Incoherent Scribblings

Since I have been preoccupied with traveling and preparing for job interviews over the last couple of weeks, I haven’t done a whole lot of stitching lately. However, I have been slowly working through my ten hours on “Above the Clouds” and have managed to hit the eight-hour mark. I might get through my ten hours before I leave for a second interview on Wednesday, but I am not counting on it.

Though I don’t have a current scan of it at the moment, I must say “Above the Clouds” is really coming along nicely. I am finally finished with Confetti and have started on the rocks underneath the castle. Once they are finished, all I will have left are the clouds and some backstitching.

We will see what kind of a mood I am in with this project when I finish my current ten hours. If I am still in the mood to stitch on it, I just might continue with it for a while.

Dolly was introduced to Mouse, Scooter, and Harley almost two weeks ago now. At first there was much hissing, but that has calmed significantly over the past few days.

However, I can tell that the battle lines have been drawn: Scooter and Harley don’t seem to care for Dolly much. Mouse, on the other hand, has accepted her so easily that I actually caught them sleeping within inches of each other this afternoon!

For those of you that know anything about my cats you will know this is a completely unforeseen turn of events. Though there are seldom out and out fights between them, Mouse openly dislikes Scooter and barely tolerates Harley. I still think that Mouse views Dolly as little more than common riffraff, but now she has an ally in the quest for feline dominance and it has been interesting to watch the dynamics developing amongst all four of them.

That, however, is not the only development at our home for wayward cats.

Step-dad caught Dolly’s sister Friday and brought her home too. I am not sure if he decided Dolly needed a playmate or if seeing that Dolly adopted me was looking for a kitten for himself, but one way or another, she was added to our brood and as a result, we now have Dolly and Molly.

Dolly will go with Mouse, Scooter, Harley, and me when and where ever I get a job, but I adamantly proclaimed that Molly will stay at home with Mom and Step-dad. I didn’t really need four cats… I definitely don’t need five!