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A kitty with no hair...

2/11/2024

I have been a rabid cat lover for years!  I had my first cat in 1984 and the rest is history!  I had met a sphynx about 15 years ago at a cat show and was intrigued.  I decided I'd see if I could have one join our family.  The day came on February 10, 2024, and she has named herself Lila.

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Crafts n' such

2/1/2024

Crafty me...I love to work with my hands to make stuff (other than code).  I discovered this way of crocheting that creates pictures via a graph.  It really appeals to me - I have made 2 afghans with a cat motif, and now I'm making a couple of scarves. 

 

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A Sure-Fire January Pick Me Up

1/11/2024

I have written several articles in the past on this site about how January is "abysmal, depressing, soul sucking" etc.  Well, maybe I never said soul sucking - but I felt that way.  It's hard to get into January after the holiday stuff - it's like a 180 from the preceding couple of months...I found a way to make it more bearable and thought I'd share.

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Happy New Year

1/2/2024

Although I no longer partake in potable potents, I still make menudo on New Year's Eve/Day.  I made a smaller batch this year, but I don't think it's possible to truly do that.  I still wound up with 5 quarts, going right into the freezer!  It's symbolic as we can eat it at the start of, gasp, 2025, as it freezes well and came out very good.

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Tortoni Presentation

12/23/2023

This is a frozen dessert that my mom made for years and years each Christmas.  She used to present it into a tree shaped mold and decorate it.  I had been serving it in festive muffin wrappers...and then I thought of this.

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Going into Christmas

12/19/2023

Hard to believe it's already Christmas within a week...I still have little notes from last Christmas Day on my refrigerator so I wouldn't forget certain things - cinnamon pears...rolls...seems like it was just a couple of months ago, but no.  It was almost a year ago!

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...when what to my wondering eyes should appear?

11/24/2023

Yes, it's happened again.  I got the bug to ride a couple of weeks ago while riding with my sister in her 300zx on roads I used to ride often...I knew them well...the bug bit.  But affordability was looking bad...impossibly bad...but then the universe took over!

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Daylight Savings Time....still?

11/10/2023

WHY are we still setting our clocks?  According to a recent article I read, we voted Daylight Savings to be discontinued - back in 2018.  Yet, we are here 5 years later....waiting and still going through the agony of an hour.  Doesn't sound like much, but it is.

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November already!

11/1/2023

Hard to believe it's November already!  It's been quite a year...just yesterday, it seems, I was getting 'tendon debridement' on my achilles.  That was in early August.  I've been working from home since then, going back next Monday.  Wow.  It seems like an eternity since August but then again, it doesn't.

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We Have Ignition....

10/20/2023

It's here!  The new site is live!  I'm still tweaking here and there - it had a starry background that was hard for me to let go of, and it looked dated, so I pulled out some stops and decided on a solid color, #0b68e1 to be exact.  Ironed out a nasty bug that had me perplexed this morning - and I'm sure I'll find more!

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