Friday

 In the end, I took 8 cats to be fixed on Friday up to the FCCO clinic in Portland.

There were three young (two month) black kittens, who turned out to be two boys and one girl.

There was a four month black kitten who turned out to be a girl and a three month old fuzzy orange tabby male kitten.

Also, three adults, a gray male, a torbi female and a brown tabby female.  There are lots more there needing fixed.

Adult male

One of three small black kittens

Girl teen

Pretty boy orange tabby kitten

Another of the three black smalls

Torbi girl

No photo of the brown tabby female adult.

I didn't get much sleep Wednesday night, before rising at 4:00 a.m. to be out there at the trapping location by 5:00 a.m.  Then for some reason, sleep wasn't forthcoming on Thursday night, making for a very difficult day Friday.   However, I drove up to the clinic like the wind blows without encountering trees to slow it down.   Meaning---traffic unbelievably light.   I thought to myself "I like this".   Way home, not so good though, crushing relentless congestion.

I was too tired to do a darn thing once I had checked in the cats.  So....I finally drove back to the FCCO clinic parking lot.  There's a nice shade tree overhanging it and a light breeze blew through.  I had no padding for the back and only a bag of birdseed to use as a pillow but I crawled into the back and slept almost 3 hours.  I was dead tired and the long nap helped immensely.

I got home about 6:30 p.m. to a pizza at my front door.  A local friend ordered it for me and had it there waiting for my arrival, still hot.   I'll be eating on that for days!  It was such a nice surprise.

I fed the 8 cats and situated them for the night, cleaned my cats litter boxes, and went to bed.

This morning, I put cage covers in the wash, returned the 8 cats fixed yesterday, washed and cleaned the traps, then headed out to trap the location for Mondays' five appointments.  It's a business building.  Nobody there on weekends.  And there's a secret cat feeder. Nobody knows who it is.  The business lady had even put up a sign asking that no one feed so they can be trapped to be fixed but someone has been doing it anyway, and there was a huge plate of dry food and an open can of wet, dried out however.   Oh boy.  I put all the food into a plastic bag and left.  No sense wasting time when they've been fed.  Turns out the business lady hasn't seen them herself for almost a week.  Who knows if they're still there.  I've never seen these cats so I'm trapping for ghosts.  Why people willingly knowingly sabotage trapping efforts is beyond me to understand.  

I will try again and tonight I will go over and no doubt have to remove more food.  

Heat set in again today after it was so mild yesterday, with no humidity.  Again with the humidity today.   I went to Sweet Home to my friend's moving sale.  She and her daughter are former KATA volunteers and now moving to Michigan.  They got a really nice place with property there for $159k.  Around here, such a  place would probably be 3/4 million.  The place they were renting, a tiny little house, under 1000 square feet and built back in the 40's was sold by their landlord for $265k.   They have to be out by the 25th of this month, I think it is.   Talk about stressful.

I bought their microwave, since mine is dangerous currently.  Mine will make sizzling noises inside after its shut off, even after its unplugged.  So I can't use it.  Obviously.  Seeing an almost brand new one at their garage sale was really fortunate timing.

Tomorrow will be mid 90s again.  I think next week will be better--mid 80's.  Here's hoping.