Tagged: #ClancyKitteh

How To Survive A Cross-Country Drive With Cats

In 2017 I made a life-changing decision to leave the San Francisco Bay Area and move across the country to Raleigh, North Carolina. There is so much that goes into planning a cross-country move, from finding a place to live to figuring out how to get you and your stuff from coast to coast. Figuring out how to get my...

#AdoptDontShop 🐾 On May 5th

A house is not a home without a pet hair roller on every table. This weekend you have the opportunity to make your house into a home: the Bissell1 Pet Foundation is holding an Empty The Shelters event nationwide on Saturday, May 5th. If you were thinking of adding a FLOOF to your home, this is a great weekend to...

The Raleigh World: Month Three

Soooooo… Pollen Season is a thing here. The stuff that turns everything yellow is pine pollen: it flies through the air like snow, though in daylight you don’t really notice it until it accumulates on a surface (usually within a few minutes). Though it looks like I should be scratching my face off, the pine pollen doesn’t seem to trigger...

Rainy Caturday Afternoon

The Scene: Clancy relaxes in catloaf position as he looks out the window. I lean on the platform below him with my arms folded underneath me. “Clancy, look! I’m MOMloafing!” “Momloafing isn’t a thing.” “MOMLOAF!” “You’re irritating me.”

As I Was Saying…

“…there is a possibility of seeing some sleet or snow here today. I kind of figured that winter on the east coast does not leave without flipping over another table and smashing a few more bottles on the way out.” Okay, so here in Raleigh winter just sort of tipped over a couple of chairs and sloshed some wine. The...

The Raleigh World: Apartment Tour

All right, folks. This apartment is as put together as it’s gonna get for now, so it’s time to show y’all where The Boys and I are living. Here’s the view from the entryway. Right off of the entryway is the bathroom. There are two doors leading to the bathroom, one from the entry and one from the bedroom. You...

Turning Life Off And On Again

I’m caught between wanting to establish a routine and needing to power down and reboot. The routine is important for me and for the cats, so I can establish good habits, and so we all know what to expect from our day. For example, Charlie EXPECTS to be fed around 6:00 a.m. and I EXPECT he will behave like an...

Day Three In Raleigh

Yesterday afternoon I unrolled the yoga mats and did my first practice in the new apartment. I had to get up around 2:30 a.m. to confiscate the Boys’ ping pong ball. The air mattress may have another leak in it. I heard Charlie digging around on it a couple of times yesterday. We’ll all be glad to get our furniture...

Alameda To Raleigh: Day Six

Y’all. I just drove from California to North Carolina. With two cats. And one very understanding and awesome friend. We got to the apartment a bit after 3:00 this afternoon, but not before driving through the heaviest rain I remember driving in. In the 13-1/2 years I’ve had Luna, I never once had the windshield wipers on full speed. Today...