The Big Day & Tying Up Loose Ends

Well, the big day has arrived at last!  Today, for the first time ever, I will meet another blogger IN PERSON!  My mom and my two sisters will be there, too.  Mom tensed up when she heard the plan included meeting up with another blogger……the internet scares her to death, but she decided to ride along anyway, bless her heart.

Obviously, I won’t be spending time blogging today, but here are a few random loose ends:

Our dear indoor-outdoor cat, Miss Kitty, has been in the family way, growing quite ungainly over the past couple of weeks.  Monday evening, she was nowhere to be found.  My son retired to his room around 10:15 p.m. and shortly thereafter the phone rang.  Oh, I hate answering late night calls, so Husband arose sleepily from his chair to pick up the phone.  Pretty soon he was chuckling and directing me to go upstairs to our son’s room.

Haha……after snuggling under the covers, our son heard a strange little noise coming from under his bed.  Sure enough……there was Miss Kitty, purring to beat the band, with two newborn kitties squirming at her side.  (Son had called our house phone with his cell phone!  Yes, obviously, the phone company guys had spliced the cut cable back together.)

We assumed then that Miss Kitty was just getting started on her litter……because of her large tummy, but this morning there were still only two kitties by her side!  I’m totally perplexed by that; her previous litters have been of four and five.  Well, these two will have no problem getting enough nourishment from their mother, that’s for sure. 

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Here’s another piece of exciting news:  I won something!  Yes, Caution Flag of The Human Race 600 blog kindly held a giveaway drawing last week in honor of her birthday, and I, of all people, WON!  The prize is a unique quilted wall-hanging (examples are shown in the above link).  The catch is that I have to choose a design for it, so I am mulling over that decision.  I may see if my blog’s header silhouette photo would work, with our farm name put in the sky above, but I’m still thinking on it.  Thank you, Caution!!

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A couple weeks ago I received an email from Plinky.com, containing blog prompts.  I don’t use them, but there was a link to a blogger named Margaret Mason who has written a book about blogging, No One Cares What You Had For Lunch:  100 Ideas For Your Blog.  I was not aware that books about blogging existed and at this point doubt that I would ever read one, but you never know.  I’m glad, actually, that I didn’t know about them before beginning my blog or I might have thought it necessary to read the books first.  Like most bloggers, I just jumped in one day and started blogging.  For any of you who don’t blog……know that it is acceptable to do that:  just jump in and start a blog. 

The link leads to the book’s Amazon.com page.  I always enjoy perusing the reader reviews further down on the page.

On that note, tune in next time to hear about my meeting with Laura~Peach of Georgia and the Silence Is Broken blog.  She is visiting relatives in Missouri and graciously agreed to drive up into Iowa so she could personally turn Fred & Bessie over to my care.  Hopefully, they will enjoy being here on the dairy farm.  What if they don’t??!!  What will I do??!!  Time will tell……

I might even choose to blog about what Laura and I and our other guests had for LUNCH…..whether anyone cares or not.  Heehee!

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Here’s how the crocus looked yesterday: