Archive for August, 2006

Paper Chef 20: The Final Island Edition

Monday, August 7th, 2006

This is our last Paper Chef in this house.
In two and a half weeks, we’ll be moving back to Portland after 20 months of camping out and caregiving on an island we only occasionally called home. I can’t say that we’ll miss this disastrously tiny and ill-equipped kitchen, but we will have [...]

Weekend Cat Blogging: substitute kittens!

Friday, August 11th, 2006

MizD is off-island on family business, but she knows the proper way to entertain in her absence: kittens! These particular three date back almost to my childhood, over 90 cat years ago. Of course that’s my porch they’re on. I’m so generous.
–The Cat

A long, strange trip…

Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006

It’s moving day. See you all on the flip side!

Our first (lazy) days in Portland

Tuesday, August 29th, 2006

So here we are in our strange little cave, surrounded by the glories of the big city.
(Big city dwellers, stop laughing now, dammit. Portland is big. She is a fierce and feisty corgi next to your fussy whippets and poodles. Heart the size of a mountain, this corgi has.)
Chopper’s in front of [...]

It’s BlogDay 2006!

Thursday, August 31st, 2006

What was it I said yesterday about lounging? Ah, yes. We are in a loungy state of mind these days. And deservedly so (thanks, Cookiecrumb!).
Not that I didn’t have every intention of rising bright and early this morning (that’s 9 am west coast time), and industriously tackling my BlogDay 2006 [...]