Waiting on Trap Pickup

 Scio lady is coming soon, to pick up three traps for her appointments Monday and Tuesday.

I've got them ready, sitting out by the garage, for her convenience.  These days mostly I just loan out traps or pay for the fixes or both.

She's been catching cats on the porch of an empty house near her son's school.   Same old road I caught so many along, that my friend fed.   This lady already caught three, and has a barn home for the two teens of the three waiting.  They get fixed the 11th I think it is.

I had two spots the 11th but the clinic forgot to enter them onto the portal, so now the two spots are on the tenth, and I gave one of them up to this lady.   Apparently she has a barn home for three more of the abandoned cats on the porch of the abandoned house.   

The one I'll be picking up for the 10th appointments will be the orange tabby who badly needs fixing in Waterloo.  The 2nd cat will be from the Scio lady.

I've been trying to make the house better.  The vinyl floor squares that were to last only five years are showing a lot of wear, in the hall, 20 years after I put them in.  20 year lifespan when they declared on the box, "good for five", that's pretty darn good.  

I got some rigid floor panels a few months back when on sale.  Only one box, which was idiotic, but oh well.  Now I'll need another box or two, to complete the hallway end to end.   I covered a middle section with these simple to install panels.  They're kind of cheap feeling underfoot and don't lock together all that well, turns out, but should last until I die.

Since they are 3 feet long and the hallway 3 feet wide, I installed them that way, very quickly.   I caulked the edges to prevent moisture from getting under them that way.   But since the one box only did a short section, looks kind of crappy for now.   I will be repainting the garish yellow walls too, a light gray.  Long overdue on that.  

I'll have to get more of these, to extend it down past both bedrooms on one end and down to the living room wall at the other.   Yes, the house is full of mismatched very old vinyl flooring.   20 years old.  Old paint job.  Very old and done with what I could scrounge at the habitat store initially.  Also sparse old furniture, none bought new.   Next garage sale season, I'll be trying to upgrade on some furniture.  I wish I could get inspired with creativity, to redo, with used items.   People do wonders with nothing, maybe a little paint, along with their own creative minds.  I'm trying to channel those people, lol.  So far no luck.

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I can't believe the amount of junk I don't need that has once again accumulated.   I'm ridding myself of that too.   Giving away anything of it still usable.  

I got a cart!   I love it.  Silverton Cat Rescue lady gave it to me.   It makes my life easier!  No more hauling cats in traps by hand.  I can just load them on the cart.

Check it out!

This was just after I put it together.  The handle folds down.

By the time I started in on this post again, the traps have long been picked up.   Scio lady came with her two boys.  I was chatting with Siah, the older boy, while their mother took Liam inside to use my bathroom, talking about all the projects I needed to do and had put off, and he said, very seriously, but you're so lucky to have somewhere to call home.   I stopped talking then and said "you are so right."  Perspective.  Delivered by a ten year old.