Krasnesky Manor for Wayward Cats

11/27/2025

Sigh.

If you know, you know.

11/27/2025

“Listen lady, what’s a little Reddi-Wip really gonna hurt?”
Max~

11/27/2025

36 peeled hard-boiled eggs without a single torn egg. No shell stuck and no egg clung to the shell.
This may be the greatest accomplishment of my life.
72 deviled eggs coming up.

11/27/2025

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Getting ready for Thanksgiving 🦝

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11/26/2025

Luna would like you to know that while she loves a good nap in front of a cozy floor vent, her true favorite pastime is eating!

And of course her favorite holiday is Thanksgiving—because—eating. Obviously.

Luna would also like you to know that Sarah Josepha Buell Hale played a big part in making American Thanksgiving the national holiday we know and love today.

The modern celebration of American Thanksgiving dates to 1863 when president Abraham Lincoln first proclaimed Thanksgiving a national holiday.

Prior to this, Thanksgiving was a holiday found only in New England with each state scheduling its own holiday from October to January.

Sarah, a native of New Hampshire, utilized her role as editor of a popular women’s periodical to advocate for a national day of thanks and patriotism.
Beginning in 1846 with a letter writing campaign to various politicians including presidents Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, and James Buchanan, Sarah’s persistence finally paid off with Abraham Lincoln who liked the idea of a holiday that might unify a nation torn apart by civil war.

Sarah’s efforts earned her the nickname “Mother of Thanksgiving”. She is also credited with popularizing traditional American Thanksgiving foods, such as turkey, stuffing, and pumpkin pie. 

Here at the Manor, we know that Thanksgiving can be a complicated holiday for many folks.

Sometimes gathering with family members that you love but don’t always see eye to eye with can be a challenge.
Sometimes the challenge is finding a family to gather with. More challenging still are those folks without even a home in which to gather.

We also recognize that our tradional celebrations of Thanksgiving are based on embellished and whitewashed stories involving pilgrims and Native Americans.

It’s a complicated holiday.

However you choose to observe Thanksgiving Day, Luna and the rest of us wish you a day filled with joy and peace—and maybe a little pumpkin pie.

11/26/2025

Max is trying to peek at the gifts and see what everyone is getting this year.

11/25/2025

“Listen lady, I don’t know about all the other ‘decorations’ you’ve thrown everywhere, but these cozy blankies you’ve wrapped around the trees for me are great! Five stars!”
Max~

11/25/2025

“We have entered the holiday maelstrom where time ceases to have meaning and meals are vortices of social conventions pricking the darkness of fall’s demise with the blue-cold light of songs whose oil has been drained in the press of joy and whose seasonal wick flickers pastel images of cedar-scented hope upon our drawing room floors.”
- Otis

11/25/2025

When we decorate for Christmas, we have to move the cat tree that is in the downstairs servant’s hall in order to make space for the
“A Christmas Story” display.

I got the cat tree to the landing and Thor decided it was just fine right there.

11/24/2025

Fifty Pumpkin Pies Doing the Neutron Dance

If you ever want your car to smell REALLY good, don't get one of those air fresheners that you hang from your rearview mirror. Fill the back of your car up with fifty pumpkin pies and fifty freshly baked loaves of French bread.

Robin and I had an occasion to do just that this weekend, and I observed that if we were in a movie, this would be the moment where we would somehow get into a car chase, with pies flying all around and smushing into windows and into peoples faces. In my mind, I was picturing the scene from Beverly Hills Cop where Eddie Murphy's character is hanging from the door of a semi truck as it goes flying down the road, swinging from side to side as boxes go hurtling onto the road. Moments later, Neutron Dance began playing over the car stereo. I had not voiced my Beverly Hills Cop image out loud, but when you've been married this long, you don't always need to speak for the other person to hear you. Robin had read my mind and had pulled the song up on her phone to play it over the stereo.

Fortunately, we did NOT wind up in a comically improbable chase scene and all pies arrived at their destination unscathed.

11/24/2025

"You are a cornucopia of wonder, overflowing with goodness, compassion, and strength. May all of your encounters this week remind you that you are enough." - Thor