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Fall slow down

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The fall slow down is here. We haven’t been to Sanderling since Halloween, snow has covered the lawn and prohibited any real outside work this weekend, and we don’t put up our outside holiday stuff until after Thanksgiving. Pam is done with the house refurbishment for the most part – still looking for some furniture – but the painting and rearrangement of furniture is mostly done. (A few paint touch-ups are scheduled to be finished over Thanksgiving.)

It has been a slow week.

I have been playing with my video camera settings and iMovie stuff to try and produce  higher-quality video clips. The short clip included below is the first produced using the new settings. It should look better when viewed full-screen than  previous clips. This is one of Ebony’s kittens playing with some shoe laces. Running time is 1:17.

Increasing the resolution taxes my 2001-era MacPro computer and it takes a lot longer to prepare and save videos but the increase in quality is probably worth it.

I mentioned snow…we received 3 – 4 inches of heavy, wet snow last Friday night. Some has melted in the last two days and the rest should be gone by Thanksgiving. The Grand Mesa received over 2 feet of new snow and the local ski area, Powderhorn, will open soon. Winter is creeping in…

Pam has some chores for me to work on (honey-do list) so I better close and get busy with the day’s other activities.

That’s it for now. Thanks for looking in!

 

Pam’s Two Cents Worth:

OK, life may be slowing down for Jer, but I still have 4 two-month old kittens and their mom in the house.  Jer has shown an inclination to “have the master bathroom back” (as it’s been the birthing suite since June), so I will call in my loaned-out animal pens and try to set up cat containment areas in the cat room (aka third bedroom).  It’s time to wean the babies off mom,  she needs her own containment area separate from them, with decreasing visits between mom and babies as her milk dries up.  Operations for spays/neuters should occur for all sometime mid-December, then I’ll see how the shelter is for space.  The sad reality — black kittens and a [beautiful sleek petite] black mom cat are not in high demand, even during the holidays.

Of course, I will also coordinate  holiday package mailings to our children and begin preparing the holiday (more likely New Year) cards.  No, life is not slowing down for me.  It will be on fast-forward until the end of the year.

Happy Trails.

1 Comment

  1. Tabitha

    oh my goodness those kittens are growing up fast! a lot of work–but i’m also sure a lot of entertainment 🙂
    very sad that they did all end up to be the most unadoptable color…but hopefully there personalities shine through and win them a home!!
    hope you had a wonderful thanksgiving….been cooollld here–ready for a little warm up

    ps–i’m very bad at noticing differences in video quality…so–looked good to me–but so did all the others 😉

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