I have a real fascination with Rube Goldberg machines.  I don’t have the right sort of brain to come up with them, but I love them.  When I was out visiting Marie and her family, and her kids were playing with their Mousetrap game (as opposed to playing Mousetrap, which is a very different thing), […]

A cat playing a theremin.  God, but there are some days I just love the Internet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ONJfp95yoE

My favorite bit may be the end, though watching the moments when the instrumentalist plans his next move are pretty fabulous also.

1. Thank you, Marilee, for being the first contributor to the Poplar Springs 5k fund! Her donation coincided with a particularly fortuitous afternoon’s snaps of the Smith household animals, so here’s a photographic “thank you” from those worthies:

2. Thanks to: a.) the fact that my husband actually reads the Birchmere’s occasional missives, b.) my […]

So the running thing is going pretty well.  I’m as surprised as anyone.  Probably more surprised, to own the truth.  With that, I decided to seek out a little 5K “fun run” and found one that is perfect for me - the Poplar Springs “Run for the Animals,” in support of a local sanctuary for […]

Remember “Wake Up Cat“?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rb8aOzy9t4

Yeah.

…but MAN, the resemblance is scary (no, we’ve never even tried to put any of our cats on a leash).

The problem, it was OUTSIDE.
I got a blog visitor for the previous post from Tamil Nadu, India, linked through Buzzmetrics “Threat Tracking.”  They even outsource their paranoia.

We have had three different visits from Comcast techs since late November.  Three.  Two to the insides of our house, which of course requires one of us to wait around during “normal business hours” (read: when we really should be elsewhere) chained to the house so we can let a guy stomp around, twiddle wires, […]

Oh, I’m so proud.*  My hometown made the big-city newspaper. 
This is why Northern Exposure, in all its loony, small-town glory made perfect sense to me.
*You do see the correct use of sarcastic font, don’t you?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG-0_p_yefg

This thing would send me screaming from the room.  Damn you, Children’s Television Workshop!