cats, snow, advent and more letters

we finally integrated the foster kitten with pluto yesterday. it was a gradual transition, with them eating on opposite sides of the bedroom door, and a site swap (pluto investigated the room atlas has been living in, and atlas visited chanda's room). i still have atlas sleeping separately, though that will be probably change as the days go by. he's been enjoying settling into our daily life and finding new places to explore and lounge in. 

pluto may look a little dubious here, but he's been enjoying having a playmate. the bathroom has been off limits to them as we're having trouble with the tub drain and it's quite a mess (it's always something), but i found them both in there earlier today, bouncing around and looking guilty when i yelled at them in surprise. atlas ran out lickety split, while pluto hunkered down on the bath rug and tried to look nonchalant. 

above is my lunch . . chanda brought home tomato soup for me from the cafe. i had it with a delicious chunk of kerrygold cheddar cheese (the one that is specially aged!), but when i went into the kitchen to get my drink of kombucha, someone stole it off the table! can you guess who? pluto is unable to jump onto the table (he used to drag everything down to his level on the floor by pulling the tablecloths off - hence the table is now always without a pretty coth), so it must have been . . yes, atlas. and he managed to do a real number on it . . it was much too slimey and mauled when i finally rescued it, for me to eat anymore. i settled for a few pepper jack slices, which were not of the same quality, sadly.

i spent all day straightening up the apartment to make room for christmas decorations and eventually the christmas tree. there were also many items laying about that needed to be put away: books, yarn, papers, magazines, letters, junk mail, masks, scarves . . winter accessories needed to come out of bins, and summer cotton sweaters needed to be put away. (as you can see in the pic above, atlas is doing very well making himself at home!)

greg looked out the window at one point and commented that it had started to snow . . just very  lightly . . 

just enough for it to feel like wintertime and for me to feel happy that i didn't have to run errands today, and that i could stay warm inside.

we celebrated the second day of advent this evening, as we were finally all together for dinner.

afterwards, i worked on addressing the letters to georgia during a sierra club letter writing meeting, and also wrote out three letters from us to the bureau of land management, alaska office, stating that we don't think they should allow drilling in the wildlife refuge. comments need to be submitted via snail mail.

i'm off to bed now . . tomorrow morning is an aurélien babysitting morning.