...but first, I made another lolcat starring Ratty....

(oh, and co-starring my Eight-Year-Old Friend's board game....)

aka "tulips 'n' bluets".

Enjoy!

Eight below zero this morning. I hope the car starts. I'm on deadline today.

If you live in Alaska or something and it's forty below, I don't wanna hear it. This is NOT a competition, especially if Mojo knows she's gonna lose. If you want to complain that it's so much colder where YOU live, whine on your own blog.

Every morning when I draw my bath Ratty watches the tub fill, so the other day I took a picture and put it up on lolcats. There's already five other lols made of it--if you click on the picture you can see them.  MORE Mojo! »

What, you ask breathlessly? Or, rather, "What?" you ask breathlessly. Usually Mojo agrees that adverbs are expendable, but clearly in this case I simply HAVE to convey--despite the simple fact that words cannot adequately express the GROWING EXCITEMENT you are no doubt feeling--the rising tide of expectation and longing sweeping the country as the Craptacular inches closer and closer to once again becoming a reality.

However you choose to express this excitement, I must announce that yesterday, after overcoming a growing sense of procrastination and whatnot, I finally sat down and, um, "composed" the Craptacular's particularly inane earworm of a jingle. If by "composed" I mean, I sat at my midi keyboard and fiddled around a bit and shrieked repeatedly into a mike until I noticed the animals were trying to call the Humane Society and turn me in for cruelty. (Thank heavens the phone is not meant to be operated by paws, or I'd be in the slammer right now.)

Why, you ask (or, rather, "Why? WHY? Oh dear lord in heaven, WHY?"), does the Craptacular need a jingle? For several reasons, which Mojo shall now relate.  MORE Mojo! »

So Thursday afternoon there was a brief break in the rain, and I ran outside to run some errands, and Mrs. Yellowthroat was off the nest.

As usual, Mojo's worrying (thus far) is all for naught. And what a difference a day makes!

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Today (Tuesday) I left the house in the morning. Mrs. Yellowthroat wasn't on the nest, so I took a peek, as is my custom. Three eggs.

I came home mid-afternoon. Mrs. Yellowthroat wasn't on the nest, so I took a peek.

Surprise! No eggs! Just three ugly little spudlings!

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