Presence makes the beard grow fonder.

Good night, furball.

When mother came back to the kitchen ...

... she saw that the monsters had gotten into the pie again.

I love you so much ...

The dog with no end.

A couple of months ago a peculiar shaggy dog started straying in the streets of my brain. I have been watching him for some time now and I think he will turn into a story titled „The dog with no end“ soon. Just give it some time.

As much as I know so far he lives with an old lady who can’t remember his name, which doesn’t matter much because he can’t remember her name either, and when you know who you are and who the other person is and you don’t talk to anybody else anyway, names aren’t really that necessary. It is hard to tell the front and the back of the dog apart, and even the dog himself can’t sometimes, but that doesn’t matter much either, because the dog is used to bumping into things and he has learned that if one of his ends can’t manage to eat the food the old lady puts into his dish, the other end surely can.

The old lady keeps losing things, and when she blames it on her absent-mindedness the dog doesn’t object, although he knows that some of those lost things turn up in his hair some time later (one day when he licked his left hind leg he found a porcelain dolphin, a dollar bill and the key to the attic they both had believed to be gone, and he silently put everything back on the kitchen table). When times get tougher financially, his clumsiness turns out to be a lifesaver for the two of them. 

New mystery series on Karamellgewitter: What happened here?

I found this little crime scene one block down the street and it inspired me to start a new series. There are so many weird things out there! And people too... What do you think happened here? Did a giant fox have an allergic reaction to nicotine and shed his fur? Or is it an ancient Viking shaving spot? Everybody is invited to make suggestions!

Atlantis at launch pad after Hubble reports Horsehead Nebula completely made of hair

With the launch of space shuttle Atlantis just one day away, the final countdown status briefing is set for 10 a.m. from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The briefing will be carried live on NASA TV, and participants will include NASA Test Director Charlie Blackwell-Thompson, STS-125 Payload Manager Debbie Hahn, and Shuttle Weather Officer Kathy Winters.

This morning, STS-125 Commander Scott Altman and Pilot Gregory C. Johnson are once again practicing landings in the Shuttle Training Aircraft. At Launch Pad 39A, the rotating service structure that surrounds Atlantis will be rolled back into its launch position at 5 p.m. EDT.

Late yesterday, Space Shuttle Program managers met and gave the green light for tomorrow's launch of this final mission to service NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. In a briefing for the media, Mission Management Team Chairman Mike Moses said launch controllers are not working any issues that would prevent an on-time liftoff tomorrow at 2:01 p.m. EDT.