August 22, 2023
Today has been a lot of hustle and bustle but tonight I have worked in my cattery and got another surprise, well, sort of. I knew this cat was pregnant, but I would have estimated another week before babies were born. I won't post their pictures just yet, but within a few days I will. Tortie had 3 babies and I believe we have one flame point in this group! So if you are interested in a flame point, keep your eye out on Tortie's page!
I am posting pictures to Hope's page tonight. She has 5 nice babies and I'm getting them on the site tonight! Enjoy the pictures! I believe some of these are already chosen, but as soon as I know for sure, I'll post it on here.
Night everyone!
Val
August 20, 2023
Well I'm really late getting started tonight. It has been an incredibly busy day but I got a lot done. I am happy with all I got done, but I still have so much yet to do! I'm going to try to take pictures of Cocoa Puff's babies tonight. Cocoa Puff was actually named Sweet Chocolate by my sister who stayed here a short while last year. Cocoa Puff did not show pregnancy at all! I was shocked! I opened the door to clean her room one night and there was a baby on the floor. I hurried and got her a birthing box and a pad and she promptly had 4 more babies! So she has 5 little ones and she's a great mom! I knew she would be! She's just like her mom, Pippy and she looks a lot like Pippy as well! Its too soon to tell sex or colors on these babies, but it won't take long before we know.
Well, gotta get started cleaning so I can get those pictures taken! They will be posted within an hour here!
Night everyone!
Val
August 19, 2023
Wow! Tonight it is extremely hot! I guess it is time for Iowa's time to go through the fire. Everyone else has but I thought we had missed it. Not quite, although we are only, I say only, going to have a week. I'm very thankful that my cats have air conditioning. Hopefully they will never know about the heat! I wish I could get that to happen in my barnyard!
My laptop is acting up tonight, so no pictures and I'm going to sign off for tonight.
See you tomorrow!
Val
August 18, 2023
Wow, just one year ago today I was having total knee replacement. I can't hardly believe it. I can't say it has been a great year for my healing. I've had lots of problems with it, but nothing that Tramadol couldn't handle! LOL No, seriously, I rarely have to take that anymore. So, its good. I still have some pain now and then. Especially when I'm up on it too much, but I guess I do think it is better than before the surgery,
Well today was very hectic again. Ross had a bunch of stuff to burn and he planted our Aronia berry plants and we probably got 5 to 6 cups of berries from the plants this year. Hopefully, after being planted, next year will be even better! I'm not certain yet of how to use them, well, not fully anyway, other than jams and jelly and maybe a sauce, but I'm going to be spending time researching them. This is something he wanted and something we are both interested in doing, so here we are! Hopefully a little later in the fall we will be replanting a few rows of black raspberries. My mom always made a black raspberry cobbler for July 4th. I haven't had one for many years, since way before she passed away because we just couldn't get the berries, but I have them here where we live, just not in places I can get to, so we are going to put them in places I can get to and see if we can't get enough for a cobbler and a few pies to freeze for the winter. Man how I love them and miss them! They were all around the small home I grew up in.
There was a railroad track right behind our house and all along the tracks were black raspberry vines and mom picked all summer long, as long as they were on the vine. She climbed into some horrible spots to get them and got her arms stuck and bled, but she didn't care. She made pies, cobblers, jams and jellies to last through the winter and spring until the new crop came on and not just for us, but for anyone who wanted them. She made fresh homemade bread and although we couldn't afford real butter, we had hot homemade bread, margarine, and raspberry or grape jelly or jam. Or she made what she called dough dodgers. It was just very large fried bread, fried in a cast iron skillet with a big dollop of shortening to fry it in. Another wonderful memory that has gone, along with her. I sure do miss her a lot. Times were so different then.
Well, enough for tonight. Gotta go feed my babies. I'm going to be pretty late tonight, so I'm going to try to do more pictures over the weekend. I'm looking into a better quality camera tomorrow to see if I can't get one that will download straight to my laptop. Hopefully I can cut out some steps while trying to get pictures on here.
Night everyone!
Val
August 17, 2023
Wow what a very busy day! The plumber is working both today and tomorrow to change out the main pipe in our house. Oh my goodness, what a long time it has taken due to trying to find funding, etc., anyway within the next few weeks, we should have a brand new walk in shower! Ross has needed this especially since his accident 3 years ago with his knee. His leg does not work the way it used to and a tub/shower combination is no longer in his best interest, so with the help of the VA and a home equity line of credit, we are finally going to make a shower much more accessible for him and much easier for myself at the same time!
So here I am tonight in my cattery. I'm going to again make this short so I can spend some time with my cats and kittens. I love those babies! I'm going to start posting some pictures tonight. Check out Eula's new babies!
See ya tomorrow night!
Val
August 16, 2023
This is going to be a short post tonight. I'm very late getting to work with my cats tonight. Sooooo very much going on today and preparing for the plumber to come tomorrow to change out most of the pipes in the house. I'm getting our laundry all caught up tonight so we have plenty of clean clothes, just in case we have to spend the weekend without water. I'll be filling up milk jugs for the critters after I do chores in the morning, again, just in case and more jugs will be filled and prepared for the cattery. Ugggg, I hope we will only have issues now tomorrow and Friday and then it will all be fixed. If so, Bath Planet will be soon coming in to install the shower that was supposed to be done in May! Boy am I anxious for this to get done.
I was telling a little about me last night. Well, I married a Pastor, which is the greatest thing. I have learned so much from him about the Bible yes, and about faith, but a lot about just life in general. He is 20 years older than I am and I couldn't be happier to have his smarts when I need them. He has 20 years more experience doing things than I have and sometimes its quite amazing what he can do. Sometimes I don't listen and just try to fumble my way through things and then after he lets me do it and then fail, he does it and succeeds and I wonder why I didn't listen. I sometimes want to prove to him that I am as smart as he is, and its true, I am, but in my age frame. He is smarter in his and together, if I just stop and watch and learn, I'm really amazed and how simple it all can be. Life, faith, work, everything. If you just calm down and look from someone else's perspective, wow, what you can learn. Especially from the older generations. They have so much to teach us. Yes, I'm 64 and I know lots of things, but when I stop and listen to him, I'm amazed. Plus, I love him very much!
Well, gonna get busy with my cats and kittens.
Goodnight!
Val
August 15, 2023
Hi everyone! Welcome to my blog! I hope you will find this interesting and informative as well as just plain fun.
I thought this would give you all a chance to "get to know me" if you haven't already met me, so I'm just going to start here and tell you a little about myself.
I'm old. Okay, well, not ancient, but certainly no spring chicken, although I own several spring chickens! Rhode Island Reds to be exact! But we'll talk about them later!
I am a 64-year-old woman who is totally crazy about cats! I have had cats all of the life I have lived that I can remember (did that make sense?).
I started out with an old white stray cat that my mom picked up because she was afraid he was going to get hit by a car and that thought just wasn't something she could stand. Snowflake (or Tom cat as we called him) was completely white, and he was a very special cat to me. You see my siblings were all much older than I, 17, 20 and 24 years older actually, and already out of the house, mostly, when I was born to my 44 year old mother, so I really didn't have any close siblings. My cat was my bestest friend and I did love that old boy! He was with me until in my early 20s and I still miss him.
Well anyway, when my husband and I were married, we got our first cat together about a year after we did get married. That was a siamese male that we named Ellsworth T. Scat. Our cattery is built on his offspring, and he gave us many great babies. We called him Scat cat. He died in 2012, just before my husband and I went to Israel for 13 days. We both missed him a lot.
Now we have many cats, I'd have to go back and count for certain, and I do each time I have an inspection and then the exact number slips my mind (remember, I'm old!) But at one time we had 45 cats that we were breeding and every one of them were my pets and I looked forward to spending time with them. Now I'm down to about 32, yeah, still a lot, but each time one passes, I cry like a baby. I know each of these cats so personally, their habits, their way of behaving, etc., that I feel attached to every one of them and don't really like to think about the time this one or that one will be leaving.
My kittens are born in private rooms with their moms and from day one I handle them and learn about each of them. I have one kitten right now that HATES to be picked up. That kitten spits and snarls at me and last night even screamed at me! LOLOL It settles down in a few seconds, but oh those first few seconds! How hilarious and wonderful it is!
Well, there will be a lot to talk about over the time of writing this, but just enjoy and again, if you have pictures of your cats that you purchased from Dunroven Farms and would like them placed on this website under the Happy Kittens Happy Owners page, email them to me at dunroven54@gmail.com and I'd love to share them. If you have a funny story, anything you would like told, let me know. Also, if you are interested in purchasing a kitten from Dunroven Farms, we'd like to get to know you as well! Please fill out my contact form and I try to answer as quickily as I receive them, so you won't have a very long wait.
Well, until tomorrow!
Me!
Today has been a lot of hustle and bustle but tonight I have worked in my cattery and got another surprise, well, sort of. I knew this cat was pregnant, but I would have estimated another week before babies were born. I won't post their pictures just yet, but within a few days I will. Tortie had 3 babies and I believe we have one flame point in this group! So if you are interested in a flame point, keep your eye out on Tortie's page!
I am posting pictures to Hope's page tonight. She has 5 nice babies and I'm getting them on the site tonight! Enjoy the pictures! I believe some of these are already chosen, but as soon as I know for sure, I'll post it on here.
Night everyone!
Val
August 20, 2023
Well I'm really late getting started tonight. It has been an incredibly busy day but I got a lot done. I am happy with all I got done, but I still have so much yet to do! I'm going to try to take pictures of Cocoa Puff's babies tonight. Cocoa Puff was actually named Sweet Chocolate by my sister who stayed here a short while last year. Cocoa Puff did not show pregnancy at all! I was shocked! I opened the door to clean her room one night and there was a baby on the floor. I hurried and got her a birthing box and a pad and she promptly had 4 more babies! So she has 5 little ones and she's a great mom! I knew she would be! She's just like her mom, Pippy and she looks a lot like Pippy as well! Its too soon to tell sex or colors on these babies, but it won't take long before we know.
Well, gotta get started cleaning so I can get those pictures taken! They will be posted within an hour here!
Night everyone!
Val
August 19, 2023
Wow! Tonight it is extremely hot! I guess it is time for Iowa's time to go through the fire. Everyone else has but I thought we had missed it. Not quite, although we are only, I say only, going to have a week. I'm very thankful that my cats have air conditioning. Hopefully they will never know about the heat! I wish I could get that to happen in my barnyard!
My laptop is acting up tonight, so no pictures and I'm going to sign off for tonight.
See you tomorrow!
Val
August 18, 2023
Wow, just one year ago today I was having total knee replacement. I can't hardly believe it. I can't say it has been a great year for my healing. I've had lots of problems with it, but nothing that Tramadol couldn't handle! LOL No, seriously, I rarely have to take that anymore. So, its good. I still have some pain now and then. Especially when I'm up on it too much, but I guess I do think it is better than before the surgery,
Well today was very hectic again. Ross had a bunch of stuff to burn and he planted our Aronia berry plants and we probably got 5 to 6 cups of berries from the plants this year. Hopefully, after being planted, next year will be even better! I'm not certain yet of how to use them, well, not fully anyway, other than jams and jelly and maybe a sauce, but I'm going to be spending time researching them. This is something he wanted and something we are both interested in doing, so here we are! Hopefully a little later in the fall we will be replanting a few rows of black raspberries. My mom always made a black raspberry cobbler for July 4th. I haven't had one for many years, since way before she passed away because we just couldn't get the berries, but I have them here where we live, just not in places I can get to, so we are going to put them in places I can get to and see if we can't get enough for a cobbler and a few pies to freeze for the winter. Man how I love them and miss them! They were all around the small home I grew up in.
There was a railroad track right behind our house and all along the tracks were black raspberry vines and mom picked all summer long, as long as they were on the vine. She climbed into some horrible spots to get them and got her arms stuck and bled, but she didn't care. She made pies, cobblers, jams and jellies to last through the winter and spring until the new crop came on and not just for us, but for anyone who wanted them. She made fresh homemade bread and although we couldn't afford real butter, we had hot homemade bread, margarine, and raspberry or grape jelly or jam. Or she made what she called dough dodgers. It was just very large fried bread, fried in a cast iron skillet with a big dollop of shortening to fry it in. Another wonderful memory that has gone, along with her. I sure do miss her a lot. Times were so different then.
Well, enough for tonight. Gotta go feed my babies. I'm going to be pretty late tonight, so I'm going to try to do more pictures over the weekend. I'm looking into a better quality camera tomorrow to see if I can't get one that will download straight to my laptop. Hopefully I can cut out some steps while trying to get pictures on here.
Night everyone!
Val
August 17, 2023
Wow what a very busy day! The plumber is working both today and tomorrow to change out the main pipe in our house. Oh my goodness, what a long time it has taken due to trying to find funding, etc., anyway within the next few weeks, we should have a brand new walk in shower! Ross has needed this especially since his accident 3 years ago with his knee. His leg does not work the way it used to and a tub/shower combination is no longer in his best interest, so with the help of the VA and a home equity line of credit, we are finally going to make a shower much more accessible for him and much easier for myself at the same time!
So here I am tonight in my cattery. I'm going to again make this short so I can spend some time with my cats and kittens. I love those babies! I'm going to start posting some pictures tonight. Check out Eula's new babies!
See ya tomorrow night!
Val
August 16, 2023
This is going to be a short post tonight. I'm very late getting to work with my cats tonight. Sooooo very much going on today and preparing for the plumber to come tomorrow to change out most of the pipes in the house. I'm getting our laundry all caught up tonight so we have plenty of clean clothes, just in case we have to spend the weekend without water. I'll be filling up milk jugs for the critters after I do chores in the morning, again, just in case and more jugs will be filled and prepared for the cattery. Ugggg, I hope we will only have issues now tomorrow and Friday and then it will all be fixed. If so, Bath Planet will be soon coming in to install the shower that was supposed to be done in May! Boy am I anxious for this to get done.
I was telling a little about me last night. Well, I married a Pastor, which is the greatest thing. I have learned so much from him about the Bible yes, and about faith, but a lot about just life in general. He is 20 years older than I am and I couldn't be happier to have his smarts when I need them. He has 20 years more experience doing things than I have and sometimes its quite amazing what he can do. Sometimes I don't listen and just try to fumble my way through things and then after he lets me do it and then fail, he does it and succeeds and I wonder why I didn't listen. I sometimes want to prove to him that I am as smart as he is, and its true, I am, but in my age frame. He is smarter in his and together, if I just stop and watch and learn, I'm really amazed and how simple it all can be. Life, faith, work, everything. If you just calm down and look from someone else's perspective, wow, what you can learn. Especially from the older generations. They have so much to teach us. Yes, I'm 64 and I know lots of things, but when I stop and listen to him, I'm amazed. Plus, I love him very much!
Well, gonna get busy with my cats and kittens.
Goodnight!
Val
August 15, 2023
Hi everyone! Welcome to my blog! I hope you will find this interesting and informative as well as just plain fun.
I thought this would give you all a chance to "get to know me" if you haven't already met me, so I'm just going to start here and tell you a little about myself.
I'm old. Okay, well, not ancient, but certainly no spring chicken, although I own several spring chickens! Rhode Island Reds to be exact! But we'll talk about them later!
I am a 64-year-old woman who is totally crazy about cats! I have had cats all of the life I have lived that I can remember (did that make sense?).
I started out with an old white stray cat that my mom picked up because she was afraid he was going to get hit by a car and that thought just wasn't something she could stand. Snowflake (or Tom cat as we called him) was completely white, and he was a very special cat to me. You see my siblings were all much older than I, 17, 20 and 24 years older actually, and already out of the house, mostly, when I was born to my 44 year old mother, so I really didn't have any close siblings. My cat was my bestest friend and I did love that old boy! He was with me until in my early 20s and I still miss him.
Well anyway, when my husband and I were married, we got our first cat together about a year after we did get married. That was a siamese male that we named Ellsworth T. Scat. Our cattery is built on his offspring, and he gave us many great babies. We called him Scat cat. He died in 2012, just before my husband and I went to Israel for 13 days. We both missed him a lot.
Now we have many cats, I'd have to go back and count for certain, and I do each time I have an inspection and then the exact number slips my mind (remember, I'm old!) But at one time we had 45 cats that we were breeding and every one of them were my pets and I looked forward to spending time with them. Now I'm down to about 32, yeah, still a lot, but each time one passes, I cry like a baby. I know each of these cats so personally, their habits, their way of behaving, etc., that I feel attached to every one of them and don't really like to think about the time this one or that one will be leaving.
My kittens are born in private rooms with their moms and from day one I handle them and learn about each of them. I have one kitten right now that HATES to be picked up. That kitten spits and snarls at me and last night even screamed at me! LOLOL It settles down in a few seconds, but oh those first few seconds! How hilarious and wonderful it is!
Well, there will be a lot to talk about over the time of writing this, but just enjoy and again, if you have pictures of your cats that you purchased from Dunroven Farms and would like them placed on this website under the Happy Kittens Happy Owners page, email them to me at dunroven54@gmail.com and I'd love to share them. If you have a funny story, anything you would like told, let me know. Also, if you are interested in purchasing a kitten from Dunroven Farms, we'd like to get to know you as well! Please fill out my contact form and I try to answer as quickily as I receive them, so you won't have a very long wait.
Well, until tomorrow!
Me!