Tim and Jen Live Here

When a kitten decides at four in the morning to curl up on your face and purr loud enough to wake the dead, it’s really quite cute. It’s also really quite detrimental to both breathing and sleeping. I always value breathing higher than cute, and at four in the morning, I value sleeping higher than [...]

It never occurred to me when I signed up for Twitter that it would be good practice in brevity, but it’s amazing. You get 140 characters, punctuation and spaces included, to say your piece. It’s impressive what you can trim after the “first draft” if you must.
Tonight I typed “I’ve had the same feelings about” [...]

Cat-owning knitters often complain of feline interference. I submit that quilting (by hand) around cats presents similar challenges only with a sharper needle. A little blood never hurt a quilt, right?

I will be back soon with a report of our trip to Orlando, but in the meantime, we’re watching TV that recorded while we were gone. SNL made me think of differences in senses of humor.
I about died laughing at the story of the girl who was attacked by the shark in Australia. Not because [...]

It’s 8 degrees here right now, headed toward roughly -3 overnight. That’s cold.
Given that, could we have picked a better time to head to Orlando for a few days? Sure, it’s only going to be 60-65 there during the day, getting down to 35-40 at night. But really, we’re talking minimum 40 degrees warmer than [...]