Welcome Fireball

So congratulations to Fireball who has survived his transplantation from Petsmart and is now living - to all appearances quite happily - at home with the Braithwaites. I was a bit reluctant to post her photo before now, but my confidence in her is rising.

Quiet day here. Most amusing part of the day was probably my and Maddie's chat while she was showering after swimming. Normally she just sings and I try to pretend I'm not with her (not easy while standing outside the shower holding her towel and shampoo) but today she was chatty.

We talked about smoke, which turned out to be steam and was water in a different state. No, not another state like Ohio, another state like of being. That was all a bit hard going but she did get the idea that a word can have several different meanings after a bit and gave me an example to demonstrate her understanding. You see there is 'can' as in 'I can do that' and 'can' as in 'open that can' and then there is 'can' and in Kansas.... which brought us neatly back to the confusion about states and to my great relief, she started singing again.

'Does Mr Zumpeta (school music teacher) think you are good at singing?' I asked.
'No,' she said.
'No?'
'No. He thinks everyone is good at singing.'

Of course he does. Silly me.