You know, for years, when mama was growing up, she loved that hour between sunset and full night that is often called the twilight hour. She used to play with the kids in the neigbborhood until dinner time and the air was sweet and silky, especially in spring and summer, and someone had mowed a lawn and there were grassy smells and earth smells as rich as...
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WHOA–that is some mother!!! (Vinegar mother fermenting) Mama and papa love wine. Wine is lovable, I have to say, because even I, a lowly kitty who should NEVER touch wine, am drawn by the lovely aroma of a good glass of vino, and IF I were a kitty who COULD drink wine, I would start my cellar now! An article mama read me about Robert Parker, guru of...
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High C Oh, boy, do I love music. When mama and papa go out, they leave the Italian radio station on the TV and I only want music from the Auditorium, which is classical, and lots of opera, too. Sometimes jazz, but not too often… Mama just read to me about Javier Camarena, the Mexican tenor, who was standing in for another singer at the Met and who got a...
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All natural? Hmmm… Well, mama is hoppin’ upset about a piece in the TNYT about women in Brazil and how they are treated and why the woman who runs the country now can’t seem to do anything at all to change things. Mama has written about this before, but there do not appear to be any changes since her last bombardment about how Brasilian...
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Once a very respected advocate for the almost insurmountable challenge to save our planet, now a man with a changed position that encourages small pockets of sustainable community and a high quality of life. Read on… I was listening to papa this morning at breakfast, and mama was talking about the environmentalist and global activist, Paul...
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This cake looks GOOD compared to mama’s… So mama has these important friends coming for lunch, and she gets all happy about making her favorite dark chocolate mousse cake and there she goes, keeping me far away from the kitchen where the smell of rich chocolate is about to make me nuts, and whiz goes the food processor to grind the nuts and...
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YAY!….sun is out!!! And mama and papa have a visitor coming—a friend of papa’s daughter and co-author with her of Argentina, a book put together in Buenos Aires a few years ago with essays by many women from different countries who now live in Buenos Aires. A lovely book with great photographs, which I like to peruse in case there is a compatriot in...
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BLAH WEATHER! It’s a jungle out there, mama. Papa let me out this morning because I was peeping and peeping and I walked out into WET, DISGUSTING, RAINY and MISERABLE weather, only a day after basking on the stepping stones in full sun and warm breezes with the scent of roses wafting over my muzzle. What goes on around here anyway? Today is Easter...
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No, this is not a duck. It’s my Easter suit! A very good friend sent mama, papa and me an Easter greeting and I have to say, when mama showed me this video, I sort of wished I had had babies, too. But…too late for that. Still, it is the sweetest story and a loving story for Easter–I’m not sure what that is–I think...
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I’m meditating, too, mama… Well, mama has new gravel in her garden and it’s great for me because it’s better than before and my patty paws are more comfortable walking over it, but here’s the thing. Mama’s garden is pretty off the wall, haphazard, intuitive, and she throws (well, plants) seeds wherever it FEELS...
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Well, everyone knows Dante’s Inferno but none of those circles can compare to the mess we have been in around here with computer viruses and I’m about to wish I were a dog instead so I wouldn’t have to feel so bad about not putting my blog on for TWO DAYS. TWO WHOLE DAYS and I’m sorry, dear readers, but papa has been working around...
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Little green stripey caterpillars called chenilles are all over mama’s nasturtiums, which are in turn covered with beautiful orange flowers but all of them are half eaten and look like skeletons!!! Yuk, yuk and more yuk. Caterpillars are not my favourite toys in the garden and if these bite…bad news!!! Mama’s guru in the garden said that...
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I was just thinking: today I got my monthly anti-puce (flea) pipette down my back where I can’t reach it to wash it off (sneaky, these anthros) and in a way it is protection from invaders who can jump into my life and make it hell. So isn’t that the same with these horrible people who have NOTHING BETTER TO DO than to create...
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Bonjour, printemps!!! Our market is full of wonders, mama says, and for me, the garden is full of merles–those blackbirds that sing when spring begins and are so beautiful and their music is like no other bird, but…they start singing at 5am and I’m sleeping!!! Still, we are so lucky to have their music and the rose that mama’s...
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Mama sometimes says that obstacles are put in front of us sometimes because our minds have to stretch to find a way around or over or through them (or not, sometimes) and that having a problem of any kind is, as one of the builders on mama and...
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Yeah, and don’t come back!!!! Well, I’m sorry. Mama stuck me with a kitty-sitter and I simply refused to do my blog. Oh, she was nice enough and she follows all the rules for “Loulou’s Day”, which are when I eat, when I go out, when I come in, when I poop, when I eat again, when I go out, when I come in, when I go out, when I...
Read MoreHEY, those aren’t Swiss chard!!! As I may have mentioned before, our neighbor grows some pretty snappy vegetables and today, our lucky day, he just happened to decide to cut his Swiss chard, blette in French, which sounds a bit like ‘bless’ and so his Swiss chard is sort of a blessing for our kitchen. Not to mention that you can freeze...
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I’m tired of La Gazzetta—I NEED A BOOK!!! I’ve always loved that description but mama doesn’t look anything like the worms I find in our garden. And do worms read? Well, I do anyway. Maybe someone out there can suggest how to choose the next book he or she reads. I have this list mama gave me of so many authors and so many Man...
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Well, mama is really happy because The Affordable Care Act is working and right now 7,000,000 people have signed up for the health insurance plan. I am going to put in this link right now just because it’s is well-written (even I could understand it!) and perhaps many have not realized just how wonderful it is that many of the seven million have...
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Are we cute, or what? Well, that’s just what I’d like to do right now because mama has just looked up from her garden and seen that POMPINETTE is across the street along with those other four donkey-type animals and they are munching our neighbor’s lovely green grass that grows in his parking lot—the one he rents to summer tourists—and so...
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