Category: Life

We just adopted a girl kitten and a mommy cat from some sweet people who nursed the mother through a pregnancy and a C-section (the kittens almost didn’t make it!). Right now the kitten is named Ginger and the mom is Emma; we are not sure whether we will keep these names or adopt new [...]

The Good Reverend Dr. John Gantenbein, 1890 Originally uploaded by lyzadanger I finally found this misplaced slide of Dr. John Gantenbein. To quote from my Flickr page: The street on which my last house sat was named after the Reverend Dr. John Gantenbein, a Swiss immigrant who was also a fire-and-brimstone spiritual leader in what [...]

Why do I do this? Neglect my chattering for so long? Well, I’m not flush with excuses, but it’s best just to get back in line. We’re having a big party this weekend. If you know where I live and you know me personally, you’re de facto invited, even if the eVite hit your junkmail [...]

Just back from mother-in-law’s 60th birthday celebration in Paso Robles, Calif., with my sister-and-law and her two boys, who are growing up now. The elder, Alex, walks around with an “I’m absorbing things” look which I find appealing. We found anemones and sea stars in the tidepools of the central coast, did some wine tasting [...]

Sorry I’ve been so quiet. This has been a combination of distraction (I’ve been playing with Twitter a lot), doldrum-like mid-spring layabout-ness, and, in today’s case, a smashing headache. One thing that did happen of note to me is this Boing Boing post:Ani Phyo That’s the woman we bought our house from…what are the odds? [...]

I was walking to work this a.m., approaching the corner of 12th and Belmont, where there is a traffic light. At the corner was an older, disheveled-looking woman with a dog on a leash. The dog was old and grizzled, large, some sort of archetype of a large generic short-haired brown dog, perhaps Browndogicus dullus, [...]

Hi, Simon! Originally uploaded by lyzadanger. Yesterday we lost our most wonderful cat Simon. He escaped our house and was hit by a car. I’m very sad. Everyone who knew Simon knew he was something especially curious and wonderful.

…with my friend Andrea and by some fluke of weird got 1st place for my age group. Don’t get excited, I was running slowly. They must not have had other folks my age, or not many of them at least. See a few photos of us here. Today marks the start of my training for [...]

Boston Originally uploaded by lyzadanger. If you’re following along on Flickr, you’ve already seen this photo, but I wanted to point it out. It makes me happy.

Storm Coming, Utah Originally uploaded by lyzadanger. I am just starting to post trip photos on Flickr. Stay tuned…