When Riley is bored, she sometimes entertains herself by hanging her forelegs off the cat post and pulling toys out of the basket one at a time. I have yet to get a video of her doing this but I keep trying!

Here’s my new letter opener. It’s Bilbo’s sword,  “Sting”, from “The Hobbit”. When I first got on the internet in the early 1990′s, I joined a fan group for the computer game series “Ultima” and we all had hyphenated dragon names. Mine was Sting-Dragon. I’ve kept it (without the hyphen) as my nickname online partly because I like it and partly because it’s never taken. Tolkein’s works are still some of the few I can read over and over again. I’m currently listening to an audio adaptation of Lord of the Rings, complete with singing.