FETCH!

Cali plays fetch with me.  All I need is a wad of newspaper.  Fuck the rest of the cat toys; all she wants is newspaper.
She’ll chase it around, then bring it back to me, even plopping it right into one of my hands, rather than by my feet.
The last time I saw this kitty behavior [...]

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It Stinks In Here

The entire upstairs of my house smells like vanilla coca-cola.  It’s not a bad scent, but if I didn’t have the windows open, it could be overwhelming.
It’s the Stanhopea oculata that’s responsible for the smell.
The good news is that it overpowers the kitty litterbox smell.  Yes, I clean those every day, but around dinnertime, they [...]

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Cali

I simply can’t resist posting this photo.  She’s already taken over the house, and is bossing her big sister around.  Cali is three, but she’s just a half-pint, underneath all that fur.  If she weighs more than 7 lbs., I’d be surprised.
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Updated Orchids 2009 Gallery

I’ve added eight new orchid pictures to my Orchids 2009 gallery.  They’re the ones toward the end of the page, starting with Neofinetia-falcata-1.
Neofinetia falcata is a miniature vandaceous orchid, sweetly scented, although the scent is more obvious at night than during the day.  Stanhopea oculata is a rather large plant, that blooms out of the [...]

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Mikkake Is Overjoyed

Phailbin starts another thread full of fail at SL.

I had no idea who Mercedes Lackey is – I don’t read that much Fantasy – but she doesn’t like the first ten pages of my Silverthought Press (New York) novel “Bukkakeworld”.
Yes, Fantasy. Mercedes Lackey is a MASSIVE AUTHOR of fantasy novels. She writes them by the [...]

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