This weekend Sunday was pizza day. And man does Gari like this day. She helps make the dough (we make it from scratch) and she helps check the pizza sauce (made from scratch as well - with garden fresh tomatos) and she helps check the freshness of all the toppings.

Our pizzas are pretty much vegetarian in nature (with the cheese used for the topping as the only animal fat). So toppings include garden fresh peppers, Brocolli (we don't grow it - so it comes from the store), home...

Last Friday night we had a party.

We don't really have loud music, drinking and dancing parties at my place. Our parties are usually somewhat sedate affairs where our friends and their families come over and we watch movies with the kids and all the adults sit around the table, drink wine and beer... And eat...

Gari loves a party!!

There is so much company (we usually have about 12-16 friends and family over) and food that she can hardly decide what...

Outside the temperature is dropping to 11 degrees overnight (or about 52 degrees Fahrenheit).

With the change in temperature comes a major moult. And Gari is really itchy, somewhat crabby and maybe a bit confused.

I'm picking up feathers from all corners of the house. It is funny to think that sucha small bird (weighing in at a full 60 grams) can produce soooo many feathers and still look completely covered in feathers. Along with the hair from the dogs and cat we...

Well - it is the first day back to school on Tuesday, September 8, 2009 and a proposed "Animals on Campus" policy has not yet come into being.

As usual, whenever there is a complaint or an issue in an organization the first response of administrative-type people is to stop or restrict the activity. Never, it seems to me, is the first thought, "how can we get people to work together on this issue?" Or, "how can we train people to deal with this issue?"...

I've been working on my deck. Redoing the flooring and putting up new aluminum railing. The old wood railing was starting to rot at the bottom and rather than wait until there were problems I thought I would do it now.

When I'm outside on the deck I leave the door open but close the screen door between the house and the deck. During the demolition of the deck railing and pulling up of the old carpet decking, Gari would fly to the screen door and perch on one of the supporting slats...