Category: Home

International Cat Day 2022

It’s International Cat. Actually, here in the Marks house, everyday is International Cat Day. Everyone knows that cats rule the world. We humans are here only to serve our feline overlords. Here are two recent pictures of my two overlords. They have such a rough life, don’t they? I’m off to feed the princesses their…

Read more International Cat Day 2022

Pensive Kitty

I think this is Ivory’s favorite place to hangout during the day. At night she likes to sleep on top of my torso or on top of my head. Cats are gonna cat.

Read more Pensive Kitty

So Naughty

Ivory never used to get up on tables. Not so anymore. She’s been doing it more and more. I think she was looking at my parent’s wedding pictures. But who knows. Cats are going to cat.

Read more So Naughty

So Proud

In the last few years, I’ve really started to enjoy working in the flower bed in front of my house. I’ve slowly been adding perennials each year to make things easier for me as I get older. There are still annuals in there, but they haven’t grown as big as in the past. Last year,…

Read more So Proud

The Golden Hour

It seems that I’ve taken quite a few pictures of sunsets. Yes, sunsets only. I’m rarely cognizant enough to take pictures of the sunrise. That’s something I should rectify at some point in time. Maybe I’ll do it when I’m on vacation. The Photos app on the iPhone does this thing where it creates slideshows…

Read more The Golden Hour

Ivory and Peonies

My grandma loved the peonies in her yard. My brother who lives in the house hates them. However, he hasn’t followed through with ripping out the last of them. And he won’t let me transplant them into the yard at my* house. As usual, they were in bloom on Memorial Day, so I cut some.…

Read more Ivory and Peonies

Noooooo!!!!!

Spring in Cleveland. At least it didn’t accumulate beyond this. By the afternoon, the temperature was in the 40s. Still, I used the weather as an excuse to stay inside and read, study and watch tv. Oh yeah. I did a workout video as well. It isn’t going to last long. We’re supposed to get…

Read more Noooooo!!!!!

My Barbell

This is hanging on the wall in my brother’s garage gym. My dad and brothers all went in together at Christmas to get me my own barbell. I’ve been using my brother, Billy’s, this whole time. And it works perfectly. But it is designed for a man’s hands. I have small hands. The one they…

Read more My Barbell