Dec 09 2009
Frosty
It took me more than ten minutes to get the hard frost off the windshield and car windows this morning. Blasting the defrost didn’t do much, if anything, so I found a piece of wood and used that for a scraper, which worked pretty well. The whole car glittered with frost in the bright winter sunshine.
The Ridge was icy, and there was enough frost on the grass at the sides of the road to look like a light dusting of snow. As I approached town, I thought how strange it is to see palm trees lurking among the pines and redwoods when it’s below freezing. Not to mention people mowing their lawns all bundled up!
There was one angry cat in the back seat. Henrietta knew something was up this morning. She hid in the studio, and I had to pull a horrible trick on her by pretending to feed the cats and then scooping up all four and a half pounds of her and sweeping her into the carrier. She howled, spat, and clawed at the bars like crazy.
She was not amused.
She’s spending most of the day at the vet’s, since they’ll have to sedate her to examine her and do blood tests. I’ve used the time by buying Christmas stocking items, groceries, and 200 feet of electrical wire. Apparently the bears have been feeling the cold too and have been eyeing our bee hive, so my brother is going to get the fence surrounding the bees electrified as soon as possible.
I’m multi-tasking here at the Mendocino Cookie Company, enjoying the free wi fi while I participate in a conference call and wait for Henrietta to be ready. I’m looking forward to learning more about her. Stay tuned!
7 Responses to “Frosty”
She’ll always be Henry to me!
I can’t believe she’s only 4.5lbs, that’s sooo tiny!
I have to admit I’m having a hard time with the new name. She still looks like a Henry to me!
Wonder what the results will be like? Crossing my fingers….& toes.
I do hope your weather will improve very soon.
jx
I wonder if those palm trees will survive?!
And hopefully Henry(etta) won’t have to go to the vet again for a very, very long time! Poor girl!
I know the weather is cold and unsual in your area and I do hope it gets back to normal. In Ottawa on Wednesday we received 22 cm of snow for our first snow storm of the season and it’s still snowing as I write on Thursday AM and will last all day apparently. Hope Henry’s results are good and that you got to find Christmas gifts, take care.
Wow, that’s a lot of snow! Enjoy the winter wonderland and be careful!