Fall and all!

Well with a freeze last week, two in fact, all my summer garden is frozen except what I covered with blankets. LOL Trying to hang on to the peppers and tomatoes to see if any will mature. I almost didn't get home soon enough to get them covered, as it was 32* by the time I got home from work, but the blankets have worked so far.
The cats don't help much at night putting them out but the like to attack them in the morning when I pull them off. LOL
Typical of this area, it may be a while before we get more freezes, so it's worth a chance to try to save them. The Broccoli and cabbage is loving it tho. My house plant go in and out too. That is a game fore the cats, too, running in and out the door while is propped open! They're goofy!

The little tri colored one of Buttons did not make it. The Lord saw fit to take her quickly so she didn't suffer, later in the day. It is a real downer to lose them, but the others are all doing well.
I sat a litter box down and they all started using it on their own. They are eating , and crawling over the barrier I put up to keep me from stepping on them. Bathing them, putting down a new sleeping towel every day and keeping DE on them is helping keep the fleas off, too. Thank goodness!
I'm still having a hard time getting them off of Ricky, but I haven't tried to bath him yet. If he'd let me I could get them off and then we could keep him dusted. Right now he licks him self so much he stays wet and the DE sin't working like it should. I may have to get some thing from the vet to kill them off and hope it gives him some relief.

The little kitten I gave away is doing well, and them love him. They call him Squirrel. I'll try to get some picture of the little ones soon.

More latter. Need to get my sketches scanned, too.

Picturesof cats/current

Here are a few pictures. Abandoned kitten following me.
Rascal, kitten, C J, Willy.
Next Kitten with Dusty, Willy, C J, Andy in the background.
Next is Jewel and Skittles.
Next is Rascal and Skittles
Skittles has disappeared, Jewel is here.

Some good news, some bad!

Well the little one has found a home and is doing well. He continued to do good and one of the guys at work took him home to his wife. They love him. Yay! I'm so thankful!

On a sad note, I can't find Skittles, and my beautiful little bobtail, Jewel was gone Tuesday night.
Still not here Wed AM. I did me some praying about why did my faves disappear and could I please have Jewel back, and said thank you. And I don't know how He did it, but Jewel came crying to me on the front porch when I got in from work late after having to stay late with a colic Sx. Still no Skittles, tho. I won't question it, I just thank the good Lord that he brought her back.

The little tri-colored baby of Buttons' is not doing very well and she continues to lose ground. I just bathed her, and put here on a warmed pack after getting all the fleas off of her. I can't put her back in with the bigger ones, because she's getting to weak. She had refused to eat early this AM, but after her bath, which seemed to exhaust her, she did eat some, slowly. I hope I can pull her through. She is another one who will be a beauty.

As you can tell I love the three colored girls. I've had some beauties. Jewel is also bob-tailed, which are also my faves! Her yellow brother, is a love too. I call him Rascal, after one I used to have at the track, who would ride around on my shoulders and never scratch. This one does the same thing.

Timmy and Skippy and Willy and Dusty are snotty nosed and I'm going to start them on Biomox, and I think C J is getting it too. C J is named for my bobbie, Calamity Jane, her great, great grandma, who she looks a lot like. C J has gray tabby spots and Calamity had black spots.

I hope the babies don't get it, as they are almost jumping out of their box and I'll need to start feeding them dry food this week end. and that means a litterbox and here we go again! Eeeek! The two boys of Buttons' are getting big and the other two girls are okay, too.

One new little one shows up alone!

Well all of Buttons are okay, now, and Bitsy [Skeezic's abandoned one] is doing well with Buttons for a Mom. Her little three colored baby is small and was not thriving, and I've been giving her antibiotics, and she seems to be beginning to do better. I got some KMR and have been offering the kittens some. Buttons was getting sick and was not milking well for about a week and after antibiotics for her she is now doing well too. I'm giving her the KMR that the kittens don't drink, twice a day and she is improving and being a good mom. Her two boys are getting big. The yellow one is probably going to be long haired, too.

Three days ago, late at night, when I got home from work, a single little grey kitten was crying just outside of my shed and where it was at, was near a big fire ant mound, so I brought it in and looked at it and its eyes were all infected, so I cleaned him up and offered it some kmr and it seemed to be full so I put it back out in my shed in hopes the mother, who I presumed was Sheba, would find it and hide it again. Next AM, it was cold and stuck in some wire, no mom, so here I go again, brought it in and warmed it up and tried to feed it and cleaned it up, and put it back in the shed in the hay, where the Mom, would hopefully take it back. It still seemed to have been nursing, because it wasn't starving, but didn't really want to eat, or poop, and cried a lot. Long story short, I put it back out last night, and it was almost dead this AM. It was so cold because it had finally peed and gotten itself wet just under the edge of the tarp and was so cold that it could not even cry. I thought he was a goner, but I guess he has nine lives, because I finally got him thawed out by bathing him in warm water, and then blow dried him and tried to feed him, but he was not trying to eat, and I was afraid I would get milk in his lungs. I heated a cold pack in the microwave, and put him in a box with a towel over him in the window in the sun. He is now eating and did poop and this morning I started him on antibiotic, and I hope it works. Like I need another cat! I think I'm missing one of my black sisters outside, and that maybe why this kitten was starving and abandoned. I know Sheba is still here, but I think she would have taken this kitten if it was hers. I didn't know that one of them had had one, tho.
I'll have to take him with me to church, because I'll have to be there all day, and maybe I can give him away. He is going to be long haired, like Andy. A brown Tabby with a beautiful face.
I don't want to be another ones Mama!!!!!
I'm still battling fleas and I hope I can get them whipped. It's tough! Grrrr.