We apologize for the delays in our writing. Since we got the new brother, we've gone through a lot. First, it was getting to know him and lots of playing. Then Loki and Malfoy came to visit for a while and we believe that it is rude to be online when we have company. Next, Rikki got sick and despite all of our attention and love--we lost her and are still grieving (especially Winzig--Rikki was her best playmate). It has been hard to write, knowing that Rikki isn't here to help, she's been with us ever since we started this blog. Plus, we know that we will eventually have to write her obituary and move her pictures to the "Past Cagemates" section and well, we just aren't ready to do that yet.
Other things have been changing, too. Now we spend our time running away from the new brother because he is huge, stinky, and tries dragging us all around. Mom says that we need to be patient and deal with it a little while longer--she promises that he won't be like this forever, something about him being in his keyed up teenage years. We aren't quite sure what that means, none of US ever acted like that. Winzig assures us that it is similar to how Baron treated everyone, but that was so long ago and not all of us met Baron.
We've also had a lot of problems with the computer (Aunt Nikki promised that she would build us a new one--we can't wait!) and we have had problems with bad Internet servers. It seems that every time we learn all of the new stuff, Mom switches servers and then we have to figure everything out all over again. But now that the winter months are on their way, Mom will do better with making sure that the computer is working. She doesn't care much during the rest of the year because she is always out doing stuff or working on the yard.
Mom also has literally
hundreds of new pictures of us and she has been working on getting new photo albums ready to post online. She seems to get frustrated because she is so far behind in the albums and has over a thousand pictures that need cropped, put in albums, captions created and then posted. Every time she gets an album near to be finished, she finds more pictures of us that need added and she is trying to get them just right (she is very OCD, you know). We will try to keep you up-to-date as to when the pictures will be posted.
Anyhoo, that's what has been up with us. Keep an eye open, we will be posting more over the weeks to come. And oh yeah, the picture above? That was taken in September of the new brother; that's Sirius Black with his adolescent coat (he looks like a regular sable now, instead of a black solid). Mom says it's either his adolescent coat or he's trying to blend in with the rest of us so that we won't know he's coming to attack. Hmm. Yeah. His bad smell kind of gives him away!
~The Weasels of Mustelid Manor~
