Vyxxan's Virtual Venture

It’s after midnight, and I have to be awake at 4 to get ready for work. I have a feeling, a strong one, that I’m not going in to work on time.

I went to bed a bit later than normal, with normal me going to bed around 8:30 or 9 pm. I’ve been going to sleep a bit later lately, I’ve found that I will wake up at 3 am if I actually fall asleep at 9. I don’t WANT to get up an hour earlier than I need to be. Sheesh.

Anyhow. Tonight I’d just fallen asleep when little dog Rita woke me up barking. I get up, look out windows, don’t see anything. Front porch light didn’t come on, so it wasn’t a people. Went out in robe and barefoot to check yard and Rita went out with me to chase a feral cat that she could see.

I was sorry I was barefoot. The doormat reeked of cat spray and poop… some cat voided himself right on it, and probably one of my not quite grown up male cats. The wild cats have been giving us hell the last few days, just like we have a bunch of females in heat. We don’t… all our grown up girls are either pregnant or just gave birth and nursing. A Momma cat with kittens only 2 weeks old shouldn’t be in heat again, should she? That’s not the way it usually works… nursing shuts down the other stuff pretty well. But Libby, who has been the most excellent Momma before is now out luring strange boyfriends up to the house. She has the youngest kittens but spent all day today out in the woods.

Her kittens were HUNGRY. We talked about locking her up with her babies but decided against it since once I woke them up and put her in she laid down to feed them. What the heck is she thinking running around with the boys so soon? AND luring them back up here?

Well, when I went out and smelled the evidence of my younger cats being terrorized I decided to get the .22 out. I even walked around down below the barn in the dark and behind the house… where are those cats? Didn’t see anyone but one boy hiding in the tomato plants. Tyler is our biggest cat ever, still a kitten… and a wuss so far. I think he’s already been beaten up by a feral cat.

So I sat on the porch for a while, not even trying to be stealthy. Soon enough, here came Libby with a gigantic orange cat behind her. I came back in the house and got the gun, that’s the same cat Rita chased a little while ago. I don’t miss. Ron is going to be mad, because I’ve left a dead cat in the yard, but I don’t miss. One less feral cat attacking my cats and I’m not at all upset. At least I didn’t shoot it with his truck tire behind it… I made sure to get a clean shot and I did, it fell over dead right there.

Of course I would rather not kill ANY animal, but you have to protect what is yours. If it was coyotes I’d shoot them, too. Last year I took the gun out to shoot an armadillo that was digging up all my flower beds. I didn’t shoot him… just poked him until he ran away. I may be becoming more intolerant as I get older.

A lot of people just kill any wild animal they see… I’ve never been that way. Possums and coons and skunks and such all have their place in this world and as long as they aren’t robbing me… they can go on doing what they do. I feel very strongly that way about snakes especially.. because here in AR people will kill any snake they see, good or bad. Don’t care, all snakes are better dead. Bah. MOST snakes are harmless to people and will avoid people if they can. I’m rather fond of snakes and I hate it when even a poisonous snake has to be killed.

So, I have 13 kittens on the porch, I can’t let some feral male cats just come invading. Male cats will kill baby kittens. Protecting my family. Don’t know what is up with Libby, but Lucy never left the porch while all that was going on… she is going to defend her kittens no matter what. Good momma!

And speaking of kittens, I owe some more recent photos. Hard to do, because if I try to get them out to sunlight, Lucy will run up and holler at me… and take em back into her box.

In the meantime…. I’ve gotta be at work at 6. Leave here at 5. Not a lot of sleep, but I’m gonna try to do it.

Hugs,
Vyx

Today after lunch the gal next to me says that the new young man put another wrapper into the cigarette disposal can. This is one of those cans with the long tube on top, clogs up if you try to poke trash into it.

I’d told him right after he did it the first time that it was not a good thing to do.

So, when I hear he had done it again, I gave him one of my “looks” and told him no trash in that.

Poor kid. He didn’t do it. The gal sitting next to me made it up just so I’d give him one of my “looks”!!!

I told her that was rather mean to him, just to get me to give him a MEAN look! But it was rather clever at the same time, and I thought it was kind of funny. :)

hugs,
Vyx

Edit… 5-28 with a photo…

I thought Libby might be pretty close… she wanted to come in the house, actually insisted by pawing at the door last night… even tried to open the storm door.

Today I got home and Libby is in the middle of having kittens. Funny thing about our cats, they will always give birth within a week or so of each other.

I’ll go count em, but no photos tonight. Libby usually only has 4 at the most. Tonight she has 6. So, between two momma cats our cat population almost tripled. Egads!

hugs,
Vyx

Okay, really, there are only 6 new kittens… LOL! (but I bet if I counted all the kittens that have been born here since I met Ron we would get awful close to 100)

Born last Friday, I took these photos on Saturday. I’ve been really busy and/or tired so not blogging much, but I know everyone wants to see baby kittens.

Lucy is the mom, and this is her first litter. She’s a good momma!

Enjoy….

P.S. No, I don’t know why there isn’t a photo lucy3.jpg… I guess I skipped that number!

Hugs,
Vyx

Actually I was hoping to get to 100 posts on this blog by today. 99 is going to have to do it.

Today is my birthday, I’m 50! Egads, where did the years go? Maybe I’m just eleventy thirty nine. Or this is the 21st anniversary of my 29th birthday, lol! Certainly I am far too young to be FIFTY! :) I don’t feel a day over 35 or so most of the time. LOL!

I’m having a great day even if it didn’t start out so great. I didn’t go to bed on time last night, because I had to watch a dvd that my sister Valerie sent me. It’s a photo and video montage of me from baby to now. Really really wonderful, and I’m sure it was a lot of work! So awesome that it made me cry!

Woke up with a headache, did my usual routine getting ready for work. On the drive there a truck that usually tail gates me and won’t pass was in front of me. Huh. He pulled over and let me pass him, I was in shock. It was a trifle foggy, but not as bad as it can get. Guess he wasn’t in his usual hurry and I was in my normal hurry. :)

Work was a bear, but since everyone knew it was my birthday I got wished happy birthday by nearly everyone. Took my dvd case to work to show off how professional it looks. (It should, my sister Val =is= a pro!)

Came home, brought what was left of the cake with me. Walked dogs, remembered to take camera to get a photo of the super pretty wild flower I noticed last night. Get on computer, read all my messages from Facebook, plus emails from my sisters. Opened my snail mail cards, got 6 from online friends.

And… LOL! One of my friends sent me back the confetti I’d put into her birthday card! Well played, Jan!

I have a steak to cook and want potatoes to have with it… and I think Ron is going to deal with it all for me. He got up early tonight. With our schedules like they are, going out to eat would just be too much trouble, so we’ll eat in.

Of course I still have chores to do… so I guess I’d best get to doing them before I run out of steam. Been a really nice day, even with having to work and I’m very happy on my birthday!

hugs,
Vyx