Comment from rspoet

Excellent

This is a well written story of your life and entry for the contest
Sounds like the diary farm raised cats and cows
at least there should be very few mice
Sorry to hear about the early sadness
but it seems things went well on the farm,
Good twist and humor at the end
Nicely done
Good luck in the contest




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 Comment Written 05-May-2017

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reply by the author on 06-May-2017

Thank you for reading and commenting. Yeah, I used to tell my husband we ought to call the farm The Black Cat Ranch instead of Sun Valley Farms. Better than half the cats were black or black and white at that time.

Comment from Mustang Patty

Good

Thank you for sharing the condensed story of your life with us. Getting it down to 150 words or less is quite a feat! I've made some notes for you;

A nit: 'I spent my childhood on a fruit farm. Where we always had lots of cats. (The second sentence is a fragment, perhaps you could use a semicolon and join the two.)

'I started work on a dairy farm in 1979(+,) where there were more cats, lots of them.'

'In 2011(+,) I married the owner of the dairy farm. We are retired now and down to twelve cats; all the cats are drop-offs(+,) or found me somehow.'

I hope these help and encourage you to edit and explore your use of punctuation. Writing is about the subject, and the mechanics of writing. Grammar is essential!
~patty~



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 Comment Written 05-May-2017

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reply by the author on 06-May-2017

Thanks for reading and the help with the grammar. I will edit and correct. You are right about that first sentence and I meant to change it but never got back to it.