Projects

 Today it was clean the garage day.

Didn't help it was like 90 degrees inside it.

Nonetheless I set to it.   When did I get behind on it?   Way back in late April, when I caught about 40 cats and got them fixed in four days, most of them I took clear to Portland.

My back hasn't recovered and neither had my garage.   Today I got it mostly cleaned up.

Doing too much lifting and carrying along with exhaustion and long drives affected a spot on my back that sent at first tingling and uselessness along my right leg to my ankle.  That finally went away leaving only pain, worse in the morning.  The pain is sometimes a burning type pain, that goes down across my hip from my back and down my outer thigh.   Its not fun.

Ice relieves it, so I ice the spot on my spine where it originates several times a day and at night.

I only have to ice that one spot to take it all away too.

I'll be sore tomorrow.  All that clean up today.  But...I also decided to catch Cookie.  She's very feral and spends all her time in the cat yard and garage cat room.   She's been dragging a mat, hanging from one side.  She's another of the super long hairs with fine matting undercoat.  She is the hardest to catch of all the long hairs and so feral I have to be fast and get what I can get done.

I caught her using the remote control rigged to the one large trap still here.  The other two are loaned out.   The one here is my crooked trap since I backed into it in my garage years ago.   I then brought her into the bathroom in the trap and let her out into my homemade net.  I put a towel over her.  She was fighting and growling.  I lifted the net edge, reached in with the clippers and got what I could as fast as I could.   She got too hot fast.  I'd had the AC off and it was 80 in the house.   Darn it, I thought, if it'd been cool I could have shaved her a bit more decently but at least I got the mats off and flea treated and wormed her.  She started open mouth breathing from heat and stress and I let her go instantly then.

It's not an activity for the faint of heart.

This is the big mat that had been hanging off her side.  Got it off at least.

Some of her hair I got off in record time

Took this over my shoulder right after I released and just before she shot back out of the bathroom back out to the cat yard.   Would have liked to have been able to shave her down all over but I got the worst off.

That was my day.  Got some things done needing done.