Some journal-keeper I'm turning out to be
We brought the new kitten home on Saturday, and it has taken Freddie only 3 days to mostly accept her. We're calling her Nittany, after the Penn State Nittany Lion, because Auntie Di and I both went to Penn State and we bought her from a cattery in Pennsylvania (it actually ended up being closer to us than the cattery in Virginia from which we got her predecessors). She seems a lot healthier than Jasmyne was. Hopefully, she will live a lot longer than Jasmyne or Galadriel. We expect to have all three of our furkids around for a good many years to come.
Romana accepted Nittany fairly quickly. My guess is that she's as old as Romana's kittens are, the ones she had before we met her and after which she was spayed. Either that or she just likes her because she's a kitten. Freddie took a little longer, but this morning he and Nittany were playing Meezer Tag around the apartment, with no snarls or snaps. They aren't snuggling yet, but he seems to be getting used to her being around.
The weather in Northern Virginia today has been severely hot. I had taken off from work for a couple of days to look after the new kitten, and I took Freddie out for his walk this morning while it was still relatively cool. An hour later when I finally persuaded him to come in and let me have my tea, the heat index was already up to 91. According to News 4, the high temperature (not counting heat index) was 99, but that was at National, and Weather bug shows it as hitting 100 here in Falls Church at the high school just up the road. Tomorrow looks to start out with more of the same, but we're supposed to get thunderstorms in the evening ahead of a cold front, which should cool it down to "only" the 80's for Thursday! Gotta love summer in DC. The heat index is still in the mid-90's at this hour of the evening. I don't think Freddie's going to go "wowt" this evening. It's still going to be too hot.
