Goats, Sheep, and KITTENS!

I was given the honor of eating at the Karper’s estate again last night, which was a wonderful breather after a rather long and tiring day at work. During dinner, it was brought up that their neighbors were wondering who I was. The wife mentioned seeing a little girl in one of the Karper’s trees, to which Mama Karper started to refer to me as the little tree faerie, while I remember waving to the husband on a couple of occasions when he was mowing the lawn while I was on a walk.





So after dinner, Karper and I went over to their neighbor’s house to see the goats and sheep while walking the dog. The husband was feeding his little herd, and said that the mothers to be were all due in about a week! I think there were about 9 of them expecting relatively all at the same time! That will be quite a task to deal with when it comes to delivery! He also mentioned how he liked the conical hat I wore the last we saw each other, thinking it would be a good hat to wear out in the hot sun and such. Well…that is the reason I wear it on my walks. XD Papa Karper says I remind him of a character from the Kung Fu series from the 70’s whenever I wear my hat with my walking stick.





I decided to take pictures of the goats and sheep, because I remember seeing them before the first time I went over to the Karper’s house…and later telling my friend about them. She got all nostalgic on me, so I thought I’d let her go down memory lane again. The neighbor didn’t seem to mind and welcomed me to take as many as I wanted, and to come and see them again sometime. I’m eager to see all the kids running around!





Afterwards, while Karper and Papa Karper cleaned out the horse’s stall in the barn, Mama Karper and I went to feed the kittens. OH! It was like meeting Travellar all over again! The grey tux, Mamasita (or Momosito if it’s a boy) was always hesitant towards Mama Karper…it took her weeks to get the kitten to warm up to her. And as soon as I stick my hand in the cage, it’s immediate attention. XD Mama Karper is so jealous, and I feel so bad…but ah well.



I’ll be taking the two grey kittens home with me sometime after they get their vaccinations on Thursday. You can’t see the pure grey one as well, but they’ve nicked named him/her Earl Grey, though his/her name will officially be Mishka…which is relatively gender friendly and reminds Karper of a drunk teacher he had once. >.<; I’m just excited over the name, because I love calling it out…and will have someone to call it out to! <3 The black kitten, Blacky or Onyx, will be staying to play with his/her big sister Rosa Lee in the house! He/she is quite smitten with Karper, and always goes looking for him whenever he’s in the barn.

Oh! And I caught a glimpse of their mother! Nearly thought that Mamasita had gotten out of the cage, only to realize that the size was all wrong. XD Mama Karper is working on capturing their mother, to get her vaccinated and fixed…just so there aren’t any more litters to take care of!

Bye-bye Birdies…

We had a bad storm last night; tornado watch and everything. The store was without power for nearly two hours…which left us closing it early, and unable to complete any of the work we had started. Today…we weren’t even able to play catch-up because of all the customers that came in.

But this morning I had started the day out rather discouraged to begin with. The nest looks unharmed for the most part, but it was completely empty. No baby robins…not even the parents giving their warning calls as I went near it. Nothing. The optimist in me wants to believe that they were big enough (I mean, they looked seriously cramped in there) to fly away on their own…but with winds and hail like what we had last night…you just never know.

Baby Animals! And then some!

ARE THE CUTEST! I feel like I’ve been surrounded by them, and most of them I don’t get to see on a regular basis!

Karper seems to be growing attached to the black little kitten from the litter of three at his place. Mama Karper says that they’ve got the litter in captivity, but the mother still remains rather elusive. Elusive, but friendlier towards the family! I consider that a step forward.

And over by my parents, the miniature horse farm has been blessed with three colts! And if you thought miniature horses were cute, wait till you see them as babies! It’s too much! I nearly die every time I walk by them!

Have you picked up on the three theme yet? Because it seemed that even the robins’ nest that appeared just outside of my porch was preparing for triplets as well! Unfortunately, I later found out that one didn’t make it. BUT OH! How excited I was to have a robins’ nest outside of my porch! Mom immediately informed me that this wasn’t in the lease agreement, but what can I do? The birds felt that area was the safest for their nest! I mean, if you think about it, it’s ideal for raising a family. You’ve got the church next door, plus the school across the street and even a bird feeder just off the shed for those late night cravings! You can’t get much better than that!















Oh! Plus I’ve gone through and made the third floor room…erm…the finished portion of the attic, turning it into the Kitty Play/Guest Room. Basically, it’s where my cats tend to hang out now, but will be open for any other feline guests that might come along whenever Mom has guests with allergies crashing at her place. ^_^ The girls love it up there, since it’s high up…has all their toys…some cushy beds that they actually use! That surprised me the most…PLUS! It’s the warmest room in the house. XD They occasionally come down to see me, when they’re hungry and feel the need to snuggle up to me. At least they’re using the space, which I feared that they’d completely ignore it. So glad they don’t! It actually makes me feel good that they’re using the beds and stuff I got for them!













Oh! And to top it all off, amongst all the pictures, including the wall paintings I FINALLY finished for my sister, are some other little progressive videos I made while doing some drawings I was inspired to play with. Enjoy!

So Kermit texted me…

“Pork shoulder, soy milk, tomato, onion, avocado, gallon ziploc bags, colossal berry crunch”

To soon follow with…

“Is the shopping list I accidentally sent you!”

To which I immediately died laughing. Ah…good times!

Animal Update!

FINALLY!

I would have updated on Conrad sooner, but I was waiting to see Travellar’s baby siblings first.

Ok, so…I took the hawk to the vet who my parents’ neighbor recommended. And…that’s pretty much it. >.<; I called them up in the morning, explained the situation and the nurse simply told me to bring him in…as if they get calls like this all the time. They didn’t ask for any of my information, didn’t say to come back for anything. So…that was pretty much it. Don’t know what happened, probably won’t ever know, but…it might be better that way.

Now for the kittens!



I got to see them today, thanks to the weather being good and their momma being out and about. Momma Karper held the camera for me since she had handed me one of the kittens, which thus made it impossible for me to take any pictures…except for one I managed with my phone. Setting up my camera on the video setting, I was able to get a little movie made up of the three of them. YAY!

Because I said that I wanted to adopt one for Travellar to play with, seeing as Calista doesn’t want anything to do with the youngster no matter how much Trav wants to play…Momma Karper told the guys that they weren’t naming the kittens until I picked one out. XD Just because Mom and I were so sweet in keeping the names that were already given to the three we took in earlier. <3 Yay! <3 Unfortunately, I don’t know which one I want…nor would I know what to name either one of them! I think it will just take a little getting to know…and revisiting them when they’re closer to the adoption age so I can see which one warms up to me the most. Right now…it’s kind of hard to tell considering they had just woken up, and were pretty much happy to snuggle up to anything that was warm at the time. >.<

BUT OH THEY ARE SO CUTE! But no stripes! Mostly solids, except for the first one! Just how are they related to our little tigers again? Same mother, obviously…but there must be a different father! ~stun~