Quiet Thursday

My fingers are crossed, for my west-coast family and friends, who just dealt, or are still dealing, with that weather bomb. Here are a few pics from our quiet 15° first Thursday morning in January.

Jennefer’s new Amaryllis popped up three of its January blooms in a hurry, once it got going, and we’re enjoying the rich color on our breakfast table! 

We’ve been experimenting with offering Cleo two different soft items to relax on - the blue blanket that Freddie made, and a little super-soft white blanket we picked up in Atascadero one Christmas. She alternated between them, with no apparent preference, so I tried stacking them, for the win! 

We watched Green Hornet last night. I had seen it perhaps a decade ago, and remembered that I thought it was really dumb. For some reason, I enjoyed it more this time (still dumb, though). Kato’s barista scene had me salivating…! Tonight, Cleo is preferring the blue blanket-bed that Freddie made... These paw prints in the fresh snow on Tuesday morning got to me. I'm not sure who came to visit, but for a brief moment, I was SO sad, when I imagined that it might’ve been Mandy, with no way to let me know she was out there in the cold. 

I finally put up another hook (far left), so we could hang the old bird feeder that I’d glued back together, after the squirrel-induced Great Fall to the rocks below. 

It’s hard for me to see both bird feeders at the same time, from my vantage point at the breakfast table. This is about the best I can do, if I lean back...