Kittens vet visit and update

The kittens now have names. The larger one is Felix and the smaller, Flurry. They had their first visit to the veterinarian today. Felix got his first shots and a clean bill of health. Flurry on the other hand did not gets shots because she is too small. The vet also has concerns for her size. He thinks that the people we bought the kittens from might have exaggerated their ages a bit and also that Flurry was developmentally delayed to only 4-5 weeks. We'd already figured some of this out and had a few scares with Flurry already. She seems to have digestive problems and feels so uncomfortable sometimes. We've been giving her baby kitten silk replacer and very watered down canned kitten food. Nothing seems to agree with her though. Sometimes Flurry is well enough to play but then later she may go downhill fast. It's a mystery and we hope we can find out what's wrong so she can grow and thrive.

Environmental Science merit badge

I ran an environmental science workshop for boy scouts in our troop. I planned to do this ins a few shorter sessions over multiple days. It was hard to find a date that all interested scouts could do so I finally settled on doing it in a long one day workshop. I found some ideas online for how to do this. I made sure to have everything very organized and ready, all experiment items in labeled bags, all timeline materials cut out, a schedule that needed to be followed and 3 pre-requisites the boys needed to bring on the day. I wasn't sure how well this would work but it went great! With a few minor exceptions the boys stayed on task and all earned the merit badge by the end of the day! I was very pleased, the day went much better than I had anticipated.

Kittens

It happened in now way anything like how I thought it might happen IF we got kittens...but get kittens we did. Two of them, one a good size and one a very small kitten. They're littermates, the person we bought them from said the little one is just a runt and is doing all the same things as the bigger kittens. There were 5 to choose from. We chose the two that we did because they were regular kittens, some of the others were a breed called munchkins (meaning short legs). Also it seemed like the larger one was the most friendly and the tiny one just needed us! No names yet but here they are!

Cooking merit badge

Tristan did all the cooking today. He made three meals and a dessert with his JetBoil backpacking stove. This is part of the cooking merit badge. I was glad to have a day off from cooking! He made oatmeal with fruits and nuts for breakfast, Asian vegetable and tofu soup for lunch and a mac n cheese/ ravioli combo with spinach and corn for dinner. The dessert was choice of two different flavors of pudding. All the meals for this requirement had to be made from lightweight, portable, non-perishable ingredients.

Independance days festivities

We did some needed shopping on a rainy 4th of July, then the town celebrations on the 5th including library book sale and yard sales, some historical demonstrations, parade, selling popcorn with the boy scouts and watching the fireworks. Finished off the long weekend with a visit to my Mom on the 6th.

Tristan selling popcorn with the Boy Scouts

Marching in the parade

Hayley and Becky's baby Shane watching the parade

Becky, Hayley, Shane

Watching a blacksmith at work

 

Troop 69 in the parade