Pet Day----FUN!

I had a great time at Pet Day. We had a cat walk. I brought four 2x6x8 boards and took four cinder blocks. At the event, I screwed the four boards together at the corners with right angle hardware. They were supported at each corner on a cinder block. Keni put cat photos on them, in various spots, in squares that were numbered. I took my Irish Drinking Songs for cat lovers CD and she brought a CD player. The kids, or adults, would walk the boards as the music played. When the music stopped, the participants had to get on a cat photo square with number. Keni then rolled the dice and if the player was on the square with a number corresponding to the dice roll, they won a cupcake, or any other prize.

We also had a bean bag toss for spay neuter. Midori made some really cute bean bags out of kid socks. Three chances for a buck. Keni painted a board with some nice cat photos and her husband made three holes in the board. If you got two through a hole, you won a cupcake. Keni bought a lot of cupcakes. In the end, I took platters of them around, in the pouring rain, which alternated with high winds, and sold them. I enjoyed this.

The high winds grabbed at the canopies set up over booths and flung many of them far and wide, twisting them up and creating a hazard. We had ours secured, anchored, but many booths by this time were vacant. The pouring rain drove away vendors early. Their canopies, rented from the vet school and set up prior, were left behind to go flying. Keni, Midori and I chased many down, so that they would not end up hitting cars in the road. We at least took the canopy off the frame, so the wind would not catch them and send them flying again.

As a result of the weather, there was not much of a crowd and I guess we lost money most likely. But it was fun. My knees and back ache very much right now. I am taking some aleve and laying down. It was a lot of fun for sure.

In other news, turns out the man concerned about stray cats near his duplex doesn't seem to know all those cats are fixed. A Lebanon trapper got them fixed along with another nearby resident. They are also fed by the Lebanon woman and another neighbor. These cats not only are already fixed, but get plenty to eat. I sent him this information.