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...And Little E Makes 3 Critters Should We Talk About The Weather?

Mission: Impossumble III

Last night, the super-nasty thunderstorm that had been dropping tornadoes all through Oklahoma went right over my house, complete with a very big, very obvious rotating wall cloud. Which, of course, my wife took my son out on the back deck to see, since it wasn’t even raining at our house. I’m all for giving him an intellectual understanding of bad weather so he’s not afraid of it, but… wait a minute. Who’s this knocking on my door at 3:30 in the morning? “Dad, I’m scared.” Um… yeah. Couldn’t get him back to his own bed without a major meltdown until 5 in the morning. Good show!

But other interesting phenomena happened at our house last night as well. I don’t think he was deposited by the storm either. He was lured by the smell of dog food on the back deck. (The reason dog food hits the back deck is simple: Xena hauls off her dog food bowls to points unknown for fun. It’s gotten expensive and a bit silly trying to replace all the bowls. So… dog food on deck!)

Of course, it wasn’t our dog chowing down on dog food. It was someone all three cats were very eager to eat, erm, sorry, meet.

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Playing Possum

Evan and the Christmas Tree
Our first real Christmas tree – the first one since we moved into this house, and the first decent-sized one since we got married. My wife stayed up late doing some decorating; the one token ornament I put on there (the Star Trek transporter ornament) mysteriously came down. 😆 As you can see, Evan is bowled over with excitement!

Kitties
But that was nothing compared to the excitement at the back door last night. All the critters were in attendance – Obi, Othello, Olivia, even Claude. But what was so fascinating on the other side of the glass? Look very closely. … Read more