Fall in the House

As the seasons turn, things start to change in the House of Carnivores.  As it gets cooler, it is rare for me to wake up without cats curled up behind my knees, beside my torso, and sometimes snuggled up to the back of my head.  The dogs are friskier in the backyard, and run kicking through the leaves, in their still awkward playing style... a combination of nipping each other and RUNNING away, and sometimes getting mad at one another for nipping too hard.

Maera got to see her first snowfall last weekend, which came before the leaves started to fall,  (Luckily for us, even if it snowed enough to give us about an inch, it all melted within hours.)

Windows are closed, and cats are a little more interested in hanging out on top of the radiator covers these days...  they are actually putting off heat, after all.

I do always mourn the loss of summer and its green growing things, but I have to admit, it is a cozy feeling as we close up the house and start preparing for winter.  Very homey.  I've been cooking a lot of comfort foods (which is in a way unfortunate, as I am TRYING to lose weight for a trip to Jamaica in a few months.)  And I'm inside more often, which means that I get to enjoy the company of the cats more often.  And we've finally hit that "golden" stretch of fall where there is blue sky and bright sunshine that seems to make the colors on the trees glow almost like fire.

Oh, and Patches is back.  Just for a couple of days while my mother-in-law is away at a conference.

So enjoy a collection of my fall photos:

First, some fall color.

Now on to the animals...

The first thing that Patches did upon his return was to prove his dominance over the dogs.

While Charlotte carved out more of her kingdom...  elsewhere.

Why did no one TELL us that this is a throne?

Mitchell finds the sweet spot:  warm towels stacked on top of warm radiator.

My 65 lb lap-dog.

Jeff's rather shameless 65 lb lap-dog.

Argos and Maera model their winter coats on a cold day

And Annie steals Charlotte's basket.

And here is a picture of Bit, hiding from the camera:  Ok.  There is no picture of Bit.  She kept running away whenever she saw the purple case of my iPhone.