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Feb. 23rd, 2009 09:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lizbeeHarvey is put out. For there are strange smells in the house -- strange cat smells. Harvey has never seen another cat since he entered the House o'Squid, but he knows that smell.
But let me start at the beginning.
Yesterday,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
piecesofalice and suburbannoir went out to the outer outer suburbs to visit suburbannoir's mum. In addition to owning a magnificent yarn store, she is a former librarian, and understands the value of a WITHDRAWN FROM COLLECTION stamp. In short, she has a lot of books, and among them is --
--wait.
Yesterday evening, people gathered at the home ofsajee and peace_bloom, to eat food and watch Katharine Hepburn movies. So I arrived, and Pieces and suburbannoir said, "We got something for you. Close your eyes and hold out your hands."
Some minutes later, Pieces put a book in my hands.
Fowl Knits by Lalla Ward. A book of bird-themed knitting patterns based on Lalla's sketches, modelled by Lalla herself, along with Louise Jameson (who must have been the victim of some kind of blackmail) and some people who weren't in Doctor Who. It was just sitting onsuburbannoir's mother's bookshelf, WAITING. And it's magnificent: full of Lalla's zany sketches, poems(!) and some photographs that might as well have been designed with my embarrassment squick in mind. The second my laptop's working again, there'll be scans.
AND IT GETS EVEN BETTER!peace_bloom and sajee have recently had their house painted, and they took the opportunity to clear out some books they no longer want/had in duplicate. They let me have my pick, and I walked away with just under a boxful. I'm updating my LibraryThing right now!
Only,sajee and peace_bloom have cats. Three cats. And a dog. Which brings me back to the beginning: Harvey has been a bit agitated, sniffing all the books very closely, then giving me an accusing look, then going back to sniffing. He's taking a quick break right now, possibly because he got a fright when he accidentally pulled a bunch of books off the shelf, but he'll be back.
Fortunately, now I have a copy of The Sound of One Cat Purring: a practical guide for the New Age cat, and maybe the aromatherapy chapter will help.
(Oh, andjohnnypurple may be interested to know that the dog in Bringing Up Baby was in fact the same dog that played Asta in the Thin Man movies. Apparently it got $200 per role, while its trainer got $60.)
But let me start at the beginning.
Yesterday,
piecesofalice and suburbannoir went out to the outer outer suburbs to visit suburbannoir's mum. In addition to owning a magnificent yarn store, she is a former librarian, and understands the value of a WITHDRAWN FROM COLLECTION stamp. In short, she has a lot of books, and among them is -- --wait.
Yesterday evening, people gathered at the home of
sajee and peace_bloom, to eat food and watch Katharine Hepburn movies. So I arrived, and Pieces and suburbannoir said, "We got something for you. Close your eyes and hold out your hands."Some minutes later, Pieces put a book in my hands.
Fowl Knits by Lalla Ward. A book of bird-themed knitting patterns based on Lalla's sketches, modelled by Lalla herself, along with Louise Jameson (who must have been the victim of some kind of blackmail) and some people who weren't in Doctor Who. It was just sitting on
suburbannoir's mother's bookshelf, WAITING. And it's magnificent: full of Lalla's zany sketches, poems(!) and some photographs that might as well have been designed with my embarrassment squick in mind. The second my laptop's working again, there'll be scans.AND IT GETS EVEN BETTER!
peace_bloom and sajee have recently had their house painted, and they took the opportunity to clear out some books they no longer want/had in duplicate. They let me have my pick, and I walked away with just under a boxful. I'm updating my LibraryThing right now! Only,
sajee and peace_bloom have cats. Three cats. And a dog. Which brings me back to the beginning: Harvey has been a bit agitated, sniffing all the books very closely, then giving me an accusing look, then going back to sniffing. He's taking a quick break right now, possibly because he got a fright when he accidentally pulled a bunch of books off the shelf, but he'll be back.Fortunately, now I have a copy of The Sound of One Cat Purring: a practical guide for the New Age cat, and maybe the aromatherapy chapter will help.
(Oh, and
johnnypurple may be interested to know that the dog in Bringing Up Baby was in fact the same dog that played Asta in the Thin Man movies. Apparently it got $200 per role, while its trainer got $60.)
