Spike

Cat One of the usual stray cats we feed my wife named Teddy because of her markings she looks like a mini bear lol.

I don't know if it's no kill, all I know is it was the only shelter within the tri county area that would take the cat in. Every other place my wife and I contacted are beyond capacity, even the volunteer pet fosters are stretched to their limits as well. Due to a lot of factors, some of it due to a lot of houses in the area being bought up and turned into rentals that don't allow pets so pet surrenders are way up recently. One of the local news stations even did a story on pet surrenders a while back too.

This week reminded me why I prefer the company of animals and plants to people. One of the resident stray cats is really sick. It usually stayed near other buildings on the property till our new nextdoor neighbor moved in. She puts out wet cat food at night for the strays which drew this one down here. I at first thought it was a cat someone dumped off as that has happened many times before here so I put a notice on a local pet lost and found and everyone said contact the local humane society as they'll have connections with local veterinarians and can get the cat healthy again if possible. So I did that and even though they're full they made an exception because it's really sick and said if we can catch it bring it in. I don't have a live trap but the nextdoor neighbor does. I contacted her since she's been trying to get it to come to her the past few weeks so she can try to get it help. Told her they will take the cat in. At first she was all for it set the trap up and we put food in it. Unfortunately the cat is so skinny it didn't even set the door linkage off the first time it went in there. "Oh well we'll try again tomorrow". We asked a neighbor that lives a few buildings up as she was the T'n'R lady that trapped and got all but 2 cats on the property fixed several years ago. She was going to come down the next day and put fresh food in the trap since she's retired. I've been upfront and honest with the both of them, sending screenshots of the messages from person I was in contact with that the local humane society. The next door neighbor decided she didn't want the cat to get caught because they could euthanize it so she told the other neighbor not to feed it and hid the trap. We didn't find out till we got home and didn't see the trap. I took the trash out and the neighbor that was going to set the trap caught me and told me that the nextdoor neighbor didn't want the cat caught and the reason why. I told her that's fine and the cat is now their problem now and from here on out. The nextdoor neighbor has been avoiding us since the failed trapping attempt which is fine with me as I have nothing to say to her since she couldn't be upfront and honest with me instead of going behind my back and telling the other lady she wasn't going to let it get trapped anymore. Now I'm training that cat to stay out of my patio by spraying it with water as I don't want it anywhere near me. This cat is so bad off it has a bunch of fly's hovering over it and following it everywhere all the time. We can't have our screens open on our screen door because I don't want my cat to catch whatever it has. Hopefully my "training" works the next few days and it learns not to hang around my front door and patio. As for the neighbor it's just going to be Hi and Bye from now on. Not going to waste anymore of my breath on her. Wish we would've never bought her the gift card for groceries last month when she was strapped for cash till her next paycheck. As Stone Cold Steve Austin says "Don't Trust Anyone".

Nightie

Walkabout

I used to respect him so much till he went all extreme in his political leanings.

Roundabout

Dang it's so hot roads are popping https://www.facebook.com/ABCNews/videos/2079222079268402/ Wonder if the city or county will pay for any damages to the Corolla? Maybe they will repaint it orange and add some numbers to the doors

Materials

Keep cool this week fellas.

Town

No lol. Been a busy few weeks. Entered my Pontiac G8 into the local British car show . Got a lot of questions on that lol. Phrase I used most was it's originally an Australian car. Been getting that patio pots and planting boxes ready since we had a dry weekend. Then got the usual less than 48hr notice that the patio fences will be painted this weekend so no have to move everything to the center of the patio. So after an 11hour workday I get to go home and do more work moving everything.

Horsemen

Last Saturday I took a ride in a 97 year old Ford Tri Motor plane at the Toledo air show. My brother in law has never flown before so we seen that plane was offering rides and signed up. Was an interesting experience, I should have worn earplugs though as it was extremely loud. The airshow was pretty cool aside from the owner of the only P51 Mustang that showed up didn't put it on display after it flew. I really wanted to get close to it to check it out as it's my favorite plane. I got a bad sunburn unfortunately, been dealing with that the past week. Yesterday we hit the annual neighborhood sale. I scored a mechanic/detailer seat for $5, just needs new wheels and I'm going to put a new seat on it. Scored some star trek books and other things too.

Tire HossC they're called SpaghettiO's here. They also have them in other shapes too.