More visitors from the homeland

Always nice to see some Torontonians, even when I don't know them personally. And I think LL found a new dream profession in being a lantern-overhead-craft girl.

Engineers strike again

I am using the free but incredibly faint internet on campus at Columbia (three blocks from my house) in the efforts of sending three emails. On the way onto campus I noticed the above -- chalk another one up to the U of T engineers. I have to scam internet since there is no internet at home, for various reasons relating to our unusual-but-appropriate-to-New-York real estate arrangement.

Yesterday I got a lovely postcard from adventuress-in-Dutchland, the ever interesting blog writer and friend LtK. Among other things she said I should blog more New York stories. I actually think that would be good for me; writing helps me process.

To that end stay tuned for more (when I get back to work on Monday where the real internet is). I'll also be writing a post at Empire Remixed...

NPD

moar funny pictures

Knitten update

You can just catch a glimpse of it in that picture -- I got the kitten a collar. It's going to have a little tag on it with her name and my phone number (will people call asking for Lady Catherine? Maybe it will help her get some hot dates).

Initially, the collar also had a bell. The kitten was not impressed with the bell. She did a comical but extremely distressed dance to try and get the collar off. Poor baby kitten. I removed the bell.

Soon, maybe I'll let her outside without supervision...

LYS + spring

Dear reader: I write with several small pieces of news, which I will cover in turn beginning with the most important: I have visited my LYS (Amsterdam and 108th). I'd passed this place a few times but couldn't decide what type of yarn it sold; the outfits on the mannequins and the font on the awning gave conflicting messages.



Hoping I could get some dishcloth cotton (I'm out of red), I went in today. Somewhat disappointingly, it's got really nice yarn. Maybe K-Mart has cotton.

In other news, I went for my first bike ride EVER in NYC -- in Central Park, which is gorgeous right now.

In further news, the kitten and I spent considerable time outside this weekend; she chased one of the rats, and even escaped briefly into the next door neighbour's "yard" (all paving stones). Time to get her a collar and tags.

My backyard

When I was looking for apartments here I wondered how on earth the kitten could go outside, so this backyard is, to me, a miracle. My current dilemma is, do I let the kitten wander about on her own, despite the general starkness and the large rats that live in the tree stump? Any wisdom out there?

While I'm talking about the backyard, both my backyards at this house and Manning Ave had, randomly but appropriately and very homemadedly, crosses. (I am annoyed that I failed to get a pic of the Manning one.. how did that happen?)