Insurance Woes

 I suddenly realized my old car liability insurance had gone up by hundreds, when I went to renew it.

I've had no wrecks or tickets in decades with this insurer.  Is this my reward?  

I couldn't sleep night after I discovered the increase.  How can I survive on a fixed income in a world so expensive?  What do I let go, I wondered.  I feel trapped into this decline in quality of life.  Not that I have ever lived with much.

Yesterday morning I was up early to take the black boy over to RADpets to be checked for sex, spay/neuter status and updated on shots.   If he got that done, he could go to a barn home today.   A good one, that is extremely safe.  Otherwise, the lady who had fed there would probably have kept him and she can't afford more cats.  Or anything else.  Her truck is broken down.   She just had hip replacement but is having to ride her heavy 3 wheel bike to work.  (which in reality will likely help her hip).  They're trying to sell the house she lives in since her mom died and left it to both her and her brother and they have to split it.  Anyway.....getting the black boy she'd fed to somewhere else is kind of crucial.

And very helpful to her.   It hard on her not being able to feed him or the Siamese out there.   It is sadder for those cats.

I came home after taking him to the clinic, and called the insurance company.  I knew the phone people probably don't make that much either.   I told them the truth, that I was horrified to find out the policy had gone up hundreds of dollars and that I'm just trying to survive now and I can't afford that much for liability insurance on an old junker car.  

The guy was helpful and rewrote a new policy that is half what they were going to charge for the old.   Relief flooded through me the rest of the day.

It was then time to get Scooter and Fish, the two trailer park cats fixed last week, into carriers, and go meet up with Silverton Cat Rescue barn team.  They had a place for them to go.   

After leaving them with the barn team member, I headed to Lebanon to pick up the feeder lady.  Her bus wasn't running that took her to Waterloo so I gave her a ride.  We went to where she'd fed the siamese again but she could not call her up out of the brush or flatlands.   Darn it.   We then headed to Waterloo via backroads, came around a corner and there was a Fed Ex truck pulled to the side of the icey two lane road, lights flashing.  I could see down the embankment that there was a car with tires straight up in the air---upside down in other words.  The Fed Ex driver was down trying to help occupants out of the upside down smashed up car.  I bet it slid on ice.  A woman and an older man got out but someone was still inside.  I heard sirens in the distance and we left, to avoid getting in the way of first responders.

Eventually I picked up Boulder, the black cat, from the clinic, came home with him, and put him in the holding cage for the night.   This morning he is leaving to go with SCR barn team.    I went to bed very early.   It was a busy day.

It was nice to walk around a bit at Waterloo park.   I don't go there anymore due to the county's $9 day use fee.  But the Lebanon lady has a parking pass.

After the ice is gone, the weather has been beautiful.   Unfortunately, we have almost no snow in the mountains.  The skiers and boarders must be so disappointed.   Next summer's water supply is also a worry, since mountain snow provides it.