This morning when I went into the room to feed, I found on the rug a dead wolf spider. I quickly checked all kittens, their mouths look fine, there are no open wounds on any of them, yet there is a dead wolf spider on the rug!

I’ve seen these spiders terrorize my adult cats. They will actually charge the cats when the cats start messing around with them, yet these three kittens in limited light managed to kill a very formidable foe!

Yesterday we had quite a scare. I was catching a nap on the couch and had several of my crew with me. Mike was zonked in his chair. I didn’t hear the initial crash, but when all the cats immediately took flight, that woke me up because their claws were fully extended. I am so raked with scratches right now. But I heard this mighty crash then a thud-all cats vanished from the house- every one of them flying down the tunnels to the enclosure! Puzzled, I prowled the house looking for the source of the crash. I didn’t even go outside because it was beautiful, sunny, windless no problems there. I never found anything amiss inside the house.

Later, on my way back from the barn, I glanced up at the roof of the house and noticed this tree lying in a queer angle. I thought- “Hmmm- that tree shouldn’t be there. Then it hit me what had happened and I raced around to the front of the house to find a huge tree limb just inches off our roof! What stopped it from taking out the roof was our chimney that it now totally ruined. But it saved the limb from this centuries old cedar tree from continuing its course where it would have crashed through our living room and taken out any cats or humans in the way!

I woke Mike and he went out to look at the damage while I called the power company to report the tree was also hanging on the electrical wires. They were here literally minutes later and sawed off some of the limbs to lessen the load.

The insurance company, the tree man and the roof doctor will be here on Monday to start fixing the problem. And it wasn’t even raining! I have no idea what caused the split to occur, I don’t see decay in the limb where the split happened, but then I am not a tree expert.

Today, I get down on my knees and thank God for his Saving Grace. This limb is heavy, it could have really done so much more than it did.