I love my house, and I hate my house. Do you know what I mean? It’s a 1950s ranch that we bought nine years ago and moved in on Christmas Eve. I bought it because it had a wood ceiling, a funky old oven and it reminded me of my grandparents.
We replaced every window. We [...]

Filed under: Cats on August 2nd, 2011 | 2 Comments »

Summertime for the Rossmans is jam-packed. The kids spend a lot of time with both sets of grandparents, as well as their cousins from Arizona who spend a few weeks in temperate Oregon every July. Meanwhile, Dr. Rossman and I go about our work weeks, visit the kids at their grandparents’ on the weekends and [...]

Filed under: Beagle, Calendar, Cats, Kickstarter, S**t My Kids Say, Shepherds on July 18th, 2011 | 4 Comments »

Filed under: Cats, Ron Weasley, Sundays with Ron on July 17th, 2011 | No Comments »

I’ve sat down to write this post too many times in the past few weeks. I’ve thought of phrases that I wanted to include, or pictures to post. I’ve had second thoughts. I’ve started. Then stopped again.
It’s an obituary.
My cat Birch is 16 1/2 years old and he’s going to die. Not like sometime in [...]

Filed under: Cats on July 13th, 2011 | 13 Comments »

Rocco’s owner describes him thus:
Rocco is the kind of cat that draws blood from guests and my kids run screaming from the room when he saunters in. I have to lock him in a bedroom when the kids’ babysitter comes over.
I can relate. I once had a cat named Wolfgang who was so vicious toward [...]

Filed under: Calendar, Cats on June 29th, 2011 | 2 Comments »