a little closer...

It seems Daizy Mae just wants to snuggle and nurse her brood of new babies...

What happens when the hissing stops.....

She eats - He sleeps

for my bruno.....

gone ...gone ....done....okay not really but at least the ickie is out.....

What????

This is what the only remaining bathroom looks like as of this morning....I am told I will have a working toilet tonight! Yah right !!! Well we'll see...

Deconstruction

And the list of things to be removed resolved or changed is long and seems over night to get more complicated. This morning I will remove every item from the only remaining and working bathroom and then later this morning it will be gutted and the the tile guy will be able to start the processes of putting the travertine ( from Turkey) on the floor and up the wall....I hear I will not be with out the toilet longer then a day...How this is possible I do not know...

I have been going for some 12 and 14 hours a day The fence is now up not just string between some trees, it is painted and the house is about to be painted as well..no tv no puter and little sleep. Hope you are all very well..Bruno and I both need a month or two off....

Liz came by the other day a sweet lab mix in her car...Out leaps this little sweetie ( who reminded me of Buluga ) She is about two years old and clearly likes it here, and will start some farm training this next week. I will get her shots as well as fixed, She has had a litter in the last 6 months and that is enough. I have named her Daizy Mae. Liz rescued her off the little highway down the way after nearly being hit herself, Liz took matters into her own hands ( this is normal) and after some assistance got the poor dog into her rig. She then came by here some time later and her she is.....I know she looks a lot lot Buluga and they do have some traits in common..... She will try to love the bunnies and care for them like they are pups...The kittens are still hissing at her and it is slowing down ...The last photo is of the kittens and Savannah on my lap....the three ended up sound to sleep there for sometime...

Anyway Bruno came home and he decided we could keep her....so we now have a new addition...7 months after losing Buluga....to the day!

Absents.....

or something like it. Well the hard at work, none stop over the edge craziness has found a fleeting moment of peace....well sort of.

I have been up since 4:30, called Bruno to make sure he did not over sleep two days in a row. And found the coffee pot in the right location (this is good) Rocky started in first thing and the baby kittens assisted me on the pile of paperwork that frankly has piled up to a mound the size of Mt.Rainer. I have looked at it, stared at it, made fun of it and now an dealing with it. There is just so much going on. The carport being turned into a garage, the new wiring of lights and the entire house, two kittens attached to me at each step , the only remaining bathroom about to be gutted as well as the new water pipes, lines and drains....and the cabinets that are in production and the list of deliveries, estimates, changes and who can blame me if I can not sleep.

We had a visitor two nights ago and frankly it was wonderful after my shock at the sight of him in our driveway. It was about 11 pm when I got to bed, tossing and turning lots of racket from the chickens then the horses and lastly the alpacas. The cats started to howl and hiss, then the crashing noises of the chickens trying to escape what i figured was just the coyotes (we hear and see them often)I returned back to bed and tried to go some shut eyeIt is well past 1:30 am now ...After another crash in the carport I got out of bed, turned on the porch light and was fixing on going out to see what the racket was all about ( for several nights now)when I saw him!!!! Three feet from about a hundred pounds of animal feed ( #50 cat food & #50 rabbit food) was a cougar...lean and low...My mind did not or would not adjust and there I was just standing there..all stupid..a few moments later I slammed the door as hard as I could and he turned and was gone in a few seconds. Needless to say I did not find sleep easily and by 6am faded back to dream land and was awaken by my Bruno...we spoke and I faded again back to sleep for 20 minutes, waking at a dream about the cougar. I had thought I had seen things and realized I had not. Two of the hens still where on top of the garden shed when I awoke) I remember telling Bruno we had a burglar and that is all I could remember of our call. My humor being what it is was in reference to "cat burglar" anyway I do want to see him again...but...well the safely of the babies first.

I finally was able to speak to a few people who too have seen him ( good, I'm not seeing things) but bad that I reacted the way I did...nothing shocks me (usually) but really this took me by surprise. I wish we had one of those animal camaras!

Oh and did I mention for the first time in Halleyville history we have fleas? Which caused me to bomb the entire house, we retuned after dark and Ranch Giggler and I sat on the deck watching for our new cat....what we would have done if he showed up was beyond me...

Okay off to the pile of life that awaits...hope you are all well.