D.O.P.-T. (yesterday)

It's been cool, so yesterday I trimmed the bush outside the dining-room window and took some more seed pods off the oleander, and today I swept the driveway and made a layer in the compost bin. I kept sneezing and thought I could smell smoke; only afterwards did I see that there's a caution for wildfire smoke in the area and I was supposed to avoid exertion if I could smell smoke. Oh well.

Mama Violet came out for an early dinner late in the afternoon and was eating amicably with either Monty or her new ginger kitten. Later the calico kitten was eating.

D.O.P.-T.

When I brought out the kitty food this morning, Mama Violet was waiting. She lurked below the end of the porch while I changed the water; when I peeped through my bedroom window a few minutes later, she had been joined at the food bowl by a small orange kitten. Later in the day the housemate kept seeing an orange cat on the porch, and when I took out lunch Mama Violet shared it with what I think is another, larger orange kitten, just a bit darker than Monty. Then the calico kitten came out, while Mama Violet lounged in the catbed. Later I did some sweeping; the little calico took cover in the thicket on the other side of the driveway, while Mama Violet hissed at me from where she had been lying under the birch tree, then vanished huffily. I was sorry to disturb them.

( This time I got a few photos. )