Snow Kitty

A couple of weeks ago, we had some excitement at our home upon rising one morning. Our motion detector light came on in the back yard. We had a "visitor" (uninvited human). This was almost as exciting as what the visiting kitties had left on our front step--their really yucky road kill meal.

When My Husband made a whole chicken recently, he saved the carcass and put it "out" for the kitties. One little girl found it this morning. Then came back this afternoon for a bit more meal. It is approximately 9 degrees outside and very snow-ey.

We are not "cat people". This is extra-ordinary behavior on My Husband's part. The poor little thing is ssssoooooooo cute. It has pretty mottled gray hair and bright little eye balls and perky pointy ears. Aaaaaw. And she's really skittish.

After all this, My Husband heated some bacon grease and chicken chunks. We put this out for her to eat, too.

Hopefully it will warm her little heart.

Getting to Some Things

Since we have some of this:








It has been a nice, quiet time to knit and get at some projects.

We have had a Mystery Leak in our wash room. Both My Husband and I thought it the washing machine as each time we did a load of laundry, we got a little trickle. But then the trickle went away, so we ignored that we once had a trickle. Then it came back, went away, etc. This has been going on for some time. Today, My Husband put the washing machine up on two two-by-fours and got down on the floor with a flashlight. Nothing seemed awry.

Then, he did further investigating and found some dampness and wet by the water softener. It was kindof a good thing. He has not put salt in it for a bit, so we checked the salt. Nothing, really. Yet all that dampy-ness. He made a decision to yank the water softener charger (found some dinosaur bones underneath it) and the salt recepticle. More fossilized items under there.

Then, when My Husband put little ends on the copper tubing and hooked up the water, wahlah. No water. Nada. Nothing. My Husband laughed at his design. I did not get it. He spent much of the rest of the day making a no-leak little bridge from one copper pipe to the other. He spent a lot of time going to Menard's and talking with several little old guys.

I might be famous if I take the found fossilized items to the museum. Don't stop breathing or anything while you are waiting for my famousness to occur.

Snow Pile

When it snowed recently, the flakes coming down were the size of a slice of pepperoni. Really! So, I tried to take some pictures. Many were wet and soggy, of the deck or sidewalk, so I tried another approach.

This really captures the scene best.
Snow in snow.




Today, I received my Holiday Biggest-Issue-of-the-Year J. Crew catalog.
I cannot possibly shop like this!

There has to be some knitting in here somewhere! I took a photo of My Knitting Pile.
All projects are on hold until my hand is better
healed (or they let me out of this cast).