Ups and Downs of our Little Farm

May was a rough month on the farm.

Miss Kitty had an encounter with a possum during the night of May 2nd, and it was a long month of ups and downs.  The ups including the fact that she lived through it (barely) and was back to her wild, feisty, spirited self once the meds wore off. The downs, well, there were a bunch of "downs" including torn ligaments, lots of vet bills and a questionable prognosis. She's a feisty, spirited, wild kitten and rest, was the least of her priorities (despite sedatives) making the month even more of a test for all of us.

Despite the prognosis, she's using her injured leg now, though it's wobbly and probably always will be. But the hardest part is that she's an indoor cat now, for the foreseeable future. Her job was to keep the rodents in check in the chicken coop, that's why we got her after all, but the hunting urban farm cat lifestyle faded from her reality overnight.

The garden hovered in inactivity for much of rainy, grey May.  Starts were planted, seeds were sown but the sun never came out to inspire growth. But June has been a whole other story and fingers are crossed for a long, sunny Summer, just around the bend.