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Tag Archives: cat blogging

Did you send me an email about a pizza board?

If you sent me an email about a new pizza board a couple of weeks ago, please re-send it. I was trying to contact you and can’t find the email. I must have gotten overzealous cleaning out my inbox. I wish I had a better way to contact you so everyone else didn’t have to see [...]
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Friday Cat Blogging

I want to be a cat. More specifically, I want to be one of my wife’s cats. You can see how hard it is to be them. We even put out patio furniture for them — which they let us use when they aren’t lounging. Mostly why I want to be them is they don’t have [...]
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Fudge — FAIL!

This is not how fudge is supposed to look. You know, just in case you were wondering. The ingredients were right. The process was right. Just that little bit right at the end, the part where you stop cooking it when it’s done … that’s kind of important.
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Weekend Cat Blogging (no food here)

Remember Groucho? The cat who will sleep in anything? He loved the week after Christmas. There were so many boxes to sleep in. There were the board games. The clothes. And if we put all the lids back on? Well then he’d just jump into my warm spot on the couch if I got up for a drink. Really [...]
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How To Make Pork Fried Rice

It’s taken me several tries, but I finally got the fried rice down pat. I was making two mistakes, either one of which would make it not-quite-right. But together? Completely wrong, like it was a whole different, completely forgettable dish. Here, finally, is how it’s supposed to work.
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