Just a bit nippy outside

Okay, sadly it appears that we are experiencing some major problems here in Southern California. Some odd arctic blast (probably due to global warming -ah, at last LA's love of smog comes home to roost!) has hit the LA area and pipes are bursting, plants are dying and my cats have decided that they really are friends after all. There's really nothing like a cold house to bring two former feline adversaries together in love and friendship.

So in the spirit of all of those other bloggers that seem to need to post cat pics constantly, I bring you Sam (of the nicked jugular last year) and Moon.



and a close up:



The only other thing to do during a cold snap is to bake as far as I'm concerned. I haven't really been in the mood for anything super fancy so I made a rum bundt cake and chocolate chip cookies this weekend. The cake includes both a box of cake mix and a box of pudding mix in its ingredients and the cookies were off the back of the bag for anyone who was getting too comfortable calling me a foodie or a food snob. They are both tasty and easy recipes, so what's not to love? Particularly when you can get preservative and scary chemical free cake mixes these days that are as good as the stuff they stock an entire aisle with at your local big chain supermarket.