THIS IS SILVIA
She lives across the street but hangs out in our front yard. She knows Wanda leaves for work around 7 AM and gets home about 5:30 PM. Cats must have internal clocks as she is usually here waiting for food at those times. She has always been happy sleeping in our flower beds, flower pots, or juniper bushes.
Saturday, Christmas Eve, I heard something at our front door. Our fireplace is closed so I thought maybe it was Santa. I jumped up, ran to the door, pulled it open and it was the cat. Without waiting for an invitation she sauntered in the house. Silvia sniffed around the living room for a few minutes and settled in the 50 cent garage sale cat toy you see above.
If Wanda and I have said it once we've said it a thousand times, "No More Cats." We've lived all these years with the critters, always thinking of them first. Vacations, long and short, are always planned with a cat sitter involved. Trips to Costco are made when cat food and litter run low. Furniture must be relatively cat proof when purchased or we do without. We have been looking forward to the time we are a cat free household.
There is no way we would ever take in a new cat.
Silvia has been here the last three days. I think I need to go talk to the guy in the house across the street. I need to make sure she wasn't a Christmas gift. In past years we have always exchanged baked goods.
Hope you all had a good holiday and are looking forward to a Happy New Year. I will probably blog tomorrow and Thursday and pick up again after the first. Thank you all for spending some of your time with me over 2011.
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