Finally, our crop of peas, planted last March, has matured. Every day we are enjoying a freshly picked “mess” of peas. (For those uneducated in country language, a mess of any vegetable is a pan full–or enough for a meal.)
For those paying attention to math, you are right, that was a very long time for a crop to mature, but in defense of the peas, they may have taken a long time to grow, but we did not have to water them once (normally, in our dry climate everything has to be watered to grow); they grew unobtrusively on their own among the weeds (oh those wicked, persistent weeds); and they enriched the soil where they were planted (because peas give back to the soil, not take away). All said, it was a great success and we are going to miss our daily serving of freshly picked peas in a pod.
We also have a batch of six kittens who are ready for a good home. At four weeks of age we rescued them from a feral mother cat and we bottle-fed them kitten formula several times a day, Now, at eight weeks of age they all survived, they are eating regular cat food and they are thriving on human parentage. All of them are tame and think of my husband and me as their parents.
There are three orange tabby male kittens that look very much alike (just like the picture above), and there are three female kittens—two calico and one siamese colored one.
It has been an interesting challenge/joy to watch each of them grow and see their personalities develop, but now it is time for them to move on to a new home. They each have winning personalities and we wish we could keep them all, but for obvious reasons that cannot happen.
So if any of you live near enough to drive here and are interested in a Kimball-raised kitten of your own, you are invited to come choose your kitten and to be served a home-cooked meal at our house. Call us at 435-462-9618 and set up a day to claim your very own kitty.