Forgot the Camera

Too hot and tired to come up with anything to post.

Dianthus

My long-suffering pinks have flowered in the same container for about six years now.

Perfection

Alpaca Yarn

Yummy hand-dyed baby alpaca yarn is luring me back to the knitting needles.

Wayne County Ohio Sheep and Goat Show and Sale

Tunis sheep await judging.



Cute li'l angora goat.



The grass is always greener...

Did You Know?

Cleveland has, on average, 97 partly cloudy and 202 cloudy days a year.

Source

Before and After

Preparing to be away from the desk for some days. (Preparation included taming of mane.) Back in a few.

On Birdshit

"Everyone knows that's a sign of good luck," according to Deputy White House Press Secretary Dana Perino.

And when ravens pluck out your eyeballs, it's because the Morrighan wuvs you.

Sad Spam

You did get your solitude registration in on time, yes?

Mixed Baby Greens

If you've ever grown your own salad, you know how good this is.

Tender Young Sprouts

Vegetable starts, herbs, and ferns at Fresh Seasons Market.

Wanna Go?

Saw this sign in Leamington, Ontario, on the way to Point Pelee this morning.

More photos on Flickr, including green heron, honey locust, and Big Itchy.

Started Out as Soup

Intended to make a barley, bean, and mushroom soup, but I overcooked the beans and it became a sort of stew. Accompanied a small steak nicely.

Make-Up Post

Here's a pretty flowering chestnut tree to make up for the post missed earlier in the week.

Road Closed

Ah, orange barrel season in Ann Arbor. You can't get there from here.

Friday Cat Blogging

So ready to crash this weekend...

Pepperoni Butt

Probably no worse for a body than a regular pepperoni slice, but I still peeled it off and put it in the trash for looking too much like a sphincter to eat.

Front Comin' Through

Cat hiding under bed.

Tulips

"You cannot grow tulips from zucchini seeds, or peace from murder."

-- Anne Lamott

Cardinal

acting like a robin.

Because Ann Arbor Needed Another Place to Get Coffee

Enjoying the weather with newly-minted Lawyer P. at the newly-opened Primo Coffee on Liberty.

Welcome to Tropical Michigan

Already 78° and 60% humidity in my apartment.

So I made the cat a mojito.

She wanted fun twisty straws, but after wandering the aisles of Kroger for 15 minutes listening to the Strangest Song I Have Heard in a Grocery Store (Don McLean's "Vincent," which replaces "Poison Ivy," heard in a Big Bear in Columbus, as Strangest Song I Have Heard in a Grocery Store) I settled for the merely bendy straws.

My Brother's Guitar

Which my family brought out to me on the recent visit.

First step: tune it. Gabriela I am not.

Meet My Daemon

According to a movie promotion site.
Add Chimp to my Cat, Owl, and Turtle totems.

Lily-of-the-Valley

Something to "Myeh" About

Highest zoom setting + no tripod = blurry catbird portrait

Sixty-four species seen or heard on today's oHIo Alliterative Birding Tour (Crane Creek, Magee Marsh, Oak Openings):

Double-Crested Cormorant, Great Blue Heron, Great Egret, Snowy Egret, Canada Goose, swan spp., Northern Shoveler, Ruddy Duck, Bald Eagle, Red-Tailed Hawk, American Kestrel, Turkey Vulture, American Coot, Kildeer, Lesser Yellowlegs, Least Sandpiper, Pectoral Sandpiper, Dunlin, gull spp., tern spp, Mourning Dove, Eastern Screech Owl, Downy Woodpecker, Eastern Kingbird, Blue-Headed Vireo, Warbling Vireo, Blue Jay, Tree Swallow, Tufted Titmouse, House Wren, Ruby-Crowned Kinglet, Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher, Eastern Bluebird, Hermit Thrush, American Robin, Gray Catbird, Northern Mockingbird, Brown Thrasher, European Starling, Nashville Warbler, Yellow Warbler, Chestnut-Sided Warbler, Magnolia Warbler, Cape May Warbler, Black-Throated Blue Warbler, Yellow-Rumped Warbler, Black-Throated Green Warbler, Palm Warbler, Black and White Warbler, American Redstart, Ovenbird, Northern Waterthrush, Common Yellowthroat, Eastern Towhee, Chipping Sparrow, Lark Sparrow, White-Throated Sparrow, White-Crowned Sparrow, Northern Cardinal, Red-Winged Blackbird, Rusty Blackbird, Common Grackle, Baltimore Oriole, American Goldfinch.

D. - I don't remember any crows, which seems odd. Did you see any crows?

Sturnus vulgaris

In Which I Serendipitously Discover Law School P.'s Middle Name

While leading visiting family members on a rather longish walk through Nichols Arboretum, I discovered that I needed to pee so intensely that I briefly considered ducking behind #32, Black Walnut. As Dad piloted the car back to the center of town, he slowed and said, "That campus building's open. Want to get out here?" Yes. I did.

I was out of the car before I realized it was Hill Auditorium. I walked in as the "Star Spangled Banner" was playing. Some event was underway, and I clearly didn't have a ticket to get in. An usher handed me a program and whispered, "There's seating available in the balcony." "Thank you," I whispered back and made a beeline to the restroom on the left.

As soon as I was more, er, comfortable, I actually looked at the program and saw it was Senior Day for the law school. Hey - I know a law school graduate - Law School P.! I flipped to the list of Candidates for Juris Doctor Degree, and there he was. Oh, his middle name's N.! Tee-hee!

I'll call you tomorrow P., I thought, as I stepped out the side door and resumed familial obligations.

Spring Fragrance

Until the Smellovision is invented, I can't blog the fragrance, so the image will have to evoke it for you.

None of the Trash Visible in this Picture is Mine

Dear neighbors,

It really wouldn't be any skin off my nose to take my daily VitaminWater bottle out to the curb and discover you've stuffed my recycling bin with coffee cans and Reddi-Whip cylinders, except that I'm kind of concerned that you might've put a #5 plastic container in there, because the city only takes #1 and #2, and if there is a #5 plastic container in there, the san man won't just happily toss it on the garbage truck, but your #5 plastic container will end up left behind in my recycling bin, at the edge of my yard, with a big fluorescent pink sticker on it declaring to all who pass by that the City of Ann Arbor Does Not Accept #5 Plastic Containers, shame shame shame on me, and then your trash becomes my trash, for me to dispose of.

Please get your own recycling bin. They're free fer cryin' out loud.

Yrs very truly,
Kimmijo

Vinology

Guess This Beer

This is one I usually slug from the bottle, so I was surprised when it poured such a creamy (though quickly dissipating) head.

I hadn't logged into BeerAdvocate for a while, and when I did today, I saw I had missed this important e-mail:

Happy Repeal of Prohibition!
Sent: Sat Apr 07, 2007 15:33 UTC (3 weeks ago)
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On April 7, 1933 prohibition was finally repealed and BEER was the first legal alcoholic beverage to start flowing again in the US; well at least 3.2 beer was flowing.