Membership apps to this site: READ.

I’m about to purge the whole list of applicants, most of whom are Russian bots, but—if you’re real and want in, all you have to do is drop me an e-mail (addy is available on this page) and tell me you’re not a bot and say hi. Not a real...

We are beginning to let kitties meet…

And after several bouts, we have discovered Sentry ‘calming collars,’ which offer some promise. They are loaded with Feliway-stuff. At least Tanner is less hysterical about his basement steps howl-a-thon, and the other two seem to be quieter in...

Pruning the apple tree…

The book said prune in fall or spring, and spring didn’t work. So this time I’m trimming in fall, and cutting it back until it looks like an Angry Orchard poster. It gave us 2 good apples. But it’s right near our Japanese maple, it’s an...