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Ode to Scooter the Cat

Scooter, sleeping in the old milk box on the porch at Jeff and Vi’s

Sad news today, Scooter, aka Booger, has died.
Approximately 13 years ago, I found him wandering in my parents cul-de-sac, sneezing with some type of kitty cold, thus the name “Booger”. The neighbors said he’d been there about two weeks and [...]

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Cook’s Country Magazine

Free to a good home!
Chris already subscribed me to this magazine and we received a Free Copy at Powell’s while hearing and meeting with Jack Bishop from the Test Kitchen’s.
Who wants it?
Leave a comment by the end of this week and I will announce a winner by the end of next week!

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The New Test Kitchen Cookbook

Last Night Chris and I went to Powell’s (and joined a couple hundred other people) to hear Jack Bishop from America’s Test KitchensTasting Lab,  share and introduce their new cookbooks.
He told us funny stories about how the Test Kitchen’s work and the tricks he pulls on Christopher Kimball. Like how he hid hot sauce [...]

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Milly on the back porch

This is one of Jeff’s kitties, Milly.

Milly is short for Millennium because she was born in the year 2000 and because Mazda also made a car called the Millennia that same year.   Years ago when I had lived there, I had rescued an all black kitty and named her Miata, after the Mazda sports [...]

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Pears on the ground

Jeff’s place has a pear tree too!
Isn’t the pear shape so voluptuous?

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Apples on the ground

Apples are everywhere at Jeff’s with two apple trees going wild.

I saw one fall to the right of me with a big “thunk”.   The most photo editing I did with my pix was to crop a few.   That was it, sunlight and nature did the rest for me.

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Apples in the tree

Isn’t this gorgeous!
I took the camera over to Jeff’s again and wandered around the yard snapping various autumnal pix.
Everywhere you look it is beautiful, and I think, “who needs to arrange anything for a pix when it looks like this?”

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Dexter at the fence

bending over, blindly snapping pix, calling out Dexter’s name, hoping one of these pix turns out…
of course they are upside down!  its a good thing I have photo editing tools!
because it would look like these

instead of these

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Dexter’s been Kinneared!

Just when I was wondering if the cats used the spot Chris cut out for them in the fence going to the pond…
well, now we know, and in case you didn’t know what Kinneared or Kinnearing is go read this post by the inventor of Kinnearing herself, the Yarn Harlot.

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