My World … and welcome to it!

Holy snowflakes, we got more snow.

It snowed a good 24 hours. Not heavy though. Had it been rain it would have been a nice little mist.

Sammy and I both worried all day about Blackie. I know the poor little guy must have been so hungry! When I went to bed he still hadn’t been by. When it snows (or rains) I put his dry food dish inside one of those clear plastic (empty) kitty litter buckets set on its side. Keeps it dry and he can eat and see around himself.

Well, when I got up this morning most of the food was gone and there were little kitty footprints in the snow on the deck. After the sun came up (gee I’d like to sleep past sunrise some day) I went and looked and saw how he’d arrived:

Now that snow is pretty darn deep and yesterdays snowfall was fat, fluffy springtime snow. And I KNOW he doesn’t have snowshoes, lol. But he managed to get here. He hugged the side of the house when he left and I saw his tracks across the front deck and saw where he left the side of the house and went across where Joe had shoveled past the front of the garage.

A bit later and looked up and there he was, enjoying the wet food I’d put out for him. Then he was gone again, presumably to get a drink and then go home and sleep a bit. I had stomped out a path for him the LAST snow storm so he could get up and down the stairs to the creek. I hadn’t had a chance to do this yesterday but that didn’t deter him:

GOOD kitty!

So the countdown clock nears lift off. Yesterday I finished up most of the laundry in spite of migraine. Darn those things! Today is bill day and the last bit of ironing. Tomorrow I have a couple of errands to run (don’t worry it’s going to be 50° so most of the white stuff will go away) and packing to do. Tuesday Wini comes out for a quick tour (which reminds me I need to type out instructions, phone numbers etc) and then we’re off! Bless WIni for house/kitty sitting, btw. Now I won’t worry about our furbabies.

Anyway. Allie goes to Bruce and Nancy’s (thanks you guys!) and we’re off to Billings. Wednesday is going to be a loooooooooooooooooooooong day.

We leave Billings at 7:16A.M. and arrive in Denver about 8:30. We have a lovely 3 hour layover at DIA then we takeoff for D.C. (Dulles). 45 minutes at Dulles to change planes and hope our luggage follows suit. Then an 8 hour flight across the Atlantic to Heathrow and 90 minutes to catch our breath before heading off to Dublin via Aerlingus. That’s an hour and 15 minute flight. 45 minute layover in Dublin then off to Shannon. Don’t know how long that one is but can’t be all that long. Then it’s off the plane and onto the coach and I hope I got some sleep or I’m going to miss the first day!

Whew. I have 7 oneMB cards for my camera so plan to take LOTS AND LOTS of pictures. When we get back I’ll get them up as a slideshow like I did with our DisneyWorld pics. No updates while we’re gone because I don’t have a laptop (boo).

So that’s probably it for now. Got lots to do before we go. Man am I excited!!!