Ding Ding Ding! Round 2

It is about time for round two of kittens!

But this time we are doing it right. We have the office locked up like Alcatraz and Peng is our prisoner. (insert creepy laugh)

No we are not meanies....we just want to make sure this round of kittens is not born in a pile of boulders! Also after the babies are 5-6 weeks we can get Peng into the vet. Since we did not catch her in time after her last litter.

After 20 years of training...

....then this dude will be able to run this store with his eyes closed. This handsome almost 4 year old is Wyatt, Bill and MaryBeth's oldest grandson.

Yesterday was Pete's, the dump truck, service and Wyatt had to get under the engine and check out what Michael and his Pa were doing. He sat perfectly still and only asked 1 question. Pretty impressive for this curious wiggly kid!



He is probably the luckiest kid in the entire galaxy. When he comes out to the yard it is every little boys dream come true! He gets to crawl around on equipment, dig in dirt, carry rocks, drive a golf cart, and anything else he wants since he is already running the show. This is right he has every person out here wrapped around his little finger!

Grow Weed Grow

The mother of all weeds looks like this now. Man oh Man!

Everyday it changes so we are having fun watching it grow.

Go Team!

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This is going to be one of those stories that throws you for a loop at the end so hold on to your britches its a good one.
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Wednesday is when this adventure starts after Christel's morning diet coke. Christel was in the little girls room when I heard Peng holler out. This was not the normal Peng talking..... She yelled to her "PENG, YOU OKAY?" And then there was another MEOWWWWWW!!!! She went and corralled everyone to listen to her strange noises.

FYI: Our cat and her babies live under the office. It's cool and super cozy in a creepy, dirty, only 2 feet of crawl space sort of way.

All morning in the little girls room we could hear Peng cry. And by mid day it had turned to a pathetic meooww....

We had to get our cat.....She is either stuck or hurt and needed us. She might be a miniature superhero but she is in a delicate state. (yes, she is pregnant again)(dang it)

MaryBeth crawls under the building and starts to cover every square inch of the toad infested, insulation falling down, spider web covered space.

She cannot see much so Stephanie and Christel start taking down the stone wall for better lighting. (dang it)(this will be heavy stuff to put back)

Still no cat....Her cries have turned bad to worse. And we can hear exactly where the sounds are coming from so out came the hammer.

Sorry vanity we will fix you later.

We were hearing her right around the sink so we thought we could simply pull the floor up. Nope. Not possible. Big mess.

Then Stephanie had a wave of genius..."what about the hidden panel around the Jacuzzi tub?!"

Awesome. Now at least we are one more level closer to our sweet cat. Who at this point is no longer crying......

We sat in the bathroom praying to hear just one more "meow" maybe it would be the "meow" that would tell us where she was......

Bill has now been under the building for over an hour. MaryBeth has pulled up every vent. Stephanie has been jumping from customers back to us to help in every way possible.

Go Team Edmond Rock!

Us 3 girls with heavy hearts are sitting in the restroom knowing the day was coming to the end and we would soon have to leave and Peng would be spending the night stuck and or hurt...alone....

It was then time for Bill to have a wave of genius......"what about another hidden panel?"

MaryBeth slowly opened the panel and calmly said "get me some gloves, there's a cat." A CAT?!?! "What do you mean a cat? Is it not Peng?!" "No, it's a kitten and it's in trouble."

Stephanie took off the get some gloves and MaryBeth slowly pulled out a coke bottle. A COKE BOTTLE!?!? A coke bottle with a small black body poking out the back.

The baby had it's little tiny head stuck in a COKE BOTTLE! It was not Peng the whole time!? It was a screaming kitten scared for it's life!

We cut the kitten free of the refreshing beverage's bottle. We had a good laugh at ourselves for the hole in the wall, pulled apart vanity, and torn down stone wall. All we had to do the whole time was open one panel! This entire time Peng was probably off gallivanting around town eating mice and stalking snakes.

Here is the little guy/girl now! It's completely confused why it is locked in a room with these strange giants picking it up. Poor no name baby....

The kitten will be given a loving new home once comfortable with people. But I will tell you something out at Edmond Rock we will never forget hunting all day for our cat to only find a kitten stuck in a Diet Coke bottle under the Jacuzzi tub.

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Record Breaking

This is a giant mega weed out front of the office. Have you ever seen a weed so big!? It's growing out of a Holey Boulder.

We are weed nuts around here with daily weed pulling and spraying. But we are letting this one grow. It's kinda pretty. It looks as if one of our big birds is trying to eat on it.

Cleaning House

Every few weeks we make a call into the fire department, collect all wood trash, and then we let the fire do all the work. Notice there is no flammable objects except what we are burning near the burn area. In fact when you think of it a rock yard doesn't have much that will burn anywhere. We are "going green" by not filling the landfill with our trash, saving the environment with each bonfire.

We burn what we can around the yard. Such as "no way to fix it" pallets and yard waste. It is a hot and sometimes dangerous job but no one seems to mind it. In fact Ray is always asking if it is burn day. When he is told to burn he gets a very large grin on his face.

I am sure I-35 drivers crank their necks to see what is going on when they notice a huge fire ball. This is why we call ahead to the fire department to insure no fireman or firewoman's time is wasted. We don't want our controlled fire to take a truck away from a true emergency, and most important we don't want to have a bill from them for coming out to our yard.

Good bye old pallets you were good to us.