Another tiny peek at Authors kittens. 
By my reckoning they are about 5 days old.
They can both easily lay in the palm of my hand now. Growing fast.
They are very wriggly and busy though.
I brought them out into the light for a photo and just came out and fed them there. Then followed them when I hid them again in her special corner. Soon we will have to think of names.
As you know dandelions are protected around here, as well as being good food for me and for cows the flowers are good for bees. However I feel a little Hoist on my own petard. The dandelions in the asparagus patch are getting out of hand. I need to put more straw over each of the asparagus crowns to deter the weeds.
I love the colour though.
Good morning. Daisy arranged herself in a perfect center of the Dairy Mistress field, then called out for a photo. She has adapted beautifully to the green grass and is not being fed hay at all now. She still has her beet shreds with molasses, a dash of cider vinegar and a few drops of mastoblast at milking time to strengthen her immune system. Her production is still increasing and I made ice cream yesterday! I will order my new electric fence today and begin to more intensively crop this field. It is is almost tall enough. Queenie can come in to help.
It is raining here today, and a bit colder. Daisy has brought herself up to the milking parlour and is leaning over the fence mooing at the kitchen door. Time to begin. A beautiful damp day ahead. You have a lovely day too my darlinks. Al is well.
your friend celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
55 responses to “For all cat lovers”
Good morning Celi; the kittens are adorable the pasture looks to be doing very well
have a blessed day mike
morning mike! hope your grass is growing well now too.. bet your milk is creamier now, ours sure is! c
Kittens look sweet! Grass looks wonderful! We have snow in SE MN yesterday — I have no words for that. Have a great day!
I cannot imagine how tough it must be to wake up to snow again.. surely it will be gone soon.. c
Reading your posts is a very similar experience as eating the most delicious chocs..when you save the best one till last and really enjoy the flavour….it makes my day…thank you
I am so grateful that you enjoy the blog, little bits of joy are so precious.. c
i agree with the above. i love reading your post each day. i look so forward to it. i broke down and sprayed some of my dandelions with a mix of liquid soap, salt and vinegar. there are just so many of them! send some of that rain this way. we sure are dry here!
I have piles of them too, i have found that is the places that i do not mow, letting the grass get quite long, the dandelions do not thrive.. so maybe I should let grass get long around the asparagus until the dandelions stop flowering.. c
Hi Celi! I may have missed this, but is Daisy pregnant again, or will she be soon? We have rain here too, thank goodness, but looks like we may be covering tomato plants and putting row covers back on, as it will get cold tonight. xo
no she is still open, I plan to breed her in May/June. poor your with that cold coming, we are certainly chillier (winter coat back on ) but not that cold.. c
“…beet shreds with molasses, a dash of cider vinegar and a few drops of mastoblast at milking time to strengthen her immune system…” The simple life is not always as simple as it appears.
Beautiful kittens. I hope they continue to do well.
yes molasses for the minerals and cider vinegar against worms, .. When we don’t rely on medications to cure an animal after the fact, we must work extra hard to keep the animals healthy so they don’t get sick. Daisy is a big animal!.. Actually humans are the same, some proactive work on health reaps wondrous benefits.. I have not been to a doctor for more than twenty years.. it is all about the food!! pretty simple really… c
1. The kittens are beautiful. But palm-of-the-hand small??? Wow. That’s tiny! 2. How do you prepare dandelions? Do you eat them in salad? Do you saute them? Please tell me if you have time. We’re overrun with them in the summer in France, and the old villagers swear (and I believe them) that they survived on dandelion during WW2 sauteed with bacon. 3. Beets and molasses? That sounds good to me! Must make for some good milk…
I literally pick the tiny new leaves, rinse and throw them in the salad.In fact i grow some in my lettuce beds too. My mother-in-law said that her mother wilted them with a little sizzling bacon fat, then threw in the chopped bacon and they loved it, so i must try that soon! She also said that her mother and grandmother only picked them in the early spring, when they were sweetest. As a side effect dandelion is known for bringing down the swellingfrom arthritis, though i guess you would have to eat them every day often, I need to do some more research on that!.. My Dad does it. c
Such cute little kittens. We have some baby birds in a nest in an old wall here. Babies are always cute.
Little birds,, lovely.. c
Lovely post, Ceci. the kittens are purr-fect. 😀
As much as I love those images of your sweet baby kittens, it is the last one I most appreciate of the green green grass. Snow falling again here this a.m. in southeastern Minnesota.
I’m gazing now at dandelion gilded landscape. I have enough problems with the diuretic I am obliged to take without adding dandelions (pisse-en-lit) to it. I just like to look at them and hope that the bees are tucking in!
Lovely kitties, contented cows and asparagus: your life is good.
So funny to hear about rain in Illinois, record snow in Minnesota and Iowa when it is hot, dry and windy here with smoke in the air from fires. It got to 91 degrees Fahrenheit yesterday. Lovely shots of the kittens and the dandelions in the field.
Chapter and Verse …. for the kitties 🙂
Sounds like Daisy is taking her role as mothership to the farmy very seriously! Loving Spring on the farmy, while we quietly slip from Autumn into Winter, even though we are still quite warm. Laura
oh Kittens! Bless! They’re so cute
What precious little poppets those kittens are! They are going to be beautiful specimens!
How lovely you are getting some rain C – think we are in for some too this afternoon so best I get my washing off the line.
Have a super weekend.
🙂 Mandy xo