A Feline Feeling...

This is the fire that I have going on a chilly evening here on Bainbridge Island.  This is a log house.  I don't know how old it is - maybe 20 or 30 years old - but it's a two storey and only the first floor is log.  It has a covered porch that wraps around the entire perimeter.

Those are peacock feathers in the pot by the fire place.  These people used to have peacocks, believe it or not!  That was before the sheep.  It's a cozy house; a little rustic but with a "global" flair.  The homeowners travel all over.  They love Bali and have a lot of Balinese art, for example.

As I told a friend, today, who asked how it's going on the sheep farm..."Everything is hunky dorey! Ewe-dora has decided that Coco is her child, after all, much to my relief.  They're all fat and happy, I think.  Chickens, too.  Cats, too."

About the cats...they are Maine Coon Cats.  Pretty, pretty, pretty cats that look a little like a lion/tiger/bobcat...I don't know...maybe "wild" is a better description.

This is Winston.  He's HUGE!  You can't really see his "mane" from this angle but he's got one...like a lion.  His coloring is beautiful.  He's a lovely cat.

 

This is Tequila.  She's very, very, very, very shy...don't see much of her.  She hides on top of an armoire in the master bedroom and occasionally creeps down the stairs peeking around to see if anyone is watching.  Then she scoots across the floor to her food dish, has a bit to eat and heads back upstairs.  I've tried to coax her over to me but she'll have none of it.  She was in one of her more social moods when I took this photo.

And this little sweetie pie is Luna.  She's a kitten, still.  She's fun.  Yesterday she chased a ball of paper around the house for an hour.  I'm not exaggerating...it was an hour.

So this is the rest of my menagerie...the little zoo where I'll be for the next week and a half.  This housesitting stuff certainly isn't humdrum!

I think tomorrow I will look for an interesting recipe to prepare and post.  Stay tuned.