Category: daily drivel

  • rodentia

    The other night, B opened a kitchen drawer and discovered that the mousies in Our Humble O’Bode have been going to the trouble of climbing all the way up to the top drawers to run around on the utensils and chew on the corks. She didn’t find an actual mouse, but she did find a… Read.

  • first snow

    First snow of the season fell from the sky this morning as I was backing the car out of the garage, headed down the street to Crema to see if they could sell me a bag of coffee beans after I let our supply run out. I’m a bad coffee janitor. The snow came down… Read.

  • biscuits

    Um, okay. No biscuits. Got it. May I presume it’s okay to feed anything else to him, should I be so inclined? And does anyone know why biscuits are a no-no with him? And why it should be a matter of public knowledge? seen tacked to the bulletin board at the Willy St Co-op Read.

  • OMFG more drivel about cats?

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    Bonkers sucked all the heat out of his cat bed heater. I’m not sure how he did that. From what little I know about electricity and stuff, the juice is supposed to keep coming out of the wall socket for as long as I have the thing plugged in, but Bonkers seems to have violated… Read.

  • treat!

    About two dozen trick-or-treaters came to the door of Our Humble O’Bode this year, all of them little ones. None of the sullen teenagers who threw on their football uniforms and held out a pillow case last year returned this year, so all those sugar beets we kept handy in a bucket by the door… Read.

  • tired of bronco bama & mitt romney

    Bronco Bama and Mitt Romney make me want to cry too, Abby. Read.

  • well scuffed

    I got a very strange phone call today. While I was sipping coffee and reading the daily paper on my lunch break in the coffee shop down the street, my cell phone buzzed. The number wasn’t one I recognized, but it was in the local area code, so it wasn’t the usual telemarketer. “Hello?” I… Read.

  • how the moon lights up

    There was the most amazingly full moon visible through the front window of Our Humble O’Bode this morning. I sat and watched it set in the early-morning gloom, big and bright enough to read by, not that I was nutbrained enough to go out into twenty-degree weather to read anything. It’ll be full tonight. Maybe… Read.

  • I am so awesome

    I have been way too productive this week. Gaze upon the laundry list of my accomplishments and weep as you realize that your feeble efforts cannot compare to mine: the storm windows are finally up, so if you’re one of the Merry Little Breezes that has been blowing through the front windows of Our Humble… Read.

  • no! not the bees!

    The woman selling goodies for Honey Bee Bakery at the Monona Farmer’s Market was dressed as a giant bumble bee this morning. “Bet you can’t guess what I’m supposed to be,” she said to me as I approached her booth. “John Belushi?” I answered. If she got the reference, she didn’t let on. Honey Bee… Read.

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