{"id":22157,"date":"2025-01-05T14:58:06","date_gmt":"2025-01-05T20:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/?p=22157"},"modified":"2025-01-05T14:58:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T20:58:12","slug":"happy-new-year-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/christmas\/happy-new-year-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">2025 already.  We&#8217;re having a snowstorm today; the wind is whipping the waves around out on the lake and I&#8217;m happy to sit here on the couch.  It&#8217;s storming all over the country, and we were supposed to get a foot, but now it&#8217;s saying seven inches.  Whatever it is, I like to be inside.  Plus it&#8217;s going to be very cold all week.  Ugh.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Meanwhile&#8230;yesterday I was in the bedroom and Sweetie was perched on the dresser in the front, looking out the window.  I glanced out, and there was a red fox!  Luckily my phone was close by and I grabbed it and took pictures.  Kevin has been putting leftover cat food over in our neighbor&#8217;s back yard (the neighbor hasn&#8217;t been there in a while) and the fox trotted over to explore the bowls, then hopped up onto a big spool and then a low roof.  It sat there looking over towards Mom&#8217;s house. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"> It&#8217;s right there in the middle of the photo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/j2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/j2.jpg 540w, https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/j2-480x360.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 540px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Here it is on top of the roof.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/j3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/j3.jpg 540w, https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/j3-480x360.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 540px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">I hurried into the kitchen and put some wet cat food in a bowl and went outside.  The fox was on the roof looking at me and I held up the food, announcing to him that it was food, in case he was a fox who understood English, and set it on the side of the front porch and went back inside.  Here&#8217;s a little video.  This photo wasn&#8217;t part of the video but it gives you a good view of what the fox looks like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_QXot6DkBHQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">And after it went down in the hole it trotted back to our house and started eating the food, yay!   Very cool.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/j4.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/j4.jpg 540w, https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/j4-480x360.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 540px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">But what will it do today, in all this snow?  Kevin snow-plowed all the driveways and a group of nine deer was running around, seemingly confused about what he was doing.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Surely the fox will hunker down somewhere, but what about food?  The snow continues to blow like crazy.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">I&#8217;m about to get up and start getting rid of all the Xmas decor.  Even though it hasn&#8217;t been up long, I&#8217;m over it.  Except the lights, I&#8217;d like to string some lights around the edge of the ceiling.  I did that when I lived in LA and had them up all year round and loved them.  I&#8217;m at least thinking of putting some up in the garage for the garage kitties.  The garage is becoming more and more like another living room, except it doesn&#8217;t have a very scenic view. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Meanwhile&#8230;maybe I&#8217;ll get around to posting some photos of Christmas stuff plus other exciting December things, but you never know.  But wait, one photo of Lester for the new year&#8230;I made many many calendars on the website Shutterfly and the finished product arrived in this box and it&#8217;s Les&#8217;s favorite new sleeping place.  Here, Kevin had made a cheerful fire in the bedroom fireplace and Les was so happy&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/j1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/j1.jpg 540w, https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/j1-480x360.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 540px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Ok then, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Mrs. Hughes in the New Year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025 already. 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