Elly and Bert

With Elly being inside until her cruciate operation this week, she's getting a lot of love from the kitties ;)

Catch up

Here is my pictorial catch up!

Elly is having more surgery

Elly has done her cruciate and needs surgery! Never dull around here!

Here she is in her makeshift playpen with her little friends 😊

I've been neglectful again!

So, not a huge amount has happened... we have 1 chicken laying eggs! w00t! I will try to take a video of them eating food out of my hand (or should I say stealing! Two of them how try to peck at my hands regardless of if there is food!)

Ellys eyes have healed up nicely :)

Here she is showing them off...

Here is Bandit being, well... Bandit

This is what happens when Bandit and Elly play. She was chasing him around the yard (she was running her heart out and he was trotting hehehe.) I think she bit her tongue (hence the blood on her tongue.) It wasn't from him ;)

Bandit trying to look mean. EPIC Fail!

Finally, here is what we found when we went to fix the doona for bed...

New chicks

We got our 2 new chickens after the passing of Satay...

So introducing Drumstick (black with the red neck) and Schnitzel (the red one)!

They seem to be fitting in well and all the girls were huddled together this morning (it was pretty chilly!!!)

Schnitzel in particular is very soft, almost like fluid.

I tried to pick them up this afternoon, but they wouldn't let me. Hopefully when there are two of us in the coop we might have more luck!

Basil vs Ratty the toy

At IKEA today I got the cats a bundle of little toys and finger puppets.

James theory is that we need to train the cats to kill mice seeing as they were so lousy at it when he tried to get them to do it. 

Apparently Basil is our only hope ;)

Lexi vs Plastic sleeve!

Our cats aren't that particularly plastic bag obsessed, but then given you have to pay for plastic bags here in the ACT, we don't really leave them lying around, they go in a cupboard to be reused. We mainly use the enviro bags.

What our cats DO love though, is plastic sleeves! Strange I know. But then they are all quite special.

 Tonight was Lexi's turn... I had a sleeve sitting on the bed and she dived into it, literally. We often refer to her as Maru (if you haven't seen the Maru videos, you have to look them up on youtube!) as she does running dives into boxes. The other day she got the Soda Stream box stuck on her head ;)

 So I got the camera ready and waited to see if she would give the plastic sleeve some love again. I didn't have to wait long...

 

 Note: no cats or plastic sleeves were harmed in the making of this film.