Alone and Together

What an interesting week it has been. Here are a few of the things that happened. I'll tell you more later. Mom suddenly got older and had a birthday on Tuesday. Tommy and I got to spend some time alone on the balcony in the moderately warm winter sun which mom hates because it means her favorite skiing place (because it is just 10 minutes away from home) has too much melting snow.

I enjoyed sniffing the air from the study. Hope got to explore the rest of the house while we were in the study and on the balcony with mom.

Hope has alternatively become 1. more friendly and 2. more troll like...go figure? For no reason whatsoever, sometimes Hope will purr and act happy to see me and Tommy. Then, in the flash of a millisecond, she hisses, growls and sometimes even screams at us!!! She is really taxing my patience. This evening when she walked by and batted at me...I couldn't help myself and just batted right back at her. And can you believe it, she screamed at me!!! How Rude!!!!!!!