June 21, 2017

Day 172 of 365, Wednesday. This is a tale about WalMart and personal mistakes. Most of you know that I help my aunt at her farm. Part of that includes making sure the cats and dog have plenty of food. It isn't always convenient to go to WalMart, so I have been ordering the food online and having it shipped to her house. When I talked with her on the way home from Asheville last week she mentioned that she needed more food. So, when I got home I pulled out my trusty app and ordered. When I was checking out, I noticed I could pick up in store. Since I drive past the store on the way to her house, I thought that might be easiest, so that was the option I chose. Friday morning, I go to pick up my order, and I unfortunately selected the wrong store. The store I wanted was in Kannapolis, but I chose Concord. I knew Donald and I were going out of town over the weekend, so there was nothing I could do except move on. Fast forward to Monday afternoon. As soon as we got back in town, I headed to WalMart for the pick up. Would you believe that was the wrong store too? Good grief. As it turns out, I picked the store all the way out at Concord Mills! There was no way I was going out there at 5:00 in the afternoon, so I decided to wait until the next morning. Tuesday morning, I head to the third WalMart, and finally had the right one! But, not all items in my order had shipped. The girl at the desk looked, and the rest of my items were on the truck to be delivered that afternoon. My only choice was to pick up what was there and come back later. Finally, Wednesday morning, I headed back to WalMart AGAIN. Believe me, the next time I order food, it will be shipped directly to her house. 

June 8, 2017

Day 159 of 365, Thursday. Today, Donald and I made a delivery of sweet feed for the horse. She doesn't always show her affection, but when she does it is such a good feeling. She was all over me, and I loved it.

June 5, 2017

Day 156 of 365, Monday. These little guys were waiting on me in the barn this afternoon. They were born somewhere near the pasture, and the mama cat brought them here. (The mama was born last year in the horse trailer.) Anyway, they are cute, but I do question how healthy they are. 

May 30, 2017

Day 150 of 365, Tuesday. Today has been quite an eventful day, and I had quite a few pictures to choose from. But, since this is a photo a day, I had to narrow it down to one. However, I can still talk about all the events. First of all, when I was leaving for work this morning, three little kittens were hanging out in the basket on our front porch. Just what we don't need, more abandoned kittens. Luckily, the mother cat returned and still nursed them. By the end of the day they had disappeared.

Then, my aunt called early very upset that one of her cats had died, the one I call Sweetie Pie. After trying all morning to call her back and couldn't get her, I left work early to check on her. After talking it over, we determined that she had not been attacked by anything, but died of natural causes. It happens with farm cats. By the time I left, she had calmed down quite a bit. 

And lastly, but possibly most importantly, I have been remembering my grandmother today. When I was about 5 or 6, I distinctly remember asking her about her birthday. I can still hear her responding "The 30th of May." So today, in honor what would be her 104 birthday, I am celebrating with my version of a "cone of cream", a very small milkshake. Happy Birthday, Maw!

This photo is from the farm, near where Aunt Frankie buried Sweetie Pie. I think they are called Fire and Ice, and I just love them.

May 23, 2017

Day 143 of 365, Tuesday. Sometimes I see the most interesting things around the farm. Today as I was feeding the kittens in the horse trailer, I noticed this snail. Honestly, it's not often around here that you see one with it's shell. Usually it is just a slug. 

May 12, 2017

Day 132 of 365. There are four little kittens in this horse trailer. Aunt Frankie is peeking in to see them.

May 1, 2017

Day 121 of 365. We've got more kittens at the farm. These were born in the horse trailer.

April 12, 2017

Day 102 of 365. I finally got my hands on one of the kittens born on Sunday. This one is going to be pretty. 

March 27, 2017

Day 86 of 365. I am declaring this week to be blooms and blossoms week. It appears that spring is finally here, and along with that comes beautiful blossoms on trees. While I was putting the horse up, I noticed the cherry tree in the pasture and thought that would be perfect for today's photo. It was a bonus that honey bees had also noticed the tree. 

March 23, 2017

Day 82 of 365. What a beautiful day! Here is Gypsy and her shadow. 

March 22, 2017

Day 81 of 365. These little guys are not yet a week old. They were so wiggly that it was hard to get a good picture of them. We think the black one is a boy, and not sure about the orange one. 

March 6, 2017

Day 65 of 365. My mother went with me out to Aunt Frankie's today. Everybody loves this horse. 

February 9, 2017

Day 40 of 365. Not much going on around here today, except it was windy again. Here's a picture of some hay in Gypsy's barn.

February 1, 2017

Day 32 of 365. It's supper time in the barn. 

January 23, 2017

Day 23 of 365. Once again, I did not get a chance to post yesterday's photo before the day was out. These three cats were kittens last year, and they still like to stick together. It cracks me up how they like to sit on the railing.

January 18, 2017

Day 18 of 365. I have been hearing something on the roof of the barn on the days I put Gypsy up. The mystery was solved today.

January 11. 2017

Day 11 of 365. This is Stumpy. He was Uncle Charlie's cat, and the whole time Uncle Charlie was sick, Stumpy didn't want to have anything to do with him. Until the very end, when he started sleeping at the foot of the hospital bed. We figured he knew something we didn't, and he probably did. 

Last summer, Stumpy went missing. Aunt Frankie searched and searched for him. After four days, she found him down by the long drive to the house. He was in pretty bad shape. He couldn't walk but he could drag himself around. Being that it was a Sunday, we took him to the emergency vet, where they surmised he had been hit by a car. They said he was not going to make it and told us we needed to put him out of his misery. Aunt Frankie couldn't do that, so we loaded him back in his box and brought him home. His recovery has been nothing short of miraculous. He has learned to walk again, even though it is with a significant limp. You can see his bad hip in this picture. Now he lives the life of a prince, with the best morsels of food off of her plate and he has the run of the house. 

January 10, 2017

Day 10 of 365. It finally warmed up today and lots of snow melted. There are still some patchy spots in some of the more remote areas of our county and for this reason there is a two hour delay in schools tomorrow. The clouds have cleared, and I saw the moon for the first time in a few days. 

January 6, 2017

Day 6 of 365. All day long I have waited for snow. The forecast said it would start raining around 4 and snowing around 5. As soon as I got off work at 4, by golly it was raining! Donald and I had to make a run to Salisbury, and it actually started snowing while we were there. You have to look carefully, but there are teeny tiny flakes in this picture.