Day two with new kitties

All is still going well. All kitties are eating, drinking, and no longer slink around so bad. ; - ) We are still having discussions when they meet in a hallway or one at the top of the stairs and one at the bottom of the stairs. But no more hissing at everyone.

Right now, Ash is in the window, and Hobbes is on the cable box. And no one hissed. cool.

ME

Day one of Kitty invasion

We got Ash and Sasquatch home last night and they arrived in great shape. The flight over from OKC was only like 2 1/2 hours so not horrible. They were completely calm in the car for the hour and half drive to the house. Completely different from driving from AK to UT with Susie and Hobbes who howled and panted and paced.

First night finds them calm and they slept with Kris in her room. All set with food and water and litter. Today they are exploring the house while Hobbes and Susie are carefully watching them. We are seeing the expected growling and hissing but that is as far as it's going for now. Sasquatch is particularly vocal but is anyway so she has been pretty much singing a harmonious growl as she walks around and even as she plops down and lays on the floor she continues with the verbiage. LOL

Ash and Sasquatch both are quite friendly to Terry and I so this seems to really help keep them calm.

Over all, this has been a pretty good few hours start to introducing all of them.

ME

The kitties are back on

and will arrive tomorrow afternoon. They will be quite the travellers coming all by them selves. We looked around the basement to see if there are any danger zones for two new scared cats and blocked them off and otherwise will bring them in and hope all goes well. It will be a bit of a transition for our old kitties but since every one is used to other cats it should work out fairly well.

ME

oh so sad the kitties aren't coming

At least just yet. Apparently the FAA in their infinite wisdom has declared an embargo on flying with pets both in Denver and in SLC. Now this is apparently because there is weather coming in. Well, checking on the weather site the only thing I see is the lows tonight dip to 40. The flight Kris is on comes in at 7:30pm the sun is still up at that time and it's clear skies and sunshine in both cities forecast today.

SO there will be some sort of shuffling and hopefully it will all work out. It's still going to be great to see Kris, I just hope now it's not a hassle cause everything else is up in the air.

So just to be nice to her I told her I would take the litter box out of the guest room. LOL

ME

good people and funny times

There has been a recent upswing in people I know signing up for facebook. It's like the good friends from my old AK employer are reaching out to those who have moved on to other jobs or places, and a whole rash of folks are now signed up and struggling to learn all the silly applications facebook has.

I so miss them all.

Not that I mind being here in UT. Today it got up to 50 degrees. Yesterday with a little spring storm we got 4" of new snow that 99% melted by afternoon. It was so nice today we did a little edging on the lawn project. We got both sides of the driveway and the sidewalk on the front of the house done. This has obviously not been done probably ever and man, it looks so much nicer already.

Tomorrow our daughter arrives and it's supposed to be up to 60 degrees. I will admit here and now that I'll probably miss the longer days up in AK. But UT has a lot to offer a person so the trade is ok. Plus, evenings should be way neat, dark and warm. YES I know summer isn't here yet and I will probably absolutely seek a hole in the ground somewhere. But hey, getting out today and doing a small little bit of yard work only got us a little sunburned. (our poor AK skin) Actually the darn yard needs mowed. Yup we gave up AK to do yard work! ; - )

While I was cleaning out some old files in the computer I happened onto some files that I could not help but peruse through. One of note was the remodel of our basement. MAN ALIVE. what an ordeal that was. Actually there was a hell of a lot going on the last two years or so, we were up in AK. Between getting the garage built, the basement gutted and completely redesigned and rebuilt, several great friends and family visited, our youngest daughter got married, Terry had surgery and then cancer treatment, travelled to OK and built a deck for our Daughters landlord and best friend, Saw George Strait, we planned for and jumped through ALL the hoops for an addition on the house to actually tearing off the back deck to start only to get a call the VERY NEXT DAY that the position here in UT is open and do we want to do this, to changing directions, finish up what we can on the house, paint, stain, more paint, and move, and drive, and deal with kitties, and give away Goldie, and put poor Sammy down, and now we've been here 6 months already. that has been a blink of an eye.

The first 6 months of AK didn't quite go so smoothly. I don't care what anyone says, you don't just live IN Alaska, you LIVE Alaska. Every day, especially in the winter, is survival. I'll never ever be sorry for what we did there.

That's enough for now. sorry to blather on and on.
ME

The reason

We have the fattest robins in the world here and there is also not a worm left on the street, sidewalks or driveway. Now I know why! LOL

ickie

we had heavy rains last night and woke up to a zillion earth worms that are stretched out over all the paved surfaces. Big and little. It didn't do this last fall when it rained and we had some doosies so maybe it's a spring thing. ICK.