happy new year...

meet fuzzball...

so cute and super long hair...

kind of looks like Oscar the Grouch...

well, really looks like him...

if she were a boy, that's what we would be calling her...

and this is her house...

we lost the other 2 in this litter...

they simply just crashed hard and fast...

but if my calculations are right, this is the mama's 5th litter of the year...

one of Craig's online friends worked as a vet tech for several years...

and she said its the equivalent of SIDS in humans...

looked it up and I think we have some answers on the babies that we have lost lately...

you take unhealthy feral moms...

who reproduce far too many times a year...

and they give birth to unhealthy babies who are malnourished from conception...

and that leads to so many kinds of birth defects and still births...

born with infections...

and all kinds of other things, like worms and such...

so...

some of them cannot be saved no matter what we do...

have another one coming in when they can catch it...

and it will go in with this one...

she is lonely...

and the one coming in was dumped out in the country right after Christmas...

perhaps an unwanted Christmas gift...

that's why I hold mine through the holidays and don't let them go out...

been fighting something off here...

doing ok today for the most part...

been cleaning the kitchen, need to steam the floor...

got laundry going still...

but will soon be done...

DH heads back to work in the morning...

Christmas decor is all put up and totes were sorted and cleaned out and things are neat in the totes...

so the next holiday season should be easy to put together...

lights are all down from outside...

we strung clear lights low in the front and back of the house...

hoping with it lit up, whoever is walking off with things will move onto the next place and leave our stuff alone...

coyotes don't like the light either...

next week is going to be really cold here...

ice maybe on Saturday...

I think the bad part of winter is going to happen...

;0)

hiding out until spring...

I need to find my word for this year...

been soul searching on what direction this year will take me...

I am leaning toward the word "aware" for so many reasons...

but I will let you know tomorrow for sure...

have a good day and hope you have it off...

it may be colder, but the sun has been shining here for us...

so its so bright and wonderful inside...

;0)

hope you have the sun today...