Dragonheart's First Day
Last night was Drake's first evening with us. He slept curled up next to C for about half an hour, and spent most of the rest of the night in his cat tree, with a fleece blanket. He really likes the cat tree - he is quite content to hang out there a lot of the time.
Today he has been quite active, exploring the room, playing with us and with his toys, and then coming to curl up in C's lap for a bit before heading off again to play some more. He really enjoys playing with a peacock feather that we can dangle in front of him, as you can see in the photos.
He is very curious and a lot of fun to play with. He seems to be settling in just fine.
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Caylynn
(Click on the small photo above to see more photos.)Labels: cats, Dragonheart
Our new kitten: Dragonheart
We picked up our Sphynx kitten, Dragonheart, from the breeder today.
Dragonheart is a Sphynx, a hairless breed of cat. I posted more about the breed
here.
The breeder lives up near Frankfurt, so we drove from Munich to Frankfurt yesterday afternoon, spent the evening in a hotel, and then picked up Dragonheart this morning at the breeder's place. She provided us with some toys, food and litter for him, as well as his vaccination and ID chip papers. Once we have him neutered, we'll send her proof of the neutering, and we'll receive his pedigree.
Dragonheart slept through most of the drive back to Munich, and was quiet throughout the entire trip. Once we arrived at our place, we put him down in the room that will be "his" and that he'll be confined to for the first few days (it's our guest room/office room, and is the largest of the three bedrooms in our place). At first he was meowing quite sadly, and running around, probably looking for his older brother and sister to play with, but after about an hour he settled down. He played with us for a bit, and let us pet and cuddle him, and now he's napping. He's used the litter box once, and we have food and water out for him, so I'm sure he'll take some of that when he's ready.
Dragonheart is the name the breeder gave him - she names her litters according to themes, and this litter was "fantasy" so we have Dragonheart, and his brother was Merlin. We'll probably end up calling him Drake or Drago. (For more pictures of Drake from today, click on the small photo below.)
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CaylynnLabels: cats, Dragonheart
Our First German Christmas Decoration
We've made our first German Christmas purchase. We bought a wooden Christmas pyramid. We purchased a very small, and simple one. They can also be very elaborate, and very large.
So what is a Christmas pyramid? As explained by
About.com:
The German Christmas pyramid (
Weihnachtspyramide) was first developed in the Erzgebirge (Erz Mountains) in the German state of Saxony (
Sachsen) as a low-cost substitute for a real Christmas tree in the late 1700s. A traditional pyramid is made of wood and may have two to five levels (
Etagen). The heat from burning candles turns a windmill-like rotor at the top of the pyramid, making the pyramid revolve and ring its chimes.
You can
see more Christmas pyramids at the shop where we purchased ours. When you see some of the prices, you can understand why we bought a small, simple one to start!
You can see some more images of Christmas pyramids
here (site is in German) including some rather large ones!
Labels: Munich
Photos of our Running Route
C. took these photos last week on one of her runs. She brought the camera with her, would run for a bit, stop to take a few photos, run some more, take some more photos, and repeated that for 4.5 miles.
Anyhow, these are some shots of the running paths we take from our place down to the Englischer Garten and the Isar River. You can see some of the beautiful fall colours in Munich. The trees don't get the beautiful reds that you often see in Canada, but there are plenty of yellows, golds, and oranges.
See my Tabblo>You can view all of the photos that C. took here (click on the small photo to open the album with all the photos in it):
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Caylynn Labels: Munich, Munich running, running
Last night was Drake's first evening with us. He slept curled up next to C for about half an hour, and spent most of the rest of the night in his cat tree, with a fleece blanket. He really likes the cat tree - he is quite content to hang out there a lot of the time.
