No So White North

This has been the warmest winter ever.  It has snowed 3 or 4 times, with the snow staying only for a day or 2.  We have shoveled the sidewalk once and the temperature is typically -3C to +2C daily with a few days reaching +10C (50F)  Dock is missing the snow.  She likes to sit at a window with the blind open and watch the world, either when it's really nice so she can feel the sunshine and breeze and see all the people, or when it's snowing.  I have to say, I miss the snow this winter too.

I remember when she first came home.  I got her at 6 years old and she was a bit solitary at first.  She was with an older couple that could not longer care for her, so she was not a cuddly cat.  That is why she is my Diva.  Does what she wants, when she wants.  I wasn't sure if she was going to stay with us.  I kind of just brought her home without talking to the hubby.  Told him that we could take her back if he wanted, or if it didn't work out.  He was the one that sat with her in the spare room and she made the first move of coming out to head butt him while he read.  When we went to bed that night, she wandered into the house to see us, and he invited her up on the bed.  That happened again in the night.  From then, I knew she was going to stay.  She has been with us for 10 years now.

Today she decided she would rather eat Mace's food and she dove into it right beside him.  She never does that, she usually gets pushed aside by him hovering his breakfast, so she just lets him go to it.  This morning, she decided she was hungry and dammit, Mace is going to share.  I just had to call her name, and she came to her own room for her own breakfast.  I'm shocked that Mace even allowed that in the first place.  As I said before, she does occasionally tolerate him.