06 Saturday Mar 2010
Today’s photohunt theme is “foreign”.
[click on pics to enlarge]
When I went to Morocco last year it was the first time in my life that I had the distinct sensation of being somewhere “foreign”, even though I have visited and lived in different countries (and continents) over the years.
You can see more photos of Morocco here:
05 Friday Mar 2010
Posted in animals & pets, cats
Last week when Yolanda the vet told me I’d have to start force-feeding Azar I cringed, remembering the ordeal of having to wrap Sunny in a towel and struggle to get him to take his liquid meds. But with Azar it turned out to be a piece of cake! As you can see in the pics, Nog holds him without a towel or any kind of restraint, and although Azar squirms a little, he doesn’t clamp his mouth shut tight like Sunny did, and he is quite okay about getting everything down the hatch – believe me, this is a cat who immediately turns into the Tasmanian Devil when he doesn’t want to be held. And okay, there is a bit of “food spray” resulting in much washing of Nog’s sweaters, but since I’ve been perfecting my technique (including plenty of kisses on the head between squirts of food), I think Azar has actually come to enjoy eating this way…
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04 Thursday Mar 2010
Posted in animals & pets, cats, change, home
Pals at last!
The upper left-hand photo totally cracks me up.
And more awwwsome pics below, if you think you can handle it…
03 Wednesday Mar 2010
Posted in birthdays, food & drink, friends, restaurants, sevilla, tapas
Yesterday was Nog’s 57th birthday!
And this is what we did. Because this is what we do about birthdays here at casa az … celebrate the heck out of them! Had a wonderful lunch at La Azotea and then a pleasant evening at home watching films and snibbling cats.
You can see the food descriptions here…
02 Tuesday Mar 2010
Since his recent mystery illness, and especially since the arrival of Loki, I’ve been telling Azar … “hey, don’t you worry ’bout a thing chevrolet, you and I can conquer the world”. I don’t know why that sentence kept coming up. And of course “chevrolet” is a silly private joke referring to a Stevie Wonder song called Don’t You Worry ‘Bout A Thing … and the background singers go “chévere”, which sounded like chevrolet to my young 15 year-old ears. But one of my very favourite Stevie Wonder songs is this one – You and I, We Can Conquer the World, though it didn’t become my favourite Stevie Wonder song until I heard someone else sing it – Diane Heatherington – in a little tea room/restaurant in Winnipeg I used to frequent called The Ting. She sang this song like nobody else and it always filled me up. I think if kd Lang ever sang it I would just crumple up and die of happiness…
Such beautiful lyrics, neither gender nor species specific.
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