Cats, Cowboys, and Crepuscule

Yes, I did have to use a thesaurus to achieve the title's perfect alliteration. Originally it was Cats, Cowboys, and Sunsets, but it was so close to being alliterated that I could not resist a little search for a corresponding word. I decided it wouldn't hurt to give everyone, including myself, a new vocabulary word of the day.

Since moving into our rental home, we have made friends with small, black, neighorhood cat. I am not sure who it belongs to, if anyone, but it is the sweetest, gentlest kitty. At first it was very skittish and if you put it on your lap, it jumped off as soon as it could. Now she voluntary crawls up into your lap and if you try to push her off, she curls into a tighter, round ball with her head and tail intertwined.

She has become our constant companion and spends most of her day and evening either on our front porch, in a little box we put out for her, or on the back porch. She longs to come inside and watches for any opportunity to dart past the guard and into the house. Today, she even climbed all the way to the top of our screen door, looking for an opening.

We have named the kitty Lucky.



Ania does have a little of the drama queen in her. Most of the time for a photo, she rises to the occasion. :-) When Kayleen took this picture of her and then showed it to her afterward, her response was, "Aaaaawwwwwwww". She's heard it so many times, that I guess she must suppose that is the proper response to cute pictures.

The other day Annalise, Austin, and Ania dressed themselves up as cowboys. They have a considerable lack of toys, in fact, most of their toys are packed away so they are learning to make do. A lack of suitable cowboy clothing necessitated the rifling of Austin's closet to come up with the requisite articles.

Kayleen took these pictures this evening, attempting to catch the autumn glow that pervaded our back yard view. I think that she did a very fine job.

This lone tree standing against the backdrop of stormy clouds is amazing. A barren tree is a rare sight in Washington; even during the Autumn season we have plenty of evergreens to color the landscape. This picture looked like it was taken in the midst of a wilderness.