whew. these were all taken right after it snowed, the week before winnie died.
Saturday morning, Jan. 12th, Riley was determined to play in the snow even though it was piled mighty high.
Shortly thereafter i shoveled the back deck off the bedroom and a path to the kitty house. les immediately had to march right into the house.
i tried to get a video of him as he leapt through the big snow, but he was too fast for me.
i woke up on sunday morning to more snow. i looked out the front window and there was a deer.
kevin had been gone since friday night and was supposed to come back saturday, but because the roads were horrible he stayed away another night. jim had done lots of plowing and snow-blowing on saturday but he hadn’t been able to get to mom’s driveway – the tractor had started leaking something and he was worried it’d completely break down, and then the snow blower started smoking.
so on sunday morning he shoveled this channel in mom’s drive.
Mom hadn’t been able to get out for a whole day and of course was anxious to leave the prison of her house. Jim thought we should shovel a wide trench so that when kevin came home he’d be able to easily plow the rest of the driveway.
before i started i took this last picture.
we worked for maybe an hour, and jim pointed out that it was peaceful in the snow. when i walked back home i was dismayed to see the state of kevin’s shelter.
he normally parks his truck under the shelter, and i remember going out to check on it saturday night…but i know i didn’t look thoroughly enough, because if i had, i’d have poked at all the snow on the roof with a broom. damn.
when kevin got home he managed to shovel enough snow off the roof to get the tractor out, added some kind of fluid or other, and made quick work of mom’s driveway.
monday morning, the 14th, riley was happy to go out into the snowy yard.
it was cloudy that morning with the sun just peeking through.
les and riley on monday night.
Tuesday night, the 15th, les was on top of the fridge. i don’t think he’s been lying there like that before.
Izzy looking so cute, snuggled up against the cold.
i took this photo of a deer in amy’s yard, right before i went to mom’s house on friday the 18th. because they have bird feeders in the front the deer are always gathered for a snack.
after that i went to mom’s to watch a movie, and later kevin and i got home, and then all the bad stuff happened with winnie. *sigh*
he was a very, very good kitty.
ok then,
mrs. late sunday afternoon hughes.