Our cat Malcolm, age 17 1/2, enjoys being vacuumed, although he’s a bit camera-shy here. (My son is wielding the vacuum here.) Usually, he rolls around in ecstasy (seen briefly in the video), making sure every part gets vacuumed. He often presents his head to make sure his cheeks are groomed. When much younger, Malcolm would dash [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Humor’
November 5, 2009
It’s Grand!
We made a detour to the Grand Canyon on our drive home in September from California (Yes, I’ll be wringing posts out of that trip for some time to come!) It was well worth the four hours’ deviation from our dash (just ask a certain highway patrolman in New Mexico) back to Kansas City, even though we’d visited the [...]
November 2, 2009
Farmville on Facebook
I signed up for Facebook a few years ago to see what my children were doing at college. Yes, that sounds like spying…. Instant Messenger, MySpace, Facebook. They signed up, I signed up. (They weren’t sneaky enough to keep it a secret.) As soon as they moved on — it took me a while to catch [...]
October 25, 2009
Ode to a McIntosh Apple
I grasp your smooth curves eagerly between my trembling fingers. Your skin is so brilliantly green, blushed with bright red.
You minx, how you tease me with your beauty, with the promise of your juicy sweetness. Are you ripe? I hold you to my lips. My teeth bite into your firm white flesh. I taste tartness, yet sugar melts [...]
September 27, 2009
A Greeting Card For Every (Ridiculous) Occasion!
As a fledgling greeting card designer, I thought this was an hilarious video. The end was particularly silly!
August 26, 2009
Happy Anniversary, Shuttlecocks!
Fifteen years ago, four giant shuttlecocks landed on the grounds of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri. Designed by sculptors Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, the shuttlecocks received a mixed reception when they were first installed, but now they’ve become Kansas City icons. They add a whimsical touch to the classical exterior [...]
August 18, 2009
Gone to California….
It’s getting awful lonely around here. Everyone is moving to California. First Paddington, then Laura and Ryan.
Paddington, an awesome cat with a big personality, spent one wonderful year with us before his owner Cynthia claimed him in June. Now he’s living in San Francisco. Laura and Ryan have moved farther south to Huntington Beach, Surf City USA.
Some of you may already [...]
July 29, 2009
Woodstock — Forty Years Ago? Wow….
My friend Kathy and I took a photography class in a Wichita, Kansas, high school during the summer of 1969. Mark, one of the other students, told us about an outdoor three-day music concert he was going to in New York state after the end of classes. He was sketchy on the details, but it sounded like they’d [...]
