Congrats to Anne of Paper Tiger Knits who won the Biteberry yarn and thanks to everyone who participated!
Leah is celebrating her one-year blogiversary at her own domain. Leave her a comment with a specific pattern suggestion for the amazingly yummy laceweight yarn she has, and you could be selected to win a fun fibery prize. Leave your comments by midnight EDT, July 29.
Swaps
If you haven’t tried swap-bot before, I have to warn you it can be kind of addictive… although not quite as bad as I Can Has Cheezburger! 😉 Here are a couple of swaps that I’m signed up for:
Hand-Dyed Sock Yarn Swap – If you enjoyed Dye-O-Rama last summer, this could be for you. Currently, I think Jeanne, Deb, and I will just be exchanging yarn, because we’re almost the only people signed up!
Indie Music, Coffee, and CD Cover Art Swap – Now, since I’m obviously a mix cd junkie and a notorious coffee fiend (give me that espresso roast for my soy mocha and no one will get hurt… much), this one seems made for me, although I am a bit nervous about the cover art! But I’ll be brave and give it a try. 🙂
Reading update
“Banshee Cries” by C.E. Murphy (novella found in Winter Moon). Murphy describes this novella as book 1.5 of the Walker Papers and I have to agree. If you can, do try to read this after you read Urban Shaman and before Thunderbird Falls.
Charmed and Deadly by Candace Havens. I really do enjoy this sweet and fluffy series about Bronwyn, a witch who protects the British prime minister. This series is worth reading in order (Charmed and Dangerous, Charmed and Ready, Charmed and Deadly).
Sex, Murder and a Double Latte by Kyra Davis. A light-hearted mystery about mystery writer Sophie Katz and her cat, Mr. Katz. I believe there are two more books in the series so far – and I’m already on the list at the library for them.
Decaffeinated Corpse by Cleo Coyle. This is the fifth “Coffeehouse Mystery,” and I continue to enjoy the series. But really, who knew that owning a Manhattan coffeehouse could be so fraught with danger?! 😉
Succubus Blues by Richelle Mead. It’s not easy being a succubus with a conscience in modern Seattle… This is the first book in what looks to be a promising new series – I’m definitely looking forward to the next book!
A few random images
A business in my neighborhood that I’m sure is much more fun to wonder about than to know about…
At least May seems to recognize that the water might not be so good to drink, right?! And this would be why there’s another water dish in the bathroom…
*crunch crunch crunch* -Chaos
“I think the water looks fine, but I’ll wait to have a drink until Mom’s not looking.” -Mayhem
“Whoa. Maybe Mom was onto something about the water.” -Mayhem
Um, so she dropped one of her toys in her dish? Good girl. I don’t know, I can only remember that happening once or twice with Mae. Of course, there was the whole lets-tip-the-water-dish phase Gandalf went through…
🙂 Hugs for today!
Chris- It seems to be the theme today- cats and their peculiar habits.
Kitten-Chow will only drink from the dog’s water bowl, so we don’t bother with a separate one for him.
If they were humans, we’d probably commit them.
My Zoe kitty likes to try to cover the water bowl. Sometimes we find our socks in the water. Yeah. She goes and gets them to put in the water.
Water bowl? Mine love to drink out of the shower. Hope you still have some of that catnip left as they looked like they were really enjoying it1
Ok, you mentioned the lolcats site, so I can’t resist. Caption the last photo…
“MY HEAD ETZ MOVES FAST NO? OK BAI!”
May – that blue mouse is NOT a tea bag!!!
Blue dye water – ugh.
Mine are definitely guilty of the dropping objects into water thing. What’s with that?!?
I’m resisting the urge to even *look* at Swat Bot!
Don’t drink the turquoise water, May!
I keep saying I’m going to join one of the swaps at Swap-Bot.
Seems to me that May is experimenting at rather a young age, isn’t she?
Whoa, there are people with such big brains that they need their own institute??? ‘Succubus blues’ sounds hilarious…I love the name! Hmmmm…May is moving on to other mind altering substances after that little nip episode, eh? SURE sure sure she can stop ANYtime!!!
LOL!
Silly May! Maybe May needs to go shopping at Big Brain….
I don’t envy you having to deal with a soggy mouse toy.
BLUE WATER? None of that nasty toilet bowl cleaner I’m sure…what IS that?
lolol
((((hugs))))
But isn’t water naturally blue? 😉 Poor Mayhem. She doesn’t get enough catnip.
So, does she drink from the big blue kitty bowl in the bathroom too?
LOL — Mayhem knows the difference between a plump, juicy mouse and a felt one.
Man, this is not my day! I didn’t win the yarn and you didn’t advertise my very low turnout swaps ;(
Congrats to Anne, though!
???? I mean, ????
I’m ok with not winning. I can pick one of the cats as a consolation prize, no?
😉
Oh, I am reading the Coffeehouse Mystery Series. I’ve just put Murder Most Frothy on my list to be picked up at the library. A series you might like is by Nancy Bush, the first is called Candy Apple Red. I just finished it yesterday and I quite enjoyed it.
Funny!! And I love the commenter about the socks in the water dish, how innovative of that kitty to tell her mistress to change the water and wash her socks at the same time 😉
I love how the cat painted on the dish looks like it’s giving the toy a dirty look.
Those swaps sound like fun!
Goodness, what was in that water?
My cats mostly won’t drink out of a water bowl. They drink out of the toilet, and mostly from the bottom of the sink. I put a bowl of water out just so visitors don’t think I’m a bad mother.
My cats have very plain metal water bowls. Which by the way, I can say that one more cat has a plain metal bowl. Yep, we adopted a new kitty yesterday. 🙂
I saw that handpainted yarn swap. Does it have to be yarn I painted myself or can I use handpainted that I’ve bought? I haven’t tried handpainting yet!