Book Board Chat

Wow. Very nice cabin indeed! I'm in waiting mode now - the two towers are in the hands of techs and hoping I can get my new one back this week sometime. Then comes the fun part of trying to learn how to use 10. I am very grateful that this old laptop is cranking along sufficiently that I was able to send an invoice to a lady who bought a vase and actually counteroffer HER best offer...no glitches at all. You know, I guess that our neighbor had been trapping feral cats in the neighborhood and they'd been taken to the shelter/pound here, where a couple ladies got them neutered and found homes for them. In a way it's been helpful for me, because I'd been feeding quite a few in the back of our property - how can you NOT? but it gets to be a bit much. One old fellow we called tux (a b/w tuxedo with nice long whiskers and a nice face has been around for a couple years. My friend Barbara took him after he'd gotten into the trap, had him fixed, and took him to her place where she has acreage and can shelter cats and take care of them there. This was a couple weeks ago. He showed up back in this yard about 3 days later.. she says she's about 4 or 5 miles from me! So - we bundled him up and she took him back home again. Kept him in a large pen this time to try to acclimate him and we thought he would pick a "house" or place to call his own in a barn or somewhere. Nope. This morning I was feeding the 3 outside cats and here he came sauntering up the sidewalk in the back yard again! I guess he wants to live here, and that's it. No problem, there are places where he can be in out of the cold. It's like that old song, "the cat came back. Thought he was a goner, but the cat came back, 'cause he couldn't stay away." You have to be a codger to remember THAT!! Amazing that he found his way back the first time; and this time even more quickly. Crossing roads and streets...without mishap. He isn't about to let me close to him right now - I'm sure he thinks I'll just send him away again. Made me a little sad when I realized he wants to be HERE. Period. But okay, what's one more mouth? That big cat rescue sounds great. How people can mistreat animals has always shocked me. But they do. The ladies I speak about here in town are activists and are trying to set up a trap neuter release program here (TNR). Of course the town council just looked blankly at them at first, thinking they wanted to grab cats even if they belonged to people....lord, lord. It's good that they are here - WY doesn't have a lot of help for homeless cats and dogs and people don't think about spay and neuter as they should so problems develop all the time in these little towns.

I will certainly be glad when I can get on FB just a little bit...think of what-all I'm missing!! Jo-anne, glad Jack's surgery went well and the two of you can stop fretting!

Purses. When I lived in the city, I had a shoulder bag PLUS usually another bag with either my camera and an extra lens or two or a couple books, or.... I carried anything I thought I might need in the course of a day away from home. When I left there, it took a couple years for me to get used to NOT carrying a purse but as you say pockets are a godsend. I( have a green Sierra Club bag that has all sorts of things in it that travels with me ijn the car, though I don't carry it on my shoulder. I have a folder with ccs and some cash, then my inhaler and assorted stuff in my pockets...hands free. It works out well, but the habit of carrying a purse was hard to break.