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Christmas and New Years Travels

Posted on by Jonlynn

It was about a week and a half before Christmas we left for Colorado from Arizona.

We got to the farm and nothing that was needed to load out wheat seemed to work, the cold had depleted the power in the batteries and every thing seems to become cold blooded. My husband Mike finally get things running, he hauled loads of wheat in his bobtail truck for three full days. I finished up the online Christmas shopping. Did I say how much I can’t stand going shopping in the store this time a year? I just can’t do it, the crowds and some people are so rude. I guess I have some anxiety at Christmas time when it comes to the stores. Well enough about that. We got done with the farm work for the year.

We headed to Missouri for Christmas with our family. We set up the Christmas tree the day after arriving. Asher stayed out of the tree the first night, but there after we couldn’t keep all the ornaments on the tree, we would find them all over the house. Asher loves running though the house from one end to the other with what ever toy he can carry in his mouth, some time its my ponytail holder. He is comedy central at our house or hotel room were ever we stay. When the grand-kids started showing up Asher be come a scaredy-cat, needless to say we had to put him in a back room were he felt safer.

We had three Christmas dinners, one Italian Christmas dinner, and two traditional Christmas dinners. The Italian dinner was at my brother-in-laws, boy can my sister-in-law cook!

My daughters and I cooked the other two dinners. Turkey, stuffing, green bean casserole, smashed potatoes, smashed sweet potatoes the first dinner, and candied yams the second one, home made cranberries, kings hawaiian buns, an assortment of relish items, apple pie, pumpkin pie w/ home made whipped cream. Spending time with my daughters in the kitchen was so much fun, like old times.

I bought Nerf dart guns to keep our grand-kids entertained. Mike and I had as much fun with the guns as the kids did, playing in side and out, only one dart was lost out of thirty six over a three day period. I thought it was a great way to make some good memories with the grand-kids. Can’t wait for the next time we all get together.

It has been a long time since we got out for New Years Eve. This time we went to a casino with friends, we gambled, drank and rang in the new year and went to bed. The next day we gambled some more. I am pretty sure a fun time was had by all.

I hope the new year finds you in good health and happiness. I wish you all a blessed and Happy New Year.

Asher’s Adventures

Posted on by Jonlynn

The arrival and introduction of Asher.
Asher was born  August 17, 2019 at Cascade Kaperkats cattery. His Dad is Dakota moon, his Mom is Misty May. He was born with a one inch tail, and poly dactyl front feet, and long fluffy hair.
Precious little kitty, and growing fast, he is now almost three months old.
I am going to the airport November 12, to pick him up, and meet him for the fist time.
I am beyond excited. This little Pixie bob is going to still hearts, he has mine already. Its almost like getting ready for a baby, making sure you have his food on hand, his toys, his kitty litter, bed, his toilet trainer, ( yes I am going to train him to use the toilet so that there is no cat box to deal with, but I don’t think I am going to teach to flush it. I can just see him flushing it over and over just to see it swirl.) I will let you know how it goes.
This is going to be just as big an adventure for me as for him.
I found out about the Pixie bob bread a few years back when my husband an I went to Washington state to see my family and introduce my husband to them. My aunt Kay had her cattery at her home and raised Pixie bobs.
I fell in love with the bread right then and there. These cats where absolutely stunning, and beautiful, markings of a bobcat, with the lynx ears, short tail. They looked to me just like a bobcat, but the sweetest personality, not like any cat I had ever seen before. I knew that if I ever got another cat it was going to be one of these beauties.
At that time I had a cat, and not just any old cat.
This guy was a one of a kind.
I dropped in to visit a friend of mine to say hi and see how she was doing. This little black kitten come flying out from under her couch and attacked my ankles.
She told me that a stray cat had had her kittens in the flower bed in front of her house under an overhang. she noticed that the mother wasn’t coming back to them when they were only a few days old, she thought maybe she got run over on the highway there. So she got milk replacement for them but only one of them survived.
This little guy was it. She was trying to find some one to take him but I had two out door cats at home already. Inky and Squishy.
Every time I went over there he did the same thing, then it happened. He brought me his toy. she said he hadn’t done that before, so I took it as a sign that he picked me.
So guess what, I found myself with this every special cat. I named him Shadow, but my loving husband named him Shortstack it stuck, it fit him perfectly.
Shortstack had a great life here, he become an indoor, outdoor cat, he and the other cat ( Squishy) always went to the door like a dog would when they needed to go potty. I never had a cat box in the house. These two cats were great hunters, you could watch them hurt in the garden, they would tag team the mice and they would both come out of there with a mice or two a day besides all the night hunting they would do. We lost Sortstack two years ago in the spring. I didn’t know he was that sick, I thought he had hairballs or something like that, so it was a shock. I was heart broke. I buried him in his favorite hunting grounds, my garden. We had 11 great years together.
Squishy was my daughters cat and we lost him later that some year, he was not the same after Shortstack died. He was acting a little strange for about two days before he went out hunting one night and we never seen him again, he was 12 years old. I think he was heartbroken over Shortstack.
I know they would love to play with Asher if they were still here.

I am ready to have another furry companion to love and share our lives with, and Asher is the one. He will be by my side out in the garden, hanging out in the house, quick trips to town for parts, and on our travels.

I hope to be writing about our adventures together for a long time to come.  A day in the garden, a trip to town, him watching the koi in the koi pond, (I hope he just watches them and doesn’t go fishing) our travels to see our kids and grand kids, and family. He will probably be a little spoiled, as in having an only child kind of way, we will seeim