And all of the sudden, it's 2025!
Blogger tells me that I have done over 2000 posts from my little home here in Kansas, and I wish I still had the fortitude to blog daily.
My last post was just before Thanksgiving, and now Christmas and New Year's has come and gone.
Today we sit at 37 at 1:00 PM, but we are headed for single digits, starting Friday, I believe. I just went out to the shop (barn) and connected a heated water bowl... and now there are two warming cat beds (if they will use them) as well as the hanging chick brooder lamp over the Kuranda bed (used every day). The cat beds are on two by fours, so they are not resting on concrete. I bought a new heater last year, but it blew a circuit when I tried to use it, so I am depending on the Lasko heater I have used for three years now. It keeps it liveable in there, but I am really, really worried about the weekend.
There is Mama, who prefers dry food, and Cleo, who prefers wet... eating in the shop. Teeny was out of sight of this picture. She still sleeps in the old woodstove, and it is bedded with deep straw.
These two prefer the Kuranda bed under the light, but I saw Mama investigating one of the heated beds today, and I am hoping she uses it. That plastic dish is their water... it was empty this morning when I walked in, because raccoons and possums come in at night. I cleaned and filled it, but the heated bowl is now connected, out of sight to the left and rear of Mama. Yes, the doggone wildings will spill it too... in fact, I am thinking I need to move it closer to the drain, but if it is really, really bitter, they won't come out.
You can actually see behind this finch feeding on the railing that we had a smattering of snow in early December.
There was a beautiful full moon.
There are two cardinals in this picture, but I took it of the bittersweet growing in my front hedgerow.
This was in my memory on Facebook yesterday... our beautiful, beautiful Jester, ten years ago, December 31, 2014. How beautiful he was, how healthy and happy. I miss him terribly.
This is why Chico does not get to be loose, ever, unless I am right with him.
That's the communications tower right across from my gate, on the undeveloped 26 acres.
If I had won the big lottery, I would have bought it to keep it free.
The pair of bald eagles is there many, many days now. So far, they have ignored my chickens... but... once they take one, that will be it. They are so gorgeous I can almost forgive them.
I wish you could have heard this eagle screaming, it was really something.
I know you all think I'm sappy, but this comforts me.
I miss all of my babies, not just Jes.
I had so much fun visiting my Garnett (Ks) grands and my little great grand, Aurora, on the thirteenth.
Nathan, her dad, and my other grand, Chris, were full of Christmas spirit. I went down again the day after Christmas to see them with a few extra things for them. Aurora had a great Christmas!
Chris and me that day, my oldest grand.
Chico and I, taken by my grandson.
Mr. Floofy Ears will have been here a year on January 18.
You know that I rarely post pictures of my family or myself, but I just thought the end of the year was a good time.
I leave you all with this... and pray we are not facing hard times in the coming year...
Thank you, as always, for reading this humble blog, and I will try very hard to post more in the coming year. I have actually already ordered garden seeds... so it should be an interesting one!
