I am auntie to these tiny felines who live in Brice and Claudia's house. New family members Lucy, hunting invisible mousies --
-- and Fred, looking adorable.
Claudia says they are smart and are already a handful. As cute as they are I don't think it matters. Just looking at them is pleasure enough..
The boy, CuddleFluff, is at top and Noodley the girl is toward the bottom -- both are being actively doted upon by Marcella. Not that they're spoiled or anything. This is a cat room Geoffrey built on a stand that Mary left behind -- she had a slightly different setup for her cats when they lived here. You can see the kitty bridge leading from the house window to the enclosure. It can be closed at night.
The cats love this thing -- they can go out and watch birds or bugs or just hang in the fresh air. I think more and more people are going to have indoor-only cats so enclosures like this one will be common. Marcella's cats travel -- they have their own travel playpen and are accustomed to a leash. They have been up to the ski condo several times and come to hang out at our house often. Sophisticated kitties.
George has a new toy -- As soon as it came home our Kittle jumped aboard and gave her approval. It is a 1999 SeaSwirl Striper sportfishing boat. It is 26 feet with a cuddy cabin and is powered by a 250 Johnson two-stroke and a 9.9 Evinrude four-stroke as a kicker. George says, "It's a perfect Puget Sound fishing and cruising boat." He took it out this morning for a fishing derby and said it is everything he could ask for. "It kicked butt."
Here are some of my seedlings, ready to be put into little pots this week.
They were all started from seed in late January using the Winter Sowing Method. Clamshell fast food containers, or any kind of clear container that can be closed, filled with good potting soil, with air holes top and bottom. Plant seeds. Water. Don't forget to label. Close container, set outside in the light (but not in direct sun) and wait through rain, snow, ice -- doesn't matter. In their own time the little green seedlings poke their heads up. Lots of them for not much money. Enough to share.
Pictured, outside now, are artichoke, rainbow chard, poppy, sweet pea, Shasta daisy, convolvulus, painted daisy, blanket flower, broccoli, Napa cabage, brussels sprouts, English daisy, Oriental poppy, snow pea (vining), beets, bush peas, hollyhocks, carnations. Still in the unheated greenhouse: pumpkins, cucumbers, tomatoes. There are at least this many seeds planted since January, and more seeds going into their own little clamshells, so more seedlings will arrive in a few weeks. Our last frost day is reckoned to be May 1, so I'm keeping an eye on them.
* Doesn't "convolvulus" sound anatomical? "Dude, I've got to stop partying so hard. My convolvulus can't take it." "The doctor said it was the most inflamed convolvulus she had ever seen." Actually it's a pretty flower -- a bush morning glory.
