Top 10 reasons to keep “trouble” indoors

January 16th, 2012 Posted in All Else Galvez
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10. Being too busy to prune your houseplants, you prefer to have it done automatically, in the dead of night, one salad leaf at a time.

Trouble

Trouble

9. It is a known fact that freshly laundered bath towels stay fresher in a wad on the floor, lightly dusted with fur and feline detritus.

8. Speaking of bathrooms (after all, they are such wild and intriguing places), rather than resort to the pedestrian toilet tissue holder, you prefer to pluck yours in small batches from shredded heaps on the floor.

7. Guitar stands are hipper, and not much less useful, with the knobs on their cradles entirely gnawed off.

6. Flotation experiments are fun: Make your old science teacher proud by observing both cat and dog toys, daily dunked in the dog’s water bowl, and measuring their absorption rates. Read the rest of this entry »

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Beachtown

August 10th, 2011 Posted in All Else Galvez, Weather Galvez
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Just noticed I’ve been remiss again posting to the blog. Don’t blame me; blame the weather.

Beachtown at dusk

Beachtown at dusk

To quote Aristotle (who was later unabashedly ripped off by Max Wertheimer in developing his Gestalt theory back in the ’20s ), “[t]he whole is greater than the sum of its parts.”

How true. (And good for Aristotle, since he was wrong about almost everything else.)

The unremitting drought and suffocating heat have combined in a synergistic way to completely sap my energy, motivation, and creativity, and thus the blog, bereft, has gone to the dogs. Or make that the dog, as in singular, which would be Tippy, of course, primary beneficiary of my latest blogging hiatus (yes, close reader, there have been others). Read the rest of this entry »

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Joli minou!

July 5th, 2011 Posted in All Else Galvez
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Introducing the newest member of our little island family, a four-month-old gray tabby with white socks on her hind feet and an admirably fearless personality, recently adopted from the Galveston Humane Society.

A baby minou

A baby minou

Okay, you say, but what’s her name?

Well, for the past week, since I picked her up and brought her home eight days ago, that’s been the number one question I’ve been laboring to answer.

And as I discovered, this cat-naming business can be quite a process!

In the beginning, my idea was to come up with an exotic, “islandy” kind of name, perhaps something with a Balinese flavor, which could handily double as my tiny tabby homage to the old Balinese Room, a piece of lost Galveston history to which I will always have fond, and forever memorable, ties. Read the rest of this entry »

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