July 12, 2020
Due to the pandemic we had to change our vacation plans from flying to California to go to Yosemite National Park to driving to North Carolina to hike in the Cherokee National Forest (and later to Georgia to the Pisgah National Forest):
We loaded up the car and had plenty of travel snacks for the kids:
July 13, 2020
2020 Vacation Day One Adventure: Turtletown Creek Falls, Tennessee, Cherokee National Forest.
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Time to check out our Airbnb Cabin!
June 18, 2020
This morning we caught the last two from the older litter (six weeks+). We will be taking all the kittens (and hopefully the older mother who is an outside feral cat) to Operation Catnip July 11th to get “fixed”. UPDATE: We were not able to catch the older mother cat so we have to wait and catch her after vacation.
June 27th, 2020
Today’s Update: ONLY FOUR KITTENS need forever homes. We have three 8 week old kittens (2 males & 1 female) and one 6 week old kitten (male). The mamma cat for the older kittens is a feral outside cat and she is also the mother to the mamma of the younger kitten. We have socialized her and she is inside with her kitten. We are working with operation catnip and have a spay/neuter date of July 11th. We are using the Diversion Program for shots as well!
July 6th, 2020
UPDATE: ALL the kittens have been Adopted to Forever Homes. This was not easy, but we did it!
June 15, 2020
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June 7th, 2020
A feral cat we call “Effie” had a litter of kittens about a year ago. Although we tried to get them fixed through operation catnip, the pandemic hit and they stopped accepting cats. One of her kittens we call “Katniss” became pregnant. Her mother, Effie also became pregnant. Effie had a litter of kittens about 6 weeks ago. Katniss had her kittens 2 weeks and three days ago. We have been helping (bottle feeding) Katniss with her kittens because she is not consistently taking care of them. Last night Effie brought her kittens to us. We caught three of them. We are looking forward to getting all of them fixed and to good homes. This house has turned into a full-time care center! We are currently caring for 12 cats/kittens, one dog, and a rabbit.
. She will be happy to be the center of attention again when all these kittens and cats are adopted!June 4, 2020
Mom, Dad and Luna did this one on their own:
June 3rd, 2020
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June 2, 2020
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.June 1, 2020
When the pandemic hit and everything went on lockdown, we started our daily trail adventures. We went on our trail adventures for eleven weeks while we were doing virtual home school and mom was out of work ! It is officially summer break and Florida gets pretty hot so we will be cutting back on our trail adventures. Today we went on a very small Trail Adventure and it was late enough in the day that Dad was able to join us.
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May 29th, 2020
Rachel was awarded Citizen of the Year for her school!
Week Eleven Day Four Trail Adventure: Creek Sink Trail
May 28, 2020
Week Eleven Day Four Trail Adventure: Serenola Forest Preserve Trail.
