Calico Cats and Cute Calves

As I mentioned before, my cute nephew is a first grader at my school.

He is not in my specific class, but he is in a small group with me a couple of times a week.  Cute Nephew got a new puppy, and Reader, this puppy is LITERALLY the cutest puppy I have ever seen in my whole entire life.

Cute Nephew was showing off Cute Puppy through the Zoom world.

Me:  Oh!  I want that puppy!  Can I have that puppy?  I NEED that puppy!

Another Student:  Mrs. M?  Excuse me?  You have enough animals.

And she is not wrong.

I was worried a bit ago about one of my students.  He was acting a bit off.  I chatted with his parents about it, and he was feeling a bit over being at home-wishing to be back at school.  This is a common feeling with the kiddos at eSchool.  So I have been trying to come up with ways to connect with them and connect them with each other, but this little guy, I was sure worried about.  He was sort of detaching.

I started to notice a beautiful Calico cat in his background.

Yes!  Me!  I!  I noticed a cute animal.

Weird.

So, we started chatting about it and now the whole class looks forward to seeing Macie, the 9 year old Calico cat, who loves to join us for class in his room.

One day, we asked him where Macie was and he said she was not there.  And right at that moment, she pushed his bedroom door open and came on in.  Now this kiddo who used to be a bit forlorn, asks the class daily if they would like to see Macie.  And we all nod and give thumbs up and he seems so much better.

Thankfully, covid restrictions are loosening up and we are starting to be able to have little class gatherings.  The pandemic sure has been hard on our kids. Have I ever mentioned that I tend to grow fond of my students?  This is the point of the year where I start to realize my heart is soon to be broken.

I took a little drive after school today.  I forget how close I live to the lake.

Beautiful, eh?  I am looking forward to warmer weather.

Hazel is 2 months and three days old, and no, it is not strange that I have that information.

She often sucks on my fingers.  I just felt like you should know that.

Matilda and her little heifer calf are doing well.

I think I will name her Tillie.

I stood in the cow pen and watched Hazel for quite awhile tonight.  Which isn’t weird at all.  She was trying to be all brave and interact with cows.  She started to lick Mildred when she saw another cow doing so.

Then she tried to jump on Mildred?

The other cow who was licking Mildred is a young cow who had a bull calf around the same time Matilda calved.  I am not 100% sure, but this cow is either Mildred or Maisy’s from the 2019 season.

Anyways.  Hazel was standing by Mildred, who was laying down.  The younger cow starts to come toward her.  Hazel is looking to me, her adoptive mother, for assurance.

I was very happy when the young cow started licking Hazel.

And I truly hope that someday  soon, some kind cow will lick Hazel’s rear end.  Because it needs to be wiped, Reader.

Today is my dad’s birthday!

Let us have a flashback to the year the kids and I decided to make him a “Titanic” cake for his birthday.

Bam!