{"id":358,"date":"2023-05-03T11:02:51","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T15:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/catastrophicstardust.com\/?p=358"},"modified":"2023-05-03T11:02:51","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T15:02:51","slug":"life-on-the-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catastrophicstardust.com\/?p=358","title":{"rendered":"Life On The “Farm”."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Our house used to be a farmhouse. The fields around us were all a part of the property and the barn across the street was built by the same guy that built our house, John Brown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Along the way, it was sold off, and our parcel is only 5 acres, including the house, 2 garages, and around 2.5 acres of woods. We have chickens, and I pretended to homestead with ducks, rabbits, bees, and gardening in the past, but I’m not a very good homesteader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, being in the country with a barn across the street, we look like a working farm. That means stray drop offs. That means mostly cats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of our strays I call BB (Bitty Baby), has some surviving kittens in our junk pile. Adorable little things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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BB’s half brothers (from a litter after she was born) are in our house. I had found them right after they were born, and was able to place them in a cage to catch their mom (Bitty). I got her fixed before releasing her, but haven’t seen her in a long while now. I have BB pretty tame now, so I’m hoping once the nursing stage is done I can catch her to get her fixed, and the babies too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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