It is hot even in the AM

Our low was 76 this morning!!!  It is not cooling off much at night any more.  It is just hot all the time now!!!!  When it gets this way the strawberries get to coming to us by the thousands and the tomatoes by the hundreds.  So all my time is spent putting up tomatoes and strawberries.
We might have to buy another freezer this year if they keep coming!!!
Well I could can and Jam but I don't want to~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Love coming your way!!!
Circle, Allie, Max & Fern

Just another day

Circle there in my lap is so cute --I think!!!
The kittens love water--well not to get in but to play in!!!  If there is any water left in any container other then their drinking container they will play in it!!!  Just like the first picture.  That is Max up there getting ready to play in the water I put in the pan to wash fresh herbs for dinners salad!!!
There are 2 pieces of chives and 3 or 4 pieces of thyme in that water and that was only the begainning.  I had to chase him off many times before I was done.
Allie has a skin problem!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  This is not good!!!!!!!!!!!!!  That is Allie in the last picture..........  I am going to try to get Treats a bunch of people that help pay vets bills for cats that need a vets care and Allie does.
The hardest part about this whole thing is trying to find a vet that can help her skin problem. Our vet can not!!!

Love coming your way, Circle, Allie, Max & Fern

Some of my older pictures-- happy week-end

Hope you have enjoyed some of my older pictures tonight.
Happy week-end!!

Love coming your way, Circle, Allie,  Max, & Fern

RACCOONS

Years ago I was feeding a female coon I named Dottie.  Dottie had 3 babies.

I named one Johnny and one Donny and the girl Betty.  The raccoons babies stay with their mother through the summer fall and winter.  In late winter or very early spring the mother will run off the males.  Sometimes the males go away easily and sometimes it is very hard to run them off and it takes days and days and at times even weeks.  These poor boys don't know why they are being run off and it really hurts their feelings!!  In this process sometimes  the girl will leave too but usually the girl will stay around. Johnny and Donny were ones that it was very hard to run off. Their Sister left before the boys did.
The reason the coons run their male kids off is to keep from inter- breeding and it works really well.  ANYWAY~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Late winter Johnny after being gone for 3 years came home!!!  He came home to a place where the last 2 females had been killed by the fox that lived next door so he was welcomed!!!  He stayed out of the fence the way he had been taught years earlier. Johnny knew me as soon as he saw me and I knew him. People did you know that a coon will do a happy dance???  They will if they are happy enough!!!   He did!!!!  I went and got him food right away.  I talked to him while he ate.  He came back the next day and the next.  Johnny stayed around for about a week then was gone a day, then back with a female. They were 2 happy coons.  This lasted a couple of weeks. Then his girlfriend got herself killed!!!  Johnny was alone again but not for long.  He had another girlfriend with in a week and then another and then another. When they started taring up next door the girls left really fast but Johnny stayed.  He moved in the fenced in yard and found a tree.  This lasted for weeks -----  then Johnny was gone. He was gone only for a couple of days and then he was back with one of his girlfriends that he had here before. He was here only a few days then gone again.  We thought he was gone to get his other girlfriends but he has been gone to long now.  Maybe he is not coming back.  I have not named the girl coon he left here yet.  She is nursing babies.  I am sure they are Johnny babies.
What should I name her and people if they stay around long enough they learn their names!!  Really!!!

Love coming your way, Circle, Allie, Max & Fern       

Wordless Wednesday--almost

More to come about the coon story tomorrow.

Love coming your way, Circle, Allie, Max & Fern
PS, posted this Tuesday night b/c I hope not to be up at midnight.

Happy Sunday

Happy Sunday Friends.  We just love the week-ends around here.
The first picture is just 2 of our Thyme (the herb) plants.  We have 4 of them!! Fresh Thyme tastes so good.  I put a bunch of the fresh herb in our salads every night.  We eat a lot of fresh herbs  around here, they are so good for you.  We grow a bunch of mint too and Tom took a whole lot of that to the farmers market today for one of his friends there to sale, not for us.  He will sell them and kep the money he makes off them. He gives us stuff from time to time and that is a pay back.  Tom took him a bunch of hot peppers to sell too. It is good to see the farmers market doing so well  now a days.  Years ago it didn't do as well as it is doing now.
The two kittens are getting harder to tell apart as they get bigger.  They are as big as Circle now.  They will be 9 months come July.
Have a good one!!

Love voming your way, Circle, Allie, Max & Fern