Lately, Beep Beep has been very aggressive about wanting human attention.
She has very sharp claws!
After we made our trip to my medical appointment yesterday, the girls and I ended up going for a walk-about beyond the outer yard.
Beep Beep followed us.
Continue readingOur new addition has been thoroughly accepted by the other indoor cats.
It’s looking like our temporary situation is becoming permanent…
We haven’t been seeing deer much lately, though as fall approaches, we are starting to see them in the fields as we drive by again.
Once in a rare while, I will see on in the trail cam, going down our driveway and jumping the chain. I haven’t seen any since the gate got replaced.
Until I checked the files, yesterday.
The motion sensor was triggered by this lone deer, jogging down the road! :-D
I also saw something interesting flash by during the night.
Continue readingYou weren’t wanting to make your bed or anything, were you?
Because Grandma is giving me a bath right now.
We started leaving food out for Junk Pile Kitten and his mom beside the junk pile, since the other cats crowd around the food bowls by the house, and sometimes chase them away.
Then the other cats discovered we leave food there.
In fact, it’s now become routine for the other kittens to follow me as I put food out, ignoring the food by the house and eating the food being left at the junk pile.
I’ve taken to leaving little piles of food on the ground beside the bowl, and even on the log I’ve set up as a seat. I started doing the same thing by the pump shack, too, since not only have some of the kittens started following me there, so do Butterscotch and Beep Beep!
How much is that kitty in the window?
The one with the fluffy tail?
How much is that kitty in the window?
Please make him stop using his nails!
The little bean is finally as tall as my stuffed kitty, if still quite a bit smaller!
He is now very adept at getting to the window ledge. It’s a miracle the screen is still intact, as he goes after moths on the other side.
Nothing like waking up to the sound of claws on a screen.
These are from this morning, when I brought kibble to the bowls I brought back to the pump shack.
Rosencrantz had already come out and looked to be heading for the house, but hung around when she saw me, then came to eat after I put food in the bowls. She comes to the house for food but, for some reason, Beep Beep and Butterscotch (especially Beep Beep) have been very mean to her and chasing her away. So even though I was mere feet away, I think she was glad to get food here!
Digital zoom, here. My apologies for the poor quality of the image.
She has the strangest dark patches on her cheeks, below each eye!
I had to walk past her to go back to the house, which made her nervous, but not enough to leave the food.
Where those noises I could hear in the pump shack?
Why, yes! Look who’s getting brave!
Since discovering them back in the pump shack, I propped the door open a few inches in such a way that it can neither blow open more, nor close, so it’ll be easier for them to come in and out. I think they like that.
Pump shack baby is also hungry!
I want to snuggle. That. Face!!!!
This critter is a mystery in a couple of ways.
The first: I don’t know exactly what it is, other than “caterpillar”.
I’ve been doing searches, and the closest I can guess is that it’s some variety of tussock moth. It’s quite tiny – smaller than my fingernail. I’ve never seen anything like it around here before.
The other mystery is, where did it come from?
I was at my computer, typing away, when it dropped onto my keyboard.
From…
…somewhere.
The Re-Farmer 