Chocolate, ice cream, sushi and cat faces

I forgot to mention that Will Write For Chocolate has been updated. If you missed the strip before this one, you should read it first else you'll be confused.



Above: one of the photos I took for my blogTO review of Greg's Ice Cream, which is now online. Jeff and I had one of our first official "dates" at Greg's, many years ago. :-)



I met Allison and Jodi in Richmond Hill for sushi and a practice. We've been going to Senbazaru for years and if the owner's there, he always greets us and knows what I usually order to start (hot sake and edamame :-).

After checking out Allison's new laptop, we fine-tuned our concert playlist and ran through a bunch of the songs for a house concert in Rochester on September 22. If you're interested in attending, please do contact John Hall to reserve a seat and for information (first-come, first-serve). It will be the last time that we'll be performing this year. Looks like FilKONtario will be the ONLY filk convention next year that all three of us will be attending. We'll likely be in open filk, but have no formal performance commitments.



Allison's and John's cat, Edward, willingly posed for me (I brought my new camera, of course) but I found it a challenge to take a good photo of a black cat -- the black really threw off the automatic exposure, so I had to do some manual tweaking.

I'm allergic to cats, but I still find them fascinating. What I find even more fascinating, however, are cat owners. At one point Edward was just lying on the floor, watching us. I asked Allison and John if they could tell his mood, and both of them (without hesitation) said that he wasn't totally relaxed, that he was somewhat wary.



So my question to you cat owners out there is this: can you honestly tell what your cats are feeling all the time? Or are you just making stuff up to freak out us non-cat people?!? :-D

Speaking of cats, I have to admit I missed Nova...Allison's other cat had to be put down recently; Nova was around for Urban Tapestry practices for many years. Beckett Gladney drew her on the cover of our Sushi and High Tea CD:


Art ©Beckett Gladney.



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