• He’s gone

    He’s gone

    After 13 years with me, my cat Ciccio has died. His kidneys were shutting down, and although I tried for force feed him for two weeks he kept fading away at an alarming rate until he wasn’t able to go on any longer. I still can’t believe he’s gone. Sometimes I forget that he’s dead…

  • Prozac Cat?

    Prozac Cat?

    We have a very annoying cat marking problem. Chester marks a certain window with a little spray of pee once a day, like clock work. I clean it up, like clock work. If I don’t allow him access to the window, he’ll mark somewhere else. Now if Chester wasn’t the most adorable, lovable, funny, well…

  • Bedtime Story for a New Camera Owner

    One day the little girl took indoor pictures with her new camera. She was puzzled by how much noise there was in the pictures, and she couldn’t understand why her new camera was so much worse than her old one. She took picture after picture and the outcome was always the same, and by no…

  • Reading Makes You Smarter

    Thomas wants a story every night before falling asleep. Of course. Reading is important. Every thursday, Thomas’s kindergarten class gets to go to the library and pick up a book to take home for the week. Thomas chose a dinosaur book, like most thursdays. The other days he chooses books about snakes, spiders, bats, rats,…

  • Excuse me, I’m German!

    I have so much to say, I don’t know where to begin. Maybe I should start by saying that I have been living in Canada since 1999, April 21st to be exact, and I really like it. My life here is quite a bit different from how it was back in Europe, especially compared to…

  • Check your pockets…

    We bought our house in November 1999. A couple of months later we got tired of opening our garage door by hand and bought a garage door opener for our single car garage. The device came with two remote control “clickers”, one to attach to the sun visor in the car, and the other one…