Category Archives: Photo of the Day

Tonight’s game night had a new guest — a kitten! This little one was found in a loading dock at Lexmark.  She (or he?) is around 3 weeks old and needs to be fed every few hours.  After wobbling around … Continue reading →

Wir machen Hydrokultur. Wasser ist wichtig. Und feucht. Our package arrived from Germany today.  It’s actually a board game (one of this year’s Spiel des Jahres nominees!) but it was packed in a most excellent box.

We often read books together before bed, and until now we’ve mostly read fiction (we’ve probably done some math too at some point).  Today we started on some non-fiction too, so we can have a better idea of what’s going … Continue reading →

Kara and Shaggy have a nice parsley snack in their new digs.

Today we walked in a field near the house.  These bushes gave me a very real idea of what an entangling roots spell must be like.  A thorn snagged my coat, so I turned around to see what got me, … Continue reading →

A staple of Euro-style board games — lots of little wooden pieces!  I think that big white cylinder was called “the provost”.

Flat Cat joins me for a Speed Geek presentation about library inventory.  (What’s wrong with those call numbers?)

I know this is a lot of cat photos recently, but I can’t help it.  She’s adorable.  And I love when she sleeps with her head upside down.

“Soldering iron”, eh?  I wonder what they really used.  (This looks like a candidate for the “blog” of “unnecessary” quotation marks.)

Cammy also likes puzzles.