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New cat in the neighbourhood

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Jeff and I have been noticing cat tracks on the porch whenever there is a thick frost or snow.

This morning I took the ashes out to throw on the driveway (and remind me later to remind myself again why I should check the prevailing wind direction before I toss the ashes) and noticed the cat tracks again, this time going down the driveway.

I followed them back and they came from up on the porch and around behind the back patio door.

Awesome, we have a new visitor!

It was -10′ish here for a day or so. Cold for here. Poor kitty must have found somewhere warm to sleep.

Just now while we were about to eat lunch, I noticed something on the front lawn. I thought it was a porcupine at first, but it was cuter!

We thought it was Sally’s Mom at first, but it isn’t. But he/she has the same body type as Sally and her Mom. Maybe it is Steve French and he came home!  But there is a bit of orange on this cat’s face.   Really cute.

new lawn cat

new lawn cat

new lawn cat

new lawn cat

new lawn cat

new lawn cat

Definitely a relative of Sally’s.  Hopefully a good hunter. There are lots of mice around right now.  I went to other room and poof! the cat was gone.   Hope it visits again.

I understand why people have fat housecats

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Our cats are always slim.

I couldn’t understand why everyone else has house cats that are VERY overweight.

Well I think I get it now.

We get our pets grain free foods.  When we went home to Ontario for 10 days, we leave our 2 housecats in the house, because neither of them would do well anywhere else.  I usually leave about 3x the food they’ll need, in case something happened to us and we couldn’t get back, in these gravity feed automatic feeders so it doesn’t get stale or go bad. And we leave big huge bowls of water and extra litter boxes.

Well because I usually toss whatever food is left out when we get home, I bought them some cheaper food.  I went to Walmart and went through all the cat foods.  All were garbage.  I found the least awful bag, with a “Holistic” term in its label.

I was SHOCKED to find it ALL gone when we got back. Every morsal.  And Sally, my feather light little kitty feeling not so featherlight.

Whatever is in this food, she’s eating it like it’s potato chips. She can’t stop. This is not good.

Time to go get more of the good stuff tomorrow!

I’m all by my lonesome, things are breaking, and soup’s on!

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Here is what is going on in my world:

  • Survivor started last night. I drew John Cochran in our workplace pool. I’m already a big fan of Cochran. He’s a character! Here’s hoping he goes all the way!!
  • Big Brother finished last night. It’s the show I love to hate. I swear I won’t watch it, and then get dialed right in when nothing else is on in the summer. Once again, 3 duds made it to the final and I couldn’t care less which one took home the million. I can only hope that next year I’ll do better and stay away from this show.
  • Jeff is away for 10 days. I miss him so much when he’s gone. And he better be missing me. haha. Truthfully, I think it does us good to have a few times a year apart since 99% of the rest of the year it is just the two of us.
  • The washing machine is blinking a communications error code and won’t work. I waited for the repairman’s call all last evening to schedule’s today’s service call, and the call never came as promised, so I went to work this morning.
  • One of our toilets is out of commission until my handsome husband comes home and repairs it. One by one each one of them has needed their guts repaired. I think they may all be original to the house, so they’re over 20 years. Maybe that is the lifespan of the rubber flapper inside a toilet.
  • I made a double batch of that Zesty Mexican Soup last night. I am so crazy about this soup. It filled the pot though almost to the top, so I was scrambling for another pot. Our larger stock pot was used outside on the propane burner for canning, and I didn’t want to get the black residue on our white glass stovetop, so I put the soup in our large wok pot to finish. It worked!
  • I bought my ticket to the Canadian Tire NASCAR race for Saturday!! I’m so sad I have to go alone, but I need to go and cheer on Milverton’s boy Scott Steckly. I’ll bring my camera and give you a play by play afterwards! (revisit last year’s race)
  • Tropical Storm Maria is passing Nova Scotia tomorrow. The air has been really humid and sticky for a couple days. Another weather system will be meeting it and between the effects of both, we should get a decent amount of rain and wind tomorrow. The temperature is forecast to drop to 13 tomorrow during the day. Saturday’s weather is forecast to be 16 and sunny for the race!
  • Poor Sally has had the runs for the first time I can remember. I’ve had to bathe her back side three times now. She had cat litter clumped into her fur. What a mess (I switched her back to the newspaper pellet litter until she’s better). (And you don’t even want to know about the skid marks she put on our carpets trying to clean herself. Thank goodness we have a carpet cleaner.) She’s been hiding and really aloof, but this morning she seems like her chipper little self again. But with all that long hair – it’s matted now on the back of her back legs. I might have to trim it off rather than tormenting her for a prolonged grooming session.

Orange and White visitor

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Our Orange and White visitor was just back.

I just stood up to crack the window in my office, and to put down the blind a bit to block the sunshine and what did I see?

An orange and white tom cat spraying pee on the little cedar hedge we planted just right outside my window.

Orange and White Cat

Thanks buddy.

We’ve seen him around a few times this year. We haven’t seen Sally’s mom this summer. I wonder if this cat is a relative, since Sally was found as a kitten under our front deck.

I told Jeff he couldn’t scare him away because cats eat snakes :-)

My cats made a new friend

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Well I was worried about leaving the cats alone while we go camping in Newfoundland but now I am comforted knowing my cats can make new friends so easily.

This morning when I sat up in bed to get up, I saw that Zeus was lying on his side looking under my bedside table and wagging his tail. Then he ran to the other side of the night stand and did the same thing.

I knew something must be under there and as much as my brain kept yelling “mouse!” my eyes really were hoping for a caterpillar or a fly or something, anything, but a mouse.

Well at least it wasn’t a snake.

But it was mouse. It came out between the night stand and the bed and I shrieked for Jeff. The cute little rodent didn’t seem the slightest bit scared.

Jeff and Zeus chased him into the bathroom and Jeff grabbed a towel to catch him.

Then he went up into a crevasse by the sink cupboard and was gone.

Sally and Zeus seemed so sad.

After work, Jeff was home first and after he sat down for a couple minutes he heard a kerfuffle in the hallway. He went out to investigate, and by then Sally and her new friend, the mouse, were in my office. Sally was sitting down and the mouse was sitting in front of her. Then Sally chased her new friend into the baseboard heater and every time he poked his head out, Sally tried to tap him with her paw.

When I drove in, Jeff met me at the door and asked me to go grab his work gloves from his truck. When I did, he went into my office and grabbed the mouse out of the baseboard heater and came outside we met and tossed him on to the grass. Silly guy still just sat there in the grass and then groomed himself a bit and sauntered onwards.

Poor Zeus is looking all over for their new friend.

How long until he finds his way back into the house to play for another day?

A few photos to tide you over

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Some photos from this week for you.

Sally kitten:
Sally kitten

A bunny that thinks he’s still camaflouged. I have walked by him twice a day to walk down to the car and back and he doesn’t budge. Today I went and sat in the woods near him and watched him for a few minutes. Bunnies are so cute. He’s at his in between stage where he’s less white and turning more to his summer brown.
bunny

This nest is in our of our little spruces. It’s a little too high to get a good picture so maybe next time I’ll use my smaller lens and a step stool. Chickadees are always in that tree – not sure if they make a stick nest or not. It was used last year too.
birds nest

Is it spring? There is some growth in our gardens! We planted new tulips and giant daffodils last fall. I can’t wait to see them bloom!
something is starting to grow

Maybe it isn’t fully spring yet. Look at our driveway. Pure thick ice. A bit will warm up in the sun and drip down and then refreeze on the next section of the driveway. A few areas at the top of the driveway have thawed where we dumped our woodstove ashes during the winter. This picture was yesterday after work while it was raining. Now it’s cold and slick and thick again.
icy driveway still