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Looky What I Got

7/24/2012

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Abby - (Abigail)
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Izzy - (Isabel)
Aren't they beauties!??  I love them both.  They are so funny and smart - both have caught mice already - what a relief.  Ever since the loss of our awesome cat Samuelson the Garden Cat we have been over-run with critters.  I had no idea how hard Sam had been working.  Chipmunks, mice, ground animals like pocket gophers and voles, those big ol' ground squirrels and plenty of rabbits and birds.  
These two are venturing outside further and further e very day - they were barn cats and so they needed some time to get to know us.  Now we can't get them off of us - they climb all over us and lick us.   They have even come up to the garden a couple of times - can't wait until it's their place too.  
Tortoise-shell kitties are a great option for a dark-colored cat for the mountains, white on a cat can be deadly as the owls can see that from the sky.  I will worry about Izzy more with her white throat and toes bit mostly they are dark.  
Abby is bigger than Izzy and Izzy was the most scared when they first came home.  Now Izzy won't get a grip - she is all over us with love.  Abby is very self-assured - already.  
We find females to be the best hunters and savvy about predators.  Our cats have lasted many years in the mountains - all dark - all female.
So - there is new love at the Parmenter's - enjoy the pics.  
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Izzy
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Abby
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Izzy
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    Penn Parmenter is a high altitude gardener, seedswoman and student of the earth.  She is married to Cord Parmenter - an awesome gardener, gorgeous man and a master blacksmith. Together they own and run a sustainable greenhouse design company, Smart Greenhouses LLC and Penn grows seed for her seed business, Miss Penn's Mountain Seeds.  She is a mother of three sons and an outdoorswoman.  Penn forages wild food, hunts big game, fishes, preserves, maintains a huge organic forest garden and occasionally makes dinner.  At home you can find her in her greenhouses as well as in the wilderness - nose to the ground, butt in the air, trying to identify Colorado natives.    

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