The Further Adventures of Miss Kitten

Ingmar Bergman dead
Legendary Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman has died at the age of 89. He died at his home on the island of Fårö, his daughter Eva Bergman told news agency TT.
The above article was posted on the Local’s website and is nothing more than an obituary, so I recommend checking his Wikipedia page [...]

It’s all done..the end result of several hours of picking, cleaning, stemming, measuring, sterilizing, stirring, and canning. Here are my beautiful jars!

Some people might think it’s way too much trouble making jam from scratch, but I enjoy it. I find it relaxing to spend an afternoon in the kitchen baking something or doing a special [...]

Yesterday I picked a bunch of red and black currants from the nearly-bursting bushes in the Swede’s mom’s yard. I’ve got two huge containers of red currants that I’m planning making into jam tomorrow…but I got only about a third of a container of the black currants, just enough for a batch of muffins.

The recipe [...]

Study of Bush’s psyche touches a nerve
Julian Borger in Washington
Wednesday August 13, 2003
The Guardian

A study funded by the US government has concluded that conservatism can be [...]

I was looking for Caturday pictures on Google and the weather pixie on my blog came up as one of the images. Then I clicked it and was taken to this page. Pretty kewl, huh?

Anyway, happy Caturday everybody!

Don’t forget the buneez:

Surge protection is important. If you don’t do it, you’ll regret it.
The Swede and I just returned from a three-day dog/cat/housesitting gig at his dad’s house. We did this last summer as well, but the whole time it was sunny, hot and properly summertime. This year however, the summer has been cool and wet and [...]

By now most of my friends and family know about it, but it just occured to me that I should probably post the link to it on my blog:
Anyway, without further ado, here it is:
The House of Sweden: More than Just Free T-Shirts

Miss Kitten doesn’t want her loyal readers to think she is the superstitious type. I’m a down-to-earth kitty with my paws firmly on the ground. I’m neither religious nor spiritual and I reject all kinds of faith-based beliefs.
However…
Yesterday was Friday the 13th, traditionally a day of bad luck in English, German, Polish, and Portuguese-speaking cultures. [...]

In honor of my 32nd birthday, here are some interesting facts about the number 32, courtesy of Wikipedia:
32 (thirty-two) is the natural number following 31 and preceding 33.
In mathematics
32 is the smallest number n with exactly 7 solutions to the equation φ(x) = n. It is also the sum of the totient function for the [...]