As I sit here this morning, I did not realize I had not blogged since January.
Oh, for the days when I blogged every single night after supper!
I just can't seem to do it anymore.
We have left the frigid conditions of January and February, and we are now at the end of April, when things are looking decidedly springlike.
There have been some surprises along the way, these last few months.
Bob's life hung in the balance for ten days.
On this day, I had actually taken him to be euthanized, as we had medicated and
given ivs all week to no avail. The doctor left the room... and the tech was kind enough to take what I thought were last pictures.
Within a few minutes, the doctor was back with the news that part of his bloodwork had come back early, and the culprit was revealed... feline micoplasmosis. As it happened, I already had a med at home that Coco had been on... I began it that day and within five days he was back to his normal self.
Whew.
All I can say is Bob, Bullseye and Wanda are expensive cats.
A year ago in March, my son borrowed a 20 foot trailer from his brother in law and hauled some fencing panels for me. The trailer sat at my house for a year, I mowed around it. It was pulled out on Thursday of last week. I am going to spread thickly.... pollinator flower seed in this space and water them in good!
I have had to start mowing, but NE Kansas is far behind in rain. We need some, and we may get some later today. I would love for it to come as steady rain and not tornados, please.
I thought this two year old Cochin hen was a goner, I kept finding her in odd places.
What has actually happened is that she has gone broody.
Oh, yes, I need to rake that hen house out and re-bed it.
This Wyandotte DID go broody... she is barely a year old... and hatched out two tiny
little chicks. I suspect they are the product of Rocky, my tiny mille fleur rooster, but we shall see.
We have had beautiful nights.
And beautiful, beautiful days.
I had to put the mother and babies in the brooder house with the four week old chicks (out of sight to the right). See how she has pushed straw into the water fountain? I have to go out there six times a day to make sure she has water, and .... woe betide the older chick who DARES to come near her babies. My plan was to raise those 17 new chicks in the brooder house, and she has wrecked my plans. I can't let her out... the chicks will be lost, I have never had luck with mamas raising their own.
I had a very bad fall on Friday. Nothing is broken, but I am very sore from it, and Chico and I have been spending time in the recliner under the heated blanket. It is getting too warm for that, let me tell you.
Guess what? The mama eagle must be on her nest somewhere, because the male is the only one visiting!
It's so hard to get a decent picture on a cloudy day.
You know I love wildlife but man... I feel like I am feeding all of Leavenworth County sometimes.
I pour a small pile out on the floor as I pick up the bowls in the evening.
I actually had to move the big bin holding the cat food into the big hen house... it's a pain to carry it back and forth... because I could NOT for the life of me keep the raccoons out of it.
That's Teeny the Meany, one of the three barn cats.
The warming lights are all off now, it's 77 out there today (April 22).
This beautiful dilute calico is Diamond Lil, named by Kitty Cat Connection, not me.
She came here six years ago, I have never touched her.
She came with Coco, who was called Coal at the time.
Lil lives in Troy's barn next door... but... she eats in the garage on my property. She has been greeting me every morning for a month or so now, so I take a two piece feeder and I give her wet food on one side, dry on the other, and then the big bowl of dry goes in there, too, you can see a pile from it, here.
A bowl of water is always in there. I start talking as I get close to the garage in the morning (I feed her first) and I hear her meowing to me as I get there.
Twenty years ago here, I planted tulips. There are a few that still come up. Every fall I tell myself to plant more... and every fall I forget or put it off. I enjoy the ones that lived!
I hope everyone is well and I am sorry it was so long in between posts... life should be getting easier for me but it is getting a little harder to get everything done here. I am hoping to stay here for a few more years.
Thanks for reading!
