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When the wait time from setting up an appointment to when a cat can actually have the procedure to prevent reproduction is three months long, nature decides to make different plans. This is how I ended up playing cat-doula for three mama-cats, yet again. Our story starts on Monday: Fluffy cat struggled with her first delivery so I suspected that the second one would not be a cake-walk. She presented herself in her labor-frenzied form in the morning. The fact that I had a to-do list almost a mile long did not change the fact that this cat was determined...

I have a different lifestyle than a lot of other people. This lifestyle did not happen overnight. I, and my family, have been making decisions over the last decade or so to get to this place. Because this transition did not happen instantaneously, I sometimes forget that not everyone lives the same way as I do. A couple of recent comments and strange looks have reminded of how foreign our ways may seem to others. While I definitely have plans for the future, I am pretty happy with where I am. Therefore, I decided to write a blog series to...

I am taking a quick break from my post series to update you on some recent happenings here on the homestead. As long-time readers will know, we obtained kittens last year. You can read about this experience in this post – https://pjsprojects.com/blogs/news/how-i-went-from-zero-to-nine-cats-in-one-night We started with nine and a few of them either ran off or didn’t make it. Two of them were so mean and human-averse that I believe that they simply ran off into the wild. You may want to watch out for these little devils if you are in the northern Kentucky area. The other two, I fear...

I have a different lifestyle than a lot of other people. This lifestyle did not happen overnight. I, and my family, have been making decisions over the last decade or so to get to this place. Because this transition did not happen instantaneously, I sometimes forget that not everyone lives the same way as I do. A couple of recent comments and strange looks have reminded of how foreign our ways may seem to others. While I have plans for the future, I am pretty happy with where I am. Therefore, I decided to write a blog series to discuss...

It seems as if the world has gone mad. The news can talk of nothing else except the corona virus. Why not? It is new. And with all new things, there is a mystery to it that baffles, intrigues and scares us (just admit it). I, like all of you, are battling with identifying and expressing my feelings and thoughts about this pandemic as I try to explain the circumstances to my children. So, here goes.   I am not overly afraid of the virus itself. It is another virus and it spreads quickly. The death rate and complication rate...