Kitty Entertainment in Winter

Last Sunday I was moving pellets from the garage into the basement. In order to be able to keep the door open, I put the youngsters in "jail". Spot had actually just gone in the pen to take a nap and when I closed the door, Rainey came to investigate. I opened the door back up and encouraged her to go in, and she obliged.

Rita of course, could be contained by closing the baby gate (if the guy ever decides to come by and install the new electrical outlets with new wiring, I could think about getting sheet rock to install on that wall :)

Yesterday the youngsters were intent on something outside, most likely birds. Spot is on top. I have never seen Rainey get up on the stove but she likes to stand on the register cover to look out when she isn't in one of the bay windows. She has to take a break every so often, take a walk around the room, then get back in position.

This picture was taken last Saturday, but it could have been taken a couple of weeks ago, or even yesterday. We haven't had a lot of snow; mostly just a 2-3 inches every 4-6 days. But, this shrub has not been able to shed what was dropped at the beginning of the month because it has never gotten warm enough to melt any of the white stuff.

Even on the few sunny days, the only meltage has been on the driveway closest to the street. Although not a snowy winter, I'm almost out of areas to put the snow, I'll have to get a picture of the piles in front of the house.

Comments

[Cop Car]

Like you (well...maybe not quite like you, we are having a sustained spell of below-freezing weather. (This morning we are at 2 Fahrenheit degrees above zero and are not supposed to get above 4, today.) However, we've had so little snow that most of the snow on our concrete areas had sublimated. We have an inch or so of fresh snow, this morning.

Cute photos of the kitties. Your kennel looks like you should be boarding animals - lol. Boy! The kitties really stretch themselves out to keep watch on that side of the house, don't they? Do they have snuggle towels on the ledges of the bay windows? Our shelves get really cold in this type of weather. I've always kept a cover on the bay window ledge in the kitchen during cold weather; but, your dad asked me a few days ago to put something on the bay window ledge in his bedroom. It seems that he had put his "brains" and phone on the ledge next to his snoozing chair while he napped and awoke to a phone that was really, really cold. You know how cold bothers him. I don't know why I hadn't thought to cover that ledge in the past 21 years.

[bogie]

The bay windows have towels to keep the planters from scratching the wood, as well as for a bit of insulation. The cats muss them up, I straighten them out, they get mussed, and so on ;)

I don't think we've had a day so far this year that it didn't get up to at least double digits. I could be misremembering just because this is an abnormally mild year temp wise and we've only had a handful of evening temps in the negative digits. I don't even think we've gotten into negative double digits (although -11 pops in my mind, but that may not have been my temp).

[Cop Car]

We don't normally get your low temperatures, of course; but, last night our front porch thermometer read -8 when I went to bed - and, evidently, stayed there all night. We are supposed to get up to +1 as a high, today.

I'm trying to reschedule grocery pickup from tomorrow to Wednesday (when it's supposed to get up to the low 20s); but Wally World's website isn't working just now.

The County Health Dept has changed their vaccine website so that it no longer asks if it has been 21 days since our 1st shots; but, currently, they are only accepting 2nd shot appointments through the 20th and our 21 days will have elapsed on the 22nd, so I have made an entry into my Outlook Calendar for the 17th.

[Ruth]

Ok, the standing on the baseboard is cute as hell.

My bird feeders supply hours of entertainment for Trouble, and even Arty, I'll take it!