happy new year...

meet fuzzball...

so cute and super long hair...

kind of looks like Oscar the Grouch...

well, really looks like him...

if she were a boy, that's what we would be calling her...

and this is her house...

we lost the other 2 in this litter...

they simply just crashed hard and fast...

but if my calculations are right, this is the mama's 5th litter of the year...

one of Craig's online friends worked as a vet tech for several years...

and she said its the equivalent of SIDS in humans...

looked it up and I think we have some answers on the babies that we have lost lately...

you take unhealthy feral moms...

who reproduce far too many times a year...

and they give birth to unhealthy babies who are malnourished from conception...

and that leads to so many kinds of birth defects and still births...

born with infections...

and all kinds of other things, like worms and such...

so...

some of them cannot be saved no matter what we do...

have another one coming in when they can catch it...

and it will go in with this one...

she is lonely...

and the one coming in was dumped out in the country right after Christmas...

perhaps an unwanted Christmas gift...

that's why I hold mine through the holidays and don't let them go out...

been fighting something off here...

doing ok today for the most part...

been cleaning the kitchen, need to steam the floor...

got laundry going still...

but will soon be done...

DH heads back to work in the morning...

Christmas decor is all put up and totes were sorted and cleaned out and things are neat in the totes...

so the next holiday season should be easy to put together...

lights are all down from outside...

we strung clear lights low in the front and back of the house...

hoping with it lit up, whoever is walking off with things will move onto the next place and leave our stuff alone...

coyotes don't like the light either...

next week is going to be really cold here...

ice maybe on Saturday...

I think the bad part of winter is going to happen...

;0)

hiding out until spring...

I need to find my word for this year...

been soul searching on what direction this year will take me...

I am leaning toward the word "aware" for so many reasons...

but I will let you know tomorrow for sure...

have a good day and hope you have it off...

it may be colder, but the sun has been shining here for us...

so its so bright and wonderful inside...

;0)

hope you have the sun today...

country roads...

got some photos yesterday afternoon...

we went out to pick up a kennel that someone posted on facebook that we could have...

so we can continue with our rescues...

found some new places to go back and visit in different seasons...

it started raining on us while we were out and the wind picked up...

and it didn't take long for the temps to drop dramatically while we were gone...

it got downright cold out there...

30s for highs for the rest of the week now...

we were in the 50s through Christmas...

it didn't really feel like Christmas, but the weather so was nice to have...

didn't have to worry about the kids getting here or getting home...

all the iffy weather they were talking about missed us completely...

just need to boogie through these next two months with no blizzards and no flu...

and we will be knocking on Spring's door!

so far, we have not had the winter they were forecasting at all...

exactly the opposite...

which is fine with me...

got the Christmas totes sorted, stuff packed back up today...

left the trees per request from Craig...

and we have to do the outside lights, but we do leave those up until New Year's...

DH has a morning doctor's appointment so he can get his high blood pressure medicine for the next year...

will hit Walmart again and eat lunch at Burger King...

haven't been there is awhile...

so its time...

and this should be my last outing for a bit...

the flu is going around here like crazy!

kind of scared of the doctor's office, but he needs his meds...

;0)

he is off until Friday, so we can get all of this all put back to normal before he goes back to work...

love having him home...

bath time...

the kitty car wash was open for business...

and these poor little ones were so dirty!

and this little face that I thought was just filthy...

isn't!

just colored pretty...

those eyes get me every time...

who could have something so tiny look right into your eyes and your heart not melt?

this one is long haired and fluffed up so big when dried...

I will get more photos this weekend...

and this is our little Annie...

(Patches)

the one that has crashed on me twice now and we had to pull out of the adoption list...

she had a home and was going to her new mama...

and many things just got in the way of that happening...

all for reason...

not sure if she would have survived if she had been in transport...

when she went down...

she is my girl and shadows me all day long...

she curls up to me at nap time and bed time...

and Charlie is just crazy about her...

they play so well together...

I got up and she followed me in here...

sleeping on the table behind the laptop...

waiting for me to go back to bed...

I renamed her since she will be staying with us for all time...

I posted the loss of our kennel on facebook yesterday...

and one of our adoption families is donating theirs to us for our rescues...

picking it up later this morning...

;0)

we are blessed to be surrounded by supporting people in our community...

God sure takes care of these babies...

from getting them to us...

to having others help us when we need it...

and finding them the right families to take into their homes...

;0)

have a good weekend!

Merry Christmas...

from our crazy house to yours...

we had our Christmas last night...

Charlie...

had a wonderful time...

and so did the rest of them...

we got 3 babies in the evening before Christmas eve...

there's 3 of them...

went out to get our small kennel to house them in...

and it was gone...

stolen...

filed a police report that night...

we do between 30-50 animal rescues a year...

losing that kennel just cut in half what we will be able to do...

:(

these babies are feral, but we have them tamed down pretty good already...

didn't take too long...

I had to use gloves the first couple of times on the one on the left there...

she had a really bad attitude and can hiss up a storm...

now, she's the biggest cuddler...

clean up today and baths for the babies...

and a blow dry to fluff them up even more...

then I am going to start posting them for adoption...

hope your Christmases are wonderful...

and that you have the best times with your families and friends...

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remembering and praying for all those deployed this morning and far away from their families...

there's a few on the naughty list here...

Mr Wiggles opened the cat stocking early...

and then he wouldn't share...

but when he took a potty break, others jumped in...

they didn't get it opened...

but the wrapping paper was shredded all over the place...

with the help of the dog...

I have no idea how Christmas eve is going to go...

glad the kids will be here to chase things down...

never getting catnip toys for the cats for Christmas again...

well, I am sick...

tummy thing and everything is running right through me...

hoping it doesn't last too much longer...

so here I am up, still up at 4am...

been to the bathroom many times tonight...

going to try to lay down for a little bit...

so hope you have a good day...

not much time to get those last minute things done...

clean house?

probably not going to happen here...

it will just have to go the way it is...

;0)