Cats & Congas?

What is this fascination???

Kitties! Awwwwww

That's right! There's two cats in this picture. :) We're so glad that they're starting to get along.

It may be just the cold weather but it sure is cute.


They even entertain themselves! (yay)

I swear! They really are having fun!!! We couldn't catch Odie in a flying leap because she's just too fast.

Merry Christmas!

Ben's been doing a great job of making the place holiday ready! Hoping to post some pictures of the place at night.

Kitty Grass

Today we got the kitty grass set up. You'd almost think it was catnip the way Addy went for it! After about a half an hour of dedicated eating it looked pretty much untouched though.

More car troubles

As if one major Prius incident a year wasn't enough...

SCE came to work on our power lines last night.

One loud noise and an expletive later...
I missed most of a day of work trying to get all my ducks in a row.

Odessa's First Night

Well it wasn't the best we could have hoped for! We didn't get that much sleep and due to our lack of communication Odessa ended up peeing on the bed. Still Addy was much more interested in attacking Odie than us! So that part is working well.

When we first tried settling down, 'Dessa was huddling between us hiding from Addy. Addy was stalking around and under the bed making intermittent growling noises. At one point I felt I was being watched and looked to the head of the bed. All I saw was the torso and head of Addy smoothly sink below my level of vision, growling faintly. If it hadn't been so sinister I would have laughed out loud!

Eventually we got sick of the noises and Ben took Addy out into the living room with the cat box. This was 3:00 am in the dark without my glasses. I was under the mistaken impression that the carrier in our bedroom still had a cat box in it. Not long after, Odie started meowing and frantically searching for a place to relieve herself. I kept putting her into the carrier. I soon found out the inadequacy of this suggestion when she gave up and went on the bed. :P Hopefully that inauspicious start has not become a habit!

Welcome Odessa

In a desperate attempt to improve the quality of life for us and for Addy we have adopted another cat. Will two wrongs make a right?

Here's Odessa taking her first steps in her new home.

We found her because her sister 'Nessa had been adopted by Nora. You can even see the first picture we saw of her there. Awww. Too cute!
Addy looks like she has some concerns...

We'll see how the first night goes!!! Wish us luck!!!!!

Is this the Addy blog?

It seems like we don't have much else to post about! There's house stuff and there's Addy stuff. Oh, we did come up with one jokey name for her. We were rounding the corner to get into the car this evening and were ambushed by a dog named Molly (at least that's what the owner was yelling). The dog was pretty scary looking and we were joking that the dog looked more like a "Maulie". That evolved to Amalia (like "I'll maul ya!") and then Shamalia ("She'll maul ya!") and then it occurred to us that that would be a great name for Addy too. Also today when she was calm she reminded me of Audrey Hepburn. Addy could be short for Audry. Then in my obsession with 4-letter names thought it would be pretty funny to spell it ODRI. No one would say it right!

Anyways, the next video show's Addy's endless obsession with attacking anything that moves.

More Addy Pics

Don't let the pictures fool you. She hasn't been sleepy, she's just easier to photograph when she is! See video below.

Prius II

Today was the day that we brought home the new Prius. Here's to car payments!!

No more trunk

So here's my car now. Say hi to Doc hiding there behind the Prius.

And then BAM!!

More kitty pics!

It's getting harder and harder to take non-blurry pictures of Addy!

Except for when she's worn out (which doesn't happen very often)...

Awww....

And here's her white spots! 

She's got just about every type of fur and color available to a cat. She looks a lot like the kittens they're selling as Bengals, but as I've recently found out she's got the stripes of a Mackerel tabby. And at first I thought the long hairs had light tips but its a light band with a dark root and tip. That's the ticked type of tabby hair there are ticked tabbies with no visible stripes and that ticked type of hair all over. So bottom line, she's a facinating combination but about as mut as a mut can get. 

We're wondering what color her eyes are going to end up? They're taking a long time to change...

Sleep & Play

First night with Kitty

Well our new little kitty (as yet un-named) seems to have survived the 4 hour car ride just fine. She crawled all over the bathroom with particular emphasis on the closed shower doors, playing in the litter box, chasing her tail, stepping in (as opposed to drinking out of) her water dish and batting at anything that moved (and many things that didn't). After about an hour of the above activities she curled up in the cat igloo and fell asleep. 

Here are some pictures:

And a movie!

The back story is that she has an orange and white mother and a long-haired father and she was found as a newborn with three litter mates on Easter day. In the following weeks she has been raised and cared for by a family in San Diego and they already miss her :( . She's about seven weeks old I hear and was the first of the litter to leave.

Root Veg

Carrots and beets fresh from the Lodge garden. Just waiting for a good roasting. Yum, yum.

Nagi Flowers

We still can't really believe she's gone. And every step that we get closer to moving in makes it more real that she's not going to be living with us any more.

Nagi 4/1/2003-4/11/2009

In loving memory of Nagi.

Beautiful Day

I took a little break from working on the house and

shot these after class on Wednesday.
It was such a gorgeous day.

All our helpers!!

Thanks everyone for stopping by and lending a hand. It sure makes the work go faster! and a lot more fun.

Life after flood...

So yesterday we completed many small projects. Some necessary: like a new mailbox and house numbers. And some not so necessary. But one little project was very special. I'm sure it only took a couple of minutes to install but we have an original Quonset by the Creek door knob. Ben It is such a gorgeous knob and it means so much to have a piece of Young history in our little house.

Sooo Done!

Finally! Well lets just say the inauguration was not the only big news for C&B yesterday. We can finally say its a done deal and that we are now home owners!!! That's what all the secrecy, has been about. It has been such a long last few months with lots of excitement and stress and even a few hiccups, but it has all worked out. We couldn't be happier. The place is not big at all, but suits us just fine, we like the location, the 1930's details, and its charm, but we especially like the things that are wrong with it, because it creates all sorts of neat projects for us to work on. Yeah we're weird, we know. We spent the first night there last night, it was very quiet and peaceful, I think its going to be a really nice place to live. It still hasn't really set in yet though. I just can't believe its done. Well, at least done with this stage, now is time for some projects...

..Like pulling some weeds for instance.