I just had to share…
Beep Beep’s babies are almost as big as she is!
The Re-Farmer
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Evening antics
Yesterday evening, I went out to rake out the leaves and twigs where I had cleared away earlier. There are too many twigs and pieces of wood to use to layer onto the garden by the house, so I got the fire pit going.
I also discovered the Butterscotch has moved her babies to the log shed by the fire pit.
I was watched, but none came near!
Later on, I did a walk around the yard and noticed the setting sun was an incredible red colour. I wasn’t able to capture it adequately in this photo.
Imagine the deepest red you can see was the entire ball of the sun.
The redness was because of the smoke of fires burning. There are none burning near us. The smoke may well be from another province!
That pile of wood in the foreground is part of what I’d cleared away earlier.
As I headed back into the yard, I discovered one of Butterscotch’s kittens in the area I had raked, dancing around.
I don’t think it ever did catch the moth. :-D
I raked up 3 wheelbarrows full out of that area. I’m going to have to clear the ashes out of the fire pit again!
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Bribery will get you everywhere
We have had little success in getting the kittens more comfortable with us, though we have been able to touch the odd one.
This evening, we resorted to outright bribery.
Wet cat food.
It worked. Kinda.
Beep Beep and her kittens were out, and we started off with a can of paté. They quickly finished it off.
So I brought out a second can of chunks in gravy cat food.
I even found a broiler pan in the old garden shed to put the food on.
Why there was a broiler pan in the garden shed, I have no idea. But I will leave it there to put the cat kibble on, instead of in the dirt, until the kittens start regularly coming around the other side of the house to the food bowls there.
My daughter was able to pet BOTH of Beep Beep’s babies!
Once their bellies were full enough, they were no longer willing to let my daughter pet them. The tuxedo is a little more willing, but it will step back and hiss when touched. The tabby just runs off.
They are getting so big. :-D
We won’t be able to keep this up, since canned cat food is so much more expensive, but I hope we’ll eventually get them associating us humans with good things, and that they will become more socialized.
The Re-Farmer
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Just sittin’
Now if only they would stay sitting when we come out, so we can say hi. :-)
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Orange you cute!
All in a row
I’ve started a routine of putting cat kibble out for the kittens in the evening, when we tend to see them out more often.
When I came out through the sunroom, where we keep the cat food and bird seed, I startled Butterscotch and the one kitten that followed her to the food bowls by the house, so I made a point of putting kibble out near where her kittens are, first. Then I went around to the garden shed, where Beep Beep has her kittens, and put more there.
I never saw Beep Beep’s kittens, but in the time it took me to move from one area to the next, Butterscotch and her babies were hungrily eating together!
The bigger orange tabby couldn’t squeeze her way in, so she went around the other side.
Too cute!
If it weren’t for the size difference, we probably couldn’t tell the orange tabbies apart!
I also got video. :-D
That was about as close as they would let me come, though Teeny Tabby did let me touch her (his?) back while eating, a couple of times. I’m not sure if Teeny was being braver than the other kittens, or hungrier! :-D
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What’s that over there?
What the kitten is staring at so intently is a blue jay eating the cat kibble I’ve been leaving out for the kittens.
The blue jay is bigger than the kitten.
Wise kitten, watches from afar! :-D
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Mighty Hunters of Toes!
Morning Rays
I visited the beach after dropping my daughter off at work today. It was so beautiful!
After the storms last night, the lake is very calm this morning.
Though I am far from a morning person, I enjoy driving my daughter for her early shifts and being able to visit the beach this early. I hung around, taking photos, playing Pokemon Go, and looking for interesting rocks, for about half an hour. By 8:30 a.m., the beach was already getting crowded. There were even people playing beach volleyball! Well, it’s Saturday on a long weekend, so I guess that’s to be expected. Especially a festival weekend. There’s an annual festival held on the first weekend of August in town that has been going on for the last 80+ years here. I remember going to it as a child and teen, and it seemed to get smaller and smaller every year. By the time I moved away, I honestly wondered how much longer it would continue. Trends changed over the years, though, the the town wisely took advantage of them, and incorporated a viking village with re-enactors (turns out there’s a whole community of re-enactors that travel from festival to festival across Canada), complete with mock battles. It’s become quite huge.
Which means we’ll be avoiding it, as much as possible! LOL
As early as it still was, I headed home faster than usual because of the growing crowds, where I found another ray of sunshine waiting for me.
Teeny Tabby is so adorable!
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A favorite spot
There are some exposed roots that the kittens love to just sit on.
It must be warmer on the butt or something. :-D
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