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There’s no ignoring Habanero.

Submitted entry: Well, despite what I said yesterday I was cooking late last night. In fact, I didn’t finish making dinner until 10:00! Bad on me for procrastinating and playing with the Alphasmart until late last night! But boy did it get cold last night! We got our first frost of the season last night. We could tell it was cold because instead of the cats asking to go in and out all night (Habanero is particularly obnoxious - he scratches the door with one claw just loud enough to keep you awake and very persistantly - there’s no ignoring him) we had everyone but Karma in all night and sometimes as many as four cats in bed with us (Shelly and Claire under the blankets). The room was pretty cold when we woke up - you could see your breath - but until we got out from under the blankets we were still toasty. It’s supposed to get to 75 today so it’s going to feel strange after this morning’s cold.

Oh, and did I mention this (I don’t have my computer here, obviously so I can’t really check) - Paul is walking! He just stood up a week or so ago and started walking around the yurt as if this were something he’d always done. Of course he was thrilled about it and smiling gleefully the whole time. He’s also learned how to ask to go visit his mom at work in the house. He’ll go to the door, make his nursing signal and then bring me his sling. Alternately if we’re all here he might make his “granny” sign and get the sling when he wants to visit her. He’s also getting really excited about books now and wants to be read to very often. He’ll go to the collection of books, pick one out and bring it to us making his “I want” sign. Often he’ll want to hear the same book 3-4 times in a row. Fortunately he’s getting better about ripping (or not ripping) books and as such we feel a bit more comfortable with borrowing books for him from the library which means that while we’re reading many books numerous times we can inject a little novelty into the experience by borrowing a new book or two. We’ve also taken to doing dramatic readings of books that we’ve read a zillion times - it provides us with some fun, making up funny voices and accents and he likes the books even better when we do that.

Well, having just written an entry only a few hours ago I’m a bit at a loss for new material to add so I’ll make this a somewhat short entry. With any luck I’ll write a new one tomorrow too. Sage and Paul and Kitey are all going to the womens’ land so I’ll have ample time for writing and catching up on things, maybe a long walk. I can walk with Paul for a good distance but have to stay close enough to home that I can quickly get home if he needs a nurse. On the other hand I can carry all the food and water I need for hours of walking…I’ll try to bring the digital camera - it’s been a while since I put up any photos here. There may not be an entry on Saturday - town trip and a guest coming in the evening and a couple days next week we’re going to visit friends so I might miss an entry here and there. But I’ll do my best to be a bit more regular about the entries.

I ran into Sage twice.

The Pizza Mart is sad that I’ve moved away.