It's time for me to admit I have a problem...

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Awww, hasn't she earned it yet? I can almost see the halo over her head in that second picture!

Casper has forsaken me and spent most of the day napping on my mom's lap. I made some soap this afternoon, though, and he thoroughly inspected the oils as I measured. I guess I can rest assured that they're Casper-approved.

 

[Muscovy Wunda]

You make soap??

 

[CloneFly]

Awww! Such a cutie! This is my baby Engine... I know how you feel though... I have a gazillion pictures of him and my other babies

 

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You make soap??

I do! Specifically, I make cold process egg soap using eggs from my chickens. Yesterday's batch was vanilla cocoa, so no nifty colors or anything (because the vanilla scent oil makes it all just turn dark brown anyway), but here's the previous batch before I finished cleaning up the tops and everything:

View attachment 3046577Awww! Such a cutie! This is my baby Engine... I know how you feel though... I have a gazillion pictures of him and my other babies

Handsome boy!!

 

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Casper is usually long gone by the time I wake up (I hung a curtain in my bedroom door so that he can come and go as he pleases), but this morning he was sleeping at my feet still when I woke up. He decided to have a bath when I sat up to take a picture, so it makes him look grumpy.

 

[RoyalChick]

Aww, doesn't she deserve a special breakfast, though? At least she's better than Casper. Every time he catches a mouse, he hauls his new toy up into my room where the rest of his toys are and releases it, live. It's so much fun to wake up in the middle of the night to him chasing it around the room after it reemerges.





Haha, I don't know, Casper's pretty attached to me already. He might take some convincing to go through with that deal.

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Haha, nah, I love him to bits, but half of my pictures are grainy or blurry so they wouldn't do much good on any sort of printed good anyway.

He was a stray! He just showed up one day on the farm. I heard a ruckus from the chickens (who are afraid of cats, no attack required ) and ran out to check, and there he was. Then it took me a week before he'd even let me get near him, believe it or not! Now I can hardly get rid of him! Wouldn't trade that for the world, though.

Wow! Hard to believe he was a stray. He looks more like a cat-show kinda cat.
He really is completely adorable.

 

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My sister thinks he was dumped for not being up to show standard, but I don't know, honestly. We do get a lot of cats dumped here in general because people seem to see all the barns in the area and for some reason think that their no-longer-wanted house cat can survive as a barn cat even though it's never had any experience as such. I really cannot fathom someone just not wanting him, but people can be horrible, so I guess it's a possibility, too. All I know is he showed up one day and no one was out there looking for him. We had him checked for a microchip, left his description at the local shelter in case someone called looking for him, and I checked area lost pet listings daily for two months after he showed up, and not a single posting even resembled him. Their loss! I adore him and I couldn't be happier that he ended up in my life.

 

[RoyalChick]

My sister thinks he was dumped for not being up to show standard, but I don't know, honestly. We do get a lot of cats dumped here in general because people seem to see all the barns in the area and for some reason think that their no-longer-wanted house cat can survive as a barn cat even though it's never had any experience as such. I really cannot fathom someone just not wanting him, but people can be horrible, so I guess it's a possibility, too. All I know is he showed up one day and no one was out there looking for him. We had him checked for a microchip, left his description at the local shelter in case someone called looking for him, and I checked area lost pet listings daily for two months after he showed up, and not a single posting even resembled him. Their loss! I adore him and I couldn't be happier that he ended up on my life.

A great day for him and you.

On the topic of people being horrible this is my beloved Nightshade staring into my soul! I adopted him from the shelter in October 7 years ago and had to get a special reference from my vet that I am a genuine cat-lover because the shelter won’t adopt out black cats in October because people do unspeakable things to them at Halloween. That upsets me every time I think of it. Fortunately Nightshade is living out his days spoiled rotten!

 

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Those eyes! I've heard that about black cats, too. How awful. I'm glad Nightshade found his way to you as well! A little black cat showed up here on Halloween last year, just a couple weeks after Casper showed up, which made me wonder what she'd been through before she turned up. She was sketchy of people, though, and disappeared before I could catch her. I hope she's still okay out there somewhere.

 

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Casper's afternoon nap today

My little 'angle'