Got a bit of a break today. 8:00 AM 70 degrees, partly cloudy, and a cool breeze blowing.
We spent a couple hours on the front porch drinking coffee and watching the mother cat (Junebug) and her three kittens frolicking on the porch and the cat trees. Junebug is a "miracle" cat to us. Part of a feral family, she was an outcast from the get go. All the other kittens were black. She is a beautiful torty with an orange patch on one side. She used to take shelter in our car by climbing up into the engine compartment. One day, we forgot to look and Linda went off to do some errands. She stopped at a sonic drive in about five miles away from the house. Car would not start, she opened up the hood and out jumped Junebug. She took off out of the parking lot alongside a busy highway. We thought that was the end of her. We both said a prayer for her. Two days later, who is at our door, bright and early in the morning? Junebug. She is truly a miracle, since there is a lot of country between the drive in and where we live. She had over five miles to navigate her way back. Since then, she has been a home body, never straying to far from our home.
Moving ahead a couple months...Junebug got pregnant and we watched her stomach grow. The day of the birth, she had her kittens here in one of the compartments in the cat tree. The next day, she moved them into the garage. Of course, Linda (the cat lady), put a nice box and a rug in the garage for mommy and the kittens. There are three. One a full blown tiger cat (tigger), a partial tiger cat, with mommys colors (a torty) with an orange patch right above her eyes (she got named Patch). The third was total black (now called Coco). Black was the prevalent color of most of the cats we have been in the company of (feral). It is now two months plus one week. The kittens are growing daily. Both mom and kittens have not left the house. They come out of the garage each morning, hang around the house, play on the porch, and at night go back into the garage. They specially like the utility room. They get the air conditioning from the ceiling vent, so their nightly digs are comfortable in the sweltering heat we have been encountering.
The cat books say this is getting to the time when they will part company. Time will tell. We have decided to let Junebug become one of our house cats, if she wants to. We also have two others...rescued from abandonment by their mothers about a year ago. They are both black. Missy and Sissy. We are both trying to not get to attached to the kittens. But...............:bbq: :bbq:
Well, I digressed a bit from the weather. But now you know all about our cats. :bowdown:
.....Well this is Day 2 of the '22 Summer, currently here in Indiana we have 70°F. Yesterday was very hot but today is going to be hotter. Did my outdoor activities by noon. Enjoyed drinking some good ole 'sun tea' and working on a puzzle. I forgot how difficult it was to do a 1000 piece puzzle. But the wife enjoys the quality time together.
