one red leaf and my stretchy cat

we had an out and about day yesterday. actually, new fridge hunting. the one we have is going...as to when we don't know. but it's making a noise that my husband tells me means the compressor is on it's last hurrah. something about losing freon? looked, only found prices higher than we can pay. looks like it's the bargain post for us.

our first fridge we got the week after we got married and moved into a duplex in sapulpa. husband traded his vcr to his brother for the beer fridge from his shop/garage/place to hang out with his friends and work on cars. it was a lovely 1974 hotpoint frost freezer/refridgerator in harvest gold with racing stickers on it. (when the girls got big enough to play with crayons, i let them color on it to make it look better) the strip of metal between the fridge and freezer doors was a nasty rusty mess. it was 14 cubic feet. this lasted us until about 2000, when i'd had it with the lack of space, and found the fridge we have now for $400. it was my uncles landlords fridge from the lake house they were selling. a 1992 roper in a lovely white. 20 cubic feet! oooooh! the space! it was frostless! and looked brand new despite it's age.

so, anyway, to the above pic. after our south tulsa adventure, which included lunch at the food court at woodland hills mall and a trip to the candy castle, we ended up at hunter park on 91st street. i let the girls loose for a while while i read "the end" by lemony snicket, then we headed for a walk. i snapped the above pic to the east of the play area by the woods. i liked that one leaf, just lying there...

rain today! and boy do we need it! water tank full out back, but it wasn't down that much. the ground is getting some much needed moisture. maybe the pond will get a little fuller.

on to the next picture. this is sequoyah. and he's a spoiled rotten baby boy kitty! this is his stretched out pose. he does this same thing on his back too. hard to imagine that when he came out of katie, he was only about 5 inches long. katie dropped 6 her first and last litter. 3 boys that look like coy (which is what katie looks like) and 3 girls. 2 black with patches of white and orange and one mostly white with a few patches of black and orange. the daddy was mom's tom cat, levi, who is black and white. we kept coy and the white one with patches who we named emily. so we have 4 cats including fred. i have a pic around here somewhere of all of them...

jack thinks he's a cat, but this is because he was raised by cats from the age of 6 weeks. he even tries to take a bath like they do! it's the funniest thing!

so, i guess that's all for now. stay tuned...