Hot stuff

While Dave was away last week on a business trip, the air conditioning unit started making horrible screeching noises.  Fortunately, it didn't start to do that until Wednesday, and Dave was home by Thursday evening.

Also fortunately, it was cool and rainy Wednesday night, so I did not cook inside of the house with no a/c.  It was also coolish on Thursday and Friday nights.  Leaving the windows open was sufficient.

So, Dave called someone to come see about it when he got home on Thursday.

UNfortunately, no one could come to look at it until Saturday, and then, as fully anticipated, they said "oh sorry, don't have the parts," because that's JUST how these things always, always go.

It was 84 in the house last night by the time we settled down to try to sleep.  The good thing was that yesterday's humidity was only 38%....and we have fans, and the electricity didn't go out.

But there was not much sleeping.  Sweating and tossing and turning.  Not sleeping.

Today's humidity is 75%. Ew.  Tonight probably won't be restful either.

At least for part of the day today we will be in an air conditioned restaurant for Mother's day.

In other news, we trapped another cat yesterday.

She had what the vet thought looked like a clipped ear (outward sign of a feral that has been through a spay/neuter/release program), though, so the vet suspected that she was already fixed.

I talked to the assistant about it, and said don't sedate and cut.....so we just went and got her without having her undergo surgery.  I didn't think the ear looked clipped in the way that it's usually done, but I didn't want to put her through exploratory surgery just to find out she already didn't have a uterus.

Probably won't see that one here again.  She hasn't been around much, so isn't one of our usual tribe.

If she is an adoptee, the people who own her are idiots to let her run the streets.  That's my humble opinion.  One of our lovely feral dog packs will eat her, or she'll get hit by a car, or someone will pick her up and abuse/kill her for fun, or poison her.

Ugh.

She did seem pretty wild, though, so hopefully, she's not fertile, and hopefully, she's street savvy.

Also, the last time Dave talked to the clinic about their free program, they let him know that it's every weekend now, instead of once a month.

This is exciting news, as it keeps our opportunities wide open for working on this neighborhood's colony.

Also? You are completely out of line, and out of your mind, if you think we are doing this for our own glory.

It has nothing to do with us.

It has to do with being compassionate and living our compassion. We believe that we are saving lives by preventing more kittens from being born, only to suffer and die on the streets.

If you think we are tooting our own horn because we share about it, you are not getting the message.

The message is that people need to take responsibility for situations created by people.  We share about it to get the news out that there ARE programs, and that you CAN help.

Simply put, if we can inspire someone else to pitch in and help, great.  If not, at least we're doing our part.

Are you?  No, I didn't think so.