I meet another of my favorite bloggers!

Some of you may recall that in July, I was fortunate enough to meet ae, author of arse poetica, when she and her friends came to visit us. Yesterday, we had the good fortune of entertaining another great blogging guest, Kathy of What Do I Know?, who left her cows and sheep in the U.K. for a while to hang out in the U.S.

Kathy's timing was good: We had just trimmed our Christmas tree and were preparing to build a fire.

We toured the meditation garden and our city's lovely downtown area, and we tried to have tea in the English tea room, but it was brimming with little girls in tea-party finery, and not catering to the likes of us. All the same, it was fun to direct our guest to a British phone booth in the middle of the piney woods region of south Louisiana.

So we had our tea at home by the fire, and tried to coax Roxie and Velma out for treats, but they would have none of it; they are still frightened of people they do not know, and perhaps were afraid Kathy had brought one of those cows with her. She did get a glimpse of them, though, and maybe the next time we are fortunate enough to have her in our home, the sisters will have developed more social skills.