Tuesday after Monday's turmoil weather...

The picture on the left is from Monday early-evening when Alex was busy with the carpet soaping-sucking machine in the living room. We had noticed it was getting really dark to the west, but it looked like it was going to miss us for the most part. (I was washing windows and around them while I didn't need to help move furniture.)

Then the wind REALLy picked up, and we went to turn to tv on to weather and discovered our county was in a TORNADO WARNING! oh my. The wind blew several pots off the deck--heavy ones, and broke one of my pepper plants, but other than some sticks in the yard, we must have been a long way from the tornado. oh well.

The living room and Prairie look MUCH better, and now we have the other half of the living room to clean, which is by the entryway, so it will probably be an all-morning job.

The picture on the right is one I took of Bogie early last week. It's a cat-in-a-cat-bag picture!

And then there were 3 (plus Momma)

Sunday afternoon I was in Des Moines watching Izaac play in a baby pool for the first time (by the time we got water in the pool it had clouded up and Izaac was tired from not napping).

My niece (Michelle) LOVES cats (like most of us in our family) and thought her grandmother's new 'baby' was so precious she talked her friend, B.J., into following me home and taking one home. (The new 'baby' at my mom's still doesn't have an official name--yesterday we thought of gracie for grace kelly, because my mom thinks the kitten acts like a princess, so Michelle voted for 'bella'.)

When they got to Camp Stanhope, we brought both the ginger and tuxie in, and after a little while B.J. decided maybe two kittens was the way to go, for entertainment purposes, etc. So they took them both! On the left is a picture of them this afternoon in their new apartment in Des Moines. They look pretty comfy.

The picture on the right is today's edition of the 'outside brood'--snoozing in the condo. Mrs. 8:30 is still taking care of them and enjoying any attention she receives.

The picture on the left is (Uncle) John and Izaac yesterday reading some books. Izaac LOVES to read when he's here. His favorites so far are: Bob the Builder, Brown Bear Brown Bear, and the Hungry Little Caterpillar. He likes a counting 'dog' book as long as we count the dogs and then 'woof' like all the dogs!