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[thumb:1517:l] I found this tiny, lovely wildflower growing in one of my container gardens on my deck.

You’ve heard of Flexcar, the car-sharing service? Yahoo! News has a story about FlexPetz, a rent-a-dog* service in San Francisco. (*Oh, wait, the owner hates it when you call it that. It’s a “shared pet ownership concept.”) The “petz” part of the business name is not only misspelled, it’s misleading, since the service rents … […]

As if one “nursing home cat predicts patients’ death” story isn’t enough this week, King 5 News has a follow up story about Buckwheat, a local cat with the same interesting ability. Bonus: The King 5 URL includes the words “death cats.”

The Associated Press brings the story (via Seattle’s King 5 News) of Oscar, a cat who lives at a nursing home in Providence, Rhode Island. Oscar apparently can predict death. The feline “harbinger of death” makes daily rounds of Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center’s dementia unit. Oscar has been known to “sniff and observe […]

My friend Selena and I ate dinner tonight at new, 100% vegetarian–with vegan options–Thai restaurant in Wallingford: jhanjay vegetarian thai cuisine. For a starter, we shared the Vegetarian Rolls (“C” in the Dinner Appetizers section). For entrees, Selena had the Jhanjay Noodles (#35) and I had the Rama Garden (#18). Vegetarian Rolls: “Fresh mint, green […]

Mental Floss magazine’s online edition features a Trivia section with several quizzes. I took the All Kinds of Steve quiz. I scored 100% (5 questions). Above average, according to Mental Floss: “The average score for this quiz is 62.6% from the 2080 people who took it.” I would have felt pretty silly if I’d missed […]

You don’t have to actually walk it to find out. Input a street address and city, state, or ZIP code, and Walk Score will tell you how “walkable” the neighborhood is. Walk Score rates addresses using a scale of 1 to 100. * A score of 90 and above indicates “Walkers’ Paradise,” an ideal location […]

The Boyfriend (TB) is training hot-and-heavy this month for his favorite bicycle ride: the Courage Classic, a 3-day ride over 3 mountain passes. Proceeds from the Courage “help stop the cycle of child abuse and neglect in our communities by supporting Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital and the Children’s Trust Foundation.” “The Courage Classic Bicycle Tour […]

The Boyfriend (TB) owns a house. The house, which sits on 2 lots, was built about 30 years ago. The house and the yard require a certain amount of maintenance. And by “a certain amount,” I mean … it seems like it never ends. Whenever TB has to do something house-related (replace an attic fan, […]

June 30, 2007 Is it possible to be “killed by stab wounds”? According to the Seattle Times, it is. Today’s story about the murder of Mike Webb, a former radio talk show host, says Webb was “killed by stab wounds.” That may be technically, medically, and/or forensically correct (I really don’t know), but it sounds […]