Christmas isn't far away now.
It's low key seems like compared to other years. Just a few houses with lights on the block.
Mine is one of them.
I got out my new fake tree tonight. Lisa and Savannah sent it to me last year after Christmas when my old one fell apart after decades.
Here's the progression.
Out of the box you just slip the bottom section into the stand and two more sections atop that. But....you do have to spend a lot of time fluffing it out.
I shoved it back near the wall and again tied it in three directions. Then I decorated it. I haven't got many ornaments anymore. Have lost or broken them over the years and never got anymore. Probably won't either.
The kitten from Quartzville road, Peanut, has a badly healed rear leg fracture. He doesn't walk right. The spay neuter clinic said he needed Xrays so next Monday he'll be xrayed and likely that leg will need amputated. Otherwise he'll have a life of joint/bone pain and limping. Then the other wierd one is the tame tabby on white female. She was already spayed. She was caught clear up at mp 15. Only since I quit trapping up there have the cats caught been mostly tame, including Peter Green, Chaca, Petunia, and Peanut the kitten. Thistle, the black male, is NOT tame. At all. It was heartbreaking to know that poor kitten, only 4 months old, probaby sustained a fracture of a rear leg at 8 weeks of age or so, probably when he got thrown out up there, like trash. And that a cat once thought enough of, that someone got her fixed, was then dumped, by age 1, out in the middle of nowhere to starve to death. All the animal abuse and cruelty around here gets to me. It's just constant.
My brother and his wife met me at a restaurant last night and we had dinner. It was a brief visit but nice since I hadn't seen them in about two years. They were on their way to Portland, to fly out to TN to see their daughter. My nephew and his wife, kids were going too, but I didn't get to see them.
That's about it here.
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| Peanut the kitten |
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| Jack was first to check out the tree |
Those poor babies. It hurts my heart and my head.
ReplyDeleteLove the photo of Jack checking out the tree - and I am glad you met up with some family.
It was really nice to see them! Jack likes to be in the middle of things. I need to go out to the living room and see if the tree survived the night. Ha.
DeleteIt is so sad about the kitten's leg but it will be fine after the amputation and he will adapt. If he isn't tame, maybe a barn cat?
ReplyDeleteThat is your brother who owns your house? It must have been nice to see him and his wife in the flesh. I can't think of what TN is? Tennessee?
He's more than fine now. The wild girls in the bathroom, Prissy and Tickle, are mothering him. He adores them. He's tame and I think the lady who trapped him might be going to adopt him once he's been to the vet, gotten the treatment he needs. Yes, Tennessee, Andrew. I was lazy and didn't spell it out. She is in the army and based there.
DeleteThanks for the upbeat ending to the post. It's SO depressing to think about animal cruelty.
ReplyDeleteYes, it is Kathy. But we have gotten 24 cats now, I think it is, out of that fatal situation. Many still waiting on barn homes. We have to be patient, takes time to find them. SCR (Silverton Cat Rescue) is awesome about helping place the wilder cats in barn homes, but they can be tough to come up with.
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