| We had an honest-to-goodness white Christmas to close out Sam and Emma’s first full year with us. No one suspects — not even my wife and I — that we will soon bring home our first dog. But that is yet to come … | |
| By now the cats are all fast friends and take full advantage of the dry months to play outside. There is some inside play too, believe it or not. | |
| The start of the year was a big adjustment time for everyone as Sam and Emma were introduced to the house at large — and Scout — for the first time. They discovered the joys of mouse-on-a-string and as the weather warmed, the joys of their supervised Outside Time. |