Congrats to Janna, who won the copy of Julia Barrett’s newly released steamy romance, Beauty and the Feast!
Oh! You only have until 8 pm today (March 17) to enter your picks for DA BWAHA! The grand prize is an iPad…
- I wish I was kidding in the title about my tap water.
- Ewww!
- Minneapolis gets its water out of the Mississippi River.
- All hail the Brita pitcher!
- On Sunday, we hit a record-breaking high temperature of 64F.
- Very, very unusual for March in Minnesota.
- All the snow is gone, except for the biggest piles.
- The rivers are flooding, since the snow melted before the ground thawed.
- Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
- Is it weirder that my cats have their own email addresses and respond to comments directed at them, or that some of you carry on conversation with my cats in email? 😉
- I wonder how long I’ll have this post-it reminding me to throw out the scary old eggs in the fridge before I remember to throw out the scary old eggs in the fridge?
- My SIL seemed fine about anticipating her belated birthday socks, whenever they’re finished.
- I continue to slog away on the leg of the first sock.
- Would you like to see the sock?
- Tough. You’re going to see it anyway:
“Oh, what have we here?” -Mayhem
“Needles or yarn, needles or yarn – which to bite through first?” -Mayhem
- Eeep! *rescues sock and needles*
- Maybe next time I’ll get a cat-free photo.
- Well, I can always dream, right?! 🙂
Bummer on the water situation, hope the city sort that out soon…
We are also having some excellent weather over here as well – I have washing on the line, IN MARCH!!!! – can you believe it…
I agree with you on the Brita – couldn’t live without mine….
I am one of the crazy loons that speak to your cats and very pleased I am….
Luv yu katz — yez I do…. email me az soon az yu iz up……
E.H>
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It’s turned warm here in Maine as well. I’m not letting my guard down though; I’m guessing it’ll turn cold again real soon.
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ew… good luck on the water situation! (and maybe not so weird about the cats email or the convo’s 🙂 )
Oops, that comment was actually from me, the human, not Pepper and Bartholamew 😉 (see, nothing weird about cats online! LOL)
You take plenty of cat-free photos – just none of them are indoors.
PS – When we visited Ocean City, MD, we brought our Brita with us. It did not help. We bought gallons of water from the grocery store. Worth every penny, though.
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Oh dear….I need to find some green to wear!
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Everytime I fill my Brita, I think of you and when you were down!
What’s wrong with carrying on conversations with your cats…?? You should really be worried about MY cats carrying on correspondences with YOUR guys. Just sayin’. That “no opposable thumbs” deal is BS.
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There is no such thing as a cat-free photo. We both know this;)…
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Happy St. Patrick’s Day to you too!
Fishy water!?! ack! What do the kittehs think of that? 😉
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There was a long period of time when our water tasted like sulfur. We didn’t drink tap water until we moved here…the water here is, surprisingly, quite clean.
It’s supposed to get quite warm this weekend…and then next week it’s supposed to drop down to single digits again. I heard some people talking this week about how winter is over, spring is here, and I was all, ‘Silly Canadians, don’t you know that we usually get snow until the end of APRIL?’ I mean, this IS Canada. 😉
I’m with you on the water. Bloomington gets its water from the same place. It’s hard to feel clean when you’re bathing in dirty swamp water.
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Ah! The smell of dead fish in the morning! Adds to the coffee flavor, I bet. 🙂
~smooches~
Chris- Why would you want a cat-free photo?
I mean, why?
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I don’t think that it’s weird that your cats have their own email addresses. However, some may think I’m weird.
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Gah, the smell of dead fish is I believe the reason why one of the races I did in its inaugural year never returned to Boston. Tap water that smells like dead fish is right next to running near the fish docks in August for things I don’t want to experience (again).
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Hahhha. Sometimes, we seriously wonder if a perch is going to jump out of the shower head.
I believe our water company gets it out of the lake we live on. O.o
Could you get a cat-free photo if you hung the sock from the wall, maybe by the needle?
Hurrah for water filters.
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nothing is weird about your cats having their own email or the conversations…. unless of course… that means that me carrying on conversations with my pups is supposed to be weird too.. cuz they answer me, lol!!
ohhhh liking the weather or what!!!!!
can we say thank goodness hump day is here!
Eww, ewwww, ewwwww.
“Is it weirder that my cats have their own email addresses and respond to comments directed at them, or that some of you carry on conversation with my cats in email?”
Um both?
It’s going to be 60F here today which will an all-time record high. We’ve broken the records all week. But next week midweek the high will be below freezing and snow. Waaaah. Bloody mother nature.
I’ve got well water and if I forget and let my sediment filter go too long, it gets nasty.
there, i just saved you the embarrassment of asking me what it’s like when i let my sediment filter go too long
*curtsey*
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Eww, dead fish water does not sound good at all.
Enjoy the warmer weather, love the socks and Happy St Patty’s Day!
Gahhh – that ‘algae bloom’ is the worst. On my very first trip to St. Paul for work I got food poisoning and the tap water smelled like dead fish. Vomiting and smelling the tap water is something one doesn’t forget. Amazing I ever came back.
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Happy St Patrick’s Day 😀
Remind me not to taste the water of I come there
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So are Chaos and Mayhem standing at the sink, sniffing the faucet?
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Ewwwww.
Love Wren’s comment.
Love the pretty blue sock, or at least what I can see of it.
Mayhem has cute ears.
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who wants cat free pictures—not me:)
“Is it weirder that my cats have their own email addresses and respond to comments directed at them, or that some of you carry on conversation with my cats in email?”
Um, neither? And it sounds like plenty of people agree with me. This is perfectly normal.
Pretty blue sock! I’m glad it got rescued from Miss May.
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Sorry to hear about your water…I’ve always wanted to try the Brita system – do you like it?
I’ve not communicated with cats via e-mail – now I’m wondering if I’m missing out?
as long as the knitting safe i wouldn’t worry too much about kitty free pictures. Happy St Patty’s day.
We buy our drinking water here. Very high mineral content, and not good minerals (think Erin Brokovich–but supposedly naturally occuring). I’ve been told that cancer patients are told not to drink our tap water.
Pretty blue for the sock! Did you dye it yourself? Can you imagine what May would do if you had some the that feathery/ furry yarn?! The excitement might cause kitty apoplexy.
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OMG! You are so right – I did re-write the past and I did already send Janna the book. This is what I get for not sleeping and working the day job! Arrrggghhh! Sometimes our water smells like mildew. I think fish is worse. Is it carp or whitefish or pike?
So sorry about the stinky water. That’s disgusting! And no amount of lemon in your water will help, I’m sure. I remember traveling through Davenport Iowa as a kid and at many of the places there they had yellowish, stinky water. I wonder if both of your water comes from the same place?
Btw, was that your name as the co-winner over at Lisabea’s blog? If so, congrats! If not, you too have a doppelganger out there.
What is a cat-free photo? No matter who or what I take a picture of , there is always a cat in it.
Our city water is pretty nasty, too.
I’m not sure if it’s weirder that people email your cats or that you set up an email for them in the first place. I’ll have to think about that one and get back to you.
Oh gross! Your tap water smells like dead fish? ewwww! My tap water doesn’t smell like anything and I still won’t drink it! lol
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Dead fish. Sorry ’bout that. Have the cats been particularly attentive to the faucets?
Oh the weather. She is in that changeable season. Today I wear shorts (I’m warm). By this weekend it’s supposed to snow again, adding to the melt-resistant not-from-nature remnants. Yeah. You know who you are!
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All your snow is now in the Missippi River across from my office and its flooding. Not over the sidewalk yet though.
Florida water really stinks.
I like talking to your cats, I feel like they are on an equal playing level.
I need a nap.
Have you thrown away the eggs yet?
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Oh, the OTHER Janna! Personally, I just won a knitting book on another blog, which makes me very happy!
Throw out those eggs!
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Knitting lying on the floor and no cats.
Huh-uh. Isn’t going to happen.
Ever.
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Yuk, dead fish – seriously? And you use this water to wash in? Urggh.
Makes me feel less bad at the price we pay for our tap water – it is actually very clean and pure.
I bet your cats don’t complain though!
No, it is not weird that your cats have their own email addresses and no it is not weird that I enjoy getting email from Mayhem. (The first time I did, I was like huh, but maybe I’m wierd because I liked it.)
I am going to risk the wrath of the snow gods and say “HA!” – no snowstorms this March Madness!
I’m sure the cats are loving the tuna flavored drinking water today! I don’t really think its at all strange that the kitties have their own email.. after all, doesn’t Wendy’s cat (Lucy) have a Facebook page?
Frankly, I enjoy my conversations with your cats, despite Chaos’ superior attitude. 😉
Sheesh, I thought my chlorine scented tap water was bad, but it’s far preferable to blechy fish. *gag*
We get our water from the Tennessee River. There’s usually a period in the spring when the water turns over and gets a funky smell and taste.
What’s weird about about cats having email addresses and carrying on email conversations? 😉 Seriously my ferrets have made real phone calls, sent email, and signed into chat rooms. One ferret called a wildlife refuge. Even some ferrets that passed away long ago still have email addresses. To my knowledge, they’ve quit emailing though. 🙂
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The fish-flavored water is a rite of spring in Mpls, iirc. It too shall pass.
What yarn is in those socks? It looks suspiciously like the Cherry Tree Hill I used for #1 Son’s Christmas hat.
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Maybe you should move to St. Paul. I don’t recall having had stinky water there. (Then again, I lived a block away from the cathedral. *g*)
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yay – new socks!
sorry about the fishy smell. that’s disgusting.
I highly recommend the britta tap filter – seems to work better than the pitcher (yeah, I have city water issues also)
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Yes – those cats are pretty good conversationalists.
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We don’t even have fishy water but I still hail the Brita Pitcher. And since finding out I can recycle the filters I feel even better about them! 😀
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Eww. That’s a plug for bottled water.
It’s weird that you even think to bring it up. Why wouldn’t your cats have email and of course they’re going to carry on a conversation! They’ve been raised nicely. 😉
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