Due to the shape of the point, the water and tides can vary greatly from day to day. Be careful, there’s no lifeguard on duty.

Tabytha was out on our porch and made a big discovery today…

Looks like the nest was tossled during a big thunderstorm and the eggs flew right out. Don’t know where mama bird went… or what to do.

A work in progress… yes still!

There’s never enough time… especially with my 5 year old helper bouncing off the walls. :o) And with the sick kittens and all, I haven’t had the heart to paint.

It’s been an awful week… both kittens died suddenly.

The little Grey one passed on Monday night. It suddenly started losing weight and I had been bottle feeding it. But it was too late. The vet said there’s an awful new virus that wipes out litters… not much we could have done.

Then yesterday, Thursday afternoon, the white one passed too in spite of all efforts to save it… Tube feedings and lots of love and body warmth. It all happens so fast… One day they’re healthy and then the next day they’re dying. it’s awful to be so helpless.

My heart aches.

Sprocket and her babies have moved in and made themselves a home… in Tabytha’s old dollhouse. How cute are those new neighbors!!!

Wow… my cat Miss Sprocket had babies today!

She’s such a small cat and we’ve been worried about how her pregancy and the delivery would go. I mean you can only fit so much in there right? Most cats will have a litter of eight or more and she was just too small for that.

Fortunately, there were only two in there and they are healthy and super-cute… measuring maybe four inches long.

Born on this day… May 21st.

Finally the water has broken through and the lake isn’t frozen. Such a beautiful sight after such a darn long winter.

Spring is here!!!

But wait… it’s still cold enough that when the water splashes up against the breakwall, it comes down as ice pellets forming “snow dunes” along the dock.

LOL… No more snow!!!

Having just discovered the built in webcam in my laptop, the kids were anxious to send their grandparents in Florida a video gram…

Just around the Easter weekend, we had a surprise guest show up on our door…

And he hasn’t left since.

We believe he might be the brother of our little angel Jack who we rescued last winter… Note tongue sticking out.

Jack was killed by a car just before Christmas :o( and his brother Tommy has already wormed his way into all of our hearts.

I am not a winter person and spring seems to have forgotten us this year. Usually March 1st marks the changing point in the weather.

Not this year… Brrrr!

Being on Lake Erie, the two winter months feel like a frozen eternity. The lake becomes a frozen tundra. As you can see from my abandoned blog, I’ve been hibernating.

So…

What happened to spring?