love kitty

Posted on December 7, 2009 - Filed Under mayalife | 2 Comments

Our sweet little kitten is not so little any more. Boy cats started showing up at night. Paul even caught one guy peeing on our front door. Eww. The time had come. It was time to get Mochi fixed.
But when I called my old vet, I about fell off my chair when they quoted a [...]

mochi swims!

Posted on July 1, 2009 - Filed Under kiddo life | Leave a Comment

It’s a walk of a couple minutes to our pond. Lately, Mochi the Barn Cat has been coming with us.

The first time she came, we were worried that she would wander off and get lost, but she stayed right with us, and now she comes along almost every day.

It’s a lovely little walk, from bright [...]

kittenphobia

Posted on May 30, 2009 - Filed Under goats, honeymilk farm | Leave a Comment

We got the kitten, which has been tentatively named Turtle, to the barn! She seems to be going through a total personality transformation, from semi-feral fear ball, to bouncy happy runs-up-to-meet-us fluffy cakes. She’s downright…kittenish! And she’s out of the junk heap and into the goat barn, where, as I predicted, she seems much happier.
But.
The [...]

here we go again

Posted on May 22, 2009 - Filed Under honeymilk farm, kiddo life | Leave a Comment

About a week ago, Paul heard a squeaky sound coming from somewhere outside and traced it in the dark to a tiny black kitten, hiding in our storage heap shed.
“No, no, no!” I said, when he reported back. “Absolutely not!”
It wasn’t that long ago that I was hanging out with poor old Chopper while he [...]

choplicker

Posted on May 29, 2008 - Filed Under mayalife | 3 Comments

When I turned twenty I got a cat, Annabelle, and her daughter Henrietta. Annabelle promptly got preggo and had kittens, all but two of which I kept. For a while there, I had a lot of cats.
For the past several years, though, I just had one, Choplicker, the oldest and strongest of Annabelle’s [...]