a new boy

This little boy is doing much better after spending a full day in a make-shift incubator. he is enjoying the steam and lays in the fullest part of it. of course he is in my only large trap right now which limits further trapping. i still have the two squirrel traps but where to put these new kittens.

i have not seen the kittens since the high winds we had a few nights back, nor have i seen Ma Mere i know that we have lost at least one kitten to a car. she was found in the road this morning, she was probably 5 months old and a pretty Siamese most likely Mysts sister. I have not seen Ma Mere since i caught Helios so she is probably laying low as she does not need as much food and the others are getting more aggressive in their needs.
as to Ma Mere's two kittens Helios was allowed to roam in the room so he was trying to see how many hiding spots he could find that i would not find him in, and Dandylion is turning into a little princess she does not leave the hammock and loves to be fed by hand and get her belly rubbed.

a day at the beach

today was a day with my Moi, she is so sweet just the best of all temperaments. i don't think i could ever part with her. this little girl was born in my bird room after i caught her mother Bettie. i had been trying to get her spayed and had caught her again but she looked like the babies were already born. they had just shifted in readiness so while i was searching the litter was born on March 7 07, her sister Kathleen was adopted her brother Patrick disappeared.



Today we went to the beach. it was a lovely day not very windy the surf was gorgeous. Best of all not to many people and no dogs.

Today also starts the costume contest for the Black Cat lovers group on Ravelry so of course i had to enter my Moira

Moira as a Sea Kitten. I think she makes a rather tasty mermaid

LuLu being bad

My darling Lusitania at 4 months old.
a very mischievious kitten who found her way between the lining and the silk of a curtain

she had a lot of fun and so did i

look at that face how could you be mad

after all the silk was not supposed to be curtains it was bought for a wedding dress that never happened

Angels come in all designs and she is one

she is now 4 and just as sassy.

i do have other pictures of her being bad but i will share those later.

as per request i found the photoshoot of LuLu being bad.

i had not had her very long when this happened.

Caught a ray of Sunshine

Tonight i caught Dandelions brother. He is a fat little flame point Siamese looking kitten, yes the fat is most likely worms in the belly bat that will soon be taken care of.

this little boy will be rather good lucking after he gets a bath. this picture was taken while i was teaching him to stop hissing.

i have always wanted a Flame and now that i have caught one i have to put him up for adoption as too many kitties live here already! mine and some street kitties that decided to stay. now if i can catch Ma Mere i will be happy. she is the last adult fem that i am aware of. but also i need to catch Belly's babies and i think Mini Fig might still have one out there.

I have to be careful trapping as the Raccoons are coming back now that it is getting cooler. my pond was hit hard last night. i did not see my frogs at all this morning.

soon i get to take Dandelion to the vet to get her on some antibiotics and hopefully wormed. i will try to sneak Sunflower in on the same ticket. i just don't want to pay for 2 office visits for the same thing and i hate that if you take in multiple for the discount you get the discount on one of the kitties you bring in but get a full charge for each additional cat. so to what purpose is the discount?

Dandelion

Tonight not even 10 minutes from parking the car i caught the little tortie girl.

She is now in a ferret cage bathed in diatomaceous earth to kill off the fleas that were bigger than her. Tomorrow i will give her bath. She is not as pretty as she could be at the moment but given time she will be a STAR. I chose the name Dandelion as the plant is a very strong and determined weed. it will be a name for her to live up to. she is between 4-5 weeks old.

I got her to take 2 ounces of electrolytes in kitten milk from a bottle. I am so happy that she is caught now i need to focus on the other kittens.

Her sibling and Ma Mere also Belly's babies which i am now told are 5 for Belly, but i think some might be Mini Fig's.

not much on the knitting front, working on ribbing on one project and just below the sleeves for the corons KAL.

redying and kittens

OK so i am not happy with the way the silk did not take the dye. i knit it up into a cowl to see how the dye job worked up. and realized that what little of the beet colour had been removed so it looked like blueish soot on drab silver.


Rather boring i think so i am tossing it back in to see if it will pick up more colour. knitting on drab was killing me. i had to force myself to finish the random patterning, it was either that or rip and re-skein and re-knit it. being frustrated i did not feel like doing that having already put a couple of hours into it. so here's hoping.

on the kitten front i saw them just a little bit ago. One is a torbie - tortie tabby too adorable and too skinny. she also looks like she might have a hurt paw by the way she runs. i think i will call her Dandelion. i would put her at 4 weeks maybe 5. her sibling is going to be a fluffy Siamese and is much bigger than her.
the other Siamese kitten is definitely not their sibling as Ma Mere hisses and growls at the angel.
also seen was a tiny brown tabby a fluffy black and much later a tom i had not seen before. the two possible daddies are him and Rue the red tom that has been hanging around for 4 years and is trap savvy, and i cannot forget the intact male Siamese that i have been told about but not seen yet.

playing with dye

After reading so many posts on Ravelry in the Plants to Dye for group I have attempted some Black Bean dyeing.
The first pic is on white Classic Elite Lush.(the smooth yarn) I did heat the beans and was to impatient to let it cool before I tossed the yarn in.
I let it set over night and got periwinkle!
The fuzzy yarn is Artfibre's Gypsy in natural, this yarn I had previously soaked in beet juice and sat watching it fade to an antique cream colour, in curiousity I put the yarn cake in the bean pot to see what would happen this morning I pulled out what looked to be a mouldy stone.
after squeezing out as much liquid as I could and rinsing them till the water ran clear, I un-caked the silk into a hank to dry. The bean juice did not go into the center of the cake and as you can see i have a faded ghost colour that is kind of interesting.
I definatly need to do this again with more patience