It's humid and the cat is crazy

We're settling back in. The adjustment to the southern heat and humidity is tough--we've never been away long enough to acclimate to something else. MarKay wants to move.

I put a dehumidifier in the living room. It seems to pull about 2 gallons of water a day out of the air we are breathing. We turn it off at night for fear that it'll overflow.

There are more photos posted at http://www.flickr.com/photos/chrisappel/ I had to stop halfway through Grand Canyon. My monthly upload had been reached.

The neighbor's kitten seems to have moved in with us. He was hanging out here before we left and now he is here full time. The neighbor is not asking for him back. The kitten is a small tornado of destruction and he's driving the beagle and older cat insane.

He seems to have been taken from his mother too soon. He wants to nurse all the time, frequently on the neck of someone who's holding him. Having a kitten kneading at your jugular is a little disturbing.

But when he's sleeping, he's cute...