When it rains it pours...

It's off to the vet tomorrow.  Morris has been hanging out under the car a lot.  I thought it was just because it's hot.  Nope.  He has an ear chock-a-block full of infection.  It really smells bad. 

I cleaned it as much as possible and gave him some amoxicillin.  It will take the vet to clean his ear out.  Hopefully, he can do everything for $30, because that's about as much as I can afford.

As for Squeeky, it looks like her abscess has gone down a bit.  *whew* 

Bindi, on the other hand, has a small cyst on his side, so he'll be the next to go in. 

B"H, at least Spotty's ear healed over, so that's one cat well who was sick.  LOL

Back to watching Robin Hood!  :]

Good nearly afternoon! :]

The evil children woke me up at 4:20 this morning. I finally surrender at 5:10, crawled outa bed, broke up one fight - it took a broom to separate them, fed the cats and nearly fell asleep. :]

I'm still trying to stay awake. Anyway, I think the best way for me to wake up is go on the hill with the boys and Squeek, so I'm outa here. An adventure waits! :]

PS: I put a new article up about Father's Day gifts at the Wrinkle. I learned some really interesting stuff while researching the article. Did you know more collect phone calls are made on Father's Day than any other time of year! LOL

Here's to the matzah!!!

Hey guys! It's going to be a wild day today. I'm trying to get in some nature observation time and get things ready for pesach and shabbos. Can you say chaos? Anyway! I'm off to enter Squeeky's big adventure from yesterday, then off to the hill.

I'll be checking my email throughout the day. Have a great weekend! And see y'all Tuesday!

Plight of the missing Bindi! or There's a turd on my butt!

For the second day in a row Bindi disappeared on a hike. Yesterday, I had to make an extra trip up the hill to find him. He was waiting on me. Sometimes I think he just likes the extra attention. :]

Anyway, today when he disappeared I went hunting him because I didn't want to make an extra trip. Me, Jeff and Squeeky roamed around for nearly 15 minutes trying to find him. I never did.

Meanwhile, I went to the edge of the back of the pond and saw something shiny on the dam! It was 4 painted turtles sunning themselves!!! There was 7 - 9 altogether. I lost track of how many heads were sticking up. I stopped being irritated with Bindi after this. If he hadn't disappeared, I would have never seen them.

Any who, Bindi came up behind me just as casual as anything. Little rascal. I wanted to pick him up and carry him home, but he had a little turd on his hairy butt so I let him walk. LOL

BTW, I put a video up at FOW that I recorded on the hill. Have a great evening!

What a night!!!!

I was outside playing with Jeff and Squeeky and spotted a couple deer. One shot off and out of sight. Then the other shot off. Next thing I knew the two were chasing each other all over the hillside, kicking up their heels and obviously having a great time. :]

A few minutes later, a third deer joined in the fun and it was all out chaos - white tails flying everywhere! LOL! I went back in when they disappeared, walked in the kitchen and - yip! You guessed it! There was a deer looking back at me through the kitchen window! A second came up from behind and we all stood there staring at one another.

I managed to back off and out to the porch. Jeff was happy that he could sit and rub against me, until - ANOTHER FLASH OF WHITE!!!! A rabbit shot across in front of me and it's little white tail was bobbing about! Jeff was on the run!

Meanwhile, the two deer made their way around the cottage to where I was sitting. The larger deer raised it's nose high in the air trying to get a whiff of me, lowered his head and went back to eating.

At one point, Jeff got too close to the larger one and it slammed a hoof down with a thud that sent Jeff back to me. :]

The closes they got to me was about 8'. It was so cool! For once the neighbourhood dogs weren't barking so it was quiet enough to hear them tear the grass, chew and listen to their hooves against the limestone drive.

What a way to end the day! :] Good nite!

Morning quickie

As promised here's a few pics of the aftermath of me poor little tent being trampled by the evil rains. :]

The wind blew the tarp protecting the bottom of the tent 20 feet away. (tent in background) Get this - the tent was still where I put it. I wonder how the wind managed to sneak the tarp out from under it?






May it rest in peace...or in this case - pieces. All the poles snapped.










Bindi, Jeff and Squeeky tried to prevent me from removing their new hideaway toy.

So, that's it! :] I no longer have a tent, but my two tarps did survive and are now back on the hill as a temp shelter till my cabin is built. :]

Make it a fun day! :]

The meowing grass patch

Yesterday (sunday), I was out hunting dandelions.  I found around 50 running along the fence line outside my kitchen window.  :]  That was good!  So, I continued my hunt around the side of the barn.  Didn't see much, so I wondered if any were growing inside the soil part of the barn.

I took a step forward and from somewhere under my foot, a cat meowed.  I stepped back.  Silence.  I waited a bit and stepped forward.  As soon as my foot landed on the soft patch of grass, it meowed again.  This time, I freaked and jumped back.  What the heck was under there????  How was it under there??????

I looked up to refocus and there was Morris, the big yellow/orange cat.  He looked at me and meowed.  "MORRIS!!! YOU LITTLE FREAK!!! YOU SCARED THE CRAP OUTA ME!"  I burst out laughing.  Talk about feeling like an idiot!

I was so caught up in looking for dandelions, that I was only aware of Bindi, Jeff and Squeeky off to my right, but never noticed massive Morris just off to the left.  (I'm still blushing.)

Anyway!  That's your afternoon or evenings entertainment!  :]  Have a great one!

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