Pet Party at Betsy's House

The cats have all found their own hide outs.

Betsy feeds the crowd.

Oso and Asta relax on the back porch. The dogs finally have the run of the backyard again. The fence was fixed on Sunday.

During the hurricane Matt and I moved all of our pets over to Mom's house so we could all be in the same place during the storm. The plan was to move them back out post-Dolly. Unfortunately I came down with a nasty bug that may or may not have been in the water and was knocked flat for quite some time. On top of that I came down with a nasty cold just as I was getting better. I am just beginning to feel myself again. I opted to stay at Mom's house for ease and comfort after Matt left for California until I am fully recovered, or at least mostly recovered and this means the pets have stayed with me. Molly and Jerry have left their animals with us while on their honeymoon in Mexico and that means that Bets and John are currently hosting 2 dogs and 3 cats besides Oso and Gomez, bringing the whopping total to 3 dogs, 4 cats, and 3 humans. I may be moving back to my abode today but here are some pictures of some of the animals. Let us all take a moment to appreciate my parents' patience.Cab and Asta strike a pose. They really do match nicely.

Dollywood

So the debris pile, fondly nicknamed Dollywood, is mostly complete, although we did add quite a bit after these pictures. At this size, however, what we added doesn't really show up on camera. It only took about 26 hours of work spread over 3 days, but only about 2 of those hours were in the last day, today. The power came back on this morning and Matt and I, being a little overcooked from the last week, took most of the day off. More pictures and a full account to come later, but we thought these fit the current theme best.
Our pile stretches across the whole yard right next to the street and is about 6 feet tall.