Looks like I forgot to update the blogging world on our newest addition! Back in May while I was driving a night shift over grape harvest I found our latest "meant to be" baby. Driving down a nearly deserted rural road at 3am in a big ol' 8 wheeler truck with 10 ton of grapes and juice in the back I saw something on the white line in the middle of the road ahead of me. As I was only a matter of metres away from it I realised it was a tiny kitten sitting on the white line like a literal cats eye, little white chin and bib and toes reflecting the head lights. It was a narrow road and I couldn't slam on brakes or swerve anywhere and this tiny thing just sat there as I missed it by no more than an inch or two!
I braked and stopped and backed up as far as I thought I could and got out to see the damage... As I got out of the truck I heard this screaming from the side of the road (which was good, because if I'd run it over it wouldn't be screaming!) I aimed the torch into the grass at the side of the road and this tiny wee thing came running out into the beam of light, I reached out and it flattened itself on the road, was scooped up, all wet and skinny and shoved down the inside of my jacket where it stayed for the next 4 hours until we got home and I could feed it!
I was thinking of names as we were driving along and stopped long enough to ask if it had a preference and "Cassidy" was presented (as in Butch Cassidy) so Cassidy it was, which was great as it was a pretty unisex name and I had no idea if it was a boy or girl!
A week later we went to the vet for a sexing check, some worm tabs and a general check up (I haven't had a kitten around for many MANY years!) and the vet declared at that point he was about 5 weeks old and a boy :)
That tiny little thing certainly had some guardian angels with him that night, and he's a ferocious, precocious little man and a great hunter!
He LOVES Leo and Marcus, loves to attack anyone else, and rules the house easily LOL.
Of course he's grown a bit since then and isn't half as cute anymore LOL, but he is the bees knees and of course he knows it :)
In March we said farewell to Phoenix aka PeeWee, my big beautiful girl who deserved the love of being an only child and never got it :( She was 7 1/2...
And now Zak is getting old too, he will be 15 in March, but in the last 6 months has gotten old... We are down to 4 chooks now too, have had to let a few go this last year my poor gorgeous girls.
Smokey and I did another trail ride a couple of weeks back, only the 14km ride but we did it bareback!!! and came 6th!!! which was especially good since the other girl I was riding with and I took 2 wrong turns and I think we ended up doing about 20km and didn't have time to do any walking at the end to help lower the heart rate! It was a great ride and Smokey was a star the entire way and we had a ball AND my butt didn't even feel it the next day!
So outside of all the personal crap that was my year in a nutshell, and now Christmas has come and gone (Marcus was spoilt rotten with presents, kids makes it so much fun!) and we are only days away from a new year!
I hope everyone has had a wonderful Christmas, hope you enjoy your holidays if you are having any, hope you all remembered to wish your fur babies a Merry Christmas 'cause believe me, they would have been saying it to you, they all do... Birthdays and Christmas they'll be celebrating with you and passing you messages even if you can't hear them, so remember to share it back!
Wish me luck with Operation Clean Slate and from me and mine to you and yours, Merry Christmas my friends xxx
