We are renovating our kitchen – so the official inspectors showed up to check out the new sink.
Posts Tagged ‘animals’
What am I sappy cat blogging?
September 11, 2015It turns out that Frank Lloyd Wright did not limit his designs to buildings for people. The Feline Historical Museum in Alliance, Ohio has a cat house designed by Wright for one of his clients. Included in the exhibit are FLW’s blueprints for the project.
Who knew there was a Feline Historical Museum?
There is more to the story at Hauspanther.
What am I sappy eagle blogging?
August 21, 2015I heard a story on NPR recently about how observation drones employed to observe wildlife raise the heart rates of the animals they are observing.
In the case of the story, black bears in the wild. The take-home message was that the drones interfere with the health and well-being of the critters.
The bears that the drones were being tested on had previously been caught, anesthetized, radio-tagged, and had heart rate monitors surgically implanted.
I wonder how those interventions affected their heart rate. Hmmm?
Anyway, this is what an eagle thinks of the drones.
How do I feel about going to the dentist?
August 17, 2015
What am I sappy spider blogging?
August 14, 2015This little spider puts his heart into his dancing – all for the benefit of the little brown female seen at the end of the video. The colorful fellow is M. personatus, or Blueface peacock spider. Jurgen Otto is a spider and mite biologist from Australia who is interested in creatures such as the peacock spider, from a scientific perspective as well as for its entertaining dancing.
John Travolta, eat your heart out. “Unh, unh, unh, unh . . . ”
What am I reading?
July 27, 2015
The stereotypical knitter is a granny with a cat at her feet who sits by the fire knitting mittens for her grandchildren. Throughout history, however, men dominated the craft and it is only recently that knitting has been thought of as the province of women.
Here is a (totally factual) story from Huffington Post that talks about the history of men and knitting:
“About 200 A.D., Arabian men were fishing for food but they had no way to catch several fish at once. They caught one fish. Then a second fish. And it was like, Geeze, this is slow as a camel. Then one day, perhaps down by the dock, one of the guys was messing with yarn, forming loops in it, and bam! Fishing net. (Other cultures likely invented knitting elsewhere around the world.)
They stuck the net it in the water and caught a boatload of fish. And someone said, “We just invented the fishing net.” And someone else said, “Let’s invent sweaters.”
Then the Middle Ages came and knitting spread like the plague. There were knitting guilds, which were labor unions–and again this is men we’re talking about. The guild’s head honcho would say, “Join us. We’ll protect your income. We’ll give you insurance. We’ll give you benefits. If your wife dies, we’ll help you with the funeral ceremony.” Nice stuff like that.”
Fast forward to 1972 when Dave Fougner thought it was time to bring men back to knitting and The Manly Art of Knitting was published. This book has been revived by Ginko Press. You too can follow along with the book’s directions for knitting saddle blankets and dog beds. Good stuff.
What am I sappy polar bear blogging?
July 24, 2015
Kaktovik, Alaska
These adorable Polar Bear cubs were staying close to their mother, and stood up to monitor another pair of cubs.
Photograph and caption by Laura Keene
Gunsmoke and Knitting 