Month: December 2020

(A second night in a row of a candle flame photo! But not the Hanukah candles…)
The candle on the right has hardly any wick left, but it burned this wee little flame all through dinner without giving up.  A great miracle happened here.

I’m excited to be lighting the candles this year.  In the past few years, I haven’t been able to.  I guess it’s a small silver lining of this pandemic.

Poor Oliver is getting ready to shed. To those who know him well, we can see that his skin is dull and darker than usual.  But more obvious, his eyes have gone “opaque.”   So right now, Oliver’s vision is not very good at all, and he’s hiding under his log where he feels safest.  Going opaque is a sign that the shed should be happening in the next day or so.  Then Oliver will be back to his curious self.

Our poor cherry tree is so confused.  It was a little warm last week, so thought it should prepare to bloom, and today there’s snow on the ground.

Had a conversation with my dad about how to help him keep track of appointments and such, and we decided that a really big wall calendar would be helpful.  So I ordered one, which arrived today.

We chose this couch partly because the back is sturdy, narrow and not made of cushions, so the kitties wouldn’t be able to crush it by sitting on it.  The cats don’t often sit on the back of it, but when they do, it handles it just fine.  I think we chose wisely.