A Converter

When people tell me they are not a "cat person" I know for sure that would probably change if they could see this face...

Hey Mister

Theo thinks I came awfully close to cutting off his nose...

Lent

For Lent Diego-san has given up wanting all his commands met within 20 seconds. He's willing to allow for an extra three seconds or so.

My Boy Thompson

It occurred to me that I really don't have good videos showing the way Thompson moves. In general he does better when he is running or moving fast. He may not be able to keep up with Diego-san and Theo when they are tearing around the house, but he holds his own.  He has more difficulty when he is trying to walk slowly.  He tends to think about every step and steadies himself when he moves his lone front leg forward so that he doesn't end up falling over. I love to watch him move because it isn't natural movement, and it's simultaneously unique to Thompson but familiar to the way I've seen other three legged animals move.

Capturing him on video isn't always the easiest.  I never think to do it during the course of the average day and quite frankly he's moving around less and less as he gets older.  Here I did capture him jumping up to his favorite drinking spot...

Perched

It's good to find a solid perch to monitor crazy brother activities...

Here Comes the Sun

It's been a long cold lonely winter... We keep telling ourselves spring will be here soon but I'm not sure any of us believe it...

The $125 Mistake

The boyz enjoyed a pretty exciting morning yesterday. I was the cause...

I was headed off to work and decided to add some oil to my car engine since I hadn't done that all winter (I'm not very good with mechanical things.) I accidentally dropped the oil cap behind the engine to a place I couldn't reach it. I tried knocking it to the ground with a stick but ended up knocking further behind the engine to a place where I could no longer even see it. There's a repair shop across the street and a mechanic was nice enough to walk over to my house to see if he could do anything. He hit the bottom of the car with his hand and we could hear the oil cap but he determined short of getting it onto a lift there wasn't anything further he could do. To get it onto the lift would have required a tow (or maybe duct tape) so oil didn't spurt all over the engine. The mechanic suggested calling auto part stores to buy a new oil cap. I called around but none of them had the right cap for my car.

I ended up taking an $80 cab ride to the dealer and back home with my new $42 oil cap. I was in and out of the house several times during this whole process and the boyz were somewhat alarmed at the change to their normal serene mornings. Theo thought this somehow meant extra food for him. Diego-san kept his distance probably figuring a trip to the vet for somebody might be in the cards. Thompson came over for some spontaneous loving. I think all involved, including myself prefer less exciting mornings.