Santa Is Still Staring At Me!

My five foot Santa is still standing in the dungeon waiting to be put in his box.  Ya know how sometimes it's just a pain to put away the last little bits of stuff from the holiday?  That's where I am right now.  I can't make myself go into that room, get his box down and put him away.  It's going to bug me until I get it done too.  Oh well......maybe tomorrow?

We are suppose to have a Wintery Mix on Wednesday morning.  The weather people here never sound an alarm before we get anything bad.  That's probably because it's hard to predict the weather in this area.  The weather systems seem to shift suddenly and go elsewhere.  Sometimes when we aren't expecting anything bad the system shifts and we get a bunch of snow dumped on us.  It should be interesting to see what's going to happen.

The cats have been resting since the New Years eve celebration.  The youngest one (Homer) is playing with all the toys that were in everyone's Christmas stockings but everyone else is resting.  I came out of the bedroom this morning (the cats are not allowed in the bedroom) and it looked like they had a party of their own.  A coffee table book was on the floor, the swivel rocker was turned around facing the bedroom door, one of them had thrown up in three different spots on the carpet, The stereo is in a cabinet and the door to it was standing open and one of them peed over the side of the NEW kitty box onto the floor.  We replaced the old kitty box the day before because the cats were doing the pee over the side thing.... so we got one that was a bit higher in the front.  DIDN'T WORK!  I'm at my wits end.  I don't know how to stop that behavior.  Any suggestions?

The Party's Over

So much for celebrating the New Year.  It was fun last night ....I even won a couple of Yahtzee games.  That's unusual for me.  Today we took the tree down and drug it to the curb so it can be picked up on Monday.  Tomorrow we take down the outside lights and decorations.  Thank God the weather is at least dry.  It's a bit nippy, but dry (with the wind chill it's about 27 degrees). 

I'm so proud of the cats...not one of them sprayed or climbed the tree.  That's amazing to me.  One of them (Lamont) acted a couple of times like he was spraying the table we had the tree on but when I checked, he hadn't.  I think everyone in the house is happy to have everything back where it belongs.....I know I am.  I still have to put our five foot Santa back in his box but all else is stowed away until next year.  This year I didn't have as much to put away since I didn't take out my Snowman collection. That's at least another three boxes of stuff to pack and store.

All in all,  I think this holiday season was wonderful and I wouldn't change a thing.... except maybe the death of our neighbor a few days before Christmas.  We're thinking about you Joe, go into the light,  God's waiting for you.
Happy New Year Everyone!