More Rain

 There's a lot more rain coming this week.   Too much, on top of what we've already had.  I'm done with winter weather and winter has not even begun.

It has not been cold. There is no snow in the mountains in fact.   Abnormal for mid December here.  We might get two more inches or 2 1/2 I don't know, of rain, Thursday alone.   

I'm done with trapping for December at least.  I return the four loft colony cats this morning.  Whiskey and Brandy are girls, while Rum and Tequilla are boys.   The clinic wanted me to tell the old caretaker he's doing a good job, that they are well fed and healthy.   So I told him and the affirmation from clinic staff really made him proud, I could tell.   

The HCC car badly needs a good cleaning.  Yikes, it can make my eyes water, from all the cats hauled.

Christmas is just over a week away.  I haven't sent a single card.  I can't even find them in a store this year.  I guess they're old fashioned now.  Maybe we text Christmas memes instead of sending a Christmas card.  Makes sense I guess in our instant digital crap age.   

The feeder lady stopped yesterday and picked up the little girl cat that had been in the colony with Julius, Moxie and two girls not yet caught.   I'd named her Piper for the records but the clinic wrote her name as Pipen.  Hardly matters.   She'd been in my bathroom for a week.  The feeder lady got a relinquishment appointment at the local large shelter.   We thought she'd have to lay out $100 for relinquishment but they only wanted $20 since she was a stray.  Feeder lady said they really liked her and knew of someone who might want to adopt her immediately.  After her stray hold, that is.  That's good.   She is a sweetie and very adaptible.

Silverton Cat Rescue barn cat placement team sent me update photos of the last two they placed, from Berlin Road, also associated with the Lebanon feeder lady.  These are two of the four I caught while feeding the cats for her while she had hip surgery.  I spent so many hours after Abby and Slabbo, the two adults, and Meeko and Pokey, the teens.  I'd already caught their two brothers a month before, and SCR also placed them.  All four of the teens, Abby's litter, turned out to be boys.  Pokey is now named Jackson and looks very fat and content at the new barn home, with his brother Meeko, who was the last one I caught there.

Here's Pokey, now named Jackson, looking very fat and lazy, in his barn home.   Meeko, who is the last cat I caught at that location is a little shyer.

Lots of violence lately, innocent people getting gunned down or stabbed.   We sure can be a violent species.  But really, its only a tiny percentage of people who are violent.  Most are good and kind or just normal folk living their lives.