December 14, 2025 Sunday

Greetings!

Well, my back is better...but now my jaw is swollen and I have pain until this Thursday the 18th when I can get in to a dentist.  Enough said at this point.  Fingers crossed.

Meanwhile...I did get the dresser drawers rearranged, did laundry, and worked on Christmas cards.  Almost done.  (Mouth pain slowed me down a bit.)  Dagan and Leah are going to try to come down this evening to put together the cat tree.  Again--fingers crossed.  :)

Allie loves being up on the dressers.  As soon as I am awake she wants me to open the blind.  She sits and stares up there until I notice her.  She even halfways cooperates on me lifting her up there even though she hates being picked up--lol!  When she wants to come down she sits at the end of the dresser and if I don't notice her she will finally meow at me.  She's up there every single day.

But my plan to put the little tree I ordered up on the printer...nope!  Allie tried to chew on it straight away.  I knew she chewed live plants, but she will chew plastic plants, too.

We got a bit of snow...

...and then some more.

I shuffled things around...moved the Charlie Brown tree over by the cactus...

...and put the little flocked tree where it had been.

It is small...

...but I am so happy with the tiny lights and this little bit of a Christmas tree.

Have always loved the way the wind sculpts the snow!

Can hardly wait for Allie to confront the cat tree!  LOL!

The winter scene shower curtain was too boring.  More pizzazz was needed--lol!

Since I am not feeling great this will be short, but if they can get the cat tree put together tonight I will add some pictures.

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Well, they put the cat tree together upstairs and carried it down.

Allie can probably get up there from the second perching spot by going around the back there.

She'd only have to make the first two jumps.

Allie wanted to go up after they left, but was scared of the cat tree.  So I thought I'd lift her up there and see if she'd try to go down using it.  Whenever I put her up there she wants to look for condensation on the bottom of the windows to lick, so she was really upset the blind was down all the way and paced back and forth until I opened it partway.

The she sat and stared at the tree.

But when she wanted to come down she wanted nothing to do with it.  I tried to kind of push her on to the back there and she was a little freaked out...so I half lifted her and kind of jumped her down to the next spot...which she barely wanted to touch and leapt to the floor.  Was anything but a success, but I am still hoping she will want to try it.  We'll see how she is in the mornings when she wants to go up.  But she'll be upset if she goes up and the blind isn't open--lol!  Cats!

Anyways, the boys were down and showed me all their pottery they have made from the pottery classes.  Wanted to know if I could use some for painting cups.  Yes.  Turned out when I showed them I could dedicate a bookcase shelf in my studio when it gets done...they both wanted them kept down here.  I said only one shelf, though.  If there were too many we'd have to have them keep some in their room or somewhere.  I am going to be cramped in there as it is.  But this way we'd have them right there on display all the time and we could use any ones we want when we paint down here once the studio is all put together.  Several of them would work for paint water cups and others would just be basically decoration on the shelf.  

At the last minute Liam decided to keep his bag in their room.  He doesn't have very many compared to Ian because he hasn't been going to the classes as long as Ian has...and he has a really well-done special cup that I don't think he wants to feel like he's letting go of just yet.  Not that he's letting go of it, but he can't look at it any time he wants to, you know?  ;)  

We put the bags of newspaper wrapped pottery of Ian's in the bottom of a bookcase in the studio.  They'll have a shelf that size to fill.  [I do think Liam will probably change his mind and they will both have their pottery down here eventually.  ;)]

So...the cat tree has arrived!  Time will tell as to whether Allie will use it or not, of course.

Have a wonderful week!  See you next time!  :)