animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 

the dogs

Alice had the growth on her lip removed today. She’s faring well enough, though is pretty groggy at the moment. I’m sure she’ll be doing much better tomorrow. Buster is still a maniac. We’ll be upping his Prozac on Saturday, so I’m hopeful things will start to improve after that. …

cheese marvelous cheese

I’m attempting the cheese thing again this year. I say “attempting” because I haven’t been overly impressed with my previous attempts. Yesterday, I made parmesan cheese. I tried doing the same thing last year, but parmesan is supposed to age without wax and mine got all moldy and was rendered …

prozac: day 1

Buster started taking Prozac today. It’s going to take a couple of weeks to build up his dosage so we probably won’t be able to tell if it’s working for a bit. He was kind of a pain in the neck this past week (when he was on a very …

frankenstein: prodigal son

This was a book written jointly by Dean Koontz and Kevin J. Anderson. I was a little wary at first given my disdain for the co-written James Patterson novels, but I was pleasantly surprised to find the novel very Koontz-ish. That said, there was nothing new going on in this …

the end is nigh

The end of winter, that is. I just worked out my 2014 gardening schedule and things kick off on March 10, which is mere weeks away (granted, the gardening events will be taking place inside the house, but gardening is gardening). Take that, snow.