My Outside Cat Houses
...yes, you read the subject line right. I've just finished (well, with a little help from my son and grandson) making winter houses for my outside cats. I found the idea online and just changed it a bit.Front porch kitten - Boots (he's about 7 months old now), lost his brother a couple of weeks ago and has become MUCH more loving since he's basically alone. He comes inside occasionally to visit with the skin grandkids, but the inside cats are not impressed with his presence. He's a great mouser and hopefully will stick close to the front porch instead of going out in the road like his brother did.Here's Boots, lounging in the sunshine after supervising the place

#2 son is 50 years old today
...and I still can't believe I'm old enough to have one son who's 50, let alone two.This is the same son I went to Texas a couple of weeks ago to surprise - it was a great week. His older brother came out from St. Louis later in the week and I thoroughly enjoyed seeing my oldest two sons (together - that doesn't happen often these days).It was a great week. My daughter-in-law and grandkids worked really hard to surprise my son and they did a great job!!!This is me with my two oldest sons. Birthday boy is on the left. Aren't they handsome?!!!

Texas surprise
I arrived in Texas yesterday afternoon for a surprise visit with my #2 son who will soon have his 50th birthday. Pretty handsome for a guy over the hill, don't you think.My DIL wanted to REALLY surprise him, and surely we did. He had called me yesterday afternoon - aren't cell phones wond

Frosty is a cutie
I promised to post a photo after Frosty finally got groomer and then life got in the way and I didn't get it done. So here you are. Isn't he a cutie?