Week in Review

My parents are on a trip, so the girls have been housesitting. Well, Cora has been officially housesitting, with Violet hanging out and lending a hand. Poor Summer has been very down since Benny died, so she's pretty low-energy and easy to watch.

Cora also had an audition for Fright Fest on Saturday, and was successful in getting a job as a "walk around" scare actor. My mom had encouraged her, and Cora is excited to make some good money, while acting.

We celebrated with dinner from Copper Hill BBQ. On Sunday, Stace and I saw a Shakespeare play, Measure for Measure, with Christina.

My cute welcoming committee...

...or are they just keeping a wary watch for the dark striped tabby cat who keeps showing up in our yard late at night?

His or her arrival has particularly upset Winston, who attacked Seb a couple of times after spotting him/her, sparking a big cat kerfuffle in the wee hours. (Yay.)

Also yay - we discovered Winst has shown his displeasure by marking his territory in the playroom. 

Uggh, Although we miss Spencer, we don't miss him spraying, and the last thing I want is Winston starting up.

We cleaned and put double-sided tape on the back of the couch, and protected the blinds, and closed off the room at night. So far, those actions seem to have fixed the problem.

It's already registration week for Violet. I took her to her registration at the high school on Tuesday, and on Wednesday, I volunteered in the library while students came in to get their textbooks. The consumable books -workbooks the students write in - come in boxes, so I was opening boxes, stacking the books, and breaking down the boxes.

This girl makes the funniest noises when she proudly carries around soft toys, like this snowball.

This is the tail of a skink, a lizard relative. Winston got out, raced to the grapevine, and caught his prey. But his prey dropped his tail for a better getaway. 

A piece of the tail - Winston is quite the hunter. He's very good at getting bugs in the house.

Cora and I have been going to Westlake Village for appointments for her this month, and this week we enjoyed lunch out at Marmalade Cafe. Yum!

Also this week, Cora went to her last in-person D&D at Logan's house, with two of the players going out of state for school soon. Hopefully they can continue online, as they did during the last school year.

This may not look super amazing, but it tasted good. It was Violet's first attempt at making homemade pasta with the spelt flour we brought from Dunster, using a borrowed pasta making machine.