January Moldy

 

  

Big Black is still around.

I put my game cam out for the night, for kicks.  It's kind of fun.

Only two cats on it this time.  One is owned behind me and one house over.  And this guy, I don't think he's owned.   Not fixed, has hair loss on butt end from fleas.   I'll just catch him and get it done, since I now feed him.  

I took five in to be fixed yesterday.   Four girls one boy.   One is yet another from Waterloo park and now the lady who has been feeding them is being harrassed by off leash dog walkers, themselves breaking the law.   How someone breaking a law can be so high and mighty to someone trying to help some strays is bleak to think about.  Someone has an inflated entitlement thing going and lacks a heart.

She asked me to see if SCR can help place the three.  Dog walkers like to complain even when they're the ones breaking rules.   The county does not have the balls to do right by cats.   Or the heart.

We had thought we might have some sunny days.  Instead the fog moved in and the gray.  Maybe today will be better.

Here are the cats fixed yesterday.

Skadoo, Growlers kitten, now almost an adult herself.  She's now being held by the lady who fed them, who hopes I can catch Growler and the other kitten (young adult) and find a barn placement through scr for them.

Mama K from 5th street in Lebanon

Pashmina, a girl, from Tennessee Road in Lebanon.  This lady doesn't know it but HCC, my nonprofit, has already paid for several of hers to be fixed.  The Alpine Vet Tech has taken them to be fixed, paid for by HCC.  I think about 9 others from there.  

Taco, a young male

Virginia, a black tux girl

What's in store for the week?   Gleaners today.   I'm wearing out a bit on Gleaners.   I'm picking up the work too a man has done, but he'll be gone three months after knee replacement.   I don't even know if I'll have time with the new duties to get any food myself.   I'm getting a little tired of a few old folks doing most of the harder labor there.   My brother says its the same in every organization that relies on volunteers--a handful end up doing the work that everyone benefits from.   In this case, however, a lot of the old guarders who have done a lot of the work, are out for medical reasons.  Its just three months I'll be doing the extra duties and I'm more concerned about today, than the rest of the time, because of my trapping obligations later on.

After I get home from Gleaners, I load up a bunch of traps and head out Seven Mile to trap.   She has 16 reservations at the FCCO for Thursday.    I hope to catch about half of them tonight.  They live in a rather small area and will quickly catch on to the traps.   The rest I'll have to try for tomorrow.

 I think about my trips to Astoria with cats, how much I love it there, even when I am tired out from getting up so early to head out there.   I haven't gone in over a year now, mainly because my car is so sketchy, with so many miles on it.  The next thing that likely will go wrong, I'm told, is the AC compressor, its bearings.     I'm not sure it will be that or the fuel pump or head gasket and its already using oil.    I joined this facebook first generation scion group, not sure why.  I'm leaving it already.  It's just a bunch of people who kind of look down on those who use them as a working car, not as collector items all pimped out, with low miles.   Whatever.  I know there are lots of people who get cars to be seen in them or so they'll be looked at.   My idea of cars is how useful they are for what you need.   I guess the groupies are the same, they just need something different from their box cars.  My car has been fabulous for what I need--hauling cats, camping.  Cheap to operate and repair, by comparison to newer cars.   I don't know how people afford the sensor laden new cars.  One sensor goes bad and its a huge amount of money to replace it.   Generation 2 scions (2008 and on) have larger motors so get worse gas mileage and are a foot longer.  I forget when Toyota quit making scions.  Maybe 2015 or 2016.

Many folks think I should buy a new used car.  Hand me the money, and maybe I will.  Ha.  They suggest cars like used Subaru's or other all wheel drives.   They do not understand why I politiely say not interested.   All wheel drives are expensive to maintain and if you blow one tire, you have to replace them all.  they get bad gas mileage by comparison because they're heavier and have bigger engines.   Hey, I live on almost nothing folks.  I know what works for me and what doesn't, with a car.   It'd be nice to wind the clock back in a way, make simple cars, cheap to repair and operate, maybe a car home mechanics could repair.  One of the biggest requests on local facebook groups is about cars.  When a car breaks down, people are stranded and can't get to work or get their kids to daycare or whatever.   Constant pleas on facebook for help with car repair costs.  Help with car repair, rent payments, a place to live, and veterinarian bills are the most common requests I see.

Anyhow, I hope I see the sun today.