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I dreamed that Heidi came home, her fur faded from age — she looked like the pictures of her on the telephone poles, faded from rain.

It’s very sad to play an ocarina and not summon a golden-eyed, ghost-faced, calico cat.

* fliers
* tape
* staples (once you’ve upgraded from packing tape to a brand new staple gun)
* energy (for asking strangers if they’ve seen the cat and then talking with them about how you miss her)
* breath (for playing the ocarina she loves) Continue reading “Things you can run out of while looking for your missing cat:”

‘Tickle One,’ noun, synonym for ‘cat’ in Wesley-speak. Usage: “That’s a tickle one!” (best said while pointing at a cat)

The two-year-old has been walking around with a backpack all day. I asked him what was in it, so he proudly unpacked: plastic food, the book eight-year-old’s been reading, a plate, and the TV/DVD remotes.

“Basically, writing speculative fiction is all about hanging lampshades on porcupines.” — Daniel Lowd

Wesley has been inspecting all of our ears to see if bees live in them.

Elaine is doing the tango with a pillow. Now she claims she’s going to turn the pillow into a duck — by throwing it and shouting, “quack, quack, quack!”

I wish I could train the dogs to clean the house and the cats to cook.

The advantage of a semi-broken camera: I get a shiny new camera, but the old one still works well enough to hand it to Elaine and say, “Go, have fun!”

Right now, she’s filming herself chanting about how much she loves pizza.

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“The most important rule of tree climbing is “have fun.” If you’re not having fun, get out of that tree! Unless there’s a unicorn stuck at the top. Then you have to help that unicorn, even if it isn’t fun.” — Elaine