Jimmy is having a breakthrough!!

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Originally Posted by jcribbs

thanks gracie....... what would I do without you???
Aww, Jenn everyone here loves you and admires all that you and Juan do for your fur babies.


Originally Posted by jcribbs

Plus my one old hole.
Okay, I'm being a piggy now...but when I read that I got the giggles
 
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oh my ...........

that does sound kinda bad.....


I am laughing my butt off now.










I am 49 you know........
 

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When I read that I just couldn't help myself I got the giggles and couldn't stop.

Mason came in and asked me who sent me a funny e-mail, I told him it wasn't an e-mail it was something I read here on TCS.

He just rolled his eyes, patted me on the head and told me I had a sick sense of humor!
 
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That is so funny.......... My husband was tickled too...... And my husband pats me on the head too........


Silly little husbands.......!!!

We are tired today. We worked two shifts back to back the last 24 yrs and are so glad to be home. We are both off tomorrow....yeah.

I had a day off from post holes today....The ones I dug are probably filled with water. It has rained nearly nonstop for 24 hrs..\\

I also bought 6 packets of alyssum flowers for the new enclosure, some catnip and some lavender plants... I am getting the plants, flowers and herbs growing now so when it is done, they won't have to wait to have herbs and ground cover to play in.... I am looking for local wheat and oat grass.....

So hopefully their ground will be white and purple and green.

I'm fixing to head to bed. Husband is already there.... I is only 7:45 but we are hitting the hay early.......

Nite gracie.....
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He always pats me on the head, probably because he's a foot and a half taller than me


Back to back shifts?
No wonder you're tired!
That and all the work you've been doing on the enclosure.

The cats are going to love their yard, they'll be like little kids...you'll have to drag them in at night.
They'll want to stay out there and play 24/7

Hope you guys got a good nights sleep.
 
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Our kitty door is open 24-7........ I suspect several will stay outdoors all night..... Dovey and Angie used to love sleeping on the porch all night. Star and Turtle too...... Several stay outside all night now. But then again, some stay inside. It's all their decision.
 

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Gracie, Lizzie and Annabelle all are scared to death of the outside.
They'll sit in a window with a screen in it...I think they somehow know that they are at least a little protected from the outside by that screen.

They run as fast as they can the second someone opens the outside door.
I guess it's because Gracie and Lizzie have never been outside..only in the carrier to go to the Vet and it's been about 4 years since I grabbed Annabelle out of the middle of the road.
I guess she's either forgotten that she was outside at one time or that she has no desire to every repeat the experiance


I was a little worried about Elliott trying to claw the screens out of the windows or running for an open door, but he seems to already have a fear of outside.
I just thought that since he was born outside and lived outside until he was 18 months old that he'd still have the desire to go out, but so far so good.

We live on a residental street, BUT people seem to want to use it as a racetrack so I'm happy that he likes to be inside.
 
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You're right....... It's a good thing that your babies are scared of the outside. Especially with a busy street... I used to live on a busy street too. I am sooooo glad to be in the country now..

Made a little progress today too..... Moved approx 1/4 of the debris in my enclosure area........ It already looks better.....

I have been planning how I want their kitty garden. I already have most of my seeds. All I need to do is get the land ready for planting [all the darn debris].... Then I can plant the seeds. And finish digging the holes but the plants will already be growing. I also want to put some bright yellow vines in there but I am buying those already potted. The plants should grow great. The dirt is rich and black and looks very very fertile...

This is where I am buying my seed for the grasses. Organic all the way.
http://www.wheatgrasskits.com/seed.htm
 

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That enclosure is going to be great.
They're going to have a wonderful time with all the grass, flowers and catnip to play in.

I tried giving Gracie and Lizzie catnip once, they had no interest in it at all.
Gracie just walked away, Lizzie sneezed a couple of times and then she walked away.
They are just strange little girls I guess!
 
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Mine have never had catnip.......... I am going to make flower boxes for the catnip to keep the spread of it down... Going to use two x four's..... We'll see how it goes.

I pulled my hip yesterday so I am resting today and not doing anything...

I can get all the labor done and the plants planted but it might be next year before everythign takes a good hold......
 
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They are just spoiled little girls........


Originally Posted by Graciecat

That enclosure is going to be great.
They're going to have a wonderful time with all the grass, flowers and catnip to play in.

I tried giving Gracie and Lizzie catnip once, they had no interest in it at all.
Gracie just walked away, Lizzie sneezed a couple of times and then she walked away.
They are just strange little girls I guess!
 

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They sure are.
We have three spoiled fur girls and one spoiled fur boy.
Gracie is the one that everyone is drawn to though.
She's just so cute and tiny and cross eyed everyone that meets her loves her.
She's such a sweet natured little thing.

Everytime I take her to the Vet he always asks if he can keep her...funny, he never asks to keep any of our other cats
 
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you have pics??? I would love to see little gracie and her cute little crossed eyes.............


Most of mine have real big cat attitudes... But one little girl "Tink" is very very sweet. She never fusses with the others and when I call her to pick her up, she hold her little kitty arms up like a baby to be picked up.... Her mother was feral .... very feral. An older female but I managed to save Tink. And I am so glad I did. She is special.
 

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I have tons of pictures of them on discs somewhere.
But of course when we moved they got packed in boxes and I haven't been able to find them.
I'm going to have to really look through the boxes in the attic.
Some of the stuff belongs to my Niece...we're storing it for her... and my discs might be in there.

I really should take new pictures anyway...I dont have any of Elliott.
 
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Oh good.......... I can't wait to see them!!!! Especially Gracie and Elliott.......

and............drum roll please........

I bought a kitty tree today for the enclosure..... It is going in the ground tomorrow.
A drawf Alberta Spruce. It should get about 6 feet tall. It is going in the ground tomorrow so it can start growing in it's new home. I suspect since it is soft and low to the ground, they will use it to lay underneath. I think they will like it. They are beautiful trees.
 
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I got it for them to lay under in the winter. It is a very dense tree and will serve as a form of protection from weather when they want ouside in the cold. I will probably built a box around it with cedar chips for them to lay in so they won't be on the ground. But that is a ways away. My kitty tree is still little. And these are slow growing trees. I have read if you feed them dried blood or bone meal it speeds up the growth process....
 

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You know, I think you're right.
My Grandpa was forever planting something or other, trees, shrubs, bushes of all sorts, shapes and sizes.
He used to always have a bag of bone meal in his shed and everything that Man planted grew like crazy.
 
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alright......... that leads to believe that bone meal works. That's what I will use then...

Thank you thank you thank you!!!
 
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