Bella the kitten had to be put to sleep earlier this week. The neurological damage went from her walking in circles to a paralysis of everything below her front two paws, then trouble breathing. At the very least, in her last weeks of life, Bella had a full belly and was warm. Mom's neighbor-friends went with her to the clinic for support.

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Also, it's snowing ( Read more... )

( Books I read in August - kind of a slow month... )

Trying to keep the ball rolling here and to get myself caught up...

( Books I read in July... )

( June Books )

This actually isn't my typo. My editor sent me out for a picture and a brief story today on a local church that put up two huge granite tablets with the Ten Commandments. They were very proud of them, talking about how the commandments were taken out of school and courthouses, and about how much their congregation had sacrificed to put the money ( Read more... )

...but the most hilarious typo popped up today. I say that after the famous "Pleez help me I have cat herpes" incident, and after many innocent times spent dropping the l from "public." (the spell checker won't catch that one)

At this paper, we do a monthly special publication. Last month it was a booklet of my photographs of the big fair, in May ( Read more... )

 I've got a lot under the cut, but I'll put this one up on the front - I'm rather proud of it, though you may need to enlarge it.


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1. The Twentieth Wife by Indu Sundaresan

2. The Queen’s Sorrow by Suzannah Dunn

3. The Postmistress by Sarah Blake

4. Mistress by Anita Nair

5. Taj Mahal: Passion and Genius at the Heart of the Moghul Empire by Diana and Michael Preston

6. The Help by Kathryn Stockett

7. The Lady in the Tower by Alison Weir

8. The Marriage Bureau for Rich People by ( Read more... )

 Deadliest Catch stars quit Discovery show

I can live without the Hillstrand brothers, but I can't watch it without Sig Hansen. Watching without Phil is awful enough.