Much Too Short
The weekend, that is! Here it is, Sunday night and I didn’t come close to doing everything I’d hoped. One of the big things not accomplished was new pictures of the fur kids. So maybe, just maybe, the weather will be nice when I get home from work tomorrow and I’ll take the kittens outside for some photos.
What did I do, you ask? Well, the majority of the weekend was spent working in the stud room. Last winter we built a 4′ x 4′ x 4′ box with some shelves on top for Peanut to hang out in when it’s cold and climb on when it’s not. We also built one for Comet, but his has since been moved out to the run to provide a way back into the stud room from outside. I’d primed the inside of the box, but I was trying to get Comet’s all done before he arrived and I never finished painting Peanut’s. So this weekend I finally did that. I also covered one of the posts that support the shelves with sisal to make a scratching post and covered the shelf inside the box with carpet. Next I caulked the inside of the box to keep drafts out. I then thoroughly cleaned the entire room. Next on the agenda is to take the comforter and bed linens I’d bought last year and make them into a bed and a drape for the front opening of the box to keep it warmer. I hope it won’t take me as long to do that as it did to get the painting done (nine months… )
I also did a few updates on the ForestKatz site — check out the newer pictures of Tori and Guri’s babies, including my cutie, Basia. Yes, my King of Everything (that would be my husband Ken) has finally given me the official go ahead to have Basia come live with us in a couple months. Jim and Donna took new pictures of the kittens today, so I’ll probably be posting them to their site tomorrow evening. While I was updating the site, I created individual pages for the kittens, so if you don’t get a chance to look at the current pictures, they’ll be on the individual pages later. And, Jim and Donna have an adult female available for adoption, should anyone be looking for a sweet girl for their family.
Beau and Kefira are becoming good friends and I think they are both happy to be together — Beau, because he has someone to keep him company and Kefira because she’s away from Shira, Fin, and Spaz. They aren’t exactly mean to her, but she doesn’t much like Fin’s and Spaz’s high spirits and wild games. It makes her rather grumpy when they tackle her.
Shira is still playing mom to the kittens and letting them nurse. Not that they are getting any milk, but they don’t care. They just like to nurse. Talia is already waddling, but she doesn’t look hugely pregnant. But then, her due date is nearly a month away. Kalispell is enjoying being a kitten now that she’s over wanting a man. And hunting has been good — three spoons made their way upstairs last night — one of them into our bed!
Muffet — Peanut’s girlfriend — has not had her babies yet. At least as of this morning she hadn’t. Patti’s going to have her hands full with two girls on the verge of giving birth any minute.
So that’s what’s new at LostWoods tonight. Oh, there was a big fire about two miles away from us this afternoon. It was burning just east of a state park to the north of us on the other side of the highway. They were using helicopters to dip water from the lake in the park to dump on the fire. They also had part of the highway closed down and people in the immediate vicinity were evacuated. We had the carriers all out and a list of what we needed to grab just in case, but we were never in any real danger. I’d encourage everyone to think about putting together a disaster plan — even if you’re not in the way of wildfires or hurricanes. You never know when you’ll have to leave in a hurry. Check out the brief story in my Cat Tails section if you need some basic ideas on creating that plan.
Good night everyone!
September 17th, 2007 at 9:51 pm
I knew it would be Basia who would join the Lostwoods Family!