Welcome Summer and a New Addition

The past couple of months have gone by so quickly.  I cannot believe summer is here and in full swing.  Today will be the first day of an extreme heatwave for our area.  Our temperatures will be above 100°F for the next week and the we cool off to our normal temperatures mid to upper 90s, and then bam we are back to triple digits.  As we endure the next couple of weeks, I will be thankful that I live where I am because I cannot imagine these temperatures with limited modern conveniences like the people of Pakistan.  Please if your area is going into a heatwave too, check on your elderly neighbors, give your pets extra water and do not even think of leaving your children (both the two and four legged variety) in a vehicle. 

So what have I been up to?

• traveled a bit not our big trip that Don & I thought we were going on at the end of May,
• spent time with family, picked up a book and started reading again,
• stitched a few stitches here and there (nothing worth showing),
• longarm quilted a couple quilts,
• finally got all the paperwork and licensing to officially start my longarm quilting business,
• recently added a new family member,
• and of course dealing with how my body is not liking the temperature changes

Most exciting on that list is the new family member.  The Sunday before last a bird (magpie) alerted me to something outside.  I could not believe it a baby kitten and all black.  When I went out to investigate, it ran under our siding that is setting on pallets.  I tried calling it but it would not come up even though it really thought about it.  I decided that I better see if it needed water.  When it came out to investigate the water dish, I saw how tiny it was.  I knew that I needed to feed it.  So a quick trip into town for kitten food.  Oh my, was the kitten hungry.  

Almost 7 hours after spotting the kitten, Sadie finally convinced the kitten that I was okay.  It was starving.  I could feel everything bone in its body and it was tame so someone dropped it off.  I think when I was changing water it followed Cash & I back to the house the night before last.  I knew it would not last the night outside.  We have a family of owls that live next door who frequently hunt our yard and pasture at night plus the coyotes have been known to come into the yard and I had not seen as many bunnies lately.  For the next couple of hours, I went to work getting out, cleaning and setting up the large dog crate, found the litter box that fits into the back of the crate, and made the kitten a home in our spare bedroom, oops guess we will not be having company for a bit.  The spare room is the only room that I could block the kitten off from our elderly cats and the dogs without causing them a major change in their routine.  During my trip to town, I even picked up some kitten milk replacer to give the kitten some needed nourishment just in case it couldn’t eat enough dry food.  Did I say he was small?  When he wanted to nurse, I found a new kitten bottle that I had in my pet supplies.  It was then I noticed that his eyes were just starting to change color.  Those eyes and his big motor made me fall in love.

Now what to call him?  Of course, I had a bunch of cute names for girls but no boys names that fit

him.  When Don got up for work, I asked him what he thought.  His suggestion was Sammy, hmmm, maybe I thought.  Several hours later, yes I was still holding him, I narrowed the names down to Griffey for the baseball player, Ken Griffey Jr, Ollie short for Olaf from Frozen, Sammy D for Sammy Davis Jr.  I finally decided that he looked like a Sammy and our other boy who is mostly black is named after a signer so Cash needed his brothers name to the follow pattern.  So introducing Sammy D. Cat Jones.  He is quite cute which balances out his naughtiness.  Oh my can he be naughty.  He is trying to rule the roost and is finding that there are limits and he has to respect the other members of the family.

Sammy has just woken and is insisting on my attention.  He probably wants some breakfast as well.  So I better be going and get some things done while it is still cool this morning.  Before I publish this, I just want to thank all of you who endure my dry spells of not posting.  Summer is just a hard season for me to prioritize all that needs to be done.  Oh Sammy is checking out my fingers typing.  So I have to go he has sharp baby teeth.  I keep wondering do they have kitten teething rings?   Now he is in my face so I have to go NOW!!!!

Again thank you and have a splendid day,