Kitten Update

MrPloppy somehow managed to fix my camera, so now I’m not so annoyed at the kittens for peeing on our bed (and then waiting until we’d spent all day washing the bedclothes before repeating the performance). But more importantly, it means a new batch of kitten photos! (yeah, tell me when you’re getting bored with…

And the winners are

I’d like to formally introduce you to: Parsnips and Pushkin Not quite the original names we’d planned on, but these ones somehow fit better (though don’t ask me to explain exactly why!). A few more photos, just because: I would have lots more, but not long after that one of the kittens managed to pull…

Introducing….

Actually, we haven’t quite settled on their names yet, so I can’t introduce you, but I can show you photos of the two little additions to our family: They’re both girls (or ex-girls, having had their bits removed a few days ago). They’re not littermates, but are young enough that hopefully they’ll bond with each…

Cat Stones

In a dusty corner of our porch are three large stones, one for each cat buried in our backyard. Our section sits right on top of one of the gravel banks that criss-cross the Canterbury plains, left over from the Waimakariri’s meanderings, and the reason our suburb got off so lightly in the earthquakes. It’s…