Scoakat's Blog

This is big.  This ain't right.  This is tonight, here in Madison.

As I was beginning my summer-long ritual of cutting grass today I saw some new additions down the street by Starkweather Creek.  Actually, m...

Yesterday was our annual spring plant day, when we get plants and fill pots.  With the current conditions we didn't want to go to a bi...

Yesterday was Wings Over Wisconsin , a flyover of several hospitals in the lower part of the state as a thank you to all the healthcare work...

Our cats, Basil and Hamish, turned 8 years old on April 20.  We didn't have a party or anything like that, but they were due for a new c...

We had a beautiful spring weekend, by far the best weather we've had this year.  The plants are growing well, trees are budding and the ...

Friday afternoon the weather was so that I decided to have a fire while listening for the first time to the new Nightwish CD.  As I had to c...

I may have been a bit overly optimistic when I posted last Sunday.  I posted the timeline that day, and then in the wee hours of Monday I ha...

Yesterday the U.S. Air Force made it official, Madison's Truax Field was awarded a squadron of F-35 fighter jets.  This has been a long ...

March 27, Friday:   First symptom, coughing up yellow. March 28, Saturday:  Noticed a little more of the same that afternoon. March 29,...