January 9, 2005

January 9, 2005

C.A.R.E. Centre

DAY 205

 

Today was sunny and warm again. There was a power failure this afternoon that lasted a couple of hours. Who cares ? We're completely self-sufficient in the trailer, with or without 120 Volt power. It did, however, make supper preparation for Joanne more difficult. It's hard to prepare food for 50 in the dark.

After having her inside the trailer for a couple of hours last night, isolated from Teddy and Bo, we put Rain into the cab of the truck over night. She did just fine. I brought her back into the trailer this morning. I put her in the bedroom with the door closed, and Teddy and Bo stayed in the living area. Early this afternoon, I decided to introduce Bo and Rain. It didn't go very well. Bo jumped up onto the bed where Rain was. He approached her cautiously. Good dog ! He sniffed her nose. She sniffed his nose. She hissed. He jumped back and starting barking at her. She jumped back and started swiping at him. < sigh > Maybe later. Teddy seems content to just ignore her presence for now. He's used to us fostering all kinds of animals when we owned the businesses.

Rain is very happy to spend the day lounging around on a warm, soft bed. Her anxiety is diminishing, and she's becoming quite content. Joanne found a huge, blood filled tick on her neck this morning. I removed it.

I worked for a short time on the lawn mower maintenance this afternoon, then did some maintenance around our trailer. I fell getting out of the back of the truck, and bruised my leg pretty bad. It's the second time I've done that !

By the way, I'm having no difficulty whatsoever maintaining my quota of discarding five ladybugs ( from Missouri ) per day. On warm days like this, when they come out of their hiding places inside the walls, or wherever, we usually discard more than a dozen. That's a minimum of five per day, for the last six weeks. You do the math !

After Joanne was finished in the C.A.R.E. Centre's kitchen after supper, we rushed over to the weekly Sunday night ice cream social at the Activity Centre on the Rainbow's End side of the park. Another couple from Ontario Chapter 18 have arrived here ; Karl and Sandy Jacobsen. We don't know them well, but they're friends with the McGeachy's who are still here.

DSK