Back to Mid 90's

 The weather turns from decent (mid 80's) to hot today.  Forecast calls for 95 degrees here.  Much the same most of the week I believe.   

It's difficult to accomplish much in the heat, at least outside.  

Gas prices are soaring.  Food prices are soaring.  Best, in my situation, to do pretty much nothing.  Cheaper that way.

The city did add on, without a resident vote, $9 per month to the water bill, for no good reason, outside the city wants more money, mainly to contend with all the new developments going in.  Instead of making the developers pay up, we have to.  Developments mean more of everything is needed, like police, fire, water, streets, schools, etc.   Developers are destroying this area.

Adding $9 a month to the expenses of someone living on SS is a lot of money.   Pretty arrogant behavior too.

I was in the park six full hours yesterday morning again, hoping to catch any kittens still there in the brush.  Not a bit of luck either.  My butt felt numb when I finally got home from sitting in my car. I walked a bit while there, not much though since my knee is sore.

Turkey vultures circled above the river, seven or eight of them.  500 feet down river, another group circled.  I don't know if they do this mornings, and it was quite early, like the mergansers, in a sort of grid search for food.

The river looked inviting.  I would have gone in for a swim had I not been otherwise occupied, keeping track of a trap.  The water is very very cold in the river.  On a day as hot as today will end up, the cold water would be very welcome.

I haven't gone anywhere this summer yet and I probably won't.  So many areas are closed or restricted due to current or past wildfires.  The squeeze has resulted in areas that are open being flooded in people.   Campsites are impossible to find and expensive.  Add in gas to get there and yikes.  Not so bad if you go with others and the cost gets split up and rides shared.    I don't have anyone to go with, and that's another thing. 

I planted a few flowers weeks ago.  Some are still alive, some are not.

I returned Jasper, the black male I trapped in the park, this morning early.  He was fixed yesterday.  KATA took him in on their spots, then I picked all five of the cats up at the clinic and met Lisa of KATA in a Lebanon parking lot to hand off their four.   

Jasper is a huge boy, weighing in at 12 lbs, but now he is a neutered big boy at least.  

He dashed up into the brush of the park upon release, without so much as a glance back.

Cookie looking beautiful

Lovely lovely Sam