Ashley the weed

Just a quick note. We went to the vet yesterday for the second set of shots & Ashley weighs 3 pounds even- up from 2 pounds 3 weeks ago.

Queen of the couch

One for the Awwww factor. Ashley is growing fast. She's filling out, full of energy & appears to Be in very good health. She still wants to cuddle, but only when she's worn herself out playing. We're going for her second set of kitten shots tomorrow & I'm sure that our vet will be impressed.

Quilt retreat

I went on a quilt retreat Friday evening until Sunday afternoon. I put borders on this quilt & it's backing, layered them with the batting & safety pin basted. I tried basting on tables instead of stretching everything on the floor as I usually do-bad idea.












After 6 hours of pinning. I turned it over & saw that there were many wrinkles pinned in. I got disgusted, folded it up & worked on the other project that I'd brought-my version of a "stack the deck quilt"-8 sets of 6 fabrics with different triangles in each set. I didn't know how big it would turn out, until I sewed the blocks together.
It's approximately 60" X 62". I was thinking about bordering & making it bed size, but I decided that I like it just the way it is, so it will be a baby quilt for the next gift that I need to make. (larger than normal, but a good size for putting a baby on the floor.) To my knowledge, nobody's pregnant yet, but maybe this will be an incentive. With all the largish spaces, this will be fun to quilt!


































Sunday, after I got the Triangle quilt together, I unpinned the bear quilt. I'm seriously considering having a long arm quilter quilt the bear quilt. It's 108" X 120" & I just don't feel like I need the aches & pains of wrasslin it through the machine.

More Ashley pictures

Ashley & Muskrat (AKA Batman, The Grey Mouser, Shadow, Tom Drooley...

Not quite friends yet, but not enemys.

Kissy, kissy. Jesus loves Ashley. (or she has tuna breath)

She loves her toys! Look at those long back legs.

My miraculous chicken soup

Last night, Ashley ate a little of the chicken broth that I made. This morning, she's sneezing a lot less, had a 30+ minute wild playtime with her toy mouse & then enthusiatically chowed down on her kitten chow. After seeing her for 2 days with no appetite & only enough energy to sneeze & huddle in a little nest in a sweater on the floor, I have to conclude that she's feeling much better.

Ashley update

It appears that complete taillessness sometimes comes with bowel problems. If you've ever watched a kitty pooping, you may have noticed that they use their tail as a pump to help with the evacuation. Poor little Ashley sometimes gets a turd half out & there it stays. I've been trying to add fiber (canned pumpkin) to her diet to keep her stools soft. On Sunday, she came down with an upper respiratory problem-just sneezing so far & lack of appetite. I made chicken soup with garlic (I left out the hot peppers which I usually add when we have colds. She seems to enjoy the soup, but isn't eating a lot of it. Poor little cuddlebunny.

A rescue

Last Wednesday, after a long day of travel, etc, Bobby, Lani & I returned to our motel in North Carolina at about 11:00PM to hear a continuous meowing in the parking lot. After searching for a while, Lani helped me find this little starving kitten in the wheel well of a parked car. As soon as I picked her up, she began purring & rubbing her face on mine. Lani & I both had the same reaction upon seeing a hairless pink raw puckery spot where her tail should be. Poor little kitty had lost her tail in an accident- NO!, she was born with no tail & her little anus sits a little high. I closed her in the bathroom & we went searching for an all night grocery store for supplies.
I was afraid that we'd have to buy her chicken McNuggets or a big Mac, but we found a Walmart & bought a litter box, litter, food bowl & kitten chow.

On Thursday, we spent the morning & half the afternoon helping with funeral arrangements. When I got back to the motel room, she had used the litter box after a bout of grass & leaf filled diarrhea. She has consistantly used the box ever since.

Her name is Ashley. My vet & I think that she's 3-4 months old because she's in the big ear stage although she's very small. Her little anus still has a problem & bleeds when she moves her bowels, but we've been using triple antibiotic on it, as recommended by my vet & I think that it's improving. She's still a little cuddlebunny, but she's started to have enough energy to play.