The Inevitability

 If Heartland has a euth tech there today, Vino will today meet his end.

Vino's an old feral boy here, who has, for two months experienced symptoms one usually associates with kitty IBS.  He's had some issues for almost a year which I attributed at first to worms, but netting and worming him did not help.  Then I thought hairball blockage but hairball cat food for two months did not help.   I even got some coccidia two day treatment but that didn't not help either and neither did panacure. When I try everything possible, and symptoms only worsen, its time.  Blood lately in his stool, makes me believe he has digestive tract cancer.  He's not handleable and cries out when he goes.

So its time.   

In other news, Morning, the flamepoint kitten from Sweet Home, is doing better but still sick.  There were 7 kittens still up there in trouble.  The couple who discovered their plight, at a neighbors house, that had burned, began feeding them.  Then we got the adults fixed, four so far.  And two of the kittens, both girls, both flamepoints.  One of them was Morning, now named Angel, and in the care of the vet clinic.  The couple helping were trying to build a catio to hold the others, after one of the 8 left died.  But he had to work one handed having just had major shoulder surgery, then fell.  So instead, she ordered a catio from Amazon and its awesome!

The 7 remaining kittens (Fleabee, one of them, already fixed), went to the vet yesterday.  They had upper respiratory illness and can't be fixed Monday as planned.  So now they have been wormed, flea treated and are on antibiotics.  The neighbor who is holding them took them to the vet.  These are neighbors you would want to have, helping out someone just down their block whose house burned--twice.   Anyhow, they'll either go from their place to a rescue, or be fixed and another neighbor near her, will help find them homes once fixed.   

Their lives are improving at rocketship speed!

I'm heading to catch a few in Waterloo hopefully this evening, to fill the spots Monday, that the kittens had, to be fixed.  No sense wasting spots.

I saw evidence of rain yesterday morning, just a bit, and this morning, but haven't actually seen any rain.  No atmostpheric river.  Barely any rain at all.   Skies outside are blue.

A little disappointing.

I stopped in at my Lebanon friends place yesterday.   She and her brother are selling the house she's lived in, which was her mom's.  She had taken care of her mom for years, when she was in dementia.  Then she died.  They decided to save money and sell it themselves, not through a realtor, who would take a lot of the money in the sale.   They don't have much money, and need all they get from the sale to buy something else, so my friend and her nephew have a place to live.  They had to be outside city limits, so they can better afford property taxes and they also wanted off city water, to save money on that.  It's tough to afford to live lately, if you haven't noticed.  Every penny counts.

So they go an offer and will close by September if all goes well.  I hope it does for them.  They have a place they will buy immediately, also private sale, from a former coworker of hers, who has to move to warmer less damp climate since her husband gets pneumonia winters here.

Lots of folks can't tolerate the damp winters here and some can't do the pollen and dust filled summers of the mid valley, with the grass seed production.

Oregon just got labeled one of the worst places to move to due to how expensive it is, crime, health care access, somethiing else, I forget.  My Idaho brother sends me such news stories.  He had wanted to move back to Oregon but now can't foresee doing so because its so expensive to live here.  We all know about that already.

Now the news is OR and most other states are about to lose billions from the federal government, mostly in cuts to health care for the poor and food stamps but also for many other things.  Like anything that involves science, lol, just generalizing.   I won't know for some time if I am going to lose housing and/or medicaid, which for me is secondary, not my primary insurance.  With our current admin, things change overnight, so you never know anything til it actually happens.

Oregon is considered a sanctuary state, which means local law enforcement doesn't participate in immigration roundups.  This is largely a financial issue and because immigration enforcement is the responsibility of the feds.    When there's a warrant, locals cooperate, but otherwise I don't think they want involved in rounding up people at random, without knowing the truth of their status.  Who would?

But now the feds are threatening states that don't let local law help ICE, with withholding federal funds, but only federal funds that go to help illegal immigrants.  I have no idea what that involves.    I saw this on the news last night.  I think a quarter of the population in this town might be immigrants whether legal or not how would I know.  I don't know, so I stay out of all this.  To me humans are humans and I'm not god in heaven or the current admin to want to have the power to judge and punish.  

Anyway, if Oregon is expensive now, just think how its going to be in a year or two, with the loss of all that federal money for health care and food assistance.   The food assistance helps also farmers and grocers out.   People scoff at those who can't pay the extreme rent costs in this state or the high food prices, yet at the same time, they want their low wage workers employed at the big box stores, the tourist trap hotels, the food places, the maids, the dishwashers....they don't want to pay them enough to otherwise exist.

If we get nothing from the feds, in the end, nobody will have to pay federal income tax at least.  Why would they?