Sunday, April 17, 2011
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Spring
Spring has Sprung!
There is still lots of snow, over a foot deep on the trails in my woods. Here in my yard the snow is finally receding. I can see over the tops of the snow banks in my yard and in spots the earth is showing through. It feels so good to walk upon the ground again. I am so excited when a patch of deep green moss surfaces, I check it daily as Rex has me trained to go for long walks twice a day as well as the short walks to do his business.
Rex has certainly given structure to my day. My life of wandering irresponsibly is somewhat curtailed for the moment.
The rabbits have returned to my field, haven't seen them all winter & was afraid that maybe the red fox had found them. The deer continue to use the trails through the property, there are several young
ones with them.
My little lilac survived the winter but was maimed (broken branches) by someone (likely me) walking over it when the snow was so deep in the garden. There are buds all over the bush so I have great hopes for it. Next year I will erect tall poles over every tree that I plant.
I'm going to organize pots for seeds to be started inside today...I'm going to plant lettuce, spinach, squash & carrots as well as tomatoes & peas. This year I plan to have a more organized garden, all raised beds. Last summer only had planted in wooden lobster crates & clay pots on the deck because of deer & rabbits. David will help me fence off the garden area. It is such a help having him here. He loves living here, we are very secluded with our 5 acres of woods.
My renovations are continuing, the bathroom is finally finished and looks beautiful. I've had the floor tiled and David and I installed the radiant in-floor heating with the help of the electrician. I am amazed at the cost of renovating one small room....the smallest in the house and yet the most expensive.
We will install the upper level flooring (bamboo) in June after Dave and I drive to Montreal to pick it up. The kitchen cupboards and appliances will be installed in August, hopefully!
There is still lots of snow, over a foot deep on the trails in my woods. Here in my yard the snow is finally receding. I can see over the tops of the snow banks in my yard and in spots the earth is showing through. It feels so good to walk upon the ground again. I am so excited when a patch of deep green moss surfaces, I check it daily as Rex has me trained to go for long walks twice a day as well as the short walks to do his business.
Rex has certainly given structure to my day. My life of wandering irresponsibly is somewhat curtailed for the moment.
The rabbits have returned to my field, haven't seen them all winter & was afraid that maybe the red fox had found them. The deer continue to use the trails through the property, there are several young
ones with them.
My little lilac survived the winter but was maimed (broken branches) by someone (likely me) walking over it when the snow was so deep in the garden. There are buds all over the bush so I have great hopes for it. Next year I will erect tall poles over every tree that I plant.
I'm going to organize pots for seeds to be started inside today...I'm going to plant lettuce, spinach, squash & carrots as well as tomatoes & peas. This year I plan to have a more organized garden, all raised beds. Last summer only had planted in wooden lobster crates & clay pots on the deck because of deer & rabbits. David will help me fence off the garden area. It is such a help having him here. He loves living here, we are very secluded with our 5 acres of woods.
My renovations are continuing, the bathroom is finally finished and looks beautiful. I've had the floor tiled and David and I installed the radiant in-floor heating with the help of the electrician. I am amazed at the cost of renovating one small room....the smallest in the house and yet the most expensive.
We will install the upper level flooring (bamboo) in June after Dave and I drive to Montreal to pick it up. The kitchen cupboards and appliances will be installed in August, hopefully!
Monday, April 4, 2011
Sam-I-Am
Three years ago I adopted a little black cat (Raven) and brought her to my new home in New Brunswick. She had been abandoned in the wilds of New Mexico, found the ranch & bonded with me, to the almost total exclusion of everyone else. She is doing fine here, I keep her indoors during the winter months (too many hungry coyotes & bobcats), though she is becoming very interested in the birds that are appearing as the weather warms. Our first year here was a record one for my little hunter..she brought me mice, snakes, a baby rabbit and a bat! After that rabies scare I stopped letting her hunt at night!
Well, another abandoned cat has just come into my life! He's an 8 month old Tabby, grey & beige stripes & is about the size of a 4 month old kitten. We have named him Sam as in Sam-I-Am (Dr.Zeus) and Sierra Sam (he is living in a kennel in the back of David's Chevy Sierra pick up truck) and Sam Crow (from Sons of Anarchy), so Sam for short & he has personality+++. Raven is not sure about him, hisses if he gets too close so for now he is sleeping in one of Rex's kennels in the garage with a heater on & comes into the house to eat 3X a day..have to feed often & small amounts as he is still gulping his food.
There is an old abandoned farmhouse across from the logging road that leads to our camp in Laurence Station. We drove up there last Tuesday to spend the night. David stopped on the road to check the condition of the road into where our trailer is, so I jumped out to have a pee by the old house & heard a meowing. When I called a small cat came out of the house meowing like crazy, so happy to see me, licking my face, purring like mad! His coat wasn't too matted but he was very skinny & his breath smelled foul. The only food source for a little cat that we came across was deer, rabbit and moose droppings..Rex especially liked the big moose pellets much to David's disgust!
I gave him some dog food as it was all I had with me & David & I discussed taking him to the SPCA in the morning...we drove to the 3 houses that have people living in them in the area but he didn't belong to any of them.
About 1:00 AM we heard meowing outside our trailer & found the cat sitting on the tongue of the trailer trying to see in thru the window! He had walked all the way in from the main road AND the coyotes were howling like mad near by. Don't know how he managed to survive them!
We put him in Rex's travel kennel in the back of the Jeep for the night, fed him porridge & milk in the morning, packed up & headed home early...no cell phone service up there so were 1/2 way home before we could call the SPCA, only to find out there intake was on a Tuesday & this was Wednesday.
Well, after a trip to the Vet ($100 for distemper & rabies shots...the Vet believes someone deliberately abandoned him in such a remote & hostile place) we brought him home thinking we would take him to SPCA in a week if we couldn't find a home for him.
Needless to say, he is fast becoming a part of the family & we are no longer talking about giving him away...I do not need another animal to be responsible for, really, but what does one do when a little cat finds you? David says I must avoid the moose ?cubs/?pups in case one decides to adopt me!
Aaahh, life in the country.....
Well, another abandoned cat has just come into my life! He's an 8 month old Tabby, grey & beige stripes & is about the size of a 4 month old kitten. We have named him Sam as in Sam-I-Am (Dr.Zeus) and Sierra Sam (he is living in a kennel in the back of David's Chevy Sierra pick up truck) and Sam Crow (from Sons of Anarchy), so Sam for short & he has personality+++. Raven is not sure about him, hisses if he gets too close so for now he is sleeping in one of Rex's kennels in the garage with a heater on & comes into the house to eat 3X a day..have to feed often & small amounts as he is still gulping his food.
There is an old abandoned farmhouse across from the logging road that leads to our camp in Laurence Station. We drove up there last Tuesday to spend the night. David stopped on the road to check the condition of the road into where our trailer is, so I jumped out to have a pee by the old house & heard a meowing. When I called a small cat came out of the house meowing like crazy, so happy to see me, licking my face, purring like mad! His coat wasn't too matted but he was very skinny & his breath smelled foul. The only food source for a little cat that we came across was deer, rabbit and moose droppings..Rex especially liked the big moose pellets much to David's disgust!
I gave him some dog food as it was all I had with me & David & I discussed taking him to the SPCA in the morning...we drove to the 3 houses that have people living in them in the area but he didn't belong to any of them.
About 1:00 AM we heard meowing outside our trailer & found the cat sitting on the tongue of the trailer trying to see in thru the window! He had walked all the way in from the main road AND the coyotes were howling like mad near by. Don't know how he managed to survive them!
We put him in Rex's travel kennel in the back of the Jeep for the night, fed him porridge & milk in the morning, packed up & headed home early...no cell phone service up there so were 1/2 way home before we could call the SPCA, only to find out there intake was on a Tuesday & this was Wednesday.
Well, after a trip to the Vet ($100 for distemper & rabies shots...the Vet believes someone deliberately abandoned him in such a remote & hostile place) we brought him home thinking we would take him to SPCA in a week if we couldn't find a home for him.
Needless to say, he is fast becoming a part of the family & we are no longer talking about giving him away...I do not need another animal to be responsible for, really, but what does one do when a little cat finds you? David says I must avoid the moose ?cubs/?pups in case one decides to adopt me!
Aaahh, life in the country.....
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