Good morning. Monday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 77. Sunrise is 5:37 AM and sunset 8:05 PM for 14h 27m 34s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 54.4% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Planning Commission meets at 6 PM. On this day in 1662, the figure who…
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Cats, Weird Tales
Friday Catblogging: Cat to Become Mayor of Michigan Town
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Daily Bread, Reasoning, Weird Tales
Daily Bread for 1.15.22: The Truth Behind Those Amazon Mystery Seed Packages from China
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Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater will see clouds and sunshine with occasional flurries and a high of 23. Sunrise is 7:22 AM and sunset 4:47 PM for 9h 25m 04s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 94.9% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1967, the Packers defeat the Chiefs in the first…
Daily Bread, Weird Tales
Daily Bread for 9.29.21: Killer Otters and Toilet Rats
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Cats, Music, Weird Tales
Friday Catblogging: Did Mozart Like to Imitate Cats?
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Maddy Shaw Roberts, at classicfm, writes that Mozart apparently liked to imitate cats. Here’s the tail as we know it: This lovely little anecdote has been floating around since the 19th century. Karoline von Greiner Pichler, an Austrian novelist and former student of Mozart, describes her teacher in her 1843 memoirs, quoted in Otto Deutsch’s Mozart:…
Cats, Technology, Weird Tales
Friday Catblogging: An App to Translate Cats’ Meows
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Cats, Weird Tales
Friday Catblogging: Woman Accidentally Dyes Her Cat Yellow with Turmeric Treatment
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Morgan Smith reports that Thammapa Supamas, a woman living in Thailand, accidentally dyed her cat yellow while treating a fungal infection on the pet’s limbs: Supamas applied a turmeric scrub to heal a red, irritated patch of skin on the white cat’s leg, she shared on Facebook. The plant extract has anti-inflammatory and antibacterial properties…
Parodies, Trump, Unfit, Weird Tales
Sarah Cooper on How to Water
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Cats, History, Weird Tales
Friday Catblogging: During the 1918 Pandemic, Family and Cat Wearing Masks
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Animals, Dogs, Restaurant, Weird Tales
Dog runs sweet potato stand in Hokkaido
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One reads that a Japanese dog has significant managerial responsibilities — SAPPORO — A Shiba Inu dog that “manages” a baked sweet potato store alone in a residential area of this city is building a loyal following that matches the breed’s faithful reputation. Ken, the 4-year-old Japanese hunting dog in Sapporo, the capital of Japan’s…
Animals, Holiday, Weather, Weird Tales
Groundhog Day 2020
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Animals, Cats, Weird Tales
Friday Catblogging: Well, British Cats, Perhaps…
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Hannah Sparks reports that Big cats prefer the warm, spicy scent of Calvin Klein’s Obsession cologne: What drives the felines wild? The intoxicating aroma of Calvin Klein’s Obsession, according to zookeepers in the UK. A recent shortage of perfumes, which help to soothe the sometimes aggressive animals, has lead the Banham Zoo in Norfolk, England,…