Milking Cats

A kitty rescue from a farm. She got separated from her siblings and was considered too young to survive on her own.

How can you resist that?

We took her. The farmer gladly gave us a box of cat food as incentive to be released of the responsibility. She had to be fed by syringe. I bought cream. She sucked that down easily.

My neighbour agreed to kitty-sit while we were out for the day and was horrified that a cat so young didn't have proper milk. So she sent her husband to buy cat milk. Yes, cat milk.

We came home to this. I burst out laughing in disbelief!

HOW DO YOU MILK A CAT????

This is what I pictured in my head and laughed and laughed and laughed. Ridiculous

No where on the carton or online did it specify what kind milk was actually used. I am assuming it is cow's milk. Upon closer inspection I see that it is CATMILK  and not cat milk.

Had me giggling for days.

Saving Twenty Grams

It's a mouse issue not a mouse problem. Somehow they continue to arrive in my kitchen and have snacks. The first course of action would be to eliminate them so I bought those snap traps. They are like a large clothes pin and when mice venture near it's supposed to be a killer. The deal was that someone else would check the trap each morning and dispose of the carcass before I saw it. The problem was that sometimes I could hear the trap being dragged around for a while first. It wasn't the promised instantaneous death, it was lingering and painful.

The day I threw away those traps was the day we had to hunt for it and found it under the dishwasher.... WITH A SINGLE PAW STILL IN IT!! no dead body attached. a lone sad paw.

So now we have live traps.  I use butter. It works. I catch one mouse at a time and let him go free. I've been told that the same one just comes right back in the house but I don't think so.

For it's size it was hard to figure out if there was a mouse inside even if I tipped the closed trap back and forth.  The trap was very sensitive even if we mistakenly brushed past it. So I devised a little experiment.

I placed the empty trap on a scale and set it so the needle read zero.  I was rewarded the very next morning by finding that the trap had been triggered. I weighed the trap and it read almost 20 grams!

We have a house guest that confirmed my finding.

Confidently and happily I went to the back door to set free and admire what I had saved.

Something Blue

I noticed that when the mud dauber wasp's wings catch the sun, 

they are shiny blue.

 I did my slow quiet walk around my back yard 

and noticed the dragon fly, also blue. Blue. 

Do we see blue often in nature?

 Yes, I turned in my spot knowing 

the blue spruce stood tall right behind me. 

Stealthily I made my way back to the pond

 and was greeted by this damselfly.

 Blue, not only for summer skies and open waters.

"Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean - roll!"   Lord Byron from Childe Harold