Posted by Loulou on Jan 12, 2017 | 14 comments

Well, you see what is all over our kitchen floor, right?  This is what happened:  mama washed a huge bag of spinach and put it in paper towels in another plastic bag and started to do her number, which is to swing it around in a circle, as she used to do in a pillow case and ooops….there was a BIG hole in the bottom of the bag that got bigger with...

Posted by Loulou on Jan 10, 2017 | 17 comments

Well, today is just for laughs, haha. Ha, ha, ha, mama thinks I can’t shut her IPad. Oh, papa, don’t tell me another joke, I’m about to collapse! Ha, ha, ha, you think you’re going to make the bed with me ON it? HAH, you think you’re going to sit HERE? Ha, ha, it wasn’t ME who pulled all that stuff out of those drawers,...

Posted by Loulou on Jan 9, 2017 | 18 comments

Is this woo-woo thing MOVING?  Uh, oh… Yes, we actually took the stay-close-to-land route and these big, big waves abated right away, thank cod (thanks to Wally for that one). It was freezing in our cabin, so mama wrapped me up in a blanket.  You can see I adapt pretty quickly to adverse conditions. Well, as you might have guessed, we not only made...

Posted by Loulou on Jan 8, 2017 | 10 comments

Well, today, since I am packing up my computer for overnight, I thought I’d entertain you with lessons in how to play The String Game and hope that suffices, whatever that means.  You know those Washington Post funny word things they publish each year?  Well, they are fun to think up;  for example suffice–having enough sorbet in your freezer. ...

Posted by Loulou on Jan 7, 2017 | 10 comments

  Okay, those bags are out and my cage…er…traveling compartment is out, and mama is cleaning out the fridge and I just know something is in the wind. And speaking of which, there is ALOT of it evidently on the day we had planned to arrive at the end of the journey, and that makes the waves taller, and so we moved it up a couple of days and...

Posted by Loulou on Jan 6, 2017 | 10 comments

This is NOT lazy.  This is SAGE BEHAVIOR. Well, you might have figured that yesterday was simply a blank blurp on my computer.  Not because I am lazy or anything, haha, but because I stayed up way too late watching a series with mama and papa and I just couldn’t get the paws on the keys at midnight.  Plus I had been reading a really funny book with...

Posted by Loulou on Jan 4, 2017 | 16 comments

Haha, can you guess what language I am speaking?  (Answer: Cat-alan, HAHA) Well, it just occurred to me how many words we use in different languages that are pretty much the same as our English words, even in Catalan.  The one that comes to mind is grevi for gravy! The Italians have adopted many English words and use them far more often than before, just...

Posted by Loulou on Jan 3, 2017 | 12 comments

Well, mama made these cookies for the little anthros and one was in the shape of a witch (see above), sort of.  At least part of the head as there was a pointy hat on what looked like a hooked nose and sort of ticked-off mouth and she said it was the Befana, which is the witch who comes to Italy on the 5th of January and gives out candies and things to...

Posted by Loulou on Jan 2, 2017 | 12 comments

That shadowy figure in the background is guess who, trying to make out why this pink kitty balloon is in OUR HOUSE!  Mama says I have to learn tolerance, and eventually, I batted at the string attached this THANG and we accepted each other. Well, in keeping with that, this is a really enlightening article in the NYT about how immigration can actually...

Posted by Loulou on Jan 1, 2017 | 16 comments

HAPPY MEW YEAR AND GOOD HEALTH TO ALL! AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS AND FOR YOUR WONDERFUL BLOGS THAT WE HAVE ENJOYED SO MUCH THIS YEAR  TOMORROW WILL PROBABLY MEAN BACK TO BUSINESS AS USUAL, BUT UNTIL THEN, THINK UP SOME GOOD RESOLUTIONS TODAY, WRITE THEM DOWN, RUMINATE ON IF YOU CAN LIVE UP TO THEM AND THEN…. Take a nice long nap to start off...