I came out of the office to grab lunch and found this cream-colored honey hobnobbing with Vanessa. That's definitely a newer model cruiser, that is.
Another Friend at Work
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Daily Archives: December 6, 2006
Lardo
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If you can call that “hovering” that is. Sprinkles seems to be establishing herself as “the fat one” with gusto.
Small Furry Magnets
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Of course the best cat magnet is something that moves of it's own will, like a Guinea Pig for example. Here's Sprinkles, hovering over Lily's cage.
Snow Globes?
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While enjoying the sunbeam, Cherokee took an interest in this globe showing kittens trying to get at goldfish. I found it ironic that a snow globe celebrating a cat magnet of sorts, would itself be a cat magnet.
The globe itself is pretty cute, but does have one major flaw. It contains a music box that plays “That's What Friends Are For” when you wind it–which always puts me in the position of fighting the urge to smash it with something heavy.
Sunbeams
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A nice soft spot to lie in a warm sunbeam is definitely a major cat magnet… when working from home I sometimes fold a towel on the table next to me. Throughout the day, cats will come to visit me and sprawl on the towel.
Black Lamp in Use
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Here it is in operation melting a delicious-smelling Brown Sugar & Raisins Yankee Candle.
One downside is that the wick on the candle may sink into the wax in this sort of situation, which would be problematic if you ever needed to light the candle with a match.
Black Lamp Candle Warmer
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My Mom recently gave Patty this candle warmer as a gift. We've been using it a lot and really like it.
It is perfect for big scented Yankee Candles, and lets you heat them to melting without any open flame. You don't need anything as hot as a flame to melt wax, which will soften and even melt at much lower temperatures. In addition, the heating lamp heats the top surface of the candle evenly, so you get more wax turned to liquid and thus a nice strong scent.
Ball Head
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I was visiting one of my sisters in law this past weekend, and one of my nephews, Christopher, asked me to take a picture of him doing tricks with his soccer ball. He was pretty good at bouncing it this way and that and keeping it in the air.
This particular picture was my favorite though, because the ball happens to be almost perfectly obscuring his face, making him appear to have a ball for a head. 
Holiday of Waste
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I know, it's not my typical sort of contemplative photo. But watching this truck loaded down with hundreds of cut trees for Christmas celebrations certainly had me contemplating the wastefulness of this particular holiday. It seems like such a shame to kill a tree for Christmas.
In Carlisle, MA there is a house next to a big field which has a small spruce growing in the center of the field all by its lonesome. And each year, the family runs an extension chord out to that single tree, and decorates it with lights and ornaments. A living tree for Christmas.
I really like that.