A blog about the Bartz's family.

Friday, April 11, 2008

Kitty photos anyone?



hello, I am trying again to upload some photos I have been wanting to share with everyone, so i'll post them and enter a brief explanation. First of all, this is our cats from left to right, Lionel, Slurp and Spaz (Spastic Houdini), and yes they have taken over greg's side of the bed.



This is lionel, our old man kitty, he turns (doing math in head).... 21 this year. I adopted him at a no kill shelter because he had been there 16 months and was very sad. When I took him home in the paper cat carrier tehy give you, he fell thru the bottom he was so overweight, once I got him home and he became friends with the young Spaz he dropped all the excess weight and is now a spry young cat. He had some odd habits when I got him that I have not been able to get him to drop, he always agitates his water by smacking it before drinking, and you must invite him into or on things that he does not see as belonging to him.






This is Greg's cat Slurp, he is lazy, spoiled, overweight and talks too much. He is also fond of drinking from the toliet, even when water is readily available (I believe he sees it as some sort of weird extreme sport).




This is the Spastic Houdini, or Spaz for short. He earned his name while a young kitty when I came home and found him sleeping in the open freezer to keep cool. Since then he has disappeared many times, to be found in : the inner lining of the couch, the roof top after escaping thru a screen window, hiding in the back of a dark cupboard with his eyes closed, and sliding under our bed with a three inch clearance. He is jumpy, loves his mommy and is currently Aplha Male.

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Bees!

Greg has let me use part of our refund to pursue a hobby! I have decided to have a hobby honey bee farm. We attended an educational class last week about raising bees and now we are in love with them. Greg spent last night assembling our hive and our bees come in next week, it is so exciting. We may not get honey the first year which is ok since it will be a learning year anyways. Once the bees get a good brood going we will move them to the Bartz farm in Alpena to pollinate the fields. If all goes well in the fall we will have a nice little crop of honey to share.

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I am a transplant from NY, who was swept off her feet by a young Lansing man, here I am two kids, rocks galore and thousands of little honey bees later, and my life has never been happier.