Time to Daze

 I don't know what to say about today.  Yesterday was depressing.   I just could not get it together.

Today I got up early and returned Buffy, from the park, fixed on Friday.   She was pregnant at spay, so got a couple days extra to recuperate.  Her one kitten I trapped is probably 12 weeks and she was at least a month pregnant, maybe more, so, well, yikes.

There are too many people in a park to return her anyhow on the weekend.  All of Oregon seems crammed to the max with people sometimes.  Now you actually have to get a reservation online to see Multnomah Falls.  You get an hour for a dollar.  Pity the souls without internet or a credit card.   Some folks won't be able to see "public lands" for want of internet and a credit card.

The online parts store where I purchased the oven bake element said "great, returns can be made up to a year after you purchase".  This was after I contacted them and told them the part is now useless to me because the range wiring is fried.  I knew there must be a catch to their entire year return the part/refund policy.  There was.  They don't pay postage.  Guess what the post office wanted for me to send that light weight oven bake element back to Illinois?   $49 and some cents.  That's right.  No error in reading.  Almost fifty bucks.  They said its because the box is large.   Really.   So the new part is now in the trash can with the old burned out part.

The range is history with the scorched wiring.  My brother wants me to get a stand alone range to put in that spot.  He'll have to come cut out the build up at the bottom and the counters at the back, with his flush cut tools.  I don't have any flush cut tools.  The current range is a slide in, is why.  He and his wife are vacationing in Alaska for a couple weeks starting in a few days, so at some point after that he'll do the cutting, he says.   No rush, since appliances are very hard to come by these days.   Home Depot had all of two, to look at.  Anyhow, I'm now out of Sterno for my six inch fold up Sterno stove.  I'll get a four pack at Bimart tomorrow.  I can cook about anything on that little thing.

Few days ago I made red curry.

I've been watering the Butterfly Bush so the bees, birds and butterflies have a place to eat.  I didn't get butterfly photos this morning but the bumblebees were at it big time.

Wish I had a photo of this beautiful sunflower before its flower dried out and it sagged over.

The bees also love the catnip plants.  I let them go to flower, just for the bees.  I ordinarily wouldn't and would have harvested for drying.

The six kittens from the vacant house in Lebanon are doing great with the Portland lady fostering them.  Look at Figaro, the black tux girl, relaxing all confident with her best friend River, the family Husky.  The last two kittens went to Heartland Humane in Corvallis.  

So, 13 kittens later, from four different moms, one of whom I never met, a few moms fixed various places, and a lot of driving later---back to normal here.  No extras.  That was just the last couple of weeks.   Ok, now its break time.  Right?

I want my raft to have no holes and laze out on a lake without any motor boats racing around making noise and stinking the air with gas fumes.  Cause I want to daze out for a few weeks, blankly.