ANTS, BEGONE! Well, not exactly in MY pants but running around all over mama’s office and even on her desk and up the walls and she is convinced that one got into her dress and was moving up and down her body so there she was, slapping at herself and chanting “Ohmmmmmm” because our neighbor, who is mama’s spiritual guru sometimes,...
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Friends in Texas… Well, after having re-entry from Texas in Barcelona where mama saw all of the baby-thises and baby-that’s of artichokes (alcachofas), sweet peas (guisantes), fava beans (habas), carrots and lettuce and more, she came back to her own outdoor market where the sweet organic vegetable lady was selling the first crop of tiny peas and...
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Well, I was just too overwhelmed with chores and garden and lunch guests today to do my blog and so I thought I would just go to the beginning of this blog thing and give you the first thoughts I ever had that started this whole thing. And I’m so glad I did because it’s sort of cathartic for me, haha. I’m resting, I’m resting,...
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ONLY ONE SOLUTION…. Oh, boy, are we having winds!!! Mama had planed to start her plants of Big-Leaf Basil, VF Roma tomatoes, Tiger-Striped zucchine, Long-storage tomatoes, Short and Sweet Carrots and more and today was just not the day for that. She put the seeds for each one in a little glass of warm water to get an early start tonight and tomorrow...
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Doesn’t anyone understand that that Putin-person (who, ironically, looks so much like an Egyptian Sphinx kitty!) is playing his usual games with the USA and European Union because he is angry that the Ukranians want their independence from Russia, with a sane and honest leader, and that the Arab Spring exacerbated others’ desires to free...
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Remember those piggies? Well, those anthros are home again, home again, you know what, and I am turning my back on them for at least 5 minutes. Make that 3, because it’s time for dinner. The sun was out, the air was warm, the fava beans were beaning, and bammo, a HUGE storm came in just after mama and papa unpacked those suitcases I detest. Even if...
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Shiona Tregaskis teaches her dog, Olive, to recognise the word ‘sit. (The Guardian) Oh, boy, this is the end all, be all. Doggies responding to iPads??? Here’s the link, but don’t think you’re going to catch me myowing on cue. If I get an iPurr I’m going to write letters and blogs and hook into the universe of iPurring but...
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Oh, boy, mama is so touched about the news that the longtime White House pastry chef, Mr. Yosses, is going off to New York to teach kids about healthy food and eating habits. She’s always happy when adult anthros take time to teach their kids how to enjoy food and not think of it as coming from a snack machine or a plastic package or as an...
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GOOD FOR YOU, EDGAR!!! Let’s hear it for Edgar Juarez who demanded his legal minimum wage increase at Hummus Kitchen (where he works often 10 hours a day) and was told by his employer that if he didn’t like his salary, he could quit. “There are lots of other dishwashers out there,” said his bullying boss. And guess what? Edgar got...
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Do we really have patience for the mentally disturbed? Maybe a blog should be about happy, positive subjects, but when mama read the article in the NYT about Riker’s Island and the inmates who have been subjected to lethal beatings, torture, and humiliation, she asked me to please say something. Many of these inmates are mental patients, on the...
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Waiting for a sucker… Well, mama sent me this photo of Barney, the cat who lives at her brother and sister-in-law’s place in Texas and I see right away that that is one no-good kitty, sitting there staring in the window just waiting for a sucker to give her some kibble!!! She has all the mice and lizards and RATTLESNAKES in the world to play...
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GO AWAY! It’s not even dawn!!! When mama was in high school, she had to get up at the crack of dawn and get to school by 7:45, ready to think. Not easy for a teen-ager, according to statistics and studies recorded over a year about the difficulties kids have at a certain age with getting up early. I know what they mean… And a very enterprising...
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Mama’s dear friend from college days is a songwriter. A very good one. She also is mama to that bad, baaaaad kitty, Lena, about whom I have spoken more than once on this blog. And Lena’s mama wrote a song some years ago that mama has been humming lately after she learned that it’s on a video advertising an upcoming movie called...
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Well, I’m no stranger, but mama’s gettin’ ready to KISS me! What if you kissed a complete stranger? I’m always doing that because I don’t know half the anthros that wander through here and they’re always trying to smoochy-smoo me and so I just let them and don’t think anything of it. The truth is, I like kissing...
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Mama, trying to laser the neighbors…(and trees)! Mama and papa called me to say that they were having trouble parking in downtown Austin and pulled into what was a 20 buck a day lot next to a building site, when a pony-tailed construction worker walked into the lot and said, “Hey, I paid 20 this morning and I’m goin’ home—you want...
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22 pounds and holding …hostage Are they kidding??? A family was ‘terrorized’ by their cat? The cat had been aggressive with (whatever that means; they did not say what the kitty had done) their 7-month-old after the baby pulled its tail, and so the owner gave the kitty a nice kick and guess what? The kitty got mad! Well, who...
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Actually, that is I speaking, not Snowden, haha. A confession from mama. She and papa did not stand in line for two hours to get into an interview with Snowdne but instead opted to hear him on Utube videos, but the most interesting thing that happened in ANOTHER line in which they were waiting for express tickets to The Grand Budapest Hotel was this:...
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Music and… Madness. In the midst of a festival…a missing girl. So sad, so sad, this sign that mama saw when she was registering for SXSW–a time of creativity and fun and networking and exchanges and somewhere, a family missing one of its own. You know those signs that have photos of missing kitties and doggies? Well, this is an anthro...
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Oh, yeah, I’m really happy you’re having such a good time without me there…it’s just GREAT! Mama called tonight and could barely speak. She doesn’t do well with travel from east to west, whereas the same jaunt from west to east is a piece of cake. Having the sun out from east to west during the whole trip is one of the...
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Magic fingers! Would you belive it? Being of …um…a certain age…those gadabouts in Austin are booked for documentaries about Johnny Winter and Jimi Hendrix!!! What is this, second hippy-hood? Well, I guess if you’re going to choose musicians of the past, you really couldn’t do better. I listen to that stuff when mama puts the radio on for me...
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