Since John and I both turned '50' in March, we thought we'd have a party this summer with a few relatives we don't see often. John's sister, Kathy, thought we needed a slogan, so she came up with "Still Steamin' at 50!" I added the clip-art 'steam' engine and it didn't turn out too goofy.


This is a 13-second video of the kittens playing on the deck this evening. The sound is Kim's voice (didn't realize it until I played the video again) calling one of our friends to join us for our road trip! It's cute of the 3 kittens!

Sunday Drive and outside cats settling in.

The picture on the right is of my friend, Kim, and her purple convertible. (She LOVES purple.) It was such a pleasant evening that she came over to pet the kittens (she likes the tuxie) and we discovered the ginger cat appears to be a 'boy'. I'm not sure about the rest of the clan yet.

We picked up LeaAnn and Janet and then went to Jewell to have ice cream! It was really fun. The picture was taken at LeaAnn's farm (with Dave and Rebecca and Kendra and their animals, too).

The picture on the left is Mrs. 8:30 and her brood having supper. They seem to be settling into their makeshift shelter, and I'm planning on working on a better one this week. Alex is supposed to come home for a couple of days working around the house, too, so that will be helpful. I have a big list for him already!

Momma and the babies, continued....

Another picture of momma with the babies, and then the make-shift shelter I made from a pampers box covered in plastic with an old fleece piece in it. I had to transfer momma (and most of the little ones) again from the garage to back under the deck, and hopefully away from most of the wind and rain.

The picture on the right is the 'shelter', with all occupants getting cozy it looked like. I took this picture from (inside) the back porch window, covered in rain drops and dirt (on the outside of the window), because this is the first time I've been able to see out this window since we moved here 11 years ago, due to the large bush John took out that was growing between the porch wall and the deck.)