The Blue Angles

Had a great weekend with my mom and dad who came to visit with us while we are in Georgia. It was really nice to have them with us and their kids, grand kids, and great-grand kids. A very nice time all sitting around the Sunday dinner table with them.


Yesterday was also a nice day out as my dad, daughter and grandson all went to see the air show at Dobbins Air Force Base where we enjoyed all of the aerial demonstrations - especially the Snow Birds

and the Blue Angles

precision flying teams. If you have never seen any of these precision flying teams, or been to an air show, go to http://aero-pix.com/schedule/schedule.htm where you can find all of the big shows, and some of the smaller shows that are for specific types of aircraft.

Tomorrow will be our last day with the kids as we will be flying back to Arizona on Tuesday. We have had a great visit, but are looking forward to getting back home and seeing our cats - all four of them!

This is Butterscotch, our lovely male. We also have his brother Blackie who is pitch black and a bundle of trouble; and his mother, Kali (a very loving tabby) and his father, Big Guy who is a solid black short hair. The were all feral cats that we rescued. After we 'adopted the mother cat,' she brought her four kittens to the house one day. A couple of days later, daddy showed up. We took them all to the vet and got them all fixed up and kept them. After we lost two of the kittens to coyotes, we purchased an enclosure where they can be save from the predators here on the desert where we live. They each have one of these pots in the enclosure along with shelves and a 'cat condo.'

They like their enclosure and stay in it most days, except during the monsoon season when we sometimes have bad storms. They even enjoy it at night. However, they come inside each morning for breakfast and a bit of 'running around the house' for exercise. We know when they want to go back out as the begin lining up at the patio door. In the late afternoon it is back into the house for playtime and supper and then, if the weather is fine, they go back outside for the night. During the winter when the nights are pretty cold in the desert, they stay inside. Also, they stay inside if it is raining (or might rain) during the night. If you have cats, and would like to keep them inside cats so they do not pick up anything from the other cats in the neighborhood, or get into cat fights and such; you may want to consider an enclosure. Our cats love theirs, but still enjoy being inside with us for a few hours each day.