Kitty's 1st

 We finally broke down and got a Christmas tree on Saturday. All because I watched a compilation of cats knocking down Christmas trees and decided I couldn't deprive LeeLoo of her chance at that experience this year. As you can see, she is very fascinated by the garland being put on the tree. 

At first she was just a bit upset that her cat climbing tree perch was moved out of its usual place and replaced with the tree. She watched very closely as we decorated.

She sniffed around the whole thing for a while, as this is a big change in her environment.  When we put ornaments on the tree, I chose to not put any glass or breakable ones on just in case, we still had plenty.

She finally tried to eat a little bit of the Douglas Fir needles, nibbling at the very end of the lower branches. I thought that the face she made was hilarious and I haven't seen a repeat of tree sampling.

Here's Meg making sure that she's okay and not going to actually eat the entire tree. You can see the disaster prevention measures a little better in this picture. We always tie the very top of the tree to the curtain rod, as a previous cat definitely knocked the tree over a long time ago (Zippy, R.I.P.) This year, for some reason my DH put garland on it? Also, the wooden box we set the tree stand on is reinforced by screwing the tree stand onto the box.

She's pretty entranced with the whole shebang, so far so good. I have a feeling it'll get weird once we start putting presents out. I'll have to make her something with catnip to wrap up and see if she can find it.

So that's what I spent most of my energy on this weekend, no sewing happened to report on, just a lot of power outages and an enormous amount of rainfall, nearly 7" this weekend, and 13" this month so far.