Picture Perfect Cooking

It was just yesterday (ok, last week) that our wee kitten was nursing it’s mother.  Now it’s a big cat munching on cat food!  We fed Mama-C this afternoon and after she ate her fill and wandered away, I heard crunch, crunch, crunch.  I was surprised to see the little one eating away at the leftovers.  Baby-C didn’t want to share either.  When I would get close, the hair on it’s back would rise.  When Patches got closer, it started hissing and spitting. 

There has been an beautiful bluebird coming to our birdfeeder.  It is not a typical Eastern Bluebird that I was used to so I had to get a photo.  My zoom is not quite far-reaching enough, so I had to stake out a spot on the ground close to the feeder and wait!  My not-so-good patience was rewarded with this photo.

I did a little research and found that it is an Indigo Bunting!  The blue color of this bird is amazing.  It is as blue as the goldfinches are yellow,…

And the cardinals are red.

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I have never been a cat person, always a dog person.  When C & I lived at a different house, we adopted a stray and named it Blondie.  That was the only cat I had ever named.  Blondie got ran over and I swore that I would never get close to a cat again.  I was wrong.

When we built our house, a female cat just showed up one day.  She thinks this is her house and she just allows us to live here.  We call her Mama-Cat because I refused to give her an actual name, and now that IS her name.

She presented her baby to us earlier this week.  Again, I was not getting attached.  I was not feeding her here, she could still go to where the food usually is.  I was not going to worry about her.  They would be fine on their own.  I said it before, I’ll say it again…I’VE BEEN SCHNOOKERED!!!!  When Mama-C came to the door yesterday morning, I broke down and gave her a plate of food.  When the storms came, C & I worried about where she took the baby.  They were fine, by the way, hiding under our bay window on the deck.  I was trying to be all tough until I took one look at this…

And this…

And now, I’m hooked! Sigh!

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It seems that we are need of congratulations.  We have a new farm baby that we did not know was coming.  Mama Cat is living up to her name in word and deed!  C & I found a fuzzy little surprise this morning when we went out on the deck.  It is alert, active and not afraid of much of anything. 

It would come up to us and try to climb our shoes, follow us around the deck and watch our every move.  Mama Cat didn’t seem to care what it did, but she stayed very close by.  Later on this afternoon, we caught them “cat-napping”.  For some reason, Mama C decided that my new flower pot with the freshly planted coleus plants seemed to be the perfect bedroom!  I was not pleased but the plant did not seem any the worse for wear.  Oh, well.  It looks like we now have a Baby-Cat to go with Mama-Cat.

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Here is an update for my Wordless Wednesday post.  Our visitor was a Chinese or Red Golden Pheasant.  This beautiful bird is definitely NOT a native to our area, so we figure someone close by must be raising them.  The information that we found read that they do not fly well and prefer to run.  I am so glad I was able to photograph this sight because I almost thought I was seeing things!  Happy Easter, everyone!  Check back soon for a Easter Lemon Cupcake recipe!!

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My mom, aunt and grandmother own a small nursery, Sand Hill Farm Garden Center, and their busy season is upon them.  Today, I went with Mom for 2 trips to the wholesale nursery a few counties away.  On the first trip, we saw several things that made me wish that I had brought my camera.  I remembered it on the second trip.  For some reason, cute animals kept appearing today.  On the way, we saw a pony that had such a need for a haircut or at least a curry comb, but he was so cute! I wish I had gotten a really good photo of the pony, but we were on a busy road and I had to shoot while we were moving.  Talk about shooting from the saddle!  At the nursery, their resident feline, Smoke, came for a belly rub. 

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