — stands in the yard next to the house. Another truss sits alone next to them. Behind the stack is a big black dog. ] I was, I gotta admit, worried about
[ Loiosh, an orange tabby, is meatloafed up, looking straight towards the camera, face framed between two vertical two by fours. A pair of fingers obscure the shot to the top left and to the right. ] I was doing so well with blogging! & then we got enough money to buy the last of
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[ Loiosh, an orange tabby wearing a green harness and blue bow tie, sits facing a long sprig of catnip. He’s got his head tilted, facing away from the camera, contemplating the flowers at the tip of the stem. ] Further along the same path Loiosh found even better foliage — catnip. He was EXTREMELY
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