Just about done...

The big cat habitat is nearly done. We were able to put him in tonight, we just need to do some finishing touches on his "decor". But as you can see, he has much more room to play. We added his old cage on the outside, so he has a sunroom to play outside.

And this is a shot thru the chain link. We added one tree so far and we will add some more going in different angles so he can climb. Chris is going to build him a nicer "den" that will be high up off the ground.

This is him sharpening his claws on a tree log. He seems a lot smaller in the much bigger cage.

Timmmmmber!!!!!!!

Well, after making several phone calls over a few months I had to send a certified letter to the electric company to get them to come out and cut down 2 trees that were dead on our property. I sent the certified letter on Friday letting them know that if the tree should fall on our house (or the neighbors) our homeowners insurance company will hold them responsible. So today, Wednesday (just 3 business days later), they were here bright and early to cut our trees down. The power of the written word is amazing.

And these are Mikey's homemade pumpkin muffins for Thanksgiving tomorrow.

Happy Fricken' Birthday to Me...

Poor Chris... Today is his birthday and we woke up to 9 inches of snow, and it's still falling. So that meant he had to get up and go plow the driveway, shovel the back patio and snow blow our walkways to the workshops.

Here is our patio table.

Exactly 9 inches at about 11:00am.

Habitat for Felinity

You have probably heard of the wonderful charity called "Habitat for Humanity", well this is kind of like that... We are building a house for a less fortunate cat :) Although he is going from an apartment to a mansion, he will actually be quite spoiled.

The whole family was involved today. Her is Mikey putting in heavy duty staples to fasten the caging down.

Meghan is digging a trench to bury the next wall.

This is the next wall being assembled that will go where Meghan dug the trench next to the boat. Notice the dusting of snow on the ground? It was a cold day but we were comfortable most of the day with just sweatshirts on. It didn't snow, that is leftover from a couple days ago.

Starting the new bobcat habitat, finally!

As you can see, this is fuzzy-butts current home. A 6'x6' dog kennel. Clearly not what we want for him. He needs something bigger so that he can climb and get some exercise. So he will soon have the whole side of the carport - basically the whole area you see from ground to ceiling. We're going to place logs in there that he can climb on and his current 6x6 cage will be added out the front of the enclosure so he can go out and have some sunshine.

So today we started with the side wall.

We framed the wall out in a clearing - which unfortunately has a few inches of snow. We worked until about 6:00pm and it was dark out when we were done. But Chris got the whole side wall framed and is ready to mount to the side and hang caging on it.

In the mean time, we took the big-boy out of his cage so that the power tools didn't stress him out too much. So he got to have a change of scenery for a few hours today.

Long time, no blog...

It's been about a month since I posted last. I think we have just been kind of crazy with time change and getting ready for winter. Getting ready for winter is something we never had to do in California. Getting ready for winter means making sure that everything that you don't want buried in snow for 5 months gets put in a safe place.

Chris has made a little bit of progress on the Bronco. He bought a used set of rims off of Craigslist and actually found a nice set of "manly" tires at our thrift shop (of all places!). So now the Bronco looks like it runs :)

And, good news for me :) When Chris was getting our storage shed ready for winter, he found a box I've been looking for that has my antique book collection. They fit perfectly in my studio on the cupboards over my torch.

Autumn Colors are here.

This is a view down our driveway. All our Aspens are a pretty yellow. Also, it looks as if we have a ghost haunting our driveway?

Our Aspens in the middle of our circular driveway.

This is some kind of Maple that is in our back yard. It's a vibrant red and orange.

This is some kind of exotic pine tree. In the Fall, the needles turn bright yellow and completely fall off. In the Spring, it gets really soft light green needles that look and feel like grass. My dad thought it was dead the first year we lived here and told us to cut it down. I'm sure glad I didn't!