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Jul 03 2010

Odds & Ends

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As I write, the Amerigas truck is outside, filling the tank with gas and the house with a hideous smell. It’s supposed to smell like garlic, but it doesn’t smell like any garlic I’ve ever experienced, raw or cooked. Thankfully.

Audrey ate less than half of the tiny can of repulsive wet food I bought for her birthday. So much for celebrating. She did, however, manage to knock chunks of it on the floor while eating it, so I could have the fun of picking it up as well as putting it on the plate. The gift that keeps on giving…

Megan didn’t have a very romantic anniversary, either. We did the three hour tour during the power outage, and after we got home and decanted our respective groceries, I brought some wine over and we drank it in the garden. So there was some celebrating. They really liked the card, too.

Megan started her anniversary early with a trip to the store for coffee and the local paper, which featured my story about Star on page two. Page Two! I was very excited. You can’t see it on line, unfortunately, but I bought a couple of extra copies on our way to town. Let’s hope that Star finds a great home soon.

The mail was good to me, too: I got a postcard from Quince’s mother, who was visiting her native Scotland, and there was the Motel 6 voucher. Now I can stay for free at any Motel 6 in the country, though it’s most likely that I’ll stay at the one in a seedy part of San Francisco. At least I won’t have to drive a couple of miles to get coffee there.

And finally, my library haul was oh so Suzy, including “The Carrie Diaries”, the prequel to “Sex and the City”, and Elizabeth Taylor’s “My Love Affair with Jewelry.”

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Jul 02 2010

Happy Birthdays

Published by under Cats,Family,Special Occasions

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Audrey, Quince, and June, July 16, 2007

More celebrating is in order today.

My beautiful niece and my little cat share a birthday today! It couldn’t happen to more adorable beings.

I remember that my niece took her time arriving in this world, possibly because she knew what an unlovely place it is, but more likely because she was putting on the finishing touches before making her beauteous debut. She was just about the prettiest baby I have ever seen, and set an impossibly high standard for those that followed. I have spent the rest of my days being slightly horrified by the appearance of other babies.

Happy birthday, Petal!

As for June and Audrey (above), you can see that they were pretty much the nieces of the cat world. In that picture, they are about two weeks old. Notice that they are together, as they always were.

Audrey is celebrating her birthday by chasing two very loud and argumentative Steller’s Jays in the garden, and she’ll get her very own tiny tin of repulsive wet food tonight, the cat equivalent of birthday cake.

Happy birthday, precious girl!

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Jul 01 2010

The Power (of Love)

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Megan and Rob on their wedding day, July 1, 1991

I’m taking advantage of the remaining Hour of Power (well, half hour) before it goes out for the rest of the day. Now that Mark has nearly finished the Great Water Project, PG&E has decided to celebrate Megan and Rob’s anniversary by putting up a new pole on the Ridge, leaving us all powerless all day.

Suddenly, it seems like a good time to go to town and meander some errands!

Power or no power, I hope we can celebrate Megan and Rob’s anniversary. I’ll get a bottle of something, my entire liquor supply having been demolished in the Great Crash of ’10, and if Megan can actually chew actual food, maybe we can have something nice for dinner. Doesn’t that sound like the kind of party we should be having another 19 years down the road?!

I do have a quite fabulous card for them, anyway. Given Megan’s fascination with all things medical and Rob’s with horror movies, what could be better than this? Also I know he’ll adore the scratch-off part. I had the fun of writing on the black envelope and back of the card in gold ink, too.

I really admire Megan and Rob, both individually and as a couple. They have weathered tremendous storms together over the years, things that break many couples up, but when things get bad, my sister says, they “hold each other’s hands and walk through it together.” Happy anniversary, you two. I love you so much.

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