September 2011

I’m going to jam through the next two months until I’m finally to the present month. Besides, September and October were basically a lot of packing, moving, and moving, so I don’t want to bore you too much.

One of the most exciting events was the birth of Lego’s four kittens!!! In the last 12 months, we have had the following born ON or next to our farm: chicks, piglets, a human baby, rabbits (twice), wild birds, more chicks, cows, puppies, and kittens. We also had a baby lamb move to our farm at ten days old. So, I’m speaking from experience when I say  that kittens are the VERY cutest newborn babies. It’s true. Argue me all you want. I’m not even a cat lover, so you can’t claim that I’m biased. We all melted with cuteness every single day of September.

Lego was a confused mama cat at first, but she was a star once she just relaxed and went with it. She used my sideways box with blankets in it just as I had hoped. She had the kittens while we were at Blakely, in fact. She LOVED nursing them and was such a good mom. Apart from the fact that she’s so small she wasn’t strong enough to pick the kittens up (even when she grabbed them by the nape and not the forehead as she usually tried), she was perfect. She is a great cat. The people who bought our house thought so too, so they offered to let her stay there and live with them. They also kept one kitten and the other three went to our friends.

 

 

Right after Noah and Kristi went back to San Diego, Jonah’s cousins and uncle came to visit for a couple days. Aubrey and Rennie had a hilarious experience pulling up one of Jonah’s crab pots that had been out past crabbing season… Jonah was making fun of them for having such a hard time pulling the pot up… and then they got it in the boat and there were 42 crabs!!! (It’s a good pot if you have five or six). Too bad crabbing season was over and they had to throw them all back. Sad.

 

 

Since the kids started homeschool in September, we had “loads” of time to go see some of the wonders of the Olympic Peninsula that we had yet to explore. Here we are on a hike at Cape Flattery… the western most tip of the continental US.

 

 

Elsie with kittens!

 

 

Okay, back to Cape Flattery. (That kitten photo was inserted there to knock you out with cuteness). You get to the end of the hike, and the Cape Flattery lighthouse is even further on its own little island. It was SO cool. Washington State really needs to stop hogging all the gorgeousness.

 

Luckily we had a nice warm September! We had just a little panic getting EVERYTHING sold (we only kept one bin of toys for each kid, one bin of clothes for each person, some kitchen stuff and our wedding china, and Jonah’s bike… so about half of our little covered trailer which we parked at a friend’s house until we decide what to do with it)…. but we had a HUGE two day garage sale and did some flash action Craigslisting and had some pretty miraculous occurances, including one guy who bought three of Jonah’s cars and our fantastic house buyers who were so excited about the whole deal and said “no problem!” to any new problem we ran into with the house sale. We also had to get going on homeschooling, sell Ana’s horse, and find time to swim in the river, do our annual hillbilly slip-in-slide on the blue tarp, harvest the garden, eat all the meat fish and crab out of the freezer, and do all the last minute dentist and doctors visits. How did we survive? Lots of good food and LOTS of prayer. So, thanks for that. Whew.