This means an almost constant battle, trying to get them out to the street.
We have three leaf pickups here. Each pickup spans a two week period and I don't know during that two weeks when the leaf pickup people will come. The first two week period begins November 5 and I have a pile out there ready and waiting.
I have to remove them from the top of the cat yard wire too. Not easy. And clean them from the gutters. I spent hours cleaning gutters a few days ago. Gloppy, icky job, I tell you. I move the ladder a few feet, climb up, slop out the gutter as far as I can reach, with a gloved hand, climb down, move the ladder a few feet, climb up, repeat. Over and over and over.
After awhile, I'm dazed out, in another world, glazed over.
I even considered a short nap on the ladder, when it was at just the right angle, and I leaned my head against a rung. Then I came to my senses. Napping on a ladder, not a good idea.
I rake them in the yard and dump them on a small plastic tarp and drag the tarp to the curb and dump the pile onto the bigger pile just off the curb on the street.
I did take a break from the leaf fight to take six more cats to be fixed Monday. I took another from the south Albany trailer park. I had two reservations saved for them, they'd known that for two weeks and they had four more cats needing fixed but made little effort to catch more than one, so I only had one from there. Smokey.
Smokey, fixed Monday |
I go over and she's not ready by any means. I have to chase them down with my net, even move furniture and the washer dryer. I was already sore from cleaning the gutters. So I was not very happy with her. But these are the last two needing fixed there. 11 fixed and she finally got 8 of the kittens into Safehaven for adoption. So it's all good there now. Both Tempest and Hallow are girls.
Tempest, a teen girl, fixed yesterday |
Hallow, another teen girl fixed yesterday |
Luna, fixed yesterday too, from Sweet Home |
Minnie, a little girl, was also fixed |
I only had five cats, since the Albany trailer park folk only had one, which was kind of lame. And since the other trailer park lady had two instead of three because one was already fixed.
So I add in Twinkle, the last unfixed kitten in the bathroom, from Sodaville. She came in a hair over two pounds, so qualified. And put up the last spot for grabs on a facebook group because I'd had seven reservations. Ashley, another local trapper, grabbed it up since her parents feed some cats, not all fixed, and they caught a torti and took it up yesterday morning to be fixed. She endured the backed up traffic too, like I had to, from a wreck. Stop and go for miles upon miles.
Tiny little Twinkle was spayed yesterday |
On the way home, after I picked up all seven cats, including Ashley's torti, I got this suddenly on my phone.
The text alert came with loud screeching. My phone was somewhere on the passenger side floor and I was scrambling for it with one hand, trying to figure out what imminent danger this time was at hand. I read only the first two words, since I was driving and immediately ducked, I don't know why. I guess I figured a tornado must somehow be overhead. When I saw nothing but blue sky, I stared around awhile, trying to see where this tornado might be. Well I guess one touched down near Scio or Jefferson or inbetween, which wasn't that far from where I was.
We get these sometimes in the area. Just small ones, but they sometimes thrash a barn or a few buildings.
I have someone coming Thursday to look at kittens. I hope they adopt a couple. They're all so sweet.
Timbers, a little boy |
Timbers, Kona and Biscuit |
Rowdy |
Rowdy, Kona and Biscuit |
Biscuit |
Have a great evening everyone.
The kittens are gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteI am so glad that your kindness was rewarded.
Sigh on the self-entitled making you work so hard to do what they should have done. Big sigh.
And, as always, thank you.
The kittens are wonderful. Timbers is heading off to Heartland tomorrow, since they adopted out Tink, the first one they took in, today. I was thrilled to hear this. One down. And now another gets a chance. At least the one trailer park is done now, all fixed, well actually two now, that big situation I took care of, that trailer park, that's done too. About a million trailer parks to go.
ReplyDeletePaying someone to jump start you. That is weird. It is a kindness that people offer automatically. Haven't we all been there and wanted a jump start? Though, modern car electronics do make it more difficult. So good that you could then dine high on the hog at Pizza Hut. I love the last photo of the standing cat.
ReplyDeleteI've never had anyone offer money to jump start them, and have been asked many times over the years. That last kitten is Biscuit and probably the nicest sweetest of all the kittens. Yup, high on the hog for me all right--Pizza Hut!!! Haha. At least I didn't head to McDonalds with my windfall.
DeleteThe other side of having beautiful trees around is the leaf clean up in the fall. It's a lot of work and some years we don't get it all done. And good decision to not take a nap on the ladder. :)
ReplyDeleteYou rescued more lucky cats this week. Thank you. And I like the name Rowdy for the kitten. If I ever get another kitten, I may use that.
Boy, the leaves are well, mountainous! Rowdy is a great name, I think, and it does fit this kitten.
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