A Day in the Life of a Country Girl

Isn't this warm weather GREAT? Oh, there's ice on the grass. Hmm. Well it was warm for a couple days at least and I had so much fun in our yard. I weeded and tilled our raspberry row, planted three rose bushes, pruned six rose bushes, and planted 50 strawberry plants. I guess the hard part was preparing the soil for all that. If it ever warms up, I will plant the rest of the stuff that I'm trying to keep dormant in our basement. Grapes, lilies, blueberries, etc. I love having a big enough yard for all of this. Then there's the cats...


Isn't that sweet -- Two mother cats and a teeming mass of kittens? There are 10 of them there, to be exact, and that doesn't count the ones that were born a couple weeks ago. But it isn't as sweet as it looks.

It turns out that nature has problems with three mothers being in the same vicinity. If a baby kitten ends up nursing on the wrong mother, the jealous one decides to get revenge by stealing the other's kittens. Sometimes to hide under herself and sometimes to ditch on the other side of the garage, where it's left helpless until someone (that's me) hears it and rescues it. The three separate baskets weren't enough, so now they're locked away from each other. What a mess. Anyone want a beautiful mother cat with beautiful kittens?

Jonathan is registered for Kindergarten now. He did amazing on his readiness test and now all he needs to do is turn five. Of course he was mostly excited about the playground.

I was hoping to post a picture of Ben in his Mr. Incredible costume, but he won't let me. He was roped into it at a grand opening thing he went to for work. He didn't know about it ahead of time but he was a good sport and the pictures are great. I shouldn't have asked his permission to put them on, next time I'll just assume it's okay!