janavar

Of the last six weekends, I spent only two at home. One of them being this. While I was still a little active and social yesterday, e.g. we met friends for lunch and I accompanied my boyfriend to the train station, I needed a lazy, quiet Sunday today. A day for cuddling with the cat […]

I really like Facebook’s memory feature because it reminds me daily of many happy events. This morning for instance it showed to me that exactly seven years ago I adopted Canavar – at the time he was a scrawny little cat that usually avoided contact with human beings. When I met him, he immediately jumped […]

It is just after eight in the morning and I am sitting at the kitchen table in a more than 200 year old house in Maine. Today is Labor Day, i.e. we have the Monday off and a lovely long weekend. I am surrounded by memories from the last at least 100 years. There are […]

I always considered myself a huge summer lover, but this year I begin to find summer annoying. Or maybe not summer, but this summer. It just never seems to stop. One heat wave chases another. Besides, it is always humid. Since we don’t have an air conditioner, Canavar mainly lies on his back putting his […]

Today is my last day of summer vacation. It is a little sad when I think about how time flies. But I also had a great summer – maybe not so much on the first weekend when I moved and the moving company didn’t show up, but definitely afterwards. I spent time at home with […]