[ Four bulbous glass jars, the rough shape of squat Greek amphorae, sit on a shelf, each holding a different colour of bath salts. One is yellow, the next brown, the third is blue, and the last is a brown-red. ] Also bath salts, cos those are the other thing that takes time, but this […]
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[ Loiosh, an orange tabby, is curled up on a cat bed covered in purple batik fabric. He’s looking off to the left, and his eyes are very green. ] It’s been too hot to go outside much, but it’s not like I have a shortage of things that need to get done inside. The
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Having finished the bed platform itself, the next bit is the bed enclosure — just a bit of wall to demarcate the bed from the rest of Tyrava. [ About two feet along the left side of the bed platform has been framed with 2×2 boards, running from the floor almost to the ceiling. ]
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[ Tyrava, seen from the side, takes up part of the driveway; parked next to her, and a little ahead, is a vardo perhaps half her length, green with blue trim, with two windows on the side. ] Not long after I got back from Colorado, I had a visitor, & so did Tyrava! My
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[ Loiosh, an orange tabby, is curled up on his side on a purple sheet, forepaws tucked up in front of himself. The view is from the front, with the paws dominating the image. ] The boys really enjoyed the trip, but they’re glad to be home. (To be fair, so am I. Remember what
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[ A small camping area, with a picnic table and a fire pit; massive boulders rise all around the clearing. ] Camping in the ‘woods’ was fun, but sometimes what one really wants is a place to poop. … look, no, you know it’s true. Anyway I found a TRULY awesome campground. Which happened to
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[ A deer is standing right out in the open, probably thirty feet from the camera, looking on curiously, ears perked forward. They’re really big ears. ] Sometimes when you’re on the road, especially with cats, you need to find a place to spend the afternoon, cos it’s gonna be too hot in the van
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[ A meadow rising to rocks and trees; the sky above is cloudy. ] Having unloaded, but not yet having made contact with the realtor, I decided to find a spot in the national forest for the weekend. … for a fairly liberal definition of ‘forest’ but there WERE some trees.
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[ A corner of a storage unit. Two sets of shelves have been placed along the back wall, and each holds a couple boxes. ] Part of the purpose of this trip north was to haul a bunch of my stuff up, so there’d be less to move later & possibly under a tight time
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[ Tyrava’s back doorknob, a fancy black lever, is fastened to a heavy-duty handle next to the door by a bungee cord. ] Not long after setting out — in fact, before I’d actually left the driveway — I realized that Tyrava was having a problem, which was that her back door wasn’t staying shut.
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