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This is Killer.
This is the “cat adjustment area” of the new farmhouse. The pantry. (It’s a large pantry–there’s a washer and dryer in there, shelves, plenty of floor space, and a litter box.) We brought over my old cat, Buttercup, first. Then Wiggles and Squiggles. Then Sugar. Then Killer. (Killer is a misnomer. He is scared to death of the world. He is our dashboard kitten.)
Yesterday, we brought Spice. They’re all doing pretty good. We have a few more to get–Diego, Sunni, Weesie, and Lizzie. Add that to now four dogs, and hey, we’re set!
Just need some chickens. 
In other excitement yesterday, Steve-the-Builder hooked up the electricity to the oven.
And said: “Where’s the cookies?”
Well, you know I had to make cookies for a man who spent six hours using his bionic abilities to get my oven into my cabinets.
Then I started some bread. Only I didn’t have any hot water, so I had to heat some up. (See all the construction paraphenalia still decorating my kitchen and living room?)
Which was a good test of the gas cooktop. I need to test everything while Steve-the-Builder is right here. In case something blows up and I need his bionic abilities.
Like a fitting on the water….stuff. (I bet Steve-the-Builder has a better word.)
Something went wrong yesterday, just in case I was going to think adversity had flown the coop, and we were out of water for a few hours, but Steve-the-Builder put on his magic cape and fixed it. Because, thanks to all of your great suggestions, I keep him chained in the basement now. And forever.
Then I made him set the clock on my new oven. I wonder if I can get him to fix the clock in my car, which hasn’t been right since Daylight Savings time hit?
I don’t understand this oven. It wants me to do all kinds of things. Have favorites. Set things ahead of time. “Hold” things. I just want it to bake stuff.
But hey, despite the complicated oven, I made bread.
BREAD.
In my new farmhouse.
Wow.
Posted by Suzanne McMinn on March 18, 2008
And we readers of your Blog never tire of your wonderful pictures and stories of all your sweet animals! - 
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You have a lot of cats… :eek:
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homemade bread, makes it all real…
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Oh, I know – chickens!
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Mmm, those cookies and that bread look so yummy!
-Kim
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I had NO idea you had that many cats. You’re the cat lady, aren’t you? They are lucky little paws to have you and your family!
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Blessings from Ohio…
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Congrats on getting in.
Did I count 9 cats?
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Morgan’s hand–that was just where she’d drawn on her hand with a marker! (She wrote “smile” on her hand, which she says is her new favorite word.)
I love candles, so even when I’m baking something that smells great, I’m burning candles!
Yeah, how I feel about my gadgety oven is probably how some older people feel about computers!
I think all my cats do that paw under the door thing! They’re mostly indoor-outdoor cats. When the weather’s nice, they spend a lot of time outside–hunting!
About my cookies–I like some types of cookies (chocolate chip, for one) thin and crispy on the edges and soft in the middle, so I make them that way on purpose by using 1/2 cup less flour than would usually be called for in the recipe and cutting the baking time just a little so they stay soft in the middle. (Our altitude isn’t anywhere near that high!)
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The cookies look delish!!!
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I haven’t had home made bread for years and years – not much of a baker lol.
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Enjoy your new farmhouse – and when are you “resetting” the Christmas room? :typing: