My web host is again experiencing issues with their MySQL servers even though “they’ve upgraded”. If you have had trouble viewing my blog, it ain’t me! My main site loads fine, it’s just the blog that takes forever to load or times out. And guess what? I rarely add anything to the site these days. I’m not one bit happy!

Scooter Libby doing what she does best… laying around in someone’s way!

In other cat news, the gray kitten at the farm has its eyes open today. Eight days already have passed and the little charmers are growing like weeds. I’m ready for them to be scampering around and playing instead of laying around like lumps. More pictures of them in a few days.

I couldn’t decide of these four photos which I liked best, so I uploaded all of them!

Six Days Old

The farm kittens are now six days old and very healthy. Muffy is doing a great job of taking care of them. Her natural instincts finally kicked in, but not before making me worry for a bit after hearing them scattered in several directions under the old house at the farm. Hopefully by next weekend the cuteness factor will have set in. Right now they are a bit cuddly looking, but definitely nothing to brag about in the looks department!

I used one of my photos, then made a frame and an ornament to decorate the corners of the frame with all of the music symbols.

Our instructions: “Use from 1 to 5 of the challenge pieces in your images. These happen to be music symbols but there are no other restrictions on your images, as long as the pieces are recognizable. In other words, the images do not have to be music related.”

Quite amazing if you think about how these creatures live and survive. They build a home and then hang around and wait for their meal to visit and become entangled in their web. If our lives were only that easy. Snaring our meals at the grocery store ain’t so easy! I hate crowds, shopping carts and rude cashiers. Guess I’ll just be thankful my place to hang out is air conditioned and won’t be envious of their meal gathering skills!

Muffin aka Muffy, yes, she finally has a name, deposited kittens under the old house at the farm today. We should have known when we adopted her from the flea market she was with children. I thought she was too young to have already bred, but I was very, very wrong.

It was an ordeal to get them gathered and into the old house. Being her first litter, she acted as if she didn’t know what to do. When I showed up this morning, she came from the garage and I could tell she was no longer pregnant. As I walked around the house, I heard two of the kittens under it. I pulled away some of the underpinning, reached inside and got the gray and the white one.

To make a long story (and day) shorter, it took most of it to get her to go under and bring out the other two I could hear crying. I’m not convinced there is not a fifth one, but there’s nothing I can do about it. The old house is pretty much on the ground in places and there’s no way a human could get under there and look around. If she hasn’t retrieved any more by morning, then perhaps I’m wrong.

When I last checked on them before dark, she seemed to have settled down. Hopefully, they will still be in the same spot in the morning. She can come and go for there are windows open. It’s too hot to leave her shut in there without any air, so we will keep our fingers crossed she’s satisfied now. I didn’t want them under the house, they would be wild when they finally emerged. I want to have the ability to take care of them and they need to be gentle and easily petted and with them in the house until they are older, that can be accomplished.

I wanted farm cats to keep old Patches company, but I didn’t want this many this soon! And would you look at the different colors!