That would be us. It’s been FREEZING here in Upstate New York. It was 24 degrees at 7:30am Sunday morning. Brrr. The frost is crispy now. I grudgingly changed the furnace filter and turned on the furnace this weekend. UGH! That marks the final transition from summer to winter for me. I just dread turning on the blasted thing, it sends dollar bills right out the century-old, rickety windows, lol!
Even so, I only keep the house barely warm; the thermostat is stubbornly set at 60 until snow falls. All of us are huddling close together. This is our kitten’s first winter (her first everything, actually– she’s only 11 weeks old). She, like any good cat worth her weight in salt, is already scouting out the warmest places in the house. Namely, my lap as I sit at the computer, typing this.
I sit at a desk now (yay! See, my spine is so much better!) with a warm woolen poncho I use as a lap blanket. Our kitten, Olivia, is still too young to leap into my lap, but what she lacks in mature dexterity, she gains by temerity– her razor-sharp claws raking up my legs and into my lap. (See how calmly I type these words upon the keyboard; I actually get tears in my eyes when she does that, YOW). There, she cuddles into my lap, her head barely poking up from the front desk drawer. She is growing so quickly that I suspect next week she won’t fit here anymore. She squeezes up from my legs, under that drawer, with all her might. Her eyeballs look like they will pop out, but she is DETERMINED to get up here.
Here she is, just squirming through.
Made it! Ahhh.
Sleeping Beauty, waking up from her warm slumber (I shifted my position, that is).
Streeeeeeetch! Ready to take on the Friskies (again. Does this cat EVER stop eating?!).
It’s pretty obvious. I love this cat to bits. I hardly discipline her and I give her canned cat food at every heart-tugging little mew. UGH. See what old age does to you?
21. October 2008 at 10:43 am
24 degrees? And to think we were griping this morning because it got down to around 49 degrees in central Arkansas.
I’ll take our mild falls and winters and leave the freezing and misery to you folks
21. October 2008 at 11:07 am
I love that upside-down stretching position! Little Olivia sure is photogenic.
21. October 2008 at 2:18 pm
I like the last picture. It looks like she’s saying, “wheeeeee! Look at me! Look at me!….feed me.”
21. October 2008 at 3:22 pm
Awwwww….how precious!! Don’t want to rub it in but I just turned on our AC. Let’s hope it’s not to bad of a winter up your way.
After all, my kids are in Maine.
And I agree the last picture is incredible!:-)
21. October 2008 at 7:03 pm
How adorable! She should get whatever she wants, of course!
One of my 1 year old kitties still thinks it’s okay to climb me, or to jump on my back. She’s really too big for that and tends to slip a lot. You should see what my back looks like – scary!
21. October 2008 at 8:03 pm
Oh how cute. I spent the day wrapped in a blanket and sitting in front of a little heater. Hubby prefers not to use the heat until Nov. 1. I don’t know if I can make it til then! LOL
21. October 2008 at 11:08 pm
LOL…thinking of you down here in (seasonably cool) 82 daytime, 62 nighttime Florida.
That kitty is just the cutest! Oh my goodness, who wouldn’t spoil her?
21. October 2008 at 11:29 pm
You are killing me with these adorable Olivia photos! A good thing about when she gets bigger is she can help keep YOU warm in the winter.
Our one kitty Basil often sits around DH’s neck in the winter when he sits in the recliner like a purry gray scarf. 
22. October 2008 at 9:40 am
She’s such a little cutey–she deserves whatever food she gets! I love your pictures, they’re so funny of her stretching, especially!
24. October 2008 at 11:00 am
Oh my gosh those are the cutest pictures ever!! What a sweet kitty!!