Sweet little ones...

Here is our spring litter...Summer, Spring & Winter

They are on the porch,

a little hospital triage set up to get them better.

See, part of farm life that I am still learning

is "mass doctoring" animals.

If one is sick, with shared food dishes, you treat them all.

Seems my hurt Marmalade brought home illness with his injury...

and we had to make a

mass exodus to the vet on Wednesday - 7 cats.

These little ones (as well as Marmalade) were running high fevers &

were dehydrated.

Fluids & antibiotics given...they seem to be rebounding.

Now my day starts & ends with antibiotics....

given to 7 cats.

We are not out of the woods yet -- will need to get thru ten days of this,

but each morning -- a greeting from kittens & goats...

is absolutely priceless.

Really doesn't take much to make me happy.

Sweet little ones, they climb into my heart & fill it.

I send prayers up for their well being & care...

and celebrate their sweet little ways.

August 14 Update:

Touch & go...

but it is now looking like go for all my sweet ones. 

Still have the newest babies sequestered on the porch.

Hope to let them out soon.

Momma Hope chooses her family over her freedom every day.

I let her off the porch, she comes back in to be with them.

I learn so much from these little ones.

Never ever question investing in love.

A happy ending to this story...August 17:

This morning we carried all the babies back to the barn -

they were home.

Whisper & Chestnut & Momma Hope followed us -

a celebratory parade.

Marmalade met us at the door and kissed each one.

Even the goats came in to greet them.

They all made it...the little ones almost doubling in weight in

the 7 days on the porch-hospital.

As I walked back to the house, Hope and the babies were running with

such joy to the corn crib to play.

For this moment, for this morning -

all is right at Meadowview Farm.