[This article was also posted in a similar form at my Live Journal disaster_cat where I am posting more often these days) but I thought folks here might enough it too].. So, I woke up this morning and realized as one does that it was a bit chilly and I needed a bath before getting dressed. Went to turn on hot water, now lately because our pump is going out (and no one will replace it until after January 4th, so sorry it is the holidays says the plumber) we often don't have much water. Ex...

Well, after the weirdest Spring and Summer I think I can every remember from anywhere I have ever lived (and that includes snow on the tulips in Denver) we now have fall. Of course we went from a very warm dry April to three solid months of rain (I'm not kidding 12 weeks, more than Noah got) then about two weeks of warmish and nice Summer weather. Then about a week ago, all heck broke loose. We haven't had hurricanes, I guess the powers that be that Disaster Cat being on this side of the w...

Well, we've had another fun filled month of coughs, weezes, fevers, and chance to try out new and interesting (proscribed) drugs this month! Seriously, I am going to be very glad to see the end of this Winter season, which just seems to have been full of nasty little bugs, most of which seem to have found it necessarily to visit our house. However, the days are getting longer, the air a bit less wet and dank and people are starting to feel like spending less that 12 hours in bed, so I would...

OK friends, Thanks for the feedback and I'm sorry about nearly a month of no writing, but there was a good reason this time. After New Years we all went to an large SCA (re-enactment club sort-of) event in Dublin where the gang from Belfast were so sick by Sunday morning that they almost could not drive home. By the following Thursday, nearly EVERYONE else had it. Sadly this was no 24 hour bug, but a deep chest infection that required some folks to take two rounds of antibiotics and most ...

Well, so we decided to hold our New Year's Eve party again this year. Those of you lucky enough to be in the SCA or fandom in the West Kingdom will be familiar with Greyhaven's huge New Years Eve bash (which gets several hundred people in shifts over the course of an evening) well ours is never that big, but is loosely based on the same concept. However, this year our "guest" list of about 20 people was swollen to more than 30 by a combination of timing and the fact that a major SCA event...

Hi everyone, Well, this morning, after enough time I'd managed to almost forget I had a blog, I got a notice that someone had commented on a past article. It turned out this may have been a rather sneaky way for Joe USER to remind me I still had an account since the comment seems to have been made in April - but hey it worked! Here I am, and in reality I'd been thinking about taking up the Kilmurry House Saga again anyway. We've managed to survive the year and had a lot of changes take ...

Hi everyone, Well, just when you thought you'd never here from Kilmurry House again, here we are back home and more or less functional. The Wolf and the Cat survied the two weeks in the UK, including the World Con Science Fiction Convention in Glasgow Scotland. Meanwhile, The Lizard and the Bear had a surprise for them when they got home. An amazing, newly painted hallway, complete with framed scrolls and hallway chandeliar. It looks stunning, though of course they had to stop paiting a...

Hi everyone, This is a quickie report as I need to go to bed. While Disaster Cat is officialy back on line, I am staying with friends in Scotland for most of June. I'm having a great time, minus the weather. Its been grim and wet since I arrived, which was rather a surprise since Ireland has been warm and mild. Most often, both places are either pretty grim, or pretty OK. This time, the weather fronts must be jumping over the top of Ireland and slamming into here. And, of course the S...

Greetings to everyone out there in blog land. By now, I'm sure most of you believe that Kilmurry House and it inhabitants have slowly faded away into the Irish mists somewhere or at least drifted off into cyberspace. Not true, only that Disaster Cat's old computer decided it was tired and wanted a break and her new one came with some jinxed software that wouldn't let her onto the web. Or rather, it let her one sometimes, but five minutes later decided she didn't really want to be there. R...

Well, lets see, when we last left our soap opera things were going about as could be expected. They still are, except that now that both Bears are in the house, they are getting on remarkably well. Biggest problem is the two year old "Cub" aka Cubby, has decided she is afraid of the big doggies. Never mind that at Yule she was happily on the floor, petting their tummys and hugging them. Now they are an object to be feared, something we must scream at when we see it. Which means, of cours...

And its another day here at the Kilmurry Hospital Ward. Disaster Cat is doing quite well, but husband now has terrible sore throat and house mate a very painful back. Which didn't stop a quick trip into town and a pass at the library to drop off the three-month over-due library books. There wasn't really time to pick out any more books today though, so I wasn't able to see if there were any more gems lurking there. Hopefully next week. I don't mind the lack of choice at the library so mu...

Thank goodness April is here and we can start over and maybe even enjoy are sort of cleaned up house. A visit from my mother-in-law insured that Kilmurry House got the most intense Spring cleaning it has ever had, at least since we moved in. Sadly, we didn't quite get finished, so you can't tell by walking in the front hallway, that is still full of stuff. But many other rooms are cleaned, swept and even tidy. Those who know us well are amazed....now if we can just see how long we can kee...

When we last left Disaster Cat, she was toddling off on her way to a nice, sulking cat nap, being too irritated and annoyed at the world to do much else. Well, remember all those helpful government commercials they use to have? The ones that would say things like, "if you are feeling depressed see you doctor, it may be a symptom of something else." Does anyone ever really do this? Did Disaster Cat? Not for a full week, by which time walking across the kitchen to put on a kettle felt like...

Well, lets see, today I finally got to go the chiropractor to find out what I had pretty much already guessed. My upper back and shoulders had been whacked out of line by the evil forces that led me to trip over the big, bad, rock on Saturday. The cure for this condition was to be whacked about a good deal more, then go home and lay flat for a bit. I now feel somewhat more sore and stiff that I did this morning, but I can take comfort in the fact that this is supposed to be the "good" sort...

Well, this has not been exactly a wonderful couple of weeks. Oh, some of its been OK but most of it as been kind of under the weather. Among the good news, like attending a nice re-enactment event in the UK (at Lincoln castle) was stuff like finding out the bug everyone had there had come home with us. All of us.... Which is one reason why there haven't been any web-blogs for almost two weeks. First there was packing, weaving extra trim to sell then getting too and from the event. Th...