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By The Chimney With Care

Dec23
2008 Rob Written by Rob

We’re having a nice pre-Christmas evening here. Fire’s stoked from the backyard woodpile. The pets are quiet and stretched out and enjoying the warmth. We’re snacking on holiday cookies and egg nog and mint M&M’s. And Chris and Kristi are gunning down biker gangs and stealing their money in Grand Theft Auto 4. All’s well on this December the 23rd of 2008.

A couple of belated photos of the decked-out living room. Sorry for not getting these out to you guys sooner, but better late than never.

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Hope you’re having a nice night, too!

Posted in Everyday Life, House and Yard, The Animals

Party Prep

Dec19
2008 Rob Written by Rob

For the last six weeks or so, we’ve been planning a big holiday party for tonight. We’re just about done with prep. A lot of food – soups, spinach dip, stuffed mushrooms, shrimp cups, cinnamon roasted almonds, cookies, a bunch more – is either already done or is prepped in the fridge and ready to put together on short notice. We picked up the card table and extra chairs last night from Kristi’s grandparents. Thoroughly cleaned the house. Now we just need to put it all together by 6 o’clock tonight and kick off our 2008 holiday party.

We’ve invited about 30 people, and so far have received only a very, very few can’t-make-its. So we’re looking forward to a busy house tonight!

Things still to be done: finish food, finish cleaning the bathroom, set up the tables, take Sam to stay overnight at Don and Kathy’s, sweep out the front porch. We actually have a long list. 🙂

Other news:

The business is having a decent December, after a flat-out ROCKING November. I got the last of my copy deliverables out the door yesterday morning, and received emails from my in-progress clients to say that everything was still on track. So for the immediate moment, we’re not losing sleep over money. I’ll also be able to take off the remainder of December and enjoy the holidays with my wife without having to widow her to client work (like I did during Thanksgiving break).

My brother Chris, who recently registered for an R&K user account, has just been promoted here to Contributor status. That gives him the ability to write posts and to moderate comments on those posts. He asked the other day and we saw no problem with it – he wants to share his recipe for chocolate peppermint bark! Look for it sometime soon.

Finally, Monkey is doing fine, living in the garage. It’s been really cold this week; Wednesday night we had a freeze and woke up yesterday morning to a frosted-over lawn. Monkey was curled up in the garage (her pile of towels has evolved into a much thicker, warmer bed), with food and water nearby. This morning Kristi met Monkey in the front yard as she went out for the paper, and Monkey doesn’t seem any worse for wear.

Posted in Diversions, Family and Friends, Food, The Animals

Monkey, Part 2

Dec17
2008 Rob Written by Rob

No luck getting Monkey into the house – Sam just would have none of it. Still, it got down into the 20s last night, and in the early evening it was raining. Monkey came around again at our back door as we did some evening laundry, looking for a place to shelter from the cold and wet. So we made a small bed of old towels on the garage floor and set out food and water and just hoped that we wouldn’t find a Monkeysicle the next day.

This morning I went into the garage to fetch a book from storage (Kristi’s giving it away for an at-work holiday book exchange), and there Monkey was, curled up on the bed. Just fine.

I just don’t get how someone can care about an animal enough to collar and tag her but not enough to take her inside when the night wind gets below freezing. I just don’t get it.


Monkey in the garage.

Monkey in her new garage spot. She highly approves.

Posted in The Animals

Monkey

Dec16
2008 Rob Written by Rob

God, I hate it when good animals are treated badly. What the hell are those people THINKING?

Monkey’s our neighborhood cat. She’s a super-sweet little calico, extremely friendly, always turning up where people are around and working the crowd. We’re pretty sure she belongs to one of our neighbors, but seriously, that cat should not be running around outside. Not with cars going by and the meth head’s kids running around and all the other stuff that can get a sweet little cat hurt or killed. And with the weather turning pretty cold and wet this week, that Monkey’s allowed to roam outside like this is just plain irresponsibility.

She turned up at our back door this morning, being super cute, peering through the kitchen door longingly, with that look that said, can I come in? It’s warm and there’s food in there and people who like kittehs. Please?

We’re going to round her up next time we see her. We probably can’t just kidnap her, but she at least deserves a warm and dry place to sleep.

..grumble grumble..

Posted in The Animals
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