kato the kitten

Posted on August 14, 2009 - Filed Under honeymilk farm | 2 Comments

  
Because you never know when she’s going to jump out, claws extended, and wipe the floor with you. I’m walking along the path at night, bleary and minding my own business, when WOMP! Tiny razor sharp claws and teeth scrabble across my ankles—and then she’s away into the dark, invisible and triumphant, and I am [...]

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 [...]

introducing mochi

Posted on June 5, 2009 - Filed Under honeymilk farm, kiddo life | 2 Comments

Sophie (5), acting as guest blogger today, says:
We found this kitty in the junk shed. She must have been with people when she was small. She’s a black kitty with an orange ear and big gray eyes. She’s growing very fast. When we found her, she was just the size of Paul’s hand. Now she [...]

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 [...]