Ali is having another Summer Knitting Goals Contest this year! Post your goals and leave Ali a comment with the link to your goals by midnight CDT, June 20, if you’d like to be entered in a drawing to win enough Blue Sky Alpacas Skinny Dyed Cotton to make a cute short-sleeved sweater. You know I’m not doing this one, right, Marina? Because the minute I make a list of goals, I’m destined to not accomplish any of them.
If you’re interested in winning a Stuff on My Cat prize package, follow the contest rules and enter by June 15.
Reading Update
Industrial Magic, Haunted, Broken, and No Humans Involved (Women of the Otherworld, Books 4-7) by Kelley Armstrong. This is a really, really good paranormal series. Highly recommended.
On the Prowl. Last time I simply read the short story by Patricia Briggs (highly recommended for fans of her Mercy Thompson series, since it sounds like the short story in this book is a prequel to Briggs’ next novel). This time, I also read and enjoyed the stories by Eileen Wilks and Karen Chance. Couldn’t get into the story by “Sunny.”
Dark Need and Night Lost (The Darkyn, Books 3-4) by Lynn Viehl. Still not completely sure about this series. I keep reading ’em, but I’m not totally into them.
Blood Brothers (Sign of the Seven Trilogy, Book 1) by Nora Roberts. Each of Roberts’ trilogies, including this one, is somewhat formulaic – but she’s a good writer, so I keep reading.
The Scot, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Accidental Witch Trilogy, Book 3) by Annette Blair. While the two previous books in this trilogy were cute and fluffy, this one was was so clichéd that it was painful to read. This and the next book (Sex and the Psychic Witch (Triplet Witch Trilogy, Book 1) read as if they were written by a completely different author than the first books.
“Sheesh, enough with the thunder and lightning and wind and hail and rain! My nerves are shot.” -Mayhem
Here’s hoping for a fun and storm free weekend for everyone!
😉 The trick is to underestimate what you’ll do!
We had all those and a “weak tornado”, a few miles away.
Poor May!! Pepper sends her full sympathies but sadly we have no recommendations
Poor baby. I tried a homeopathic remedy with my previous dog… it worked well at least once. I think it was Phosphorus (lightning=phosphorus)?
Poor May. Moxie says he’s a scardy cat er dog, too.
I have heard that you can wipe the frightened cat or dog with a dryer sheet and it helps. Part of the reason they don’t like the storms is the static electricity in their fur. HTH.
Poor Mayhem! My Capricha gets really low to the floor at the first rumble of thunder and slinks under the bed to hide. Good ol’ preservation instincts, I suppose.
Poor May! I know, Atticus was a puddle of goo overnight, thanks to those storms moving our way too.
I hear you , May; too much rain here lately, too.
How is Neatnik’s class going to manage a beach party today? I ask you.
Yeah well, you try telling Holli it’s safe to come out of the basemet now after two nights of thunder….she’s such a wimp!
Well, May, thunder and lightning are better than 97º and muggy. I’d prefer a stormy weekend if you’ve got one to trade.
poor May, i’ll do my anti-rain dance for you
Poor May May – that sort of weather is not at all nice for cats.
…me! Gallileo, Gallileo Figaro!
Yea this is Minnesota Spring weather on steroids, huh? Poor May!
why is it I’m having a Waynes World flashback……
If I joined the goal for summer I would get nothing done either. I love watching thunder and lightening storms
Poor Mayhem… she looks totally frazzled in that photo – better give her a box to hide in (grin)
Mama Mia, let me go;-)
gee…thanks for putting that song in my head….
Now I’m going to have that song in my head all day.
We have been obsessively checking the long-term forecast because we are heading to the North Shore to go camping this weekend. Should be nice by Monday — isn’t that always the way?
We had quite a storm last night, too – I sat on the sun porch and watched the lightning.
I have a reading update, too! I finished Trader last night (finally)!
LOL! That’s exactly how I look during a thunderstorm!
PS – Thanks for getting that song stuck in my head!
I hate it when a series makes a drastic switch!
I think ‘Industrial Magic’ is my favorite of that series. But ‘No Humans Involved’ comes in a close second.
Poor May. She does rather look like she has only one non-frayed nerve left.
Thanks for the “earworm”.. I’ve now got that song firmly implanted in my brain for the rest of the day at least.
Ahhh… thunderstorms. That’s one of the things I miss most about living in the Mojave desert. At least if I was in the Sonoran, I’d get storms. Oh. Wait. Humidity. ICK! 😀 Happy Weekend.
I’m with May — I hate storms, although for me, it’s not so much the thunder and lightning as the wind and tornadoes.
Knitting goals just seem all wrong somehow. Knitting is supposed to be FUN.
“Very, very frightening.” But I love ’em. Java on the other hand does not.
::off to hum some more::
Oh Poor May! Look at those ears.
We had a HUGE thunderstorm last night. The thunder was so loud I thought the lightning was in my front yard! Woke me up out of a sound sleep. Which would have happened anyways since the kitties came piling onto the bed to huddle under the covers with the hubby and me. Like it wasn’t hot and sticky enough last night….wait, that sounded wrong. Umm, it was very muggy last night. There. That’s better!
For once we missed out on the storm fun.
No way am I listing my goals. It’s the kiss of death. I won’t accomplish anything all summer.
Sounds like Mayhem needs a fortress. My Manny likes to hide under the dining table during storms.
(Oh, Nicole linked to you on her blog, and that’s how I found you.)
Have a lovely day! 🙂
Oh, what a tragic expression! Did you try out the dryer sheet trick?
Poor kitty! Have either of your furry roommates ever been featured in SOMC? I had a former kitty (now deceased) shown in a picture with my youngest daughter once. We felt like celebrities.
http://www.stuffonmycat.com/index.php?itemid=3055
I find under the covers on the bed to be the best place to hide, May…
I never noticed that May had a little white patch on her chest! Tres chic, May! That reminds me… need to add litter to the shopping list. Thanks for the reminder!
Poor kitties! We haven’t really had a storm since we got the new girls, but I have a feeling they will be fine, and Tm will be under the bed. Hope May gets a quiet day today!