Well, after having this featherbed quilt-thing for at least two years (a gift from my mother), we finally got around to getting a duvet for it.  As proof-positive, here are pics.

Dnq

The new duvet is that purple thing, layered underneath the quilt.  The yellow sheets are this year's Xmas present from my mom.  Nabiki and Cthulhu decided to show up for the picture.

Duvet

Here is a close of of the cat duvet.  As you can see, while it looks plain purple, it is actually striped.

Quilt

And the quilt we have with it.  It's so fugly that it's cute, ne?  We inherited it from my grandmother when she passed away a couple of years ago.  Bob really likes it.

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Speaking of Bob, here is a shot of him ignoring me while he plays a video game on TV.  The game, for those curious, is The Eye of Judgement.

Block

And my usual reaction to his silliness--BLOCK THE TV!!!  Bwah-ha-ha!

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It snowed again today--a lot.  Stuck inside the house, I was bored, so I started taking some pictures.

Window

This is the picture window in the bay area of the front of our house.  I camped out on the couch for a long time and just watched the snow falling.

Biki_stairs

Nabiki can't stay still, so she was playing on the stairs.  OMG, I actually got a pic where you can see her bobbed tail!  She never poses like that!

Cat_nest

Tegan, meanwhile, was lolling about in her "cat-nest".  That is, incidently, my comfy chair.  She has decided that it was hers.  Sorry, I couldn't seem to get a good picture of Hickory.  She refused to sit still.

Shelly_house

Can you tell I really love my next-door neighbor's house?  It's about 10 years older than ours, a true Victorian, with stained glass windows and tons of charm.  And it looks fantastic when it snows.

Dj_house

A picture looking up the street.  I was trying to snow the snow coming down, but it doesn't come out well in the photograph.  There must be some kind of technique to capture that.

Duplex

And down the street as well.  You can see how the snow is piling up on the roads, despite the best efforts of the snowplows.  This, incidently, is the duplex that burned down a couple of years ago.  They fixed it up pretty well, for a rental property.

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Once again, upon orders from my mother, I am to post pictures of our recent snow, since I have been complaining about it so much.  So I bundled up and took my camera out into the 16 degree F freezing-cold weather to document our sorrows.

House_snow

Here is the front of our house.  The path in the middle has been dug out a couple of times, which is why it is a couple of inches shorter than the yard.

Yard_snow

The larger (sic) part of our yard, covered in the white stuff.

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And the smaller part of the yard--it's ours up to the bushes.  Doesn't our neighbor's house look picturesque?

Garage_snow

The side-yard.  You can see the 6-8 inches of snow stacked on the air conditioner on the right.  That's our neighbor, Bill, in the background.

Hydrant

The hydrant kind of gives you an idea of how deep this stuff is.

Icicles

If you look closely, you can see icicles dripping from the eaves.

Snowblowing

Bob usually handles the snowblowing.

Shovelling

While I shovel out the front walk and stairs, since it is difficult to get the snowblower up there.

Double_snow

The Hills are Alive...with the sound of snowblowers!  (La la-la-la)

Me_snow

And finally, a picture of me in the snow so that my nieces will know kinda what I look like.  (Actually, I look a lot like Jeff, only female and somewhat smaller.)

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On orders from my mother, here are pictures of our new Xmas tree that we finally got around to putting up today.  We now have an abundance of Xmas trees (two of which were gifts), but we just put up the one this year, partly from the lack of ornaments that we own, and partly because by the time we cleared the dining room and put up this monster tree, we were both exhausted!  So here it is, in all its glory.  (PS: You can click on the pictures to make them larger.)

Tree_left

View from the left side.  A lot of our media ornaments are on this side, like from Star Trek, Star Wars and Harry Potter.  Yes, we are unabashed geeks.  Cope.

Tree_right

And from the right side.  This side holds our "old-fashioned" ornaments, many of which are from my childhood.

Tree_top

Yes, those are plushies on the tree.  Our decorations are a bit on the unusual side.  Besides, where else are we going to put them?

Tree_bottom

We left the bottom of the tree bare, because of our three pesky kitties, who like to knock down ornaments and smash them.  We did hang a few bells from the lower branches to warn us when the cats were messing with the branches!

Tree_angel

And what is a tree without a angel on top?  I'm very fond of this one, which we picked up at an after-Xmas sale some 8 or 9 years ago, back when we lived in Des Moines.  She even color-coordinates with the curtains!

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Yes, this is because the web needs more pictures of cats on it.  The exception being that these are MY cats and therefore worthy of adoration by the anonymous masses.  ;-D

Bikicouweb

This is Nabiki, a Japanese Bobtail and prima donna of our household.  I woke her up from her nap to take this picture, so she wasn't very happy with me.

Hickchweb

And here is Hickory, our weight-challenged cat, the one that everyone who sees her has to exclaim about how fat she is.  Poor thing, she probably is getting a complex about it by now.  She bullies the other two cats a bit, but is really sweet-natured with Bob and I.

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And our oldest kitty, Tegan.  This was Bob's cat before we married, and she's never quite cottoned to me, even though I'm the one who feeds these beasts. 

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And as promised: OMGWTFPOLARBEAR!  This is a new plushie that Bob picked up for me.  I decided to pair the bear (no name yet) with Inuki the wolf for a winter wildlife plushie tableaux. 

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