There’s a kitten in my knitting bag!  His name is Gerhardt and he is a sweetie! Very cuddly,affectionate, playful, beautiful – everything one could wish for in a kitten.

We were not in the market for a kitten, but…well, Sasha’s fiancé Dave adopted a young female cat which turned out to be a young pregnant female cat and when homes were found for 3 of the 6 kittens (Sasha & Dave are keeping 2), we agreed to keep the 6^th temporarily until a suitable home could be found.  Hah!  We all know how that story goes!

Given the fact that Sarah and the grandbabies had left for North Carolina.  And that the contractor who had bought the land across from us had started cutting down trees that I have known for 30 years.  And that one of our 4 “old lady” cats, Baghira, had just died.  Well, let’s just say that I was feeling a bit bereft.  The idea of parting with our lively, lovely, snuggly kitten (you notice I had already begun to think of him as “our kitten”)…okay, I was putty in Gerhardt’s paws.  George too. 

So, Gerhardt stays to warm our hearts and keep us on our toes.

Like any kitten, he loves yarn.  Not just any yarn, my yarn.  I made him his own yarn octopus-sort-of-thing and he turned up his nose!  Poked it with one paw, walked away and won’t have anything to do with it.  Nope, he wants only my yarn – preferably the yarn I am knitting with at the moment, of course.  He likes to bite yarn in two!  If he cannot get at my knitting, he will rummage in my knitting bag.  So there is lots of yelling of “Bad cat!  Oh, sweet puddums cat!  Bad cat!”  in the evenings.  Usually, he ends up having a little kitten private time behind a closed door. 

We have had kittens before – both our own and guest cats (btw, over the Holidays we had 9 different family cats – aside from our 4 – staying with us, tho not all at the same time…) and I know that he will settle down and stop chewing on my needles, snipping my yarn with his sharp little teeth, vaulting into my lap to get at my knitting.  Meanwhile, I will enjoy his lively, loving attention (and try to be discreet when I pull out my knitting).