Some random Minneapolis pictures… I love little towers and cupolas.
And rampant greenery.
Well, this is actually a St. Paul picture – do not turn your computers or monitors upside down in confusion. This is how I shot the picture. I’m even in the picture.
That would be Jeanne’s lovely but annoyed cat Puddinhead. Just picture yourself, outside, calling for this cat at the top of your lungs, “Puddinhead! Here, Puddinhead! Puddinhead, come home!” Hee hee.
Reading Update
Blood Lines and Night Season (The Lupi, Book 3 & 4) (plus bonus Night Season short story) by Eileen Wilks. Do not read the short story before you finish Night Season! It would be a sad thing. *sigh* The next book won’t be out until March 2009.
Born in Ice and Born in Shame (Books 2 & 3 of the Born In Trilogy) by Nora Roberts. There’s something comforting about the predictability of a Nora Roberts trilogy…
Dance Upon the Air (Three Sisters Trilogy, Book 1) by Nora Roberts. Like I was just saying…
Charmed and Enchanted (The Donovan Legacy) by Nora Roberts. If triplet wizards married triplet witches, what would the extended family be like?
High Noon by Nora Roberts. This suspenseful romance novel has crochet as a (minor) plot point!
From Dead to Worse (Southern Vampires, Book 8 ) and Dead to the World (Southern Vampires, Book 4) by Charlaine Harris. My goodness, the latest Sookie Stackhouse novel had some twists and turns to it! *blink blink* And after all that, I had to go back and reread Dead to the World, to refresh my memory.
Bitten and Smitten and Fanged and Fabulous (Immortality Bites, Book 1 & 2) by Michelle Rowen. Chick lit vampire romance set in Toronto.
Hunter’s Moon (The Sazi, Book 1) by C.T. Adams and Cathy Clamp. Maybe it was the writing style, but part of this had a very noir feeling… You can’t exactly say a book has a film noir feel – so what’s the right phrase?
Speaking of books… Remember that Romancing the Yarn contest I won? My prize turned out to be a lovely skein of Trekking in a colorway I hadn’t seen (bonus!), romance novel Just Desserts by author and knitter Barbara Bretton, magnets for her forthcoming knitting-related book Casting Spells (excellent title, isn’t it?), and a booklight. Thank you, Barbara et al!
“No, May, I think this gizmo is too heavy to steal as you race through. I’d go with the dash and dine on the yarn.” -Chaos
Have a good weekend, all – and make sure you give everyone you love an extra hug, ok?
Uh, oh! What’s up? ::: hug :::
will do! and hugs to you too…
and that building covered in greenery? Looks just like an appt building near where I grew up – in VA. crazy… 🙂
Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair. 😉
I’ll bet the green house is cool inside.
Puddinhead? What a funny kitty…he’s living up to his name.
Oh, and to you too! Hope everything is OK.
I always wanted to live in a house with a cuppola or a turret…
So…how was that picture taken? Looking at it makes me dizzy (seriously. I’m so weird.)!
I love little architectural anomalies!
So, you like Nora Roberts do you 😉
Hope all is well.
You think Puddinhead is bad 🙂
We inherited my grandfather’s cat when he passed away, it was a 30lb marmalade persian that as a kitten was named Tiddles (a more inappropriate nae I cannot think of). This cat was at best anti-social and my father refused to stand on the door set calling for “Tiddles” and have this (as he called it) great ginger bath mat stroll up, so he called him The great grotty puss or greatgrot for short.
My aunt used to have a dog named Woof. My mom worked for my aunt. Sometimes the dog would get loose and–wait for it–my mom would have to go out in the yard and yell, “Woof! Woof!”
True story. I can’t make this stuff up.
I love your walk-pictures. It makes me realize all over again how much more walking I need to do. I’m in a lovely neighbourhood, too, and it’s wasted when I’m spending all my time in my apartment.
That’s a lovely little prize package – enjoy the weekend with it!
Puddinhead. Now THAT’S a great name for a cat.
So is Puddinhead an outside cat?? That would be pretty funny! I heard about a basketball (college?) team in the 70’s that named themselves the Nads, so fans could scream Go Nads!
I used to have a cat named Conehead, but she never went outside so no yelling her name down the street.
What a great prize package!
Glad I read the comments–that story of Amy’s is priceless!
When I was a teen my folks had a male, un-neutered dog and they named him Woody. Yea, way to mess with your teenage daughters, send them out in the world yelling for the randy dog named after a male appendage. Sheesh!
(Hugs to you!)
Chris- Do you ever go by the MTM house? I am addicted to that show.
Great care must be taken when naming an outdoor cat.
the first picture… that’s a boobie
That Puddinhead a.k.a AJA is the Boo Radley’s sister and it must be hereditary because the Boo sneaks outside and we run around the neighborhood yelling BOO
Hey there, I just won the same package from Barbara, minus the book light, and have started some plain old socks with the yarn. Years ago we had a kitty named Ariel. My husband thought it was hilarious to stand on the back porch and call out, “Areola, here titty, titty.” Of course she always showed up. Luckily we had no neighbors at the time. The ivy-covered building is outrageously cool.
I used to have a black kitty named Buckwheat. In urban St. Paul. Who was an outside kitty. Nuff said.
Will digital hugs suffice? Jeanne got a real one yesterday!!
Love the turret! We have a few houses around here with them. One of the old mansions with one was turned into a very nice B&B that we stayed in once. The “honeymoon suite” has a tower that you get to via a circular staircase in the room. The entire tower is filled with a large jetted bathtub. It’s quite nice, although *ahem* the house and it’s tower are right on a very busy street in downtown SLC, and at night if you have the lights on in the tower, people on the street can see you if you’re standing up. There are only lace curtains on the windows.
My reading list keeps getting longer when I come by here. It’s not a bad thing exactly, but I’m gonna have to stop working to get all my stuff done that I want to!
I want a tower like that. I would make mine a library. =)
Have a great weekend. Still laughing at Puddinhead. You always win the greatest packages.
I love old houses. Often they have more interesting features.
That picture just fits with the name Puddinhead.
Have a great weekend!
Oooo, I want to live in the second pic!! Of course I’m going through green withdrawl as summer heats up here…
That’s a cool prize package!
yes- much too long a week. Here’s to health and going for long walks seeing pretty things 🙂 Glad you are doing okay.
btw- I finally found the Dante Valentine book you told me about – it’s so good!
((hug)) to you.
That last line sounds incredibly ominous.
;(
And can I imagine you standing on your front porch calling “Chaos! Mayhem! Come home now!!!”
????
Nope. Not without someone coming to your door to carry YOU off! *wink*
Good thing they’re indoor babies.
I’m sending you lots of (((((hugs)))))
Oh no! I’m glad it turned out to be nothing too worrisome – I’m sorry I didn’t read your post in time to send off some *specific* good wishes!
Chaos is right, Mayhem. Dine and dash w/the yarn.
I’m sensing a big magical realm theme. Oh! I read Black Magic Woman. Pretty good. I love a good quip.
Talk about cat names. We live in a highly integrated neighborhood where ALL our neighbors save one are black. Our youngest cat is a darling little magpie lady whom we thought about calling Oreo. Cooler heads prevailed when I thought about going outside in my neighborhood and calling “Here Oreo, here Oreo” Not wise, agreed? She ended up being Cookie which is much better because she does have an inclination to run out the door occassionally! Now, of course, she sometimes must answer to Cookie-Wookie and then there’s Puff the Magic Kitten who gets sung to with Puff the Magic Dragon with words changed for a kitty and Pretty Lady who gets Pretty Baby with words changed except she has run away for awhile. Hope the cyotes don’t get her or the nasty folk who are catching and givin to the pound all the cats in the neighborhood. Again.
Have fun.
Ann in Dallas, PS glad you’re O.K.
Puddinhead, that is an inspired kitty name!
Pud is so cute! I miss seeing Jeanne’s kitties so I’m glad you’re keeping us updated 🙂
love the pics from around town!!! thnx!!
and that cat is a dor a ble
the purple flowers are clematis. pronounced both cleh-MA-tis(short a like in cat)and CLEH-mih-tis. pretty.