Ali & Nick are Engaged!!

so at our late Christmas in Colorado, Ali surprised Nick with a trip for Spring Break: Chicago and Hamilton tickets!

So I've been stalking their trip on Ali's instagram this week, hoarding screenshots 

 

 

Tuesday, 3.14 Pi Day

 

 

Wednesday 3/15 around Chicago

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then last night, all dressed up for Hamilton

  

 

 

 

 

 

she texted me their photo in their seats. (Sam introduced me to Hamilton, and we hooked both Nick and Ali when they were visiting last summer.)

I was pretty sure it would be wonderful.

Nick had a surprise for Ali, as well. After the play, under the lights of the marquee (with friends there to film and take pictures), this happened: 

This was the first picture Ali posted breaking the news. More to follow.

3/16/17

Thursday morning and we've got big news coming, but it's not mine to break. Before the big news . . .

These little guys all came swarming and took up residence in the trees above us to fill the sky with their chatter. Seriously, for such little birds, these guys were LOUD.

DST mornings

10 years ago this week, we set foot in the house that would become home. 

And the rest of this week?

Lots of walks in darkness from that home and back. 

 

Fisher

Fisher grows less and less like Fisher every passing month.

She routinely and several times a day insists on pet sessions in which she buries her head in my chest while I scratch her all over. This would have been completely unheard of until this past year. One of these occurs in the upstairs bathroom every evening while I sit on the floor. It's just a little weird.

She lets me pick her up, sometimes even relaxing slightly, as long as it doesn't last too long. If you so much as moved towards her as though you might pick her up, she would shoot out of the room. But not anymore.

She has started yowling, seemingly on a schedule, every morning and evening, in the downstairs bathroom, into the vent in the floor. She'll stop and look annoyed if you interrupt her. I think she's possessed.

None of this has ever been in her behavior prior to the past year, but she seems content and not in any distress that would warranty some kind of veterinarian treatment. She's just a different cat after she turned 18 years old. 

sunshine coma kitty

walked past the bedroom to find coma cat in the sunshine

  
he acknowledged my presence by barely moving.

then Google made this animation, so he can perpetually be vicious kitty

yeah, it's more clouds

I think by now it's pretty safe to say, 99% of this blog is entirely about my animals and/or clouds. 

So, no surprise . . . this afternoon's excitement:

Look! Iridescent cloud this afternoon! Preeeeety.