Marian Allen's Blog, page 92
December 4, 2021
Tipper On The Prowl #Caturday #TipperAndChickie
Hi, there! I’m Tipper Allen, and guess what? Momma put a set of her super-flannelly sheets on the bed, and OF COURSE Chickie had to crawl between them. She forgot what flannel does to cat fur. I felt sorry for her, but it did look…
December 3, 2021
December 2, 2021
More FriendDoors From England #ThursdayDoors
#4 Daughter, the amazing Sara Marian, has been promising me door pictures for a month and hasn’t delivered. She will, just not yet. Real Soon. But I still have a raft of pictures from England. Andrea may tell me what they’re of. If she does,…
December 1, 2021
Dinnah is Prepayuhed #1LinerWeds
As long-term readers of this blog may remember, I come from a highly refined and gentle background. Shut up! The recent food-centric holiday got me thinking about the table etiquette with which I grew up. (
November 30, 2021
Spuddo McLeek #Vegan #CookingWithLeftovers
Sara made vegan mashed potatoes for Thanksgiving and there were some left over, because somebody else made a honkin’ big pot of buttery ones and those went first. We split the leftovers. I chopped up some onions and some leeks that were about to join…
November 29, 2021
Love Song For The Red Planet #MondayRecommends #NailArt
Yesterday was Red Planet Day. Now, y’all ought to know by now that my imaginary fiction planetary boyfriend is Mars. I also love the writing (usually) of Kim Stanley Robinson. Sometimes he gets a bit –okay, sometimes VERY– pedantic. But that’s not entirely bad, because…
November 28, 2021
Sunday Snapshot: The Zennest of the Zen
Middle Grandson made this for me lo, these many years ago. Now, you can have cats or you can have an elegant tray of something spillable, but you can’t have both. So my zen garden is zenner than intended. I may have found the heart…
November 27, 2021
Precious Chickie #Caturday #TipperAndChickie
HELLO! My name is CHICKIE! I’ve been really specially good this week. I gave Mommy exercise by acting like I was going to crawl into a plastic bag I never paid any attention to before. You should have seen her jump and run and move…
November 26, 2021
November 25, 2021
This Cool Thing #ThursdayDoors
I’m having a new roof put on Mom’s house (now my rental property), and this guy brought the shingles. (I’ll take pictures of the roofing process when it happens because I think it’s cool.) Oh, no, wait, that’s Jay Neilsen from Forged in Fire. Here’s…
