Party and Game

The kits are doing their last roam of the day/evening - it's completely dark outside, except for the moon, and it's 40 degrees outside at the moment (with 48% humidity). The kits and I slept in until 8 this morning - then I went to the grocery store and purchased only the local paper. I read the paper and played with the kits, after passing on a warning to the Githens Acres neighbors from Alexy. She had woken up, bathed, and let the cats out. She went out the front door and retrieved her newspaper, and when she returned to the kitchen, it was to see Cloudy scamper up the cottonwood immediately behind the kitchen door. What really surprised her, though, was the coyote that was hot on Cloudy's tail - and which followed her up into the tree to the first crotch, about four feet above the ground. The coyote could not climb higher, and once Alexy recovered herself, she grabbed two metal pots and banged them together. That caused the coyote to look at her and then leave. Cloudy came down about 15 minutes later, completely untouched. It seems that Kathy and Jim have seen a pair of coyotes in the neighborhood for the last week, but didn't think about giving folks a warning.
I attended Mimi's Winter Solstice party for a little over an hour - met some more dog owners and saw some old friends. I talked with two other women who had lived in Gainesville, and we had a blast discussing one ladies' trip to a wolf compound with her teen-age daughter. They stayed in a teepee, the temperature was below 10 degrees, and she (the mother) hadn't realized that wolves are nocturnal. She declared that she really deserved the Mother of the Year award for that Science Project trip!
And Tim Tebow was the starting quarterback for the Broncos today. The team lost, but they gave their hearts to the game. Tebow ran 40 yards for a touchdown, then threw a spectacular pass to Brandon Lloyd. Well, the pass itself wasn't spectacular, but Lloyd's catch was! The next score for the Broncos was a field goal - and the game was tied at 17 at halftime. That was when I had to leave for the party. I did not see the rest of the game - they lost, scoring only two more field goals, but no touchdowns. The final score was 39 to 23. As I did not see the second half, I don't really know what happened - but the guys played their hearts out in the first half. Go Broncos!