I was going to post about my progress on Rob's sweater this evening but Ollie is asleep on my lap and my camera (with the pictures on it) is in the other room. I cannot wake a sweetly sleeping cat so the sweater post will wait for another day. I still wanted to put something up though and I remembered this series of pictures I took of Fred when I was playing with my macro lens a few weeks ago. I'd finally read the little manual and learned how to turn on the auto focus. Suddenly it was a lot easier to take pictures. The bright sunlight pouring into the room helped too. Fred was very curious about the sound the lens made as it was focusing and hung around for quite a while letting me take enough photos to get some good ones.

Olivia and Frederick if you want to use their full names.

We had to take Abby into the animal hospital last night because of a reaction to her shots on Monday and while we were there we got to see a newly arrived litter of kittens. We were told they were nine weeks old, immunized and micro chipped and all ready to be adopted out. We thought about it over night and called back this morning to say we'd like to adopt one. We took Abby with us and stood by the cage trying to decide which colours we liked the best and lifting out the kittens to introduce them to Abby. We found two that we particularly liked the look of. Both were calm but inquisitive, neither freaked out or tried to scale the wall when held and both seemed interested in Abby without being overly nervous. We realized we couldn't choose between them and that a pair of cats is a healthy thing so both came home with us.

Olivia is the tawny coloured one and Frederick is the charcoal. They've been exploring the house and pouncing on each other and generally being super cute. Abby doesn't seem to know what to do with herself. She's done a bit of chasing and been chased a bit herself. I saw her go nose to nose with Ollie very politely. Right now she is laying near my chair trying to snooze but really keeping watch on the hallway where the kittens are.