“Can cats smell stress?”
One afternoon after a rough day at school, The Ten-Year-Old tried to calm herself down by picking Canelo up for a hug. He was having none of it. The Ten-Year-Old was disappointed when Canelo ran off instead of giving her the reassuring head-bonk she was looking for, but as always, her curiosity won out. “Mommyo, can cats smell stress?”
“Are artichokes and pine cones related?”
Since we’ve moved to California, I’ve been mildly obsessed with pine cones. The tree in our backyard grows some truly enormous ones, and I’ve been spending a lot of time dodging them. You know what else I’ve dodged a lot of in California? Artichokes. In dodging both pine cones and artichokes, I can’t help but notice how physically similar they are. So I started to wonder, are pine cones and artichokes related?
Wordless Wednesday: Behind the curtain
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Wordless Wednesday: Whatcha doing, CatMom?
In which Canelo’s curiosity gets the better of me.
Wordless Wednesday: How to Speak Cat
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Wordless Wednesday: Stealthy
Just like Wonder Woman’s invisible plane, no one will ever see Canelo coming in his clear plastic storage tote. Related Links: More Wordless Wednesday on Caterpickles
(almost) Wordless Wednesday: Canelo picks his favorite book
When my daughter’s babysitter cleaned out her bookshelf, she very kindly offered The Nine-Year-Old the pick of her collection — including an astounding number of Warriors…
Wordless Wednesday: The Aftermath
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Caterpickles thinks too much about Christmas carols: “What’s a bobtail?”
There’s nothing like seeing the lyrics of traditional holiday songs projected in giant letters on a screen in a school auditorium for making you realize just how weird they are. I mean, there I stood, trilling merrily about jingle bells and sleigh rides when all of a sudden I realized I had absolutely no idea what “bells on bobtails ring” even meant.
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