Cold morning

My thermometer said the outside temperature got down to minus 17 F this morning.  It was minus 15 F when I got up.  Inside the house... it was a little warmer: 47 F above.

Around 5 am Daisy went outside.  Very briefly at only a minute two.  Then Daisy slept next to me on the bed the rest of the night.  She stayed in the house when I went outside to feed the cattle.  When I came back in the house she was sitting by the front window in the sun.  The bird feeders were on the other side of the window.  Daisy wasn't 'talking' to the birds so I think she was sitting there for the sun and not bird watching.

The inside of the windows were frosted where I had the window blinds down overnight.

Once I got the wood stove ashes cleaned and a fire started the house warmed up.

After the snow

We got a little over 5 inches of snow Saturday.  Sunday morning I shoveled some paths to buildings.  Even though Daisy had already been outside at 6 am and again at 7 am, she came outside to 'help' me.  If I don't open the door fast enough for her, Daisy will use her paw to help me open the door faster as I open it.

What are you doing over there?

I've been outside a while. Time to go back inside the house.

Here is a 49 second video of Daisy outside.  Nothing spectacular, just Daisy walking:  http://youtu.be/y4QeVLUnuP4

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More snow cat

What a cat!   It started snowing tonight.  When I went out late to give more hay to the cattle Daisy came right with me.  First to give a bale to the calves, then over to give a bale to the rest of the cattle, then to fill up the water trough.  All on snow covered ground while thick heavy wet snowflakes were falling.  Then back to the house.  Now Daisy is laying by the keyboard as I type this.

What a great cat.

Mice and metal

I woke up this morning to a dead mouse by the wood stove.  Daisy has been on a mouse "run" lately.  She got three in a 24 hour period a few days ago.  In the past 24 hours she has gotten four mice.  That last one being while I split firewood by the pole shed.  She came out from a wood pile with a mouse to 'play' with.  This was another feisty mouse as it tried to stand up and then jump up at Daisy when she leaned her head over the mouse.  Daisy took the mouse and disappeared around the corner.

That makes at least 83 mice for the year so far.

Later I heard scratching on metal.  The only metal was the roof on the tall pole shed. The scratching got louder.  Then a long 'scrreeeecchhhh...".  It sounded like Daisy was on the roof.  Did she slide off?  I walked around the building to find Daisy way up a box elder tree near roof level.  She had been trying to get on the roof.  She didn't succeed and later came back to look for more mice.

Daisy also trekked with me out and back when I went out to the pasture to check on the cattle and the feeder.

Right now she is laying on the table and is watching "A Charlie Brown Christmas" with me.

What a cat.

Muddy manure daredevil Daisy

Daisy is not a prissy cat.   Sunday when I worked in the corral she came out to be with me even if meant walking through the mud and manure.

She got pretty dirty.

Daredevil Daisy

Saturday night when I went out to give hay and water to the cattle Daisy accompanied me.  When I was ready to add water to the water trough Daisy climbed on the water trough and from there climbed up the fence right over the water trough.  As you can see below she climbed the rails like a ladder.  They rails were wet and slippery.  I was on the other side of the fence wire so I couldn't catch her if she fell.  I held my breath.  She made it without falling.

After I filled the water trough and went to go inside the house Daisy decided to stay outside for a little while longer.  When I went outside later to check on her Daisy was on the house roof.  She then played her game of coming over to the edge of the entryway roof and meowing at me.  When I reached for her she backed away until I put my hands down then she would come to the edge of the roof again and meow.  I let her find her way down and she did a few minutes after I went back into the house.


At times when I worked in the corral on Sunday, to avoid the mud and manure when she could, Daisy would walk along the fence to stay near me and sometimes sit on railroad tie fence posts.

Here are 13 more photos of Daisy mainly fence walking and railroad tie sitting:

https://plus.google.com/photos/109566462412251958234/albums/6092951778363409601?authkey=CJGWmKaFkLDeRQ


Here is a short video of Daisy sitting on a railroad tie: http://youtu.be/RRRIeaPC84A

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Snow day

Daisy was inside and outside multiple times the day after the snow fell.  Sometimes she was content to sit on the couch and watch me shovel the snow while she warmed up her feet.

Other times she followed me around...

http://youtu.be/rt57rceQ2Fc

Daisy's nose

Daisy's nose is much better from her activities a month (or more?!) ago when she got a very scratched up nose. I still see signs of the injuries on her nose.  This morning I saw how she may have gotten her nose all scratched up.

Daisy accompanied me when I walked out into the snow covered hayfield to spread the wood stove's ashes. Once in the hayfield Daisy got distracted by the 'snow'.  Actually she quickly heard something under the snow and 'stomped' her paws into the snow here and there until she came up with a mouse.  The next I knew the mouse was standing up facing Daisy.  Daisy tried to sniff the mouse and that didn't go well.  A few bats and the mouse again stood facing Daisy.  Again she almost got bitten/clawed on her nose.  The mouse dove under the snow by a clump of tall grass.  The mouse must have found a second mouse hole as Daisy never found the mouse again.

Unfortunately I didn't have my camera with me to capture the mouse standing facing Daisy, and the action.