Mittens is still missing. Auntie Di says that we may have to wait for Spring when it's warm enough to sit out all night again to catch her.
In the course of looking for Mittens, we found two Meezer Mixes that needed homes and adopted them. Cocoa is a seal-point daughter of a Meezer tom and a black, feral queen. She doesn't like to be picked up or carried around, but she will come and sit by us on the couch and let us pet her.
Finn mac Cool is a seal-point with green eyes. He has an upper respiratory infection for which he is on a new set of drugs and seems to be doing much better. He's about 4 months old. Once he started eating and perking up again, he has done wonders for the household. Before he came, Cocoa spent most of her time in her room, and Fred was getting decidedly lazy except for wanting to go out. Now they both play Meezer Tag with Finn, Fred doesn't fuss so much to be let out, and Cocoa has gotten more social.
We have two little Christmas trees in pots, one I bought at Target that doesn't have anything on it, and the other is a little decorated pine that my Mom sent me. It has little red & white glass balls on it and little white flocked bears filled with styrofoam. Within about 10 minutes of that little tree being brought into the house, Cocoa had one of the bears off and chewed its little head off!
Next year should be a better Christmas because I won't have Convention coming right on its heels. Right now the trees are the closest we have to decorating the house because we've both been so busy.
