Category: Life
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I promise this is the last of the “Oh, oh, that is so sweet!” posts. For now.
The moment Boo hears his kittens begin to cry for a feed, he busts into the house through the screen doors. And I do mean Bust In with a Crash. Then he rushes for their door and tries to jam his nose under the door until I get there with the bottle. If I…
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Tentative First Steps
Our wee fella, the tiniest of the little orphans, bless his little heart, rose up yesterday afternoon and very, very slowly – took himself for a tiny walk. He is trying to suck on the bottle now. I am calling this an improvement. He might make it yet. We have gone FIVE whole days without…
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Stars and Stars. Kittens and Coyotes.
Yesterday moved past in a continuous blur of feeding every few hours in between all the usual daily chores. I am feeding them in the same manner as the lambs, no set routine, just tiny sips often. Now that they are hydrated the kittens are starting to look about three weeks old. One even played…
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From morning ’til night
Queenie Wineti’s eye is all better and she has been allowed back out into the field with Daisy, though she is still sticking close to the barn cleaning up the last of her food. You can see the bag of DE that hangs above their feeding car boot. They knock it with their faces and…
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Ladybird Wine
With a sudden-ness that happens sometimes (often), when one is juggling more than three balls, (I’ve stopped counting) the wine grapes went from imminent to ‘Pick me right now’! These grapes are a Vidal Blanc and this is our third vintage. I only have 12 vines and I have decided this year that I need…
The Kitchen's Garden 