Growing cats in the greenhouse.

Allen is one of my parents farm cats and is spoiled.  He is the only one allowed into the greenhouse and he loves it in there.  He rarely lies on plants or destroys stuff.  I occasionally find him rolling in the catnip or sleeping on the onion plants.  He than gets a shot of water and I pick a few catnip leaves for him and carry him to a more appropriate place to lie and roll in catnip.

Sleeping in water. Can’t be too comfy, but he didn’t seem to mind. He was dripping wet when he finally decided to find a much better place to lie down.

This tray is usually full of water and we use it to water the plants that we just seeded or coming up. Allen decided it was warm and plunked himself in.

The onion plants that Allen loves lying on. My parents have a mini greenhouse inside the larger greenhouse to save on heating costs.  The greenhouse is 20 feet wide by 80 feet long.  We grow tomatoes and cucumbers in the greenhouse.  We also have a 5 acre market garden.

Meeting of the Red Dot

What is this red thing that sometimes appear?? We need to figure this out.

 

Java: “Mom, are you making the red dot appear?Mother” Eddie: “Who cares Java, shut up and just chase the red dot.” Dac: “Red dot, must chase red dot”.

Java: “Fine I will look at the red dot, but my diva self will not allow me to chase the red dot. Ladies don’t run and make fools out of themselves”.

Bloody Fingers

I’m not sure if I’m the only one who’s body looks like a road map (from all the scratches).  My cats aren’t vicious, just really curious and want to have fun.  I won’t show what my fingers look like because it would make a manicurist run away in horror.  I guess it also doesn’t help that it’s winter here and my hands are DRY.  I also have scratches all over my neck and shoulders.  Instead of tattoos to tell my life store, I have scratches to tell my life story :)!!

Growing up my family had a cat named Ernie.   An all black and playful cat and when I played with him I would put mittens on.  Now a days I’m not that careful.  I usually have my laptop on my lap and there is a little gap between my lap and the laptop.  My cats like to stick their feet in the gaps and Eddie will play with my fingers with gusto.  It’s blind playing as Eddie can’t see my finger and I can’t see his paws.  It does leave scratches, but watching him play is so much fun.  Java on the other hand reacts in terror, most times, when I touch her paws.  Dac, I wouldn’t even try to play blind with because I wouldn’t have any fingers left and the mess, I don’t even want to think of it :)!  Life with cats is fun.

I love playing with fingers.

 

Dead Kitten in Bed

Have you ever been in that state where you are asleep, but awake and nothing around you makes sense?  I woke up from a deep sleep and looked to my left.  My cats get half the bed and Edward and Dac were sleeping.  Java wasn’t in bed which wasn’t unusual as she likes to be alone.  AND…. there was a dead kitten in my bed.  This made no logical sense as I have only three cats and had not taken in another one.  Also there was no possible way for there to be a kitten in my place.  There is one door into my place and I would notice if a kitten had slipped in.  I studied this dead kitten and reached over to touch it and it felt cold and stiff.  Felt exactly like a dead kitten.  Now I was getting more confused.  Where did this dead kitten come from?  I picked up the dead kitten and realized it was a toque.  Relief swept over me and I rolled over and went back to sleep.

Dac and Eddie sleeping on their side of the bed.

The Laptop Graveyard

This post has nothing to do about cats, but the apparatus I use to blog.  My apparatus has decided to bite the dust and maybe won’t need to be added to the laptop graveyard.  I’l find out in 14 days what the status of my laptop is.

Laptop one:  I bought my first laptop with my tax refund.  It was a really good laptop and lasted a while.  It was the first one to go to the laptop graveyard after I fried the hard drive.

Laptop two:  Was also a good laptop until the hinge decided to bust.  Yup I managed to break a hinge on my laptop.  I used a roll of duct tape to keep it together and it worked.  The only problem was that, I think, when the hinged broke it cut the wifi cable.  This wasn’t a problem until I took a trip.  I always joked that my laptop always wanted to be a tablet and was trying to achieve that dream.

Laptop three:  I fried the hard drive AGAIN.  I put in laptop twos hard drive and it worked great.  Than a piece broke off around the plug in area and one day a cable broke off and I couldn’t charge the laptop any more.  Anyone with more laptop knowledge know, would this be fixable or would this be a really expensive fix?

Laptop four:  My parents gave it to me as a present and it lasted a grand total of four and half months and than……I FRIED the hard drive.  Yup I’m really good at frying hard drives.  Laptop four is under warranty so we’ll see what happens.  I’m currently on a loaner so knock hard on wood this one doesn’t do anything stupid.  I tried using my phone as a laptop and that just made me go batty.

I’ve had four laptops in the last 12 years.  Is that a good average or a terrible average?  I’m not one to always upgrade to the newest thing so not sure how my average is with other people.  I’m quite thrifty so this seems like I’m frying laptops at a rapid rate.  One other note they were all ACERS.  Maybe that is just a terrible brand and I should stray into something else.  Suggestions??

I don’t treat my laptops badly and I don’t do anything extreme on them so I have no idea why my laptops insist on being in the graveyard instead on my lap working.  Anybody have tips to extend the life of a laptop?

As long as this laptop keeps working the next post will be on CATS and nothing but CATS :)!!