Tabitha is Snookered Yet Again......and we and the Kitties are Home!

 The last thing we do at night is put the kitties in their kennels.
Samantha is the easy one. She has been known to put herself in the kennel at home.

Tabitha is a challenge.

She seems to know when that magic moment is coming and she hides. 

Where we can't get to her!

Except Louis Dean has a way of snookering her out!

It my be a toy or  treat or a distraction. That's his job! Get Tabitha.

And once he does, she always hides her face as if she is ashamed that she was snookered yet again!

He always says, "Take a picture of this, Linda!"

And he laughs!

That's the moment Tabitha raises her head up and looks at Louis Dean in disbelief!

"He LAUGHED at me!"

Then he hugs her to him and snuggles a minute or two before she willingly goes in her kennel.

With never a peep from either of them until we are unzipping them from the carriers the next morning.

Today they stood at the screen door while one of their litter siblings strolled by.

There was a bit of hissing from both sides of the screen.

They may not remember that they are related.

These are pampered house cats and the other siblings on the ranch are work cats.

There's a place in this world for both!

I do so love that little face!

We packed up and came home today.

It was a short trip this time.

It seems we are always a little late getting off.

It was 2:30 when we left the ranch and we stopped in Waco at Sams to do some shopping.

I was buying up the ingredients for Texas Trash!

That is on my agenda for this Saturday.

What with shopping, stopping for fuel, and getting Subway sandwiches......

it was dark when we got home tonight.

But Louis Dean did a great job of driving and getting us here.

It takes both of us to drive - no matter which one of us is behind the wheel.

Within an hour of pulling in the driveway, we were unloaded and put to rights.

I lit a firelog in the den fireplace and we sat for a few minutes before he went in to take a long, hot, soaking bath.

We will rendezvous back by the fireplace as soon as I finish tonight's journal entry.

I have some news.....

an update on Lillian.....she is doing very well.

She's had a cough which has made her throat hurt but she's still had no fever.

They seem to be taking care of her. She gets cough syrup a few times  day.

She may be getting more medicine than she knows. 

I talked to her on the way home and she sounded good and was in a cheerful mood.

Praise God and thank you all for your prayers.

She said she received a few more cards today including the Christmas card from me.

For some reason she has had a better attitude the last few days even though she has the Covid-19 virus.

Other news.....our brother, Lonnie, is in the hospital.

NO Covid for him but he is in ICU in serious condition.

His sodium levels are dangerously low as well as his oxygen levels.

He will be there for awhile as they must raise the sodium levels slowly.

We learned this when Mother was hospitalized with this same thing.

It seems that so many of us have extra concerns during this Christmas Season.

My Finland friend, Jutta, has health concerns in her family. This Covid thing has affected the entire world. Here in Texas and there where you are. We are all in this together and I am grateful for the circle of prayers that connect us....and gives us encouragement....and comfort....and hope.

Nothing proves that you love someone more than mentioning them in your prayers.

And please add Harper to your prayers tonight.

She fell and hit her head knocking her unconscious.

She's been in the ER for a couple of hours......she's just a little girl and her parents are so scared.

And have I told you lately how much I love each and every one of you reading these words?  Well, I'm telling you now.....