Fri 23 Sep 2005
Posted in Friday Cat Blogging
at 3:00
From the back of the house, a chipmunk kept barking. I took the 6-month-old camcorder outside to try to find out why. All I saw was a cottontail rabbit, and I pointed the camera at it, although it wouldn’t move, which made for uneventful video.
I faded out on the rabbit and hit the Stop button. Just then, from the corner of my eye I saw something small running into our yard, and I pointed the camera at it and hit Record.
He made his way into our garden, and gave us a lean and hungry look before chewing on some rye grass.
Although he had no collar and obviously had not eaten well for some time, he was a friendly fellow, as though he had been someone’s pet.
We gave him leftover grilled chicken and milk diluted with water, and he devoured them. Next, he went to the back screen door and stood there, wanting to go inside. Curious, perhaps. And perhaps he wanted a home and was starting the process of adopting us.
We didn’t let him in that first day, and a couple of hours later, he disappeared. The next morning, he was back again, and I was glad to see him.
Pat and I had both worked as temps when we moved here in the late 1980’s, so maybe it wasn’t surprising when I began trying to come up with a name for him that this cat’s comings and goings reminded me of those days. It was as though we’d phoned a temp agency and asked them to send over a cat for the day. I began to call him our Kelly Temp Cat.
You can guess the rest. Ten years and lots of good food later, here he is, our Kelly Cat, who thanks to the Internet is known around the world as a Good Cat.
Photo taken September 22, 2005. Quite possibly The Greatest Cat Of All Time.
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Posted in Cats
at 2:57
Ginger The Cat has a blog where she’s happy to hold forth on any number of topics of interest to her. That is, as long as it’s not naptime.
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Posted in Cats
at 1:55
Combining two of my favorite things that give me Warm Fuzzies, Christopher Murphy blogs about his cats and the story of the Velveteen Rabbit.
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Thu 22 Sep 2005
Posted in Good Food
at 0:23
Since you asked (or even if you didn’t), Sunday dinner came off all right.
Well, at one point I drove to the nearest supermarket to buy another box of San Giorgio shells, because the first box stuck to the bottom of the pot.
But after we fixed that, the stuffed shells and the chocolate crumb bars made for a tasty Sunday dinner.
One thing about the chocolate crumb bars: the recipe came from VeryBestBaking.com, which accounts for the recommendations of Nestlé products like Toll House Morsels. I happily use Toll House Morsels to make Toll House cookies but for this recipe I wanted Ghirardelli Double Chocolate chips. But at Wegman’s, down in the baking aisle the label bore the bad news: “Our new, improved formulation for 60% Cocoa Bittersweet Chocolate Chips (formerly Double Chocolate)…”
Dunno how much cocoa was in the Double Chocolate chips, but according to the labels of the 2 products, the change in formulation consists of more sugar and less fat. There was still a half-bag of Double Chocolate in the pantry, so with Pat’s help I tried a blind taste test. In one trial, the subject was able to tell which was which without guessing.
I used the new ones in the chocolate crumb bars, and they taste fine. Not the same as Double Chocolate, but they’ll have to do. *Shrug.* I might even switch back next time and use Toll House Morsels.
Curse you, Ghirardelli…
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Wed 21 Sep 2005
Posted in This, that and the other
at 3:19
I’ve heard this linked quote many times, usually substituting “cat” for “dog”, but until now I never knew who said it first.
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Posted in Cats
at 2:03
Katrina did so much damage that any piece of good news is welcome. Two cats were reluctantly left behind in a New Orleans house after their owner was evacuated to a Navy base that wouldn’t take pets, but the owner wouldn’t stop trying to save them.
She found the help she needed, and now those 2 cats, named Ava Gardner and Frank Sinatra, are back with their human.
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