A co-worker of Dean’s posted this and I just had to nab it! That is so crazy, but yet, so typical of Texas…
Also, we are under a tornado watch! Only in Texas can you have snow and tornadoes! I can see the dark blue clouds now…only 20 miles away!
I got a message today that I am in the pool for the second interview at the College of Engineering doing academic advising. December 4th at 2pm.
Well for a few months mow I have been feeding 3 strays: 2 young males and a pregnant female. The female is our most frequent visitor on the porch. She lets me stay out there while she is eating, even though I can’t get close to her, but I am working on it. The males are more elusive and want nothing to do with me.
Today we had 2 new visitors that I had never seen before. An older large orange male “Garfield” and a younger dark tabby male. They were a duo as evident by them sharing some of the expensive soft cat food donated by a neighbor just today that thought I was the best person ever for taking care of all the strays. =)
These guys hung out on the porch all day just laying around. I experimented to see how socialized they were by opening the sliding door a crack and talking to them. The large orange lump sauntered up and rubbed against the crack, and soon, my hand. His younger friend was more vocal, and more skittish.
I thought I had a chance at getting these 2 pals a home, so I did the routine of locking our kitties in our room and making a path from the porch door to the garage and opened the door. Garfield just came in to where I was sitting, crawled up in my lap and began to purr as I scratched his head. Very sweet lap cat. He must have been abandoned.
The tabby took a little more to get him in. I sat on the porch and he would dash up to me to get a pet and then dash away. I took it into my head just to try to pick him up and bring him in because he did not want to come in the house on his own. I waited about 10 minutes for him to get into the perfect position and then picked him up. He was a little scared, but not violent.
With him in my arms and Garfield trotting after me, we went to the garage. The tabby was really scared and ran around when I sat him down, but I felt better knowing that the price of his uncomfort would be outweighed when he found a home. I called animal control and the same guy that came out last time for the last stray got here in 1/2 an hour.
It was sad to see how scared the tabby was and it was quite an adventure getting him caught and in the carrier. The catcher carried Garfield in his arms and i carried the carrier out to the truck.
I hope they get a home. They have a better chance with it being close to Christmas, the tabby being young, and Garfield being oh so sweet.
Hopefully I can catch the female before she has the babies, although, it would be fun to find them and play with some kittens for a bit =) There is nothing that can give me a warm fuzzy faster than a warm fuzzy kitten!
Well Dean and I decided that we would drive to Waco tonight instead of tomorrow. What is a usual 2 hour trip, would be 3-4 if we left in the morning and we just don’t want to deal with that. Last year, we were late to the noon festivities, so we got the cheapest hotel in town for tonight, even thought we really can’t afford it, but it is kinda exciting to stay in a different place!
Then tomorrow we will head to Granny’s and Blackie’s for lunch and hang out there for a few hours. We plan to leave about 2 so we can get to Molly’s before 5 and have dinner with my family YAY!
We have Holi duty on Friday so Molly can go shopping (for those of you that are non-US, it is THE largest shopping day of the year for Christmas), so tomorrow night we will drive back to College Station with Holi in tow, again YAY! I love keeping her, she is such a cool kid, and now that she is almost 3, she is just like a little person.
Friday is my birthday, and Dean is thinking about going out to dinner somewhere. I am guessing that Harriet & Phil (Dean’s mom and step-dad aka Roscoe lol!), and Molly & Holi (my sister and niece) will join us, maybe even Wade (Dean’s dad) and Jan (his new beau) because they might come down to clean out his house more.
Saturday and Sunday we have no plans but maybe to go see Borat with Harriet and Phil, and Monday we start the journey back with a stop-off in Waco to have dinner with Dean’s dad and Jan.
We have wonderful Grant that is going to come and check in on the kitties. It is so wonderful having great friends that also live in the same apartment we do! I can’t describe the amount of worry he takes off our shoulders by checking in on them and since they are older, it is no longer an option to take them with us on 4 hour car trips. Thanks so much Grant!
Well it is 9:30ish now and we are gonna pack up the car, shut the house down, and head to Grant and Prabha’s for a bit before starting the trip.
TTFN!
Yep the title says it all! My DAD is cooking Thanksgiving dinner and we will all be able to have a family holiday for the first time in years!
My sister Molly called me last night and told me all about it, then I called Dad because I was so excited. He seems to be doing much better now that he has a job. I think he is finally coming back to us.
I am glad of it because this is a bitter sweet holiday; the anniversary of my mom’s death AND my birthday (25 on Friday). I think having one problem being solved (dad) will lessen the effect of the event of 2 years ago.
Gosh, time perception of my mom is totally lost. It does feel like a long time since I have seen her, but then again it was only yesterday when I French braided her hair; the same French braid she died with. I think I am still in denial.
But back to happy stuff, YAY DINNER WITH DAD!
