I am not going to say what the temperature is outside today on the 15th of December, 2016. I will tell you that not one of the five cats in the garage porch went near a patio door today. Usually there is no end to the nose prints that are applied each and every day to the patio doors waiting for Dennis to weaken and let them run until . . . they feel like coming back in.

Two padded baskets on the floor and three above the car and pickup and needless to say . . . there was no room to spare today. It doesn’t hurt that the furnace does not drop below 45 in the garages and the porch. Dennis just commented that the Tidy Box Litter box catches hell when it is this cold. I don’t blame them. I wouldn’t want to use a walk-in outhouse either. Everyone on Stauffer Avenue is spoiled.