Oh Wow ....

    this is finally working again.  For the past several days, whenever I came to my page there was no dashboard at the top, so I couldn't make a new post.  Whatever the problem was appears to have passed, so on I go.
    My black kitty, Blackie, has decided to expand his horizons and now is not only an indoor kitty, but an outdoor one as well.  We felt it safest for the kitties to keep them as full-time indoor cats and this has worked well for three years.  All of a sudden, Blackie got a yen for the outdoors, he began escaping as often as he could.  The dog goes in and out fairly often, so Blackie would lie in wait by one of the doors, usually hidden until the dog wanted out, then flash out he went too.  Not always a good trick as he got squished more than once as we quickly tried to close the door to stop him.  So now we open the one door to let him out and usually within 5 or 10 minutes he comes to the other door to come back in.  So far, so good, he is staying close by, in the back yard, but the big scary road waits patiently out front.  We've already lost two dogs to that road and didn't want any more pet deaths, which was why the kitties were supposed to be strictly indoor cats.

    Blackie is funny, he sometimes stays out a little longer but needs to come in quickly to use the litter box.  He has not realized that the outdoors is one big litter box.  Please be careful little cat, may the goddess of small creatures watch over you and protect you from the dangers of the outdoors.
    Tiger or Tiggie, does not like the outdoors.  She was accidentally put outdoors two summers ago and got lost for three days.  She was caught in a live release trap put out by neighbours and thus found her way back to us.  She likes to sit by the window, in her safe kitty loft and observe the wonders that exist beyond the windowpane.

Look what the kitties are so close to!!

Oh, my, this is a rather large and interesting BIRD at the feeder!!

No wonder our seed disappears so quickly!! Happy spring little creatures, no more seed for you!