Winter is on the way
There’s snow on top the mountains outside Helena this morning. I know that fall just officially arrived, but here in Montana, fall often brings snow. We had a cold, rainy day yesterday. It was a good day for sleeping in and staying home. I guess that’s one good thing about not going to Colorado for the show this past weekend — I got to sleep in on Sunday. That doesn’t really make up for not spending time with my friends, though, so I still wish I could have gone.
McCoy got two finals at the show — as 3rd Best AB Kitten and 7th Best LH Kitten. Brenda printed out some of the new pictures of Ce’Nedra and Taiba and put them up in the benching area. Saturday morning I got a call from friend and fellow wegie breeder, Heidi Herman. She had seen Ce’Nedra in Albuquerque and now seeing her new pictures, Heidi decided that Ce’Nedra needed to go live with her. And so later this week Ce’Nedra will be on a plane headed for Colorado. I’m very happy about this development as I had hoped Ce’Nedra would go to a show home. And I’ll get to see her when I do make it back to Colorado for shows. Brenda says there were people interested in Taiba, too, so I hope one of them will be interested enough (and be a suitable home) to contact me. I finally printed new business cards and gave Brenda a supply to hand out at shows — something she’d been wanting me to do for almost a year!
I made a new drape for the opening in Peanut’s box this weekend. Sorta like the painting project, it was something I’d planned last winter and didn’t get done. I’d bought a inexpensive comforter set at WalMart last winter, with plans to cut an opening sized piece out of the comforter to make the drape. The other part of the comforter and the pillow shams could be made into beds for Peanut. And the edges of the bedskirt would make matching valances for the two windows in the stud room. I got the drape and a couple beds made this weekend. Since the weather has been colder, Peanut has been hanging out in the lower part of his box and he seemed to like the new beds. I don’t know if he likes the drape, but he doesn’t mind it and it will keep his “cave” warmer this winter. Last winter I just draped a fleece blanket over the opening, but I think the comforter will provide more insulation.
On the subject of the stud room, I have hopes that our plans to sheet rock and re-panel the stud room will be more than a plan in a couple weeks. The room is very hard to heat with the ceiling open to the rafters and no insulation in the ceiling. So we are going to take down the wall paneling we put in last year, put up sheet rock on the walls and the ceiling, and insulate the ceiling. (The walls were insulated last year when we put up the paneling.) Then we’ll put new paneling on the walls. The panels are plastic coated — easy to clean up when you have a male that sprays. We’ll also make a smaller area near the back door for the dogs. Right now, the dogs get the back part of the stud room (it’s divided in two sections) at night and Beau has to be moved to the big cage each night. We also have to take all the cat stuff out of the dog’s area each night because Libby would chew it up if we left it. So it’s a bit of a pain each morning and night to move everything around. Once all that is done, we’ll build a new “cave” for Beau and I’ll use some more of the comforter and fabric to make beds and stuff for him — or other visiting boys in the future.