Wrapping up job search activities for today, have to mow the lawn before the rain. The cats finally settled down at the usual morning hour, but Grady took longer than usual to burn off his morning calories. He eats anything on the floor. He tore his latest paper shopping bag to shreds. He tried to eat the blue milk cap ring that his sister likes to play with. He gnawed the ballpoint pen that was mysteriously on the kitchen floor this morning. The lamp in the family room was lying on its side when I got up this morning.

Looking forward to Sunday Sailing, I have a few crew guys showing up. We are only a couple of weeks away from a boating vacation now too. I hope the house survives in our absence, the furballs seem determined to chew, claw, sniff or eat every single knick knack or in fact any object they can see, in the house. But they do like to be held and scratched, once in a while.

Here is the Gracie pic from yesterday, while I was conducting job search activities.

That piece of paper in my pocket is the receipt from the dentist for fixing a filling that came loose Monday, they got me into the office the next day after I called them.

Added iptvtwit to my following list this morning, just in case it matters.

A couple of colleagues have landed safely at companies doing stuff that seems important, like data center management and SmartGrid.

Thinking of getting a couple of new computers soon, I may be free lance programming, and our desktop is ancient, with full disk drives.

Chicken sausage

Yup, that's what's for dinner.

Quiet and boring day. Will pick up replacement window sash and new screens tonight. Probably a whole-day project to replace sash with broken double pane.

Cats are still in afternoon snooze mode. Grady is currently dozing on / near the laptop, here are today's cat pictures. Gracie is in the La-z-boy chair, but spent her share

of lap time earlier today.

Planning to do some sailing on Saturday and Sunday. Saturday may be solo. I need to finish mounting the new remote microphone cable on the stern pulpit. Drilled the holes and mounted the through-hull cable seal on Wednesday.

Wow, I just ran across critical information that everyone should really be aware of, with regards to chemtrails. Everyone should be aware of this site, and be wearing their tin foil hat 24 hours a day, too:

http://www.orgonite.info/

Spring update

Lots of yard work. No rain. Forecast was wrong.

Boat cover comes off tomorrow. Planning a trip to Nantucket instead of doing Marion-Bermuda.

Cats are surprisingly quiet tonight. Windows were open all day, maybe that has something to do with it. Grady the gray cat got real friendly, pic posted here. For some reason he likes to massage my face, maybe he is trying to get me out of the chair and entertaining him.

Gracie the black cat is sound asleep in large La-Z-Boy chair - she owns it now.

Lawn is de-thatched, many plants and trees were uprooted and moved to new locations. I am hopeful that the paper-bark maple tree survives in its new spot. Blueberry bush now resides near the bulkhead, should take up less room than the large clump of non-native grass that was there.

Why is "The Holiday" on TBS tonight? It's a Christmas movie.

more of cats

Here are a couple of pix from this weekend. We moved the climbing post next to the door and they camped out by the door all day. It was 60 degrees !

New cats

We added two cats to the household a couple of weeks ago.

Some pix are here:

CatPix

Holiday letter is copied, and posted online here:

HolidayLetter

More january snow

Bird feeder and a little bit of garden foliage.

January snow

The path to the compost bin.