What is this?

Upon my return home yesterday afternoon, I was greeted with some pleasant and some not-so-pleasant surprises.

The pleasant surprise: it had rained a lot! The garden was looking healthy and green and our garage roof had collected at least 50 L of water. It then took me about an hour and a half to collect this water, by maneuvering the very heavy water above my head toward small holes underneath which I placed buckets... but I was thankful.

The not-so-pleasant surprise: In the corner of our garage, I discovered cat-like animal, with grey-black fur, black legs, long tail, pointy teeth, and pointy face. Matt and I have been trying to identify it. Any ideas?

Birthday feast

October 17th, Matt celebrated his 27th birthday (thank you Carolyn for helping me get Matt's age right). There aren't exactly places to go to do something special, so we make it special with food. For the first time since we've been here, were able to find ricotta cheese as well as cream cheese at nakumatt. So..... I was able to make hearty meat lasagne and peanut butter cheesecake. In my unbiased opinion, they both tasted excellent.

I wanted to post pictures, but sadly, our camera has gone missing. (For those of you that know me well, this isn't the first camera to disappear on my watch...)