I have prepared my friend Stephen that he needs to look after a few of my
chickens and the geese. He told me to take my Lakenfelder cock with his 3
hens today.  He wasn't ready with the cleaning out, and even had a broody
hen sitting in there :-(

I got back home Wednesday night after a trip to Indiana. We drove straight
through going out but stopped to sleep over on the way home. We had to get
my mother in laws house ready for sale. She is in a nursing home now. I did
get to meet my brother in law and his wife. They drove ...

I found an apparently unmarked mouse, dead on the kitchen floor. I
thought I had seen one running by last week.
Now, the mystery is:
  Is one of the staff an efficient and neat assassin who prefers

My Sassy passed last night. She went to bed as usual last night with my
oldest daughter, she passed sometime during the night. She showed no
signs of being sick at all, maybe it was just her time to go. I feel as
though my heart has been ripped apart and stomped on. My daughters are

It seems we have a house guest.  This little fellow followed my husband
home.  We gave him some food on the deck, like we do for all the strays, but
he stayed by the back door and cried and cried.  Then it started pouring
buckets here and he was huddled under the spa canopy but when ...

Just got off the phone with a friend and former co-worker who told me
*another* mutual friend and co-worker's employment was abruptly terminated
yesterday.
I've known this woman for 8 years.  She started with the company as a temp

After a week+ in Ontario I am back at last.  Sending purrs to all thsoe
who need some while I was gone.
I survived the week without a fight, mostly because my mom was working
every day but one and spent that day doing taxes, so we didn't have to

If anyone is interested, there is a very good video that has just been
posted of Fritz "The Brave" having an asthma attack.  I didn't know the
symptoms of asthma when Sam first presented.  After about 1 1/2 weeks of
his coughing I took him to the vet and my description was "that ...

On my bikeride this morning I thought about Beast and then about the
other two.  They were together a remarkably long time, considering they
were all refugees, from 1991 to 2000.    

Sometimes I wonder about the relationship between Hobbes, Sam and Lacey.
About a year after kitten Hobbes wandered up on our back patio I saw Sam
for the first time and he looked about the same age as Hobbes. I
sometimes wonder if they could be litter mates.  Then there is Lacey ...

The big ginger guy's crammed himself onto my lap, facing the computer
screen, with his head forced back so that his chin's on the keyboard's
wrist-rest. He's purring his little head off.

In his day, Stinky had the usual hoolikitten falling-into-the-bathtub
experience, and my my, he did not like it.  SO I find it touching that
despite his revulsion, he still bravely sits on the side of the tub
when I'm taking a nice bath.  He sits and looks at me with an

It isn't good news.
Took Sabra to the vet yesterday.  He was dehydrated and got fluids.
He has cataracts and other eye problems.  She thought she felt a small
mass in his stomach area, and he is constipated.  He is down to 7.5