Another miracle, waiting to happen

Isn't life amazing? 

Tomorrow, we will welcome a brand new baby into our family.

On November 11th, we will welcome another new person into our family when we celebrate Andy and Judy's marriage.

And on the Ides of March, we will welcome yet another new human being into our ever-growing family when Logan and Jody's baby is born.

You really must to listen to this Louis Armstrong song to remind yourselves how wonderful it is to live in this world.  I am telling you, life is grand!

CAT TV

Now that fall is here and some of the plant foliage has been cut back, Gus has a much better view of what's going on in the garden outside my office window. In fact, there's here is so much action out there that he stays glued to the window most of the day. It's like CAT TV.

A few days ago he seemed unnaturally drawn to the window, and when I looked into the garden I saw why:  A big old RAT was scooping up sunflower seeds discarded by the finches, stuffing 15-20 of them in his mouth, and running off to stash them in his house, which we believe is deep in our wood pile.  He did this hundreds of times while Gus watched, making that clicking sound and swishing his tail madly.  Yuck.  Rats are gross.

On a cuter note, we also have mice living beneath the bird feeders.  They've dug themselves a bunch of holes and seem to have built a city underground.  Lots of mouse traffic involving horn-honking, crashes and whatnot.  Bob wants to send Gus out there to eat the citizens, but I think mice are adorable, and I love the idea of having a mouse city built under my garden.  Gus adores mice too.  He told me.

Here is a tiny baby sticking his little head out of the entrance to the mouse city.  He stared at Gus and me for a long time before he ventured out.  Cute little guy.  How could you not love a dime-sized rodent like this?

When Gus is not watching CAT TV, he is sacked out on my desk.  What a fantastic office (and cat companion) I have.  Now that he's been with us for a couple of months, Bob and I can say with confidence he is one of the special-est cats we've ever had, and we've had a lot of them.

We were disappointed to hear that Lindy and Chris's new baby is NOT going to be named Rodnocr Fon after all.  We love the name Connor Ford, but we still think Rodnocr would have been more memorable.

We can't wait to meet the little guy.  Go, Lindy, Go!