After staying in Sick Bay for the morning a very wan and tired looking Tia came back out to her little herd. She is eating well and doing all the normal business after her scare on Friday so I would rather she were out walking about than in the sick bay which is really only a small draft free area of a barn corridor that I can easily shut off in emergencies.
Last night I checked on them all and Sheila was snoring so loudly I could hear her from the door. When I reached their sleeping room I could see Sheila fast asleep in her enormous straw bed with the calves scattered around her like black pearls. All the calves were sitting perfectly at ease, chewing their cud, heads up and turned to me, eyes shining, listening to their comforting sound.
Yesterday afternoon I saw That Cat perched precariously on a sheet of ice leaning down to the water below for a drink. I need to add here that there I plenty of other vessels of heated water in the barn for cats and birds. Why she chose this trough I don’t know. Camera House was not quite focussed when this happened. Watch this sequence.
He leapt as he fell and was out and gone within the second, doused in feezing water and flying through the air, the shrieking,spitting over the smash of the breaking ice causing quite the drama and scaring the dogs as he shot back into the barn to hide.
We were not amused…
I hope you have a lovely Sunday.
Love celi
ps. Don’t forget. I am an immigrant living in America with a green card. Someone said to me yesterday – but this ban on immigrants does not affect you, you are not from one of the banned countries? My voice had been shuddering with the horror of it, the speed of this persecution, the officers just doing as they were instructed, following orders. Putting people with green cards back on planes without letting them even make a phone call. Planes to where? Back to the hell they were escaping.
I went quite still.
It affects me, I said. Turning away. Because I am from the world.
The Kitchen's Garden 
116 responses to “Cats And Ice”
It affects us all, whether we recognize it or not. Well said.
This one will – and hopefully they will see their error and fix it on Monday. No-one can stand behind this – it must surely have been an oversight. Maybe they did not realise how far reaching this kind of ban is. And how it throws every single green card carrier in America back onto tenterhooks.
I agree with you on this. I do not think anyone considered how “far reaching this kind of ban is”. I hope that Monday brings some kind of resolution. Communication all around is so important… and I, for one, do not trust anything the media relays.
Yes I agree that we need to verify what is reported – so I went and found the actual directive .
Admit tha you were just a little amused at the silly cat, just a little? I am horrified by what is happening. I will be calling the elected officials in my state…again. It doesn’t feel like America anymore.
I laughed and screeched myself – hence the camera shake!! c
So glad to see Tia up and moving around. (Had to laugh at that last post’s picture of the bucket with the instructions/cautions illustrated on the side )
Always good to think ahead about potential problems and be cautious when working with buckets and peoples lives. (I’m afraid to watch tv because of all the angry noise and afraid not to – all the congressmen’s contact info is easily found…We are the people – and know how to use that.)
Envy your full attention demanding farmy world even with the difficulties
Yes! I am lovely and busy!
Very well written 🙂
I am very relieved to see Tia up and around, feeling better. I hope your cat will use the other water bowls after her misadventure.
I am thoroughly appalled at Trump’s policies and agree we must keep contacting our elected representatives. It is a very scary state of affairs.
Loved today’s story!
But, likewise, I am an immigrant, a Brit, here on a Green Card. Just wondered what your place of birth was? Mine was London.
Let me ramble on a tad more. Reflecting on those above that are uncomfortable about the present face of America. Jean and I live in a rural part of Southern Oregon. We are surrounded by the most stunningly beautiful countryside. Even more beautiful are the people who live around us. In the main, folk who, like us, are the wrong side of 65. But the caring attitude of our friends and neighbors towards this pair of Brits who, so often, don’t know what we are doing, is touching beyond words.
This is what America really is about.
Please ignore who lives in the White House. They will never dim the lamp of what really matters in this country. Community!
I am from New Zealand. And i love that you are surrounded in such good folks. And beautiful too! c
New Zealand is a lovely country. Haven’t managed to get there but I did live in Australia for a couple of years in the late sixties and heard very good things about NZ.
Australian cities have the sweetest little houses – especially Melbourne – I love Melbourne.
Oh poor little kitty….hope he or she found a warm place to dry off- perhaps with Sheila? Good to see that Tia is up and recuperating.
We are all from the world and I can seeing being more stringent with new immigrants….but I think things have gone a bit too far over the top .
Most of us came here from somewhere else ….unless one is an indigenous.
Sheila used to have a cat but now that i think about it I never see a cat in with her now – maybe it is the cows.. or they have all gone over to the kunekune. c
Oh poor kitty. But how amusing. I am sick about the immigration ban. I can’t believe this is happening in my country. Need to find a way to make my voice heard.
I am walking again – c
Love that.
Hope the cat dried off safely – they do the silliest things sometimes. Yes, it’s horrific, what is happening over there at the moment – I am in the UK, feeling for everyone that is directly affected already and fearful for the future for us all. Take care
I am SO looking forward to getting out into your neck of the woods in a WEEK! c
Good work, Tia, glad to see you up and about.
This whole visa business is terrifying. It shows an astonishing lack of foresight about what will actually happen when you slam the gates without warning. There are families who had left their homeland and sold everything in the expectation of starting a new life in the US, suddenly stranded in yet another strange country because the US will not let them in any more. In limbo. What concerns me most is that other places will take what the US president has done as an example; that is what happens when you are a world leader. What will he decide to Presidentially order next? Persecution of one racial or religious group? Pogroms, concentration camps, mass extermination? Where does it stop, and who stops the man who set the ball rolling? When do his yes-men step up and say “No, enough, this is not right”?
Is he planning to pull down the Statue of Liberty, and its generous and embracing words?
“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me:
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”
I see you’re aware too in the early hours… and thinking similarly with words that evoke my fears.
Weathering a huge storm directly overhead, lightning and thunder banging too loud to let me sleep and evoking thoughts of Armageddon, which naturally turn me to Trump and all his works.
I was entertaining thoughts of doomsday prepping🙃
It’s like watching an avalanche happening. There’s nothing you can do to prepare, you just have to hope you survive it.
I thought it said something about the sick too – I must research that.. c
You can find it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Colossus
It seems our government has always suffered from a lack of foresight. They are the ones who sprayed agent orange even though our soldiers were down there, they are the ones that thought nuclear power was the latest and greatest with no thought to what would happen with the toxic waste, they are the ones who approve new drugs and later say ‘oops, sorry, that might kill you’. It even goes so far back as to say ddt is a great insecticide, spray in on the cows, waste oil is great at keeping the road dust down and on and on. It makes one wonder how anyone can put an iota of faith in anything they say!
The worst mistake of all is never learning from their past mistakes…
Happy to see a recuperated Tia. Laughter at a discombobulated damp kitty. Unsettled & wary at US govt’s ban and recent events… what new world order are they contemplating.
Damp Cat was sat at the door only moments ago ! All good.. c
A friend yesterday recommended that I read Machiavelli’s “The Prince”, and gave some explanation as to why. From their discussion, it is quite frightening. We are all world citizens, and I wonder when everyone will realize this.
Tia’s recovery is a beautiful thing. And the natural world carries on regardless. Hope you have a brighter day. ~ Mame 🙂
I read that not long ago too – in my student days I read it in french – don’t think I could do that now!
hold my beer … love silly cat antics
Pass it over! c
It’s crazy how you have your farm life and the added pressure of green card anxiety. Awful.
Lucky i have my farm life i think! c
Indeed you are, I think farm life is a great antidote to many of life’s ills! (I might be a tad biased)
I can not and will not condone this green card fiasco. I love your cat episode photos, the blurriness shows the excitement of it all!
I was hoping for a little bit of focus but you are right – the blurriness works! c