Sophie has been making masks.
I love the individually cut feathers on the owl mask! The wolf got a snout that I managed to miss in this photo, but its pretty awesome, all shaped and glued into place. And drat, I couldn’t find the peacock mask, which is truly a shame [...]
Fancy, one of our goats, is due to have kids any day now. She is HUGE.
In case you can’t see it, take a look at her from the front.
Poor baby can barely walk. Her belly bulges out on either side like a Frank Lloyd Wright [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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
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 second [...]
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