Nice to see them hanging out together! Good job!
I woke up last night pretty cold, I checked the thermostat app, no reason I should be cold. Unless one of the cats is sleeping on the heat vent in the bedroom. As long as she was warm who cares about they guy supplying the heat.
I think Old Man’s nose was cold.
And, not fair, I’m not allowed to open presents until tomorrow morning but the cats got their present yesterday. That lama snuck in the house when I wasn’t looking.
Mrs. Feral was making us nervous because she hasn’t been going in her heated house, she’s been spending most nights on our back step on the heated pad. The last couple days of this crazy weather she’s only come out of the house to go potty and then right back in.
I didn’t think woodpeckers hung around our stupid Michigan winters but we’ve also had a pretty big red headed woodpecker hanging out at our feeder.
Yesterday and today was so windy the birds couldn’t land on the feeders so I just dumped a couple pounds in the concrete bird bath and in a large shallow container on the ground.
Remember the find kitty under the tree photo upstream?
My wife found this one from Christmas last year.
And our flock of morning doves were feasting on that pile of bird seed I put out. It amazes me how they can navigate the wind currently at a steady 35mph gusting to 50.
well, this almost never happens in the islands. mainland Miami-Dade, yes. rarely gets iguana-stunning cold here.
BUT…
this wee beasty fell outta the tamarind tree out front and is motionless in the chilly 46F morning! he’ll be ok once he warms up. little guy only about 20in long. the little ones have the hardest time.
ETA: wind chill has been well below the 45F mark that will stun the iggies out of the trees. this one hasn’t moved all day.
This popped in my Facebook feed from 8 years ago. She left us 3 years ago.
The cats got more presents than me. I haven’t had to assemble a toy for our daughter in decades but I did have to assemble a cardboard house for the cats this morning.
Mr. Feral all tuckered out from playing with all the new toys.
Thank you very much.
I think the greatest merit was the cats. They bonded and set boundaries for their interactions. Sometimes their games get a little too intense and we have to intervene.
One other thing we noticed is that he cannot eat using his own bowl. We put food for both of them, in different spots of the house and he still advances on her bowl. This behavior is stressing the kitten. Either She gets really upset and leaves the food alone, or swallows it all without even chewing,
Happy catmas!
love Old Man’s green eyes! eyes that say “I’ve seen some shit, bro.”
Up here, we don’t start talking about windchill unless the air temperature is below freezing. 
I hope that cutie is going to be OK! (Windchill is currently -2F here, but the air temp is a balmy 12F! Warmest it’s been at 20:00 since Thursday!)
Here’s Master Yoda warming himself like a diva in front of the fire around noon today:
If the house gets down to 60, our cats start fluffing their fur, sitting like cat-loaves, and glaring. At 60. Two of them are long haired cats too
60F?! INDOORS?!!
aii-ya! mum would be burning furniture in the great room and the cat would be buried deep into the fleece blanket i would be bundled in!
we are cold weather wimps (not unlike the unfortunate lizard out in the front yard)!
I also gotta go with 60? At 70 I go into hybernation mode and start yelling at Alexa to turn up the darn heat.
And then my wife turns it back down.
sleepy, chilly iggie woke up today and scampered off, unharmed.
because he was in the middle of the drive, i moved him to “shelter” in the greenwaste bin that i put on its side. i did this because many people down here hate iguana! goddamn bubbas will kill them on sight and i just can’t allow that, so i put him out of sight for his own safety.
this was him this morning, still chilly but moving slowly:
later this afternoon temps were in the 60s again an he was gone!
see you little buddy!
