Ragdollcatlady's Just a Little Patch of Weeds Farm journal

[Latestarter]

Glad your dog is well and recovering, and it wasn't something more serious. Hope your cat turns into nothing serious as well. Glad Al is there to help keep you more or less "distracted" from all the usual goings on. Glad the trailer is now purple for you, and fixed/working Good luck with the potential goat sales.

 

[Bruce]

Lucky you work for a vet RDCL! No way to afford such surgeries otherwise. Hope they heal up well.

 

[ragdollcatlady]

Even working there, sometimes I cant afford to do all that my pets/rescues need. Thankfully I can usually do more than if I didn't work there though, and some things I can do at home like bandage changes, etc... since I am my own personal in house tech.

I managed to get the bands on Mannys horns... but I definitely feel this way is far more traumatic than sedating and cutting/burning while they are out... He was shy with me before. He broke my milkstand and nearly choked himself several times... I don't think he will ever like me now.

I managed to get the doll house (mostly) taken apart and I have the biggest parts repainted already... I cant wait to get it done to show y'all. I am turning it into a "haunted house" for my baby niece. She is turning 1 in a few weeks. Alaska wants to make it creepy, like a severed head in the mailbox and a micky mouse hanging from a rope... She is a baby!!! I want it to be "Disney/cutesy" haunted, not "Lets start her on 20 years of therapy" haunted! I am painting over the pink and blue, using purple and black, probably a little grey too. I am adding black sparkles to the roof though, I still want it to be "girly" if a little bit gothic.

My kid is into bats so Alaska bought him a couple of bat themed jars and a small strand of bat lights to go in one of the jars. I remembered batteries for the lights finally, so I gave him the jars this morning... He loved it!

(And then I had to go buy more bat lights for the babies doll house. )

I had to get more stretchy pants for walking, cause I needed to go down to the next size... weee) and the ones I found at the discount store are only $1... so I went back and bought 2 more. Not my favorite color, kind of a dark grey stripey sort of look, but for a dollar, I don't care. I also bought a couple of other capri style sweat shorts that are tiny bit too small, but I am sure I will need them soon, so I just added them to my drawer.

And I bought a new mailbox. Now I need to put it up....and hope Alaska doesn't try to send me a head in the mail... he was almost ready to traumatize my baby niece with a Halloween decoration, I might need to be prepared....

Didn't get much else done today, but that's OK.

 

[ragdollcatlady]

This was the before pic

And this, is the current state of things...

 

[babsbag]

Alaska wants to make it creepy, like a severed head in the mailbox and a micky mouse hanging from a rope... She is a baby!!! I want it to be "Disney/cutesy" haunted, not "Lets start her on 20 years of therapy" haunted!

But why are you doing haunted? Very unique.

 

[ragdollcatlady]

But why are you doing haunted? Very unique.

Well, haunted houses are just cooler for one! But Halloween is my favorite holiday and since my brother and sister in law concur... to the point the baby has a 'borrowed from a Halloween themed movie' sort of name, I know they will love it!

 

[Bruce]

I also bought a couple of other capri style sweat shorts that are tiny bit too small, but I am sure I will need them soon, so I just added them to my drawer.

Yeah, sounds very much like everyday wear all year in Alaska

 

[Latestarter]

All depends on how close you are to the wood stove...

 

[ragdollcatlady]

Well, I still have to walk the dogs until I move there.... I may never walk the dogs again once Im there though!!! I should teach them to walk on a treadmill with me.....otherwise we might have to conserve body heat and try hiding under the covers when Alaska tries to find us to go outside!!!

Ok, so not great news. We took the tumor off Jasmin's leg. It was really big, hard and gooey. I wouldn't have sent it out, (money reasons) but the Dr wants to know for herself. The muscles were involved and there is high likelihood of nerve damage. She was dragging her leg this evening. I still feel it was the best thing to do for this moment. I hope she heals enough to get around OK. I know her life expectance just dropped by many years already..... My heart is hurting over this one.

Ok, so confession time ... Bad catmom moment ahead... Just a bit ago, I went to check on my poor girl and she had climbed over the pet gate, out the doggie door (she regularly uses it even though it is a double flap deal) and out of the dog yard into the backyard. Dragging her foot/leg and all! She came straight to me, she is one of my sweetest cats here, and I scooped her up and brought her back in to the "Only Jasmin" all night buffet in the laundry room. Back at the start of my journal, if you read that far, Jazzy is the one that was a seeing eyed cat for Beastie after Beastie was hit by a car and ended up with a scrambled brain. She has earned her keep in my book. And I just love the sweetness about her.... and yes, I locked the doggie door for the night.

So here is my 3rd attempt at cast iron dutch oven sourdough....

 

[babsbag]

So sorry about your kitty. I love my dogs, but I LOVE my cats; I have always been a crazy cat woman. Don't feel bad about her getting out, she's a cat...they do those things. When I had my LGD spayed the vet wanted me to keep her in the house for a week as she is a fatty and "fat doesn't stitch". Well, Sigueme is good in the house so no problem, not so good in the yard. After she scaled the 6' chain link gate on day 2 I decided that the barn was a safer place. Thankfully she didn't pull any stitches. Silly dog.