{"id":7261,"date":"2013-02-05T19:52:51","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T01:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/?p=7261"},"modified":"2013-02-05T22:14:35","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T04:14:35","slug":"hang-in-there-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/?p=7261","title":{"rendered":"Hang in there, baby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/ericksonfamily.com\/gallery3\/var\/resizes\/2013\/Q1-January-March-2013\/2013-02-02\/DSCF1114.JPG?m=1360077511\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Remember those old posters that we had at about the jr high era of the cat hanging in the tree that said, &#8220;Hang in there, baby&#8221;?  Now with the internet and facebook, it seems pictures like that are shared all the time.  This is how we found the kitty the other day.  She looks like she&#8217;s just about given up.<\/p>\n<p>You may remember that this kitty &#8216;joined&#8217; us last July when she just started hanging around the house, and when Marie, our exchange student from France was worried about the cat that had been there for 3-4 days, we fed it a little bit.  Well, now I guess we have a cat. A 3 legged cat.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/ericksonfamily.com\/gallery3\/var\/resizes\/2013\/Q1-January-March-2013\/2013-02-02\/DSCF1091.JPG?m=1360077469\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I have been a little worried about her this winter.  There&#8217;s been a LOT of snow, and so MANY nights WAY below freezing.  I just wondered how she could survive when it&#8217;s so cold.  I bought her a little cozy bed and put the heated pet mat below that, and gave her an old wool blanket.  But more often than not, when I see her outside, it&#8217;s not in her cozy bed.  I brought the heated dog dish out of the chicken coop (they were just making a mess of it and I got them a new water dish) and plugged that in on the porch so that her water won&#8217;t freeze.  I guess she does ok with the cold.  The other day when we had SO MUCH snow, and I spent many hours shoveling, she padded out through the falling snow to say hello.<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/ericksonfamily.com\/gallery3\/var\/resizes\/2013\/Q1-January-March-2013\/2013-02-02\/DSCF1078.JPG?m=1360077445\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Her feet left little paw print melt marks in the snow, and she was happy to play in the snow.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/ericksonfamily.com\/gallery3\/var\/resizes\/2013\/Q1-January-March-2013\/2013-02-02\/DSCF1081.JPG?m=1360077451\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After that snowstorm, by the way, things looked like this.<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/ericksonfamily.com\/gallery3\/var\/resizes\/2013\/Q1-January-March-2013\/2013-02-02\/DSCF1087.JPG?m=1360077461\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nWith snow up to the swing, I don&#8217;t think anyone felt like swinging.<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/ericksonfamily.com\/gallery3\/var\/resizes\/2013\/Q1-January-March-2013\/2013-02-02\/DSCF1085.JPG?m=1360077458\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nOr jumping on the trampoline.<\/p>\n<p>And that sidewalk that I had shoveled twice already looked like this.<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/ericksonfamily.com\/gallery3\/var\/resizes\/2013\/Q1-January-March-2013\/2013-02-02\/DSCF1084.JPG?m=1360077456\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But we made it through January with it&#8217;s inversion and it&#8217;s really really really cold temps.  So, hang in there baby, it&#8217;s only a couple of months until spring, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember those old posters that we had at about the jr high era of the cat hanging in the tree that said, &#8220;Hang in there, baby&#8221;? Now with the internet and facebook, it seems pictures like that are shared all the time. This is how we found the kitty the other day. She looks like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7261"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7261"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7272,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7261\/revisions\/7272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}