This, That and the Other

Been in haze lately.  Too much drear in dear Oregon.

Rain, gray, drizzle, ick.

Someone should get on that, fix it.

I was so ready last summer for global warming to hit Oregon.  Nice and hot all summer, month after month.  I was smiling inside but I had to scowl outwardly in some circles.  "The Sky is Falling" circles.  "We're killing future generations" circles.  I have no kids, a.k.a. no future guilt.  I kept my heat happiness to myself.  It wasn't PC,  Happiness in general is frowned upon.

Miss Daisy is doing so well.  I stumbled upon something that might work, in an old moldy convolution of my brain.  I once had this cat who got repeated urinary infections.  Vet said it was stress and inflammation of her bladder, breed related.  He prescribed an old cheap antidepressant, said for some reason, it de inflames in cats.   It worked for her.  I told a vet here about that and asked if we could try it on Miss Daisy.  She agreed.  Why not.

It has worked like a charm.  Not only is she no longer over grooming, but she no longer is having bouts of loose stool.  I hope this continues!  The transformation is amazing!

Hoping to have a solution soon to the farm colony cat feeding issue without relocating them, which often results in their demise and nightmares for me.

We have it all planned out, but will see if it goes through.   Time will tell and for now I will still feed them.

I am hopeful.

I have been watching lots of Youtube videos on shoe making.  I am a big fan of one older woman who skillfully crafts shoes without using lasts. Granted, she's not making shoes for herself and uses the feet of the person who will get the shoes, as a "living last", along with play dough to fill in across the person's feet for the shape of the shoe wanted.  I love her!

She has nifty tools, like a little cutting tool, on a roller, an awl, a skiving tool, for shaving down the edges of leather, and a three hole rectangular punch for extremely neat looking stitch holes.  She has tool that's a little longer on one side she puts against the shoe piece edge, setting a distance for the other side of the tool, that then smoothly marks a stitch line.

She very clearly shows different stitches too.  She is talented and classy.

Big storm coming through I hear.  Really?  Wow.  More rain, that's something new.  Not.