So there I am sitting outside in my screened porch area on a very, very cold for GA Jan morning. I'm wrapped in a blanket and sipping coffee while watching Pumpkin and Pooky enjoy "outside". The yappy pups, realized that we were within barkable distance and began yapping away. Well, Pooky got fed up and went back in, but Pumpkin did not. She tried to ignore them by watching the leaves blowing in the breeze. I could tell she was getting fed up because her ears kept going back until they were almost flat.

She moved over to face them and hunkered down until she got really round and puffy looking. Pumpkin was staring down the puppies. The barking started tapering down and I could tell they were getting nervous when the little beige one turned his back to her. The black and white one made a scared sounding yip and took off. Beigey soon followed.

After she was satisfied that that they were gone for good, she came up to me all happy wanting praise. I have such an awesome Pumpkin kitty.

Unfriendly, Mariposa and her beau and our high school buddy, Talon, went here a couple of days before New Year's. The camera battery died though, so this is all I got.

The first Thursday of school, a 17 year old kid merged into my car. He had turned out to oncoming traffic (me) , so I thought whoever it was didn't look before turning onto the road. It was foggy and slippery out, so I quickly moved into the left hand lane to avoid rear ending him or attempting to brake suddenly and have me spin out or not stop. Well, I guess he thought I'd still be behind him and slowing down so he was surprised when his car connected with mine.

In short, the cop cited him and his folks' insurance paid for my damage.

Oh, and see all the junk in the garage? That's why my car wasn't in the garage when....

The following Monday, I was damn proud of myself for getting out of the house on time to get to work by 7:00 am. As I'm opening my door, I look in the backseat and see this. Monday sucks bad enough. Having to call the cops to report vandalism made Monday 1,000,000 times as sucky.

Fast forward to two weeks ago on Wed evening. It was SNOWING! I was actually kind of geeked out to see it. I was not happy that life didn't shut down as I had hoped. So, I had to drive to Athens with my ghetto fabulous taped up, scratched up car in below 30 degree weather. Joyous.

... but you have to admit...snowmen are pretty cool. Even when they look like ...
It seems that kids that rarely see snow get very, very excited about it. When I lived in MI, I rarely saw kids outside really playing in the snow.