First snow and a new cat!

Well, it's been so LONG since I've written. I was busy working two weekends in a row and getting some things done around the house. Plus, in all honesty, I was discouraged about how slow our internet connection is and I didn't want to sit online for hours checking email and posting to the blog. We will hopefully have high speed internet after the new year! Yah!

But I have to finish telling you about our trip to Rome and about some fun things here in Missoula. I'll start with the new stuff in Missoula.

We are in the midst of getting our first snow of the year and it's not being very gentle on us! We've gotten about 2-3 inches so far and it's supposed to keep coming down for the next 24 hours! This is what it looked like last night when it first started:

And this is what it looks like this morning! Here's the backyard:

Here's my car half brushed off:

So we're having fun!! This next weekend Erik is headed to Canada with his sister to do some srious skiing. I have to work most of Thanksgiving Weekend so I tod him to go and have some fun.

Now for our really fun news. We adopted another cat. She just as sweet as can be. Here name is Sophie right now but we're not sure if we'll keep it, she doesn't even look when we call her so I think we could change it without too much problems. She and Rio seem to be at least tolerating each other at the moment. Last night both of them were crowding my lap, much to Erik's disappointment. But then I handed Sophie over to him and she currled right up, purring like and engine. So I kept Rio happy where he likes to be! She a tortiseshell colored domestic short hair. She's 1 1/2 years old. We got her at the Humane Society. Her previous owners didn't like that she was an escape artist and they lived on a very busy street so they didn't want her to get killed. They also had those flat handles you push down we have knobs. So hopefully she won't escape too much, but in a month or so we'll probably let her into the backyard. I tried and tried to get an awesome picture to show you cuz she's really pretty especially her eyes but no luck. It's like she knows I have the camera! Here's a couple I did get: (Well, I guess I did get her pretty eyes!)

Here's one that shows her colors:

We really like her and hopefully the two cats will get along!

Well, that's it for now. More on Rome later today or tomorrow!