Since I last wrote spring has been upon us with few relapses into winter. It did not snow in March, which is just plain unheard of. It was the warmest, most pleasant March I can remember since I was a child. If every March were like this past month winter wouldn't seem half so bad.
Good weather means more time outside and less time in the studio or at the computer blogging. I have to admit I have become a Facebook regular as well. I never joined during the time I was teaching--I just didn't want to be there with all my students. But it's been a nice way to be in touch with friends from college and my cousins who live in Oregon, New York, and Egypt. And also friends who live just a few miles away.
I've been riding a lot and gardening, getting the plots ready for planting and I did get peas, lettuce, and chard in already. The chickens need to be locked up this weekend so that the plants can grow undisturbed. Chickens can be very hard on gardens, mostly because of their scratching.
Since I last wrote we've had a few additions to the family: some Guinea keets that arrived this week (The pictures of the Guineas were taken through the plastic brooder, so they're a little cloudy), and a little Siamese kitten named Tofu. He is an adorable little baggage and after being here two days slept quietly between us all night. He is a very noisy little kitten and very agile, true to his Siamese heritage. For my sixth birthday my parents gave me two Siamese kittens so I have a sentimental attachment to Siamese cats. Also, our beloved cat Tippy was a Himalayan, but not one of those pushed-in-face Persian types; he looked and sounded and acted like a long-haired Siamese of the old fashioned type. Tofu is also an old-fashioned, "applehead" Siamese, not the elongated Siamese with the wedge-shaped heads you see at cat shows. That type never appealed to me as much.
The other kitties' reactions vary from fear and loathing to curiosity, and I think that eventually everyone will get along. Surprisingly Sushi is the most afraid, which was totally unexpected--she has such a feisty personality. But you never know, I guess.
So our house is now a place of much peeping and meowing, with spring babies among us.
2 comments:
Guinea chicks! How fun! I hope you can have a garden this year with all those birds around. I guess we are the ones with the bad weather these days after being so smug all winter long.
Guineas don't scratch--that's the great thing about them--plus their appetite for ticks! But thanks for pointing out the downside of the bird population...
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