Homeless Cat -- Now Spotacus' Legacy
On 18 Dec, a very large cat showed up at our house. It was late and cold, and he looked in the door and made it clear he wanted inside. Well, since we have two cats already and he was a stranger, we...
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Wow. Time does get away from me. Didn't realize it had been so long.
Came home in mid-April for medical appointments. WLToo went to Mother's and brought her to our place a week later, after her medical appointments. So we've all been lolling about, watching spring happen here.
I've been contacting various independent living facilities about an apartment for Mom. So far, all of them have been ridiculously expensive. We'll visit a couple more places before I have to take her back next week. Really frustrating. She doesn't have enough money for those fancy places, and has too much for the subsidized places, and the in-betweens she can afford don't have any space, because that's where the majority of folks fall, so the waiting lists are huge. Sigh.
Spotacus was thrilled to have me home. He's been so very mellow and affectionate since he became an only cat. His only real problem is creepy crawly skin. He's almost pulled all the hair out of a couple places. When he gets real bad, I put a little coconut oil on that spot, but when it's all over him, all we can do is hope it rains and the humidity goes up. It rained off and on all day today, with 98% humidity, so Spotacus stayed in a porch chair all day, and seems to be feeling much better.
We got our first fawn of the season yesterday. WLToo saw a big doe in the meadow and heard her making the "I'm having a fawn" sounds. Ten minutes later, fawn appears. Ten minutes after that, Mom and baby strolled along the fence line from the front meadow to the back of the property. Fawn is still hiding back there, but Mom came to the feeder as usual. The rest of the seven does who hang out in the meadow are still very preggers or were too young to breed. WLToo is charged with photographing as many fawns as he can, since I won't be here for their grand entrances.
The first seven barn swallow babies have flown already. Twice a day, morning and evening, it gets very noisy as they have their gossip fests on the porches. With the windows open, we can't miss their conversations.
Only one hummingbird feeder is up, but I believe we have four regulars, one that thinks it owns the feeder and three that disagree...
We took L'Andante over to Texas Custom Coach today. They're going to give us an estimate for repairing where the back separated from the bedroom floor, leaving a 1/2" gap; replacing the cracked shower surround, installing the two flat screen TVs and making the old analog locations into shelving, replacing all the flooring with padded vinyl planks, and repairing the six-way controls in the driver's seat. Then we'll use her for a while longer, while I let WLToo try and convince me we need a brand new motorhome. They'll do the work mid-June and be done by July.
That means we'll be able to take her to visit Tall and Short Friends as they workcamp at Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, Wisconsin. WLToo finally admitted his Parkinson's makes driving either a motorhome or a pickup with travel trailer very difficult, but he still wants to RV, so he seems to accept now that I can do all the driving.
Tall and Short Friend also put in an offer on a property just on the other side of our northern neighbor, which was accepted. But they have to be in Wisconsin before closing, so WLToo has power of attorney to close for them. Then, when I'm back home this summer (I'm planning on it, one way or another), I'm responsible for furnishing it as a short term rental. The local thrift store will soon see me a lot. T&SF intend to continue living in their FW in our driveway for at least another six years, before giving up the RV life and moving into the house. Now, if we can just convince our other Army buddy to move to this area...
It's been a very long day, so I'll sign off and try to do a better job of maintaining this thread.
Later, y'all.
Came home in mid-April for medical appointments. WLToo went to Mother's and brought her to our place a week later, after her medical appointments. So we've all been lolling about, watching spring happen here.
I've been contacting various independent living facilities about an apartment for Mom. So far, all of them have been ridiculously expensive. We'll visit a couple more places before I have to take her back next week. Really frustrating. She doesn't have enough money for those fancy places, and has too much for the subsidized places, and the in-betweens she can afford don't have any space, because that's where the majority of folks fall, so the waiting lists are huge. Sigh.
Spotacus was thrilled to have me home. He's been so very mellow and affectionate since he became an only cat. His only real problem is creepy crawly skin. He's almost pulled all the hair out of a couple places. When he gets real bad, I put a little coconut oil on that spot, but when it's all over him, all we can do is hope it rains and the humidity goes up. It rained off and on all day today, with 98% humidity, so Spotacus stayed in a porch chair all day, and seems to be feeling much better.
We got our first fawn of the season yesterday. WLToo saw a big doe in the meadow and heard her making the "I'm having a fawn" sounds. Ten minutes later, fawn appears. Ten minutes after that, Mom and baby strolled along the fence line from the front meadow to the back of the property. Fawn is still hiding back there, but Mom came to the feeder as usual. The rest of the seven does who hang out in the meadow are still very preggers or were too young to breed. WLToo is charged with photographing as many fawns as he can, since I won't be here for their grand entrances.
The first seven barn swallow babies have flown already. Twice a day, morning and evening, it gets very noisy as they have their gossip fests on the porches. With the windows open, we can't miss their conversations.
Only one hummingbird feeder is up, but I believe we have four regulars, one that thinks it owns the feeder and three that disagree...
We took L'Andante over to Texas Custom Coach today. They're going to give us an estimate for repairing where the back separated from the bedroom floor, leaving a 1/2" gap; replacing the cracked shower surround, installing the two flat screen TVs and making the old analog locations into shelving, replacing all the flooring with padded vinyl planks, and repairing the six-way controls in the driver's seat. Then we'll use her for a while longer, while I let WLToo try and convince me we need a brand new motorhome. They'll do the work mid-June and be done by July.
That means we'll be able to take her to visit Tall and Short Friends as they workcamp at Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, Wisconsin. WLToo finally admitted his Parkinson's makes driving either a motorhome or a pickup with travel trailer very difficult, but he still wants to RV, so he seems to accept now that I can do all the driving.
Tall and Short Friend also put in an offer on a property just on the other side of our northern neighbor, which was accepted. But they have to be in Wisconsin before closing, so WLToo has power of attorney to close for them. Then, when I'm back home this summer (I'm planning on it, one way or another), I'm responsible for furnishing it as a short term rental. The local thrift store will soon see me a lot. T&SF intend to continue living in their FW in our driveway for at least another six years, before giving up the RV life and moving into the house. Now, if we can just convince our other Army buddy to move to this area...
It's been a very long day, so I'll sign off and try to do a better job of maintaining this thread.
Later, y'all.
