Pets | Beth Byrnes

Dis-Sparity

Posted on November 27, 2013 8 Comments

This is going to be a brief post, just to make sure I don’t fall off the wagon during this busy part of the year. For one thing, I have been involved in completing a massive and very time consuming as well as complicated project that I hope to be done with tomorrow. For another, […]

Doggone rubberment

Posted on October 12, 2013 11 Comments

I was sorting through copies of the New York Times that were to be put out with the trash this week and ran into a full page ad, from Christie’s showing this picture: Here is the ad copy: Christie’s Announces Jeff Koons’s Balloon Dog (Orange) THE STAGE IS SET TO MAKE HISTORY Be part of this […]

Ant-i-mimetic

Posted on September 15, 2013 10 Comments

It’s that special time of the year again here. Unlike some parts of this country, we are still deep in the heat of summer. It has been in the high 90’s (F) for the past few weeks, relentlessly. And with dry summer heat in good ole SoCal, comes: ants. We are being swarmed. First we […]

NYC litmus test

Posted on September 3, 2013 4 Comments

The New York City mayoral race continues to deliver interesting insights on a number of levels. Not only has it provided prime circus-like entertainment through the unfortunate campaign antics of Anthony Weiner, but there has just been a surprising turning of the tide toward Bill deBlasio. I have contended all along that this is an […]

Junkyard kitties

Posted on August 2, 2013 2 Comments

When we moved to our current house, the previous owners had left one of their cats behind. Horrified, I contacted their realtor and told her what had happened. She came back to me later and claimed that they had in fact taken the cat with them, but it obviously ‘missed our house and found its […]