spring break: up'n down and seven-toe

One great thing happened over spring break: Mark and Brian got the Commodore 64 going. Oh, it was sweet. It had been many years since I had played these games. I loved hearing the old music. So fun! Barbie Goes on a Date, World Games, Winter Olympics, Summer Olympics, Harrier Attack, Up'n Down (the best of all!). I don't remember which other ones we got working. The only disappointment was that Donald Duck's Playground didn't work. But the important thing is that Up'n Down did. Enjoy a picture.

Mark playing Up'n Down

Enjoy it well because you may never see it again. Because I might have ruined the whole system when I dropped it on the concrete floor of the storage room when we were putting it away. :(

A second great thing. We had been encouraging Seven-Toe (actual name Cleo), seen below, all week to have her kittens while we were home.

Seven-Toe from when she was a little tyke back in November. She has seven toes on each front paw and six toes on each back paw (if you don't know, most cats have five on each front and four on each back).

Seven-Toe is a sweetface.

Finally, the day before we left, this little cat (who was huge with pregnancy) had eight tiny kittens! They were so, so sweet. Seven-Toe is a small cat, but has been able to keep eight kittens fed! What a good mother. We were curious to see if the extra toes was a dominant or recessive trait (assuming that it was quite unlikely she bred with a male cat who has extra toes). We guessed recessive, but three of the kittens are also seven-toes! Cute!