The Holiday season is over, and the house is now quiet. My hubby and I are watching the football games. Well, he is, and I am at the computer.
Much has passed since the last posting and I have been remiss on keeping up to date. Learning the violin is much tougher than I thought and I will always be a die-hard French horn player. But working at a middle school/high school orchestra assistant. It has been so enjoyable to be around young students and a challenge to be in a new field.
But most of you are looking for recipes and the farm. We have been busy at the farm and all summer with new kittens, new puppies, and new calves. Both of our cats had kittens, and it looked like the kitten fairy switched babies with mommas. We have new puppies. Annie and Oakley, who are 3/4 border collie and 1/4 blue heeler. We have one that is ADHDHDHD! She is a dolly, even though she wears us out with all the energy.
New Kittens…. Four tiger kitties from the calico, Callie, and four from Oreo (3 calico and one black) It was so sweet, but then the mommas were fixed so that there would not be anymore. I don’t mind cats on the farm, but the farmer man doesn’t want but a few, and we don’t want to be irresponsible our animals just breeding constantly. Our big Tiger male, Tygger, tolerated them all.
Oreo’s kittens. Teddy bear and the three callies
Come play with me!
We were able to give away all of them but one, and he went by the name of Henry….trust me he chose the name. I said every name I could think of and then said Henry and three times he turned to look at me hearing the name and the name stuck. Annie and Oakley are very good at taking watch on the kittens, and they were the guard dogs, and they wanted to play with them so badly. But sadly we lost Henry to an owl coming in from the timber and I cried for days. Henry was so loved by Tygger. He mourned for days and followed my husband for days.
The next post will be on the new baby calves born late fall. There is good news and bad news. But life and death are something that occurs on the farm and still this nurse has a hard time dealing it.
God gave us the circle of life to appreciate life and death. Whether it is the blessing of the birth of a baby, an animal or death of a loved one or one whose life ended too soon. He knows the days of our life, and the number of steps we will take. Living on a farm hits it more with the cycle of life and death here.
Iced Tea in a Hot Kitchen 