We also drove into Mobile to buy some more douglas fir wood to complete the trim in the hall bath-room� and cat-friendly flora (like confederate jasmine, cast iron plant, camellia, mesa verde ice plant, pygmy date palm, fern holly, Indian hawthorn and catnip) to put in the cats� screen gazebos� so they�d have some vegetation to smell or chew on.

Bitumen and Hepsebah were a riot when they were exposed to catnip. They looked totally stoned and writhed around even more than usual... occasionally fighting with each other (mean drunks). But all in all, they loved it. Obviously, this is the kind of thing we can only let them sniff once per week, else they become fuzzy lushes! Sangria ain�t gettin� any �til the new kittens are weaned, of course.