Blooming Monday

This past week, I stopped at friend's vegetable stand to pick up some tomatoes, okra and potatoes WHEN I spied Cactus (or should that be Cacti?) The stop I had put on Cactus buying flew out the window..... I was in Cactus heaven!

I can't leave you with out showing you how much my other succulents have grown...

And G's tomatoes looked so pretty today

AND I can't leave out Echo ...

she was busy trying to get attention the whole time I was snapping pictures.

A kitty of mixed messages!

Echo has always been leery of Skipper! She puffs, she watches and she hisses! All in contrast to Sophie who could care less about the dog!

Today I was holding Echo, I had her laying on her back (rubbing her belly). She was purring quite loudly, as usual ~ up runs the dog~ she's still purring ~ she tilts her head back, hisses at Skipper while never turning the pur off!

Just How Can This Be?

As you might figure, Skipper could also care less about her hissing.

Silly Cat!

Spaying kittens has interesting twist.

It's quiet around here today. No crashes on the deck, no 'come see ' meows in the window, no sleeping kitties in the lawn chairs.

The kitties are getting spayed today. I found a place that helps eliminate homeless pets. They work on donations and spay/neuter cats and dogs. Basically for me it's getting 2 kitten spayed for the price of 1 (at the vet's office).

It was very clean and nice BUT extremely busy. Everyone has an appointment but the drop off time is 8am. So it was VERY busy at the time. (FYI ~ pickup time is 7:30am the next morning)

This place also provides live animal traps. People come get the traps, catch the feral cats, and bring them in to be spayed/neutered. While I was filling out my kitties paper work, there was a lady (who also volunteers there) brought in 5 or 6 feral cats. All the cages (traps) were covered by the sheets. Some of these cats were HUGE! (looked little medium sized doges) and some VERY loud!

My little kitties were very wide eyed at it all and very quiet while we were in the waiting room, the ride up there was a different story!

I'll be glad to have them back tomorrow.

Wordless Wednesday

They caused it they cleaned it up!

(well, sort of cleaned it up)

Oh, yeah this is wordless Wednesday.....

Wordless Wednesday

Pictures from Saturday morning

It's still raining but there are moments when it stops.

This week we got 5 inches of rain ~ it was at 4+ just yesterday afternoon.
Nickel and Diming us ... or should that be $5 and $10 us to death. This past week during a down pour W called me and said that his window was stuck down, could I please bring some plastic?! "OH, and I think I could be out of gas!"

Yes, he was out of gas but the window's motor was/is burned out!

Nice job for a rainy day, huh?G has earned his Nintendo DS for the day ~ he's curled up playing Star Wars.

Sophie ventured out in a dry moment.

Echo did too!

Introductions have been made.

Last night when we came home from cub scouts Skipper had treed the neighbor's cat. This caused some worry on my behalf but introductions had to made.

The picture above, this is not a snap shot, this is a picture of the way Skipper stood most of the morning when a kitten was visible. Notice the tail? I don't think Skipper is really comfortable with the situation.

It may take time but I think the kittens will be walking all over Skipper before long!

More Pictures from the morning