A tiny bit of snow

We had been forecast to get an inch, maybe two, of snow. I love how snow transforms everything, and i didn't have to worry about needing to get anywhere, because i have today off for the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday. However....we only got one small snow shower this afternoon, right during the only time all day that the sun peeked out! It was very pretty with the large fluffy flakes falling in the weak winter sun. But almost as soon as it started, it stopped.

Nan's picture of bird houses hanging from the overhang at her parents' house inspired me to take a picture of the bird house i've got hanging from my very similar overhang...it was a large gourd that was hollowed out and made into a bird house resembling...hmmm...resembling a kitty! I usually have at least one family of wrens there each year (as you can see from the "white wash" on the bricks).

Here's a first...my first video! It's not really great (taken with my little point-and-shoot digital camera) and i'm not sure what the clicking sound is...could be the camera is picking up the sounds of its own internal workings? but if you turn your volume up, you can hear Sylvie's purr!

I've been doing some much needed house straightening stuff, also sending out get well cards to the three (!) friends who are all having surgery this week. Meanwhile the cats are engaged in their usual occupations:

Gingy looking to get into mischief with Sylvie up on the bedroom window perch. She knows that if she just looks at Sylvie it's enough to make her start growling!

Fuzzy and Louie snuggling on the couch. I had a chance to watch Louie's technique but couldn't take too many pictures because he might stop and hop down from the couch. It appears that step one is to hop up and lick Fuzzy very thoroughly...sometimes this works to dislodge the purrson being licked. This time Fuzzy kept sleeping. Next Louie hopped up and turned himself around and around and around, trying to fit into the space on the couch (and maybe hoping his trompling would disrupt Fuzzy!). At last he got more or less comfortable, resting his head on Fuzzy's rump.