Cuddle time with the Kitties

We had our first full-on cuddle session with the kitties last night. They are really nice kitties. They like to purr alot. Maybe all kitties do....it's been awhile since we've had little ones around the house. :) We've been starting to call them Peanut and Jammers, but as in typical Seager fashion, we're not quite decided yet. Penny and Jude are also potential contenders. Jammers has really beautiful blue eyes, but they keep turning out red in my pictures. Oh...bundle of cuteness!!

Processing Produce with the Pipsqueaks ;)

A few weekends ago Bill & Jac & Andrew & Becca came to visit and we picked up some peaches at the market from our good friends (well, sort of....) from DeVine Gardens, and then we went apple-picking at Sm'apples (since we don't have any nice huge old apple trees in our yard yet). So we spent all day making applesauce and apple cake and dried apples and canned peaches. Andrew was a pro at the apple peeler. We spent some time hunting for Patches out and around the farm, but to no avail. We had a good time hanging out with the fam though. :)

Welcome Miss P & Mr. J!!

We brought the kids home from the hospital today. They didn't exactly enjoy the car ride home, and they are not exactly pleased with each other, but they seem to be getting used to their new digs. Miss P is a little scared. Of course, she did just have a hysterectomy. On top of that, her brother keeps growling at her! How rude. Mr. J is super cuddly and likes to purr (and growl) alot. He also seems to like the shower. I guess when the bathroom is all that you have to explore, you better get to every nook & cranny, even if it means wet paws. Paul and I are excited to be kitty parents again, but we are still missing Patches. We haven't been able to agree on official names yet....so if you have any recommendations....send them our way! We want to honor their predecessors by choosing P & J names so that should help narrow down the field of choices a little. :)

Kitty Eulogy

We went to the animal shelter on Saturday and found a pair of adorable kittens to adopt. They are getting fixed and we'll pick them up tomorrow. So on the eve of new cats we thought we'd share a few pictures of past kitties. Especially we want to remember Patches who left us just a few weeks ago. We miss you Patches!

Addendum to Zeitgest Addendum

I have watched the whole movie now and I thought a few more words might be in order. I still think its analysis of our monetary system makes this worth a look. I'm not so sure what to think of the Venus Project they advocate. Sounds nice I guess but doesn't strike me as terribly realistic in the near future. I would elaborate, but then you might feel like there's no need to watch this flick and you probably should. :)

They did have a nice section at the end about what we can do to change things.

Show Me The Money

I was just reading Adam's post on our economy and Kevin's comment. Good stuff.

I started watching Zeitgeist Addendum (its not really an addendum, more like its own 2-hour movie) this morning and it starts off with a good explanation of our monetary system and why it leads to problems like we are experiencing today. I would love to discuss this movie with people. Check it out.

More Visitors!

Kendal & Edie are visiting from L.A. for a few weeks. They brought Grandma up for a weekend work party at the farm. We had fun purusing the farmer's market, walking to Woods at Boulevard, cooking tasty meals, playing cards, playing peek-a-boo with Edie, and sitting around while Grandma pulled weeds and did dishes. :) Don't worry. Grandma got to do some of the fun stuff too....but boy oh boy can that woman put in some serious weeding time!!!

Getting Ready for Winter

The bees are ruthlessly excommunicating the drones. Only so many bees can survive through the winter on the honey they've made so far. The chickens have access to unlimited water now that Paul expanded their pen to include the rain-runoff-catcher-tub-thing that the previous owners installed. We gave in and bought a psuedo-tractor. It's a walk-behind kind of thing, not a sit-upon kind of thing, but it still TEARS IT UP!! So far we have a tiller attachment and a flail mower attachment, whatever that is. We (Paul) planted onions and garlic in the east garden beds and red clover for a cover crop in our newest bed right next to the house. Paul planted some willow tree babies and tore down some overgrown blackberries too. He's been busy!

We almost had another visitation: hot-air-balloon style this time.

Cider!!

We made cider! We got to visit the Shaffer farm and partake in the annual festivities. It was fun and the cider is tasty. But I am really bad at cutting worms out of apples.

Mushroom Hunting

Okay.....so I guess we weren't abducted by aliens after all. It did feel like that at times, however.

During the non-alien time, Paul's been working hard at hunting & gathering. Well...gathering mostly. He brought home a pound of chantrelles on Tuesday. We are trying to figure out a tasty way to eat them. So far our experiments have been fairly delicious....but we are hoping for knock-the-spores-off-the-mushroom kind of delicious. Any recipes?

Visitors

Whoah. I think we might have been abducted by aliens. The last thing I remember was taking this photo......and all of a sudden it's OCTOBER!! :)