leticia

I keep trying to come back and post more, and failing miserably.

Have a cute cat story.

Now, some of you know, our house came with a feral kitty we call 'Momma Cat' because our first spring in the house, she had a litter under the house. The kittens all came inside, Momma Cat got trapped, spayed, and vaccinated before being re-released, and we've fed her since. She's used to us, comes up to the window and yells if we're late with her dinner, and generally acts imperious around here.

So, back a year or so ago, this poor baby started coming around my back yard:



While he was around, I couldn't put enough food out (you can see in the foreground that I'd taken to feeding Momma Cat right by the house so she'd actually get some) and he would bolt as soon as he knew he'd been seen, but he'd give such ...emo looks... while doing so, with big blue eyes.

Well, my mom has an ongoing problem with rodents in her garage/workshop building, so she wanted one of the ferals I was feeding as a 'barn cat'. I wanted to trap this baby because I felt sorry for him. (I also wanted to keep Momma if I was going to keep any; there's also a tux that shows up sometimes, though.)

She brought over a live trap, we set it up, and in a matter of hours, caught the exact cat I wanted; big matted black baby. He went to the vet, where it turned out he had an abscess on his face, terrible earmites, and a general not-doing-so-well diagnosis. Got those things treated plus his basic medical and went home to Mom's garage, where he proceeded to hide from her for three months.

Then, he apparently realized she was in fact feeding him, and started to come out to talk to her. From a distance, mind you.

That didn't last. Soon he was coming up for pets, then climbing on her lap, then she thought she heard mice in her house and took him inside (she has house cats, but part of the house isn't getting used much and she wanted him in there.)

Yeah, that poor bedraggled baby? This is him now:


He's a huge cat, 30 pounds, long haired, with those same big blue eyes, only now they're happy not haunted.

And Mom needs a new cat for the garage...

Wee. I was just outside getting food for my guinea pig, and I realized how MUCH I love this time of year. From late Febuary through at least the end of July,t here'll always be at least two kinds of flowers. Right now, we have four apple trees blooming and there's some bush with lots of white flowers that's in bloom all up and down the drive. Pretty! The plums in the yard barely stop blooming when the apples start. And yes, all of these are fruit bearing trees. Our front yard is something of an orchard.

Actually, to be honest, this is the first year two of the apples have ever bloomed, and they were planted from seed, so we don't know what they'll produce. Could be nasty crab apples - but another tree planted at the same time or thereabouts produces some WONDERFUL apples. ^^ They may be seeds from the same batch of apples and thus hopefully the same type, but there's no way to know... Till they're ripe at the end of summer.