You could never tell from the blissful sleep of Kupkake that she is a real terror during the day. Her favorite game is to run sideways and all arched up through the apartment like a Halloween cat trying to look all menacing. It's funny as Hell. She wakes me up every morning sniffing my eye with her cold, wet nose. I've got to be careful though. If only my face is sticking out from under the covers, it freaks her out and she smacks me. I still have scratches down the side of my face. I looked like a rapist there for a while!
Born in the spring of 1861 in a modest East Anglian village on the wooded edges of Bury St. Edmunds, George David Darrow was the son of a gardener and a washerwoman. A solitary child, Darrow showed early signs of a vivid inner world, sketching woodland creatures and imagined spirits on sheets of whatever scrap paper he could find, much of which smelled of fish or meat that the paper had once wrapped. His youth was shaped by the rhythms of rural life and long hours exploring hedgerows, brooks, and ancient groves. Possessed of a quiet, observant nature and an innate gift for drawing, Darrow taught himself the principles of line and light by sketching the creatures and foliage around him. His Father, Henry Darrow, disapproved of his son’s obsession with woodlarking and hoped that his son would take up a respectable trade. As a young teenager, George was apprenticed to a local stone mason, but his tenure didn’t last the summer. George was found to be carving mysterious symbols into the lim...
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