Recent Comments

1. about 15 hours ago on Breaking Cat News

   I never have been able to figure out why you have to “discard” some of the sourdough when you feed it. I’ve got a culture in the fridge (we call it “the alien”, as in “time to feed the alien”) that’s 3-4 years old, and I take some out when I’m going to make bread, feed both the stuff in the bread bowl and the stuff left in the crock, and put the crock back in the fridge the next day, and it seems fine.

   I encourage it whenever I feed it, with “Hefesraum! Saursraum! Invade! Assimilate! Reproduce! Conquer!”

2. about 15 hours ago on Breaking Cat News

   Our woven pot holders are just the right size to fit between the burners and have mason jars set on them while I’m canning. All our other pot holders are too big, and would be set on fire because canning uses every burner.

3. 5 days ago on Heart of the City

   We are dogs’ Santas!

4. 5 days ago on Heart of the City

   Well, that won’t work. They just sewed the two sides of his sleeve together.

   If you need to sew a patch on a tube (sleeve, or pants leg), you need to slip it over a free-arm, to sew only the side you want.

5. 8 days ago on Breaking Cat News

   If nitroglycerin made the symptoms go away, it was probably a spasm of a blood vessel — angina.

6. 8 days ago on Breaking Cat News

   If you possibly can, wait until after Christmas. (I know! Impatience!) There are just so many things dangerous for a new kitty — poinsettia, ribbons, tape, light strings, breakable ornaments, extra people clomping around stepping on things and leaving the door open so a scared kitty can run out…

   After Christmas you’ll have more time to sit quietly and let the kitty(ies) get to know you and their new space.

7. 8 days ago on Breaking Cat News

   Even cricket?

8. 9 days ago on Breaking Cat News

   Remember Lupin got in the shower; he doesn’t mind water. (He’s nuts, for a cat!)

9. 10 days ago on Breaking Cat News

   I’ll bet that in the scene in Star Wars 3 (Revenge of the Sith) where Amidala names her twins before she dies, there’s an outtake where she says, “Luke…. Laura… (gasp,thud)”

10. 11 days ago on Breaking Cat News

    Every time we refill our fountain we pull the filters and clean them. There’s a simple plastic one between the bowl and the pump that just needs a rinse to get the cat hairs out, and the charcoal one inside that needs to be backflushed with hot water to remove the ewwww slime. Once a month I’ll take the thing completely apart, clean the slime from every surface, replace the charcoal filter, and run sodium perchlorate through it before I rinse and refill.

    Every time I do that, I think of making an Amazon video review complaining about all the places where the slime hides and is impossible to get all of it, so it feeds the next slime ecosystem. How the heck are you supposed to clean 30 degree corners, 1/2 inch spaces between walls, and tiny (I mean, 1/8 inch diameter) hollow tubes?