And on my keyboard. And in my stitching. And in my tree. And licking my face at o’dark hours of the night/morning. And stitcking his face into my glass of water. And… well, you get the idea. Maestro is everywhere! This is a common sight and picture of the energetic bundle. He’s into everything! He’s also chasing our other three cats around with glee. The two oldest cats are ten and just not much fun. But Nikki is three and she’s quite up to the challenge. They chase, wrestle and hey, how come he’s getting some cool new toys that SHE never got? Here’s a shot of them playing in a cabinet. Her favorite thing to do is to pin Maestro down and nip at his back toes and belly. He flops around and jumps at her with all his might. All five pounds of it. It’s quite the sight to see. When he was smaller and they played chase, she’d dash ahead and wait for him to catch up. No longer. She runs full out and occasionally jumps up to places where he can’t (yet) jump to so she can get a bit of rest. He plays until he’s exhausted and then he’s sound asleep. You can pick him up and move him and he’ll shift a little and lick your nose all without opening his eyes. Here he is after just waking up. That’s Princess Poogle he’s snuggling with. She’s a pink google. When he’s not napping, chasing Nikki or exploring his new kingdom, he likes to chase mouse cursors. He does this by sitting on our laptop keyboards and completely blocking our view. That is he used to until we put up The TREE! The Tree has sparkly things on it. The Tree has things he can romp in. The Tree is a playground meant for diving into. The Tree is likely not going to make it through his kitten-hood. (The Tree is artificial and 11 years old.) There is only one distraction from The Tree and that’s GerbilVision! Every once and a while we open the door to the Gerbil room and the cats can, under supervision, go in and watch Marshmallow and Cookie romp around in their habitat.

Because of our darling new addition, I’ve not gotten as much stitching in as I’d have liked. He loves it when I stitch. So much so that it becomes impossible for me to stitch. So I either have to try to time it while he’s napping or retreat across the street to Kat’s house to stitch. Of course, while I’m there I’m giving Max and Pete the adoration they muchly deserve! I’ve been working on Hubble Bubble, but right now it’s a blob of light blues moving into some light green.When I get to the tip of the sail I’ll post a picture. Thanks to a sweet lady in Tasmania I was able to start Starry Pooka Cat by Elaine Cox. This chart has few colors but they are all gorgeous terra cotta shades. All the “white”you see is sparkle. I decided to keep it in for this piece and I am using two strands of Glissengloss 000 and I am very pleased with the result! I am also pleased with Scott’s camera as it captured the sparkle wonderfully! The other WIP I have to show you is Spanish Rouge from Sampler Cove. I’ve completed 1 1/2 pages.

My final words are a bit of a rant about how annoying the systems architect who designed xbox live is. Thanks to him/her/them my xbox login is unable to communicate with xbox live thereby requiring me to create a new login and losing all my achievements (granted, I only had 3K points worth). So two nights ago I started over. It seems rather odd that I had to do this being as my friends actually DID see me login to xbox live. Oh well… I was planning on being evil in Fable II anyway. Now I have a place to take out my frustrations.

Happy Holidays to everyone!