Water and stuffing

Today was largely spent cleaning the house in preparation for Easter tomorrow: vacuuming, cleaning pet stuff, going through my items in prep for moving next week.

There were still some moments of humor, some of which I managed to capture on video. First, I cleaned out and refilled all of the pet water bowls upstairs. Tobias apparently decided that Etsy's water bowl was the best this time, although it was clearly the most awkward for him.

Second, a "white" nuthatch was digging through the stuffing of a dog toy for nest material.  Sadly, you can barely make it out in the video at all.

Barn cat got into a scuffle with what seemed to be a cat that looked just like him except it had slightly darker grey.

I also managed to get C and R completely hooked on their family tree using ancestry.com. They have apparently been able to go back to the early 1600's thus far. My issue is that almost all of my ancestor's came during the early 1800 "last" wave of European immigrants to America. For me, 1780 is pretty much a wall to be climbed for my family tree, but it is still a work in progress.

In Germany, J has been laying low and walking around the area by the town house. She was hoping the catch up with O'C, a classmate of hers who is stationed in the same office as she is. He came over only yesterday, and she does not have his contact information. It would be nice to see a familiar face and share the "I-don't-know-what's-going-on" experience. At 1800, she did hear all of the church bells ringing.  The little I did hear on the phone sounded almost like a raucous.

I see her in Germany in about a week! So excited!