Well, Those of you following the Disaster Cat Chronicles know that yesterday I decided to experiment with a self-help web site that promises to help you clean up and organize your home. This miracle is to be accomplished slowly and with "baby-steps," most of which are supposed to last between five and fifteen minutes at a time. Each day presents a few new additi
Greetings everyone out there in Blog land. This week, we may actually have something to write about in addition to the saga of cats and other critters. Though for those who have asked, Thor the Cat is now doing fine even if his ear will always be bent sideways. This week he has decided that the stuffed animals in the bedroom are prey...nothing like finding a well c
A few more suggestions that you may be a geezer, the first two were from my mother. I now know from personal experience that she is right: 1 - Your doctor is younger than you are. 2 - You see all these young girls with babies everywhere and they look far to young to be mothers! 3 - When you realize that drinking coffee after 6 pm is not a good idea.... 4 - When you realize that drinking any liquid, even water, after 10 pm will res
Well, today was a much less stressful day here at Kilmurry House. My shoulder told me it was time to take a break from apple pealing and tablet weaving. Since I had a lot of writing to do anyway, I thought I'd spend part of the day at the computer. But first I needed to do things like feed some of the critters and take my attempts at a "daily" walk. First
Well, its that time of year again here at Kilmurry house. Our three apple trees are loaded down with miniature fruit (because no one ever prune's them) and the pear tree that usually grows nothing has branches dripping with them. Not to mention the blackberry vines are covering the roadside path, though they may mostly go to the birds this year. The advantage of ap
A picture of Thor was taken while still wearing his collar. But as we don't have a digital camera I am waiting for the friend who took it to e-mai it too me. Further update on the kitty is that he is fine now. But last week he had a sudden post operative infection (on Friday while I was getting ready to leave town). I went into the bedroom and he was laying in his cat pan and making moaning noises. We called the vet to the house, we were so worrie
Well, I was going to write about how yesterday we got to find out just how unprepared we were for nine hours without electricity. Can you say "matches" anyone? But instead, I'm going to write about what happened a few hours ago at a pet store in Dublin. Totally by "chance" but experiences like this make me wonder sometimes just how much of life, really is "chance."
Hello to everyone out there in Blog Land; After taking a couple of weeks off to gather my thoughts a bit, Disaster Cat is back and running. Much of this time period has been spent in front of the TV, watching what could be described as all "All Disaster Cat Viewing Marathon." The real news is starting to remind of an interview I heard once with the director
Last night, as often happens, I couldn't sleep. So I decided to turn on one of my several dozen satellite channels and watch a late night documentary. One of the discovery channels was spending the weekend exploring one of my favorite disaster topics: Dinosaurs and Mega-beasts the blurb said. Oh goody, lots of magma, meteorite explosions, predators and prey; just w
Not yet, but I did think about it this morning. So far, we havn't been able to get our new digital camera to work, but I'll check and see if anyone can help me try it out later. If so, picture will be on its way. Thanks for the feed back Disaster Cat
My husband is a professional writer and I have collaborated with him on a few novels. Once, his agent convinced him to try writing some "Romance/Historical" aka Bodice Busters. So we decided to try this as a team. These books have been published in German but not, so far in English. Now I understood the rejection letters which said such things as "this book is too focused on Germany for American readers." I may not agree with it, but its a reasona
Well, those of you following the adventures of Disaster Cat know that when we last left off our story, our pantry was somewhat put together, but one of kitties was not very happy. Thor, a four year old forest cat who lives in our bedroom, was discovered to have a Giant Ear, when the Disaster Cat went upstairs to change clothing. A gadget called an Elizabethan Collar
Well, yesterday didn't look like it was going to be a very, long day; when it started out. In fact, it looked like it would be something very rare here in Ireland...i.e. sunny, warm and relaxing. A bit of a problem since our water heater and our house heater are on the blink; so we have to burn turf in the solid fuel stove. But manageable, especially if you don't
Some of this blog was inspired by a post to a Survival list I am on. The original poster was asking about urban survival in bad situations and I shared some my experience in the San Francisco earthquake of 1989. I have been in several similar situations (hence the family nickname of Disaster Cat) but I think I learned the most from this particular earth quake. In f
Well, for those of you who don't know, Disaster Cat lives with her husband, house-mate and furry friends, in a 200 year old Irish Rectory/Farm House. When we moved in, we had a terrible rat problem and I thought that a natural solution might be better than the tons of rat poison the previous owners put down every year. Besides, looking at the results of their effort
This past weekend, Disaster Cat went to Belfast. Never mind the interesting murals and national flags (they change depending on what street you drive on) no, what I found really interesting about this trip was: breakfast. I was in Belfast to attend an SCA (Society for Creative Anachronism) event. For those who don't know, the SCA is sort of a semi-private club whe
Hi everyone, this is Disaster Cat, a brand new blogger, who is still not absolutely sure what a blogger is. Here in rural Ireland, it can take a while for news to catch up, even for a US ex-pat like me. But, I finally figured out that blogging was not a new form of sled racing and decided to check it out for myself. JoeUser was the first site I came across and since they of
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