Silly puppy

Our little Missy is really developing quite the personality. She is totally attached to Izzy the cat, as well as her boy Griffin. Izzy is her nap partner! When I can’t provide a lap for the two of them, she curls up as close as she can get to her buddy.

Missy is sad that she can’t cuddle the cat

Missy has been shadowing me in the kitchen because she discovered that sometimes I drop things. I dropped a bit of canned mushroom, and she decided that it was better to play with than eat! Here is the video.

Chilling with her boy in the back yard

Her foot is all healed from her sprain, and she is rip tearing around the yard again. Silly puppy.

Apple peeler, corer, slicer

Apple peeler, corer, slicer

I love this gadget! It peels, slices, and cores apples with the turn of a handle. I don’t use it often, but I really admire its efficiency when I do need to prep apples for pie. I wash the apples, run them through the apple peeler, then slice the spiral sliced apple once lengthwise to get lovely pieces for the pie. When I’m done, I chop the apple peels to feed to the chickens (I worry about long strands getting tangled in their crop, so I chop).

My chickens really enjoy apple peel

Tunic from oversized shirt

Laying a nice fitting dress over and oversized shirt to mark new seams

The crop top trend is driving me bonkers. My youngest can only wear leggings (they are the only bottoms flexible enough, and don’t require zippers or buttons or snaps so are easy for school). School rules require that leggings be covered with tops that go lower than fingertips (which I fully support). But the tunic trend for teen girls has made way for the crop trend, which is not school friendly. So I have a solution. We bought a t-shirt three times larger than she needed. I then used one of her nice fitting dresses as a guide to make new side seams. The resulting garment is long enough, but doesn’t look like a tent on her. Hurray!

Froggy dress up

Maybe this leopard frog thought he could hide in a chicken costume?

Either the old leopard frog found his way back in, or a new leopard frog found the watering hole. Either way, I’m not relocating this one. The chickens leave it alone and he seems to be quite happy living under the foot bath. I just need to be careful when I clean out the water so I don’t squish him. He didn’t really have a choice on costumes either. You can’t be moist and do a runner through the coop right now without picking up a few feathers from the massive drifts across the runs.

Feathers strewn across the run

Our pack

Missy is on a leash to help her sprain heal, Griffin and Izzy are keeping her company

We have picked up a routine since we adopted a puppy. Once or twice a day we let Izzy out of the catio to roam the yard with the dogs. She rather demanded it, and seems to think that if the puppy is out, she can be too. (She doesn’t get that the puppy can’t climb trees.) Missy will follow Izzy all over the yard (yeah, probably should have changed the little one’s name, it is rather hard to tell these apart when spoken). The cat is part of the pack. Our other cat, who adopted us, and has territory outside the fence that she defends from the rest of the neighborhood, was there too. See if you can find her in the picture below!

Find the cat in the meadow