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greenstorm) wrote2022-11-25 10:56 pm
greenstorm) wrote2022-11-25 10:56 pm
Check-in
So far this winter is about sitting on my new-to-me downstairs sofa more often than not, surrounded by a changing kaleidoscope of sleeping animals. Right now it's Hazard, curled up on his side with his teeth in the air, and Demon, sleeping up on the woodpile behind me with one paw draped over the edge. Half an hour ago it was Avallu on his blanket which serves the function of a carpet in front of the fire and Whiskey on his side with his head resting on my foot.
We've had really variable temperatures. It's swooped from a couple degrees above freezing to -20ishC once already, warmed up, and it's about to do it again. We had some snow, then some fluffy snow, then some wet snow, then some rain, then it froze, then it melted, and froze a couple times, then it frozen-rained. My driveway has about as much friction as wet glass: I should have snowblown it when it snowed, even though it was so few inches of snow each time it didn't seem worth it. Now I have something that would probably be nice to ice skate on.
Hazard has flopped most of the way onto his back and is clearly twitching and dreaming, and he just yowled in his sleep. It was a weird yowl but he's a weird cat.
Speaking of weird cats, last night Someone knocked a squash off the 4" high shelf and rolled/carried it about 8" into the alcove beside the woodstove. The dogs wouldn't go in there, which leaves... the cat Demon? He does tend to knock things off shelves, but I haven't seen him carry a couple-pound squash before.
Both Tucker and Josh are
(he just looooooong mrowled in his sleep again)
coming up around Christmas at different times. I will try to enjoy taking full advantage of the intervening time to sew. I was going to cut out fabric for mock-ups tonight but I put on a pair of half-sewn pants from the last time I did a round of sewing, to see what was up with them. It looks like I hadn't put cuffs or waistband on them, probably because I hadn't finished sewing up one leg, probably because the bobbin ran out of thread mid-seam and I was on a timeline to make stuff for the Cape Scott Christmas backpacking. I pulled the pants on to see what was up and they were so, so, so comfortable that I just sat around spreadsheeting and didn't want to get out of them.
We've had really variable temperatures. It's swooped from a couple degrees above freezing to -20ishC once already, warmed up, and it's about to do it again. We had some snow, then some fluffy snow, then some wet snow, then some rain, then it froze, then it melted, and froze a couple times, then it frozen-rained. My driveway has about as much friction as wet glass: I should have snowblown it when it snowed, even though it was so few inches of snow each time it didn't seem worth it. Now I have something that would probably be nice to ice skate on.
Hazard has flopped most of the way onto his back and is clearly twitching and dreaming, and he just yowled in his sleep. It was a weird yowl but he's a weird cat.
Speaking of weird cats, last night Someone knocked a squash off the 4" high shelf and rolled/carried it about 8" into the alcove beside the woodstove. The dogs wouldn't go in there, which leaves... the cat Demon? He does tend to knock things off shelves, but I haven't seen him carry a couple-pound squash before.
Both Tucker and Josh are
(he just looooooong mrowled in his sleep again)
coming up around Christmas at different times. I will try to enjoy taking full advantage of the intervening time to sew. I was going to cut out fabric for mock-ups tonight but I put on a pair of half-sewn pants from the last time I did a round of sewing, to see what was up with them. It looks like I hadn't put cuffs or waistband on them, probably because I hadn't finished sewing up one leg, probably because the bobbin ran out of thread mid-seam and I was on a timeline to make stuff for the Cape Scott Christmas backpacking. I pulled the pants on to see what was up and they were so, so, so comfortable that I just sat around spreadsheeting and didn't want to get out of them.