DOLTON

Today's picture is of Jaime's kitty Mitzi catnapping a stuffed Halloween kitty---it is wearing an orange hat and mask. She has also taken to stealing socks and the other night she was carrying a stuffed penguin through the house that was as big as she. Jane-- she has also been stealing a pink chair you sent...we finally had to move the chair to another room. Our weather has been brutal the past couple of days---we have had one hour of above freezing temperatures since New Year's night. It is supposed to only go as low as the mid twenties tonight---I have kept the kerosene heater on for the past couple of nights and slept in the living room either on the love seat or the floor--I am getting too old to sleep on a cold floor as my bones ache but I am afraid not to stay near the heater just in case it goes nuts---we have never had any problems but I like to be safe. This next Wednesday will be Meg's sixteenth birthday---Jaime has went a little overboard on presents but she sort of looks at Meg as her own ---I told Meg at least I wasn't going to make her bake her own birthday cake---when I turned sixteen my mom was working and one of my girl friends came home with me and helped me make my own cake. That was the last year I bothered with a cake for me---and that has been a long time. I wanted to get some stuff put up this week in the playhouse but it has been way too cold to even go up there. I hope next week is warmer.