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Shelties are good
for hugging. (12/3/20)
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Such wonderful,
cuddly animals. (12/3&4/20)
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Piano and violin duet. (12/4/20)
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Trying their best to hold still and let the new
cat warm up to them. (12/4/20)
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Progress!
Piper is on the bed! (12/4/20)
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Watching Piper eat her first meal in her new
home. (12/4/20)
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Buddies with an
octopus. (12/4/20)
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Imagining all the
trouble they could cause with tentacles. (12/4/20)
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Kissing Hazel's
paw. (12/5/20)
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Lee constructs Mount
Stuffy Dog. (12/5/20)
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The mountain isn't
sure it wants to be a mountain. (12/5/20)
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Piper is still
acclimating. (12/5/20)
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Gathering herbs and
baking bread. (12/6/20)
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Putting up Grand Janet's tree. (12/8/20)
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Lee particularly
liked this ornament. (12/8/20)
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Lane set up the tiny
tree, complete with tiny ornaments. (12/8/20)
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The kids like it
when we celebrate my books. Entanglement
Bound came out today! Though, I wasn't allowed to tell
anyone yet because algorithms.
(12/8/20)
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Cracking up over
comics. (12/9/20)
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We celebrated
Hanukkah with latkes and a game of dreidel. (12/10/20)
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"Heeeeeeey... I got
nun!" (12/10/20)
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"Heeeeeey!"
(12/10/20)
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"Heeeeeey!"
(12/10/20)
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My book has been
selling well, and I can finally announce it to the world...
(12/11/20)
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...so we celebrated
again. (12/11/20)
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Facilitating a
meeting of Bengals. (12/11/20)
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Amy got tired on our
walk and wanted to be a carried baby. (12/12/20)
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Baking cherry pies
to bring to friends. (12/12/20)
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Their crusts are
made from flowers, leaves, and latticework. We got to keep one
for ourselves. (12/12/20)
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Ready to drive
around delivering pies, sipping hot chocolate, and looking at Christmas
lights. (12/12/20)
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How better to top
off an evening of cherry pie and hot chocolate than with
smoothies? (12/12/20)
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So noisy when
blending! (12/12/20)
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Introducing Lee to
the game of SET. (12/12/20)
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The pure
peacefulness of wearing a kitten as a scarf. (12/13/20)
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Hazel is love.
(12/13/20)
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SET is a fascinating
game... (12/15/20)
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...but kittens are
fascinating too. (12/15/20)
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And ultimately,
kittens are not helpful for focusing on SET. (12/15/20)
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A thrilling
Christmas present from a friend; Lane had been wanting a houseplant for
their room. (12/17/20)
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Cardboard
snowboard. (12/17/17)
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Lee ponders with
concern the size of the fox they're drawing relative to the size of the
cat they've already drawn. (12/17/17)
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Ready for a
cardboard snow drift. (12/17/17)
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Maybe if Lane pets
them both at the same time, Piper and Amy will magically become
friends. (12/17/17)
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The apple-seller
practices throwing apples to Annie during the scene where she runs
away. (12/18/20)
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Mrs. Greer isn't in
this scene in Annie, so Lee
came downstairs to visit the audience. (12/18/20)
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Every time Lee
finished a scene, they rushed downstairs to see if they could beat the
time delay and catch themself still onscreen. Either way, if they
had time, they stayed to join the audience and watch for awhile.
(12/18/20)
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Lee was not
expecting to get flowers on opening night! "Where did they come
from?!" (12/18/20)
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Both this watercolor
painting and impatient cat have owl eyes. (12/18&19/20)
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Charming little
scene-stealer in the role of Molly, the littlest orphan.
(12/19/20)
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Piper is Lee's
reluctant Plus One to the Upstart Crow Annie cast party. (12/20/20)
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