Clean Up Days

 

Gigi likes to take over my lap when I watch TV.  She now tolerates the presence of old Fantasia, who also likes to be on the chair with me.   Fantasia has a constantly flicking very long tail.  Gigi exhibited extreme patience, I thought, with that tail whapping her in the face.

This morning I got one weekend chore out of the way and changed the cat hauler car cabin and engine air filters.  The cabin filter was especially overdo for change but I've put it off, because for some reason, those little thin filters cost a small fortune.

There was an unknown long hair black cat out front of my place when I got home from getting the cabin filter.   Oh no, I thought, not another.  The cat took off instantly when I just looked his way.  Another male, is my guess, out looking to get himself in trouble.

I've been involved in the big clean up, which takes me awhile.  Cleaning 19 traps.  Laundering all those cage covers.  Cleaning up in the garage where the cats were, before surgery.  Cleaning the car inside which is really stinky, after such a large number of cats caught a ride in it clear to Portland.  The 19 cats I took up were largely males, many were very large males.   So you can imagine.

I only have five more appointments this month, which is good, to take it a bit easy.   I start PT for my back end of the month.  I have to have at least six PT appointments before I see the neurosurgeon again.  Strangely, my back seems to be improving after a few weeks doing simple exercises I found on youtube.

I'm really happy about that and hope improvement continues.

Other than that, life goes on.  I read books, catch cats, enjoy my own cats and long for summer.  I lead a simple but busy in spurts life.  I do love helping people solve their cat issues.   But I also enjoy my home life, with my own cats, very very much.

I love youtube.   It's so helpful.   Today doing errands I got honked at twice, after red lights turned to green and I struggled to get the car into first gear.   It's been slipping out of gear, hard to get into first gear---linkage very very loose.  So I get on youtube and discover quick cheap fixes for a loose linkage cable or a broken or missing bushing where it attaches.   Hoping its that simple.  They don't sell the bushings, just a replacement cable so youtubers have all kinds of DIY's for that bushing.  One of them just uses plastic bumper clips.  Plastic screw anchor might work too, with a bit of remodeling.