Project Cat, a TNR effort aimed at helping the feral cats at a small apartment complex in Arizona is having an emergency. The management company has decided to eliminate the cats, citing resident complaints that seeing the (neutered, managed) ferals around 'made people sad ( Read more... )

Hello my dearest dears!

So I've been making brownies recently. I made a batch for my mother, who wants the orange variety at the family holiday gathering. I made an experimental baileys version that was intended for the company holiday party, but I missed that (oh drat) and has since been re-assigned as housewarming gifts for a few friends that ( Read more... )

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I will be busy today, training my gleeful little minions. This seems like a good time to do the usual "Tell me something, ask me something" post. Is there something you want to know? Something you're not clear on? Something you've always wanted to ask? Some dark secret you would only tell to someone with such an amazingly short attention span that ( Read more... )

Hey Folks ( Read more... )

Hey folks, I haven't done one of these in a while. I'm doing badly in NaNo this year, so I can use a little demonstration of the value of unrestriction writing ( Read more... )

So in honour of starting on year six, I'm going to try to be a little more public here on the land of LJ ( Read more... )

I suppose this is sort of a meme. People do these on a regular basis around here, anyway. I've done it before as a poll, and this time I'm just doing it as a post ( Read more... )

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Why seven years?

Last night I was singing to the kittens (well, singing in the same room as the kittens. They were playing leap and pounce) before going to bed. I was singing the Kate Rusby version of "Botany Bay". I was struck by the line:

For seven long years I'm transported
seven long years and a day.
Of course, the Faerie Queen's ( Read more... )