Generally speaking about Six PM every night it's my job to feed our cats. Officially we have three. Unofficially we have seven or eight. Even though we don't have a barn...we have barn cats. Our neighbor has horses and he encourages the barn cats because they do a great job of preventing mice and other rodents from getting into the feed. When we moved into this home some two odd years ago, we were frankly asked if we wanted the previous owners two cats trapped. "No," my Susan said, "they were there before us." Since then we had one of the original two outdoor cats pass, while the other one is a semi permanent fixture on our back porch. She sneaks in sometimes and once I woke up from a nap only to find her at my feet purring away contently. Our youngest cat, Bobble (so named because his head was bigger than his body when he was a kitten), was m...
Can the City Mouse adjust to life in the country? The day to day adventures of a "city boy" in rural PA trying to adjust to things like chopping wood, growing his own food and dealing with the horrors of the complete lack of a decent Chinese restaurant.