Had a frost here

Well all is about the same. The days warm up, but we've had a heavy frost two nights ago, and almost one last night. I didn't bring in the hanging plants, but they were okay because it's been so warm in the daytime, and the house's heat kept them from freezing. Some in the flower bed got it though. I brought them in anyway last night, and will have to start the in-out every day, till it gets really cold. They are just getting pretty, too, after our hot windy summer that they hated. Oh well, it's that time of year. Almost Halloween!

The cats all want to pile up and try to stay close in my old drafty house. I have the oven on now, to cook and they lay on the kitchen rugs, in the way of course! and many of them are sneezing, too.
Buddy is slowly losing ground, but not suffering, so I hold him when I can and comfort him, and try to make all the others stay away from him.

One of his mother's kittens this year, was a real runt. She [Buffy] had them this spring, as usual over in the business, across the street. Every year she would keep them over there, hidden and wild, and as soon as she thought they needed to learn to eat, she would lead them over to the house, and to the never empty cat food bowl. They would never get gentle either. Not many survived to adulthood, or were very long lived if they did. I see one male [white with yellow spots] that is three years old, and is so timid that he sneaks in to eat at odd hours. I call him Ghost. I have many that just disappear, and I figure it's the coyotes, I hear almost every night. I'm at the edge of town, with a woods close by. I don't know how Ghost stays out of trouble. And she has a solid black female [Sheba] that is two and is wild, and had five kittens this year and three are still here and pretty wild. And Sheba had a brother, who is wild and plain old alley cat tabby colored, with no markings. He comes in to eat every now and then too.

This year I told her if she wanted them to be gentle she better get them over her sooner, and the old girl new what I said, because, she went and carried several fat little wild kittens over and into my house. I came in from work and found them and barely got a view of them. The next morning she'd gotten the rest of them! Oh my, five kittens! four were just as fat and healthy as could be, and one was half their size, and seemed to not have much hair. She looked like a little rat. I started calling her Bitsy, because she was so tiny. She's three colored, just like Buffy. I think after my two spayed girls disappeared, that she realized she could come in the house without a fight. She has a skin allergy to something, probably fleas, and pulls her hair out, and I can help control it with some homemade aloe, tea tree, cortisone cream mix, but I can't get it to heal up, just help her not be so itchy. I was afraid of ringworm, but no one else has anything like it.

The smart old cat had raised her just as well as the big healthy ones, and she would root in and nurse every chance she got. They were about a month old. Buffy had had a bad case of mastitis, with a first litter, and it had ruined part of her milk glands, so it was hard for her to raise five kittens, but she did.
I have since named the runt, Betty Boop, as she is all eyes, and a little face. She is still very small for her age, and I've had to give her a couple of rounds of antibiotics, but she is a sweetie, and the others have gotten gentle, too. There are three boys, and one other girl. The girl is gray with white face, feet, and belly, and the boys are one black with same white, one yellow with same white, and a white with yellow spots.
Betty, and the yellow boy are bad to attack my legs, but I'll have to break them from that. They are all getting a lot more friendly, and I think Buffy is weaning them, so they are hunting comfort from me.
I'll try to get the pictures of them on here if I can do it.
Buffy looks full sided, but she's old and big belled anyway, but I hope nothing like Buddy's got. She was born in 2001, so she's seven, and has had lots of kittens. She's had a poor owner.

My computer is full, so I've got to hook up the external drive to download from. Pretty complicated for this old grandma! I'll get to it one of these days, and get to some of my drawings of them, too.

More latter!