Jimmy is having a breakthrough!!

Well, I can post pics. that's something I do alot of........

In fact, we are finally ready to frame.......... We have approx 10 trees cut and ready......

Pretty boy, this one is my future enclosure...... We are going to be framing it soon. It is too big to fit in one entire picture. We already have a small enclosure of 10 x 20 that is currently done but much too small for 24 cats. So we are adding a play room of approx 44 x 31 to the existing enclosure. Most of the recent pics are of that area I have been working on...... It used to be woods. I have been working on it for a couple months at least. But this pic shows the kitty path in between the gravel area and their rose moss. The fence goes right on the other side of the moss. The large rocked area has lavender growing in it and the small circle has cat nip. And our picnic table is going to be sitting in the middle of that grave circle..... I think that is also where I am putting some kitty shelters for the cats.....


This is the back side. It goes out 30' from this point.


The is from the top. You can see kitty hill from here..... See the new grass growing on kitty hill. The lavender bed is right next to kitty hill.....


Here is a picture of the enclosure we currently have finished..... This is right after we framed it. The new portion will be framed the same way........ from our own cedar trees...... We are also taking down the chicken wire from the front side of it and replacing it with welded wire like the rest. It is more secure from predators.


After we get the new portion finished, we plan on rocking the bottome of this one and completely weatherproofing it..... For rain, ice, sleet and snow.

We live in SW missouri in an extremely remote area....... smack dab in the middle of the ozarks..... The closest walmart is nearly 20 miles away.... But we love it here. We will be here forever....

Jenn

Here a couple more pics of closeups.......

When everything starts growing really well, it's goign to be so great........ It's not professional, but my babies won't care. They are going to love it as much as I do.........

It feels so good to get it all done....... I'm not sure if this was harder than framing or not....... It's a toss up.....

Picnic time.......


Here's a good one of the path...


And one pile of trees.....


rah rah Juan....... go hubby go.......

Ok, remember me trying to identify this plant.........

Does this look like the same plant?


The insert grows 3" tall just like mine. I drew a line showing two similiar leaves.

http://www.desert-tropicals.com/Plan...a_reptans.html

Need a couple opinions on this. Need to ascertain for sure if this is non poisonous..... It is in the enclosure. Of course mine is walked on daily and is in my path for the wheelbarrow. We walk it constantly... So it is a little beat up looking. but extremely hardy.....

daves garden says they are poisonous.....
http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/2688/

This site says they are non toxic..
http://mickaboo.org/reading-room/plants.html

chit............

guess to be safe I better pull it up.......... If I don't, it will worry me constantly.

It sort of looks like it might be, but it's kind of hard to tell.
I took my contacts out all ready so I'm not seeing so good...is that a purple flower on the picture in the insert?...or is it just a different colored leaf?

wow your enclosure is soooo cool !!

my kittys would lllloooovvveee that !!

is it attached to the house door or window ? and do they ever try to dig
under it to get out ?

love the new spots for the new additional enclosures ....your kittys are
going to love those !

thanks for the pictures ! i love seeing things that people have built for
their cats !

That is a little purple flower Gracie.......... I don't recall ever seeing ours bloom. I guarantee you I will keep an eye on it now.....

And ya........ the enclosure is attached to the house. They have a kitty door and come and go as they choose. We in one in the wall. They have never tried to dig out. When they enter the kitty door, they are in our bedroom. Mine is one of the cheapest versions of a cat enclosure that you could get but it's a lot of work. No fence post cost since we cut the trees. The only thing we have to buy is wire and concrete to cement the trees in the ground. Juan notches the wood posts and wires it together. There might be a few nails here and there too..... It's a lot of work building an enclosure no matter how you do it.

If we win the lottery, Juan says we are building one out of sucker rod that is an acre big with chain link...... hehe...... I love the way he dreams!!!

I am working days today so when I get home at 5ish or so I am finishing my post holes. I still have about 7 to dig I think and the ground is soft right now...... I am going to try and use a shovel and see it that goes quicker. I am so anxious to get it done... This new portion is going to be 6 feet at the sides and 8 feet in the middle. He is using huge trees for the center supports.. These are also the ones we are putting little concrete forms around for sturdiness.

Jenn,

I saved the picture of that plant to my computer and sent it to my MIL
She said it looks like "Creeping Charile" ( it's a kind of ground Ivy )and if that's what it is then it is toxic to cats.
She said it spreads like wildfire.
She's not a expert, but just thought I'd pass on the info.

It is definately coming up........... No question there.

The risk is too great.......... I will try and find something to kill the roots after I remove it. Might not have grass there for a bit but that's better than the possibility of having a poison plant for goodness sake.....

3 dug.......

4 to go

Relaxing......

Go Jenn Go Jenn Go Jenn Go Jenn

Jenn, what are those little critters?

6" lizards having sex.............

zoom-a-rama.................

[The kind my cats love to catch and eat]

Well she seems very uninterested in the whole thing, doens't she

I guess since the picture is close up I thought they looked to be bigger than lizards.

she kept trying to run away from him and he hung on.......... It was very interesting. I following them around the yard snapping photos......

They look like little dinosaurs........ The detail [for once] is great....... Can you uimagine if they were the size of dogs or station wagons....

I can just see you running around the yard after them taking pictures.

If I turn "Animal Planet" on someday and see a film called "The breding habits of Lizards"...I'll new you made it

They do look preshistoric...any bigger and they would be kind of scary.

You pictured me right Grace........... I am a lizard chaser. hehehe

Had to take an enclosure break and mow today... We have a rock ledge in the front of the yard..... Killed one rattlesnake today while I was mowing that was living there evidently.

OUt there in the woods, they don't bother me, but in my yard.......... I have to kill them. At least the poisonous ones. I don't want me or my grandchildren to get bit. Or the animals.

The king snakes, rat snakes and the constrictors, I will take to the woods somewhere but not the poisonous ones. Not if they are in my yard. I buried the head so nothing would eat it. I threw the body out for critters to eat.

OMG, Rat Snakes.
When I was a Junior in High School my homeroom teacher taught Bioliogy and he had all kinds of critters in our room
Two of them were Rat Snakes...we named them Clem and Jake...we used to take them out and play with them all during homeroom
They were friendly little guys.

There was a turtle named Molly and we would take her out and let her walk around the room, that is until one day Molly decided to poop on the floor and nobody wanted to clean it up ...so Molly had to stay in her aquarium after that.

I like ratsnakes.......... They eat copperheads in their natural environment....... Clem and Jake had it made......... hehe

But I can't help but laugh at poor little poopy molly....... Poor little turtle girl..................hahaha

Sounds like you had a great time in school........... that's good.

At the end of the year our teacher told us that if we could prove to him that we'd give all the critters a good home that he'd let us take them for the summer....he always took them all home with him over the summer break.

I asked my Mom if I could bring Clem and Jake home, she was afraid of snakes so she wouldn't let me

That's a funny story,....... your teacher in biology sounds like he was a great teacher of kids.......