Sunny in the Garage

Yesterday, the sun was out!   

I returned the three Sweet Home cats by 10, after some dallying about.  I am often unfocused after a cat clinic day, for some reason.

Not as productive.   And yet yesterday, there was great pressure, from the neighborhood, I felt, to be productive, being the first really nice day this spring.  Everyone was doing yardwork.   I cringe when I think about being out in the yard when other neighbors are too.  I have been the subject of quite a lot of criticism from one neighbor in particular, over "the state of my yard" and other things.  It makes me want to do yardwork in the night, to not be seen, or in the pouring rain.  I don't like to be outside anymore when other neighbors are outside.   

There's nothing wrong with my yard, it looks just fine to most people, I would say.  I keep the grass mowed and beds weeded, once spring comes.  But I am the target for the one neighbor and over the years, its worn on me, and I just don't want to be outside in my own front yard.  It's not just my yard she criticizes, its sometimes my clothing or some days she acts like the number of cars who come to my place is outrageous.  One time she cited two in that week.  Two whole cars. And demanded to know why they were at my place. It makes life unpleasant sometimes-and I don't know if she's that unhappy or what.  

I quickly mowed my out front small patch of lawn, to keep everyone happy, and weed eated edges.

When I arrived at the colony in Sweet Home, and was about to release the three cats, two boys, Half Bake and Long Tom, and the girl, Winnie, I see another boy, who looks very much like HalfBake and Long Tom and think "oh shoot".   Another one to catch.   So there are at least two more still needing fixed at wheelchair man's place.  

Here's the unfixed boy I saw.....

Maizy, the black boy, was recuperated by his own people, in their garage before he was released Saturday morning, which was a big help.   So now I had only Mudbottom, the boy with the raw balls, although now  he's neutered, and diarrhea, to care for.   I knew, from other cats taken from the Junk Shop colony, that his diarrhea is likely a giardia issue, but giardia recovery can take a couple weeks, or longer.   So he's staying here at least til he's better and I hope to find someone who will take him, rather than return him to where he's not wanted, at that Junk Shop.

He got convenia, a long lasting antibiotic, and sub cu fluids, at the clinic.  They tested him for parvo too (panleuk in cats).  We shall see how he does.  So far, he lets me clean his cage easily, clean his litterbox, change bedding.   He was aggressive in a live trap but now is not and he is being a very good boy and eats his wet food laced in meds for giardia, without complaint.  But this could be a two week recovery stint for him, hope his good mood lasts.

I call him Sunnyside now, instead of Mudbottom, in hopes his problems clear up quickly.

The ducks have returned, for food, morning and evening, in my driveway.  Its the strangest thing, not just that they come every year but how they spotted my place in the beginning.  Anyhow, it is what it is....

I had no reaction to the second Covid shot whatsoever, not even a sore arm.

Many folks around here saw an unbelievably strange yet beautiful display in the night sky.  I didn't see it and wish I had.  People mostly concluded it was a meteor they saw.  But it wasn't a meteor.  It was debris from Falcon 9,  a Space X rocket, falling into the atmosphere.

You can see some of the fantastic display here.

Then there's the car problem.  Just before January 1, in that week between Christmas and New Year's, I took my car to the mechanic to rid myself of the problems underlying the dash lights being on constantly.  The three were "VCS, Trac Off and Check Engine".  It was an expensive alleged fix.   

Three months its been and the dash lights are back on and feel like an idiot, wasting all that money.  Like burning most of my first two stimulus checks.  All for nothing.  I haven't gotten the third yet.  Everyone I know has gotten theirs but I haven't.   This time, so far, they will sometimes vanish, but not for long.