Oh golly, where has the days went??? This a marathon post with several days thrown in there so let's get started.
Day 8
Today I am thankful for this man and his love of animals. Big or small he naturally has a spot in his heart for all animals (besides snakes).
You see a couple of weeks ago a couple of kitties were waiting for us in a pet carrier when we got home from church one Wednesday night. They were for Lil Hoff from memiers and pops (his great-grandparents). So we have had these little kittens and one stayed next to the house and one ran to the barn not to be seen from again. Then one day Farmboy told me that he picked up what he thought was our kitten at a neighboring farm, but he wasn't for sure so he dropped it off at his parents house. Then a couple of days later he came home, got out of his truck, and was holding both our kitties. For you see, the other cat was missing his friend and managed to stow away to the in-laws as well. They are more of community type kittens.
Then later on that night when I was locking up the back door out of the garage, I heard a little scuffle and I looked down and saw this fluff of fur and I couldn't kick them out into the cold. So Maybe Farmboy's love of animals is wearing off on me.
***Note***
In posting this I need to give a update - Boots aka the black cat stowed away on the bottom of Farmboy's truck hanging onto the emergency brake cable all the way to church Sunday and Farmboy realized this when he got out of his truck and heard the faint meow's. He then proceeded to walk into church and tell me about this and shrugged his shoulders when asked what he was going to do about it. After church a fellow church member told us that they saw the kitten hiding in the wheel of his truck and put it into the bed of his truck. Once again Farmboy shrugged when asked what he was going to do about it. We then went out to my parents house and when we came back to town to pick his truck up the kitten was gone. Stating all this has made me rethink my post in the first place. Cause we now have kind of a sad ending.
Day 9
Today I am thankful for a happy ending that involved this.
This is my wedding ring. The other night as I was getting Lil Hoff ready for bed I took off my ring to apply lotion to son. I went about my business and as I was crawling into bed it occurred to me that I better remember to get my ring off of son's dresser first thing in the morning before he has a chance to get ahold of it. Next morning rolled around and since I have now acquired mommy's brain I totally forgot about it. As I was in the kitchen I looked up and saw Lil Hoff chewing on something as I raced to him to see what was in his mouth he pulled it out and there in his little chubby hand was my wedding ring. It then dawned on me, that the night before I put my ring in my pocket with my cell phone and when I grabbed my cell phone out of my pocket my ring must have fell out onto the living room carpet. So thank goodness son found it for me.
Day 10
Today I am thankful for a beautiful day to celebrate a very special birthday! It is today that we will be having a party to wish a Lil Hoff a very happy1st birthday.
We held his party in our shop which has heat and electricity, it is nice to have such a building to hold events like this, but the high was in the 70's today and then tonight it only got down into the 50's. So while I got slack for having his birthday on opening day of deer season I could have not picked a prettier day to party and go on a hayride! Since the next day the high only got to 32 and it rained all day.
Day 11
Today I am thankful for Fluff Fluff aka Lil Buddy aka World's Biggest Maltese aka Roscoe. He is such a loving dog and has been so great to Lil Hoff only wanting to be his friend. He races into Lil Hoff's bedroom every morning to great him with me and he will follow him around ( I think hoping for treats ) but also to keep a eye on him. I have only had to get onto Lil Hoff a couple of times for grabbing Roscoe's fluff. "We have to pet the dog, not grab the dog". Then at the end of the day he is ready just to lay on the bed with me and get my undivided attention for a few minutes.
