Mellow Yellow

See how calm Odin is? Odin's birthday (April 22) is in a few days. He'll be turning three.

He's already becoming more mellow with age. Yesterday, as unseasonably warm temperatures descended on the great state of Ohio, I turned on a ceiling fan. I did so reluctantly because I knew what the reaction would be. First, he would stare up in utter horror at the rotating blades from hell that threatened to chop him into tiny orange bits. He would then run and hide under the bed for at least 12 hours after the fan had been turned off.

But yesterday, as I held my breath, Odin calmly turned his head to look, snuggled a little more comfortably into his lace pillow, and then went back to sleep.

It was quite a breakthrough. Next thing you know he won't be afraid that the squirrels outside the window are gonna come in and git him.