Exploring Life In The Grit Of The Earth
Posted in Pets on Aug 19th, 2011
This week has been a bit hellacious. I woke up Monday morning to find two puddles of blood by the back door where Suki usually sleeps, and Suki was no where to be seen. I whistled and called for her but she didn’t come. Toby and I started looking for her. We found that a [...]
Posted in Pets on May 26th, 2011
Posted in Chickens/Ducks, Knitting, Mothering, Pets, Sewing on Dec 28th, 2010
It was almost exactly this time last year that we had the big snow of ’09 and got snowed in for a week. Well, we are snowed in again and actually have been since Christmas. We’ve played in tents, made snow cream, baked, gone sledding, read, and just relaxed. The duck surprised us on Christmas [...]
We took the kids to the fair last night for some fun on the rides and greasy fair food! Kaia has always been a very cautious child and likes to ride the slower kiddie rides. Leif went on any ride that he was tall enough for and then cried and screamed “MORE!” as soon as [...]
… is doing very well. He’s back to his normal super snuggly self! Yay!
Posted in Pets on Aug 18th, 2010
My sweet cat Max is at the vet for a reaction to Sergeant’s Gold flea drops. He’s never had flea problems because he’s an indoor cat. But yesterday I noticed a bunch of fleas on him. I ran out to get something because he was starting to pull his hair out and scratch like crazy. [...]
Posted in Chickens/Ducks, Pets on Aug 16th, 2010
The Ancona babies are a little over a month old and doing great! I am going to move them to the main coop tonight. I’m sure they will be very happy to have more room to make a mess. We also got three new ducks yesterday. The two that are lighter and larger are Saxony [...]
Posted in Do It Yourself, Mothering, Pets on Dec 26th, 2009
Kaia and I crafted felt doughnuts, stuffed with polyfill and catnip, for some of our favorite feline friends! There are all different icing and sprinkle types, for your cat’s specific tastes. We gave the first one, a raspberry icing with chocolate sprinkles, to our cats as an early gift. As you can see, they are [...]
Posted in Chickens/Ducks, Home Schooling, Mothering, Pets on Sep 25th, 2009
Kaia has been studying the 5 kingdoms of life at school for the past 4 weeks. So, we thought we’d take a trip out to the Nature Center to see what in the Animal, Plant, and Fungus kingdoms we could find. Poor little papa peacock is moulting and has no tail feathers. But you see [...]
Posted in Organic Gardening, Pets on Jul 5th, 2009
Or should I say, the thing that makes my back ache Watering the garden is not so easy when there is a cat attacking your head!
Posted in Pets on Jun 10th, 2009
Wow… this just isn’t a good time for us as far as our animals go. Poor Suki tore her ACL on Monday and needs major surgery. She was just running around the land and must have taken a wrong step. It’s just like a torn ACL in humans. Since she is an 85 pound Akita, [...]
Posted in Pets on Jun 9th, 2009
Please don’t send hate mail…. please don’t tell me what a horrible, unfeeling cat mother I am… I know that once you adopt an animal you are promising them a ‘forever’ home… but life brings changes and I feel that this decision is to enhance the lives of my cats! After many months of contemplation [...]
I… just… can’t…. get… close… enough!!!
Posted in Pets on Dec 23rd, 2008
With two other warm laps in the house, you’d think the cats would learn to move elsewhere as I lose my lap space. But no… they just shove themselves in where ever they can!
Posted in Pets on Dec 7th, 2008
Is there anyone on the other side of this thing?? Meow!! I mean ROAR!!! Oh, please don’t let my mighty fangs scare you! I’m really a very gentle cat! (Pictures taken by John Narrin, the photographer for the New Life Journal. Their building experts came over on Friday to check out our place. They are [...]
Posted in Pets on Nov 23rd, 2008
Posted in building our home, Do It Yourself, General, Mothering, Organic Gardening, Pets on Nov 7th, 2008
Here’s all the lard after it was canned. Looks like creamy milk, doesn’t it! I’m really enjoying using it to cook up eggs, veggies, etc… Kaia and I spent some time making some holiday soaps. This was a batch of Wintergreen/Sweet Orange soap, and she’s mixing in a little cinnamon powder ‘to make swirlies!’, while [...]
What ‘cha eatin’?? OOOOhhhhh, eggs! So, if I lean in a little closer, I can get some, right? Hey Wait! Isn’t that last bite for me?? You know, if you want me to warm your lap while you eat, you are going to need to move your arm!
Posted in building our home, Chickens/Ducks, General, Pets on Sep 3rd, 2008
This weekend, Toby started working on the front steps. We are putting in 4 steps that come from the drive to the front door. We will also be putting in a little landing-type porch, just to keep the mud and dirt from coming in the house all the time. Since you always get the butt [...]
Posted in Do It Yourself, General, Mothering, Pets on Aug 22nd, 2008
Kaia and I went Blackberry picking yesterday and got gallons of blackberries, and even a few raspberries. The vines were dripping with berries as big and juicy as I’ve ever seen. The raspberries weren’t ready just yet, but the farm owners had picked some of a different variety a few weeks ago and frozen them. [...]
The cats are having a grand ol’ time together and have really adjusted well in the last 10 days. Daisy is still a bit skittish, but calming down each day. Here’s a nice picture where you can really see Isabella’s wavy coat. It’s extremely soft! You can also see her white ‘racing stripes’ on her [...]
Posted in Chickens/Ducks, Holistic Medicine, Mothering, Pets on May 7th, 2008
Sorry for the slack in posting. All is well here.. just busy. We are settling into the house and really enjoying the space and amenities! Kaia and I are especially having fun cooking together (something that was really hard to do in the little cabin). We ate so poorly the past two years. I had [...]
Posted in Pets on Apr 30th, 2008
We finally got our kitties! We’d been putting it off until we were in the house. There is still a ton of unpacked stuff and clutter that they can get into, but we were ready to have them come home. They are roaming around the house right now, figuring out where everything is. They chortle [...]
Posted in building our home, General, Pets on Apr 6th, 2008
Max has been staying with us in the upstairs bedroom, and seems to like it there. Today, while I was doing some more cordwood, I left the door to the bedroom open so Max could explore the rest of the house. He seemed to get a kick out of running up and down the stairs. [...]
Posted in Pets on Mar 28th, 2008
I’m sorry to say that little Rosie died yesterday morning. We really thought she was going to make it. After 5 days of eating well we’re not sure what happened. She may have gotten cold at night, but she was kind of sluggish the day before yesterday, so I don’t know. We had a little [...]
Well, it looks like we have another family member. I’d like to introduce you to Rosie, our baby mouse. We were getting out some bee stuff from storage and found that all of the bagged up hive bodies had mice in them. In the first bag, three grown mice ran out. In the second bag, [...]
Posted in Pets on Mar 18th, 2008
So, I’ve entered Max and Suki in a beauty contest Please go and vote!! Bissell Vacuum Cleaners will have 15 weeks of voting. Each week 5 pets will win (based on appearance, coat, and expression). From the final 75, they will chose one to be their spokes pet (they will get their photo on their [...]
They are a month old now. Cutie pies, eh? We are getting the black one with the strip on her head. The little calico reminds me of johnny depp in pirates of the carribean, with the black eye make up
…to take an afternoon nap… Yes, that is a cat on my head!
We are proud to announce the marriage of Kaia and Max! The blushing bride wore a white, sparkley princess gown with pink slippers, and the groom… well the groom was none to happy about his white veil. Seems his bride made a last minute change from his elegant black tux with tails to a shiny [...]