We spent way too much of today shopping at Yuma Park N Swap a.k.a. Dog Track Flea Market. I bought a lot of hardware and tools and other "guy stuff" for a variety of home improvement projects I have pending, both here and at home in Canada next spring. We bought quite a bit of fresh produce, including some very fresh tomatillos which Joanne used tonight to make Chicken Chile Verde. WOW ... tomatillos that are that fresh are really tasty !
We did our regular daily two laps around the dog park pack walk. We attended the regular Sunday early evening ice cream social. The feral kitten we were hoping to capture last week has "adopted" a nearby neighbour, befriending the neighbour's cat which spends the afternoons outdoors in its "cat tent". We have arranged for the neighbour to "capture" the feral kitten, at which point we will take responsibility for having it spayed / neutered and innoculated, then adopted.
Monday ; Say hello to Casey ( KC ; Kofa Cat / Kitty Cat ).
This morning Joanne returned from her regular morning water aerobics session accompanied by nearby neighbours Reenee and Paul ... and the little feral kitten that they "captured". I named it Casey. It's a female, probably about three months old. Tiny and sweet ! Probably born feral. She's now going to live in our Arizona room until adopted.
Our pet loving and Humane Society "connected" friend Carol Mae has arranged for Casey to be spayed and innoculated on Thursday at the Humane Society of Yuma Spay & Neuter Clinic. Thank you very much, Carol Mae !
Casey is scared, but her fears are outweighed by her curiosity. So ... her "feral" state is already rapidly diminishing and she's becoming a very sweet little domestic kitten. She urinated on our Arizona room sofa this afternoon < scowl >. Initially we thought she was so feral she didn't know about litter boxes. Later I was able to deduce that she panicked, emptied her full bladder, then hid underneath the fridge in the shed when our pack walk stopped at the "oasis" behind our yard to have a drink. The sound of many dogs nearby, sounding as if they were about to come over the fence and into the Arizona room where she is being "held captive" and unable to escape must have terrified her. Sorry, Casey, we'll deal with the pack walk and the oasis a little differently while you're "captive" in the Arizona room. I didn't figure out what had happened until late in the evening when I was cuddling with her on the sofa and I realized that she reeked of urine. She had "peed herself" while we were on the dog walk, and then we couldn't find her. She was under the fridge. It took us a long time to find her there. And later ... she used the litter box. So ... when it became obvious that she understood the concept of a litter box we were mystified by the urination on the sofa. Eventually I figured it out.
I guess ... after she's gone ... we'll be shopping at Salvation Army and Goodwill for a new sofa for the Arizona room !
We spent the evening out. I picked up my resized rings from Gonzo's Jewellery ! Nicely done ! Good work ! I refilled Lanoire with diesel. Price is still holding steady at $3.739 per gallon. We went looking for ... and found ... DATEPAC, the world's largest Medjool date packing plant. Today I arranged a tour there next week for Escapees Roadrunners Chapter 7 / Kofa Ko-op. We went to Wal-Mart and I bought myself a new laptop computer for Christmas. They had a "one time offer" advertised special on a laptop computer for only $20 more than the Thanksgiving / Black Friday "doorbuster" special. We went to Fry's for some groceries. Then went to KFC for supper. Joanne's choice ! WOO-HOO ... ETYS KFC Buffet ! Joanne looooves KFC ! HA HA HA !
Tuesday ; Well ... there ya go ! Twenty-four hours with us and Casey is "de-feralized" ! HA HA HA ! Today Casey was calm and content. We trimmed her nails. No problem !
I took her inside the trailer to meet Sully. No problem ! I took Bo into the Arizona room to meet her. No problem ! Joanne stayed in the Arizona room with her while I went on the daily pack walk. Joanne wanted to see if Casey panicked when all the dogs stopped at the "oasis" behind our back yard fence to have a drink of water. No problem ! So now we really have no idea what scared her enough yesterday to cause her to pee herself while on the sofa then hide under the fridge. Reenee and Paul gave us some photos they took two days ago on their lot of her interacting with them and their cat Loxi ( a rescue from BiLOXI, Mississippi ... like Bo from RainBOw Plantation RV Park in Alabama ). We attached some "captions" advertising her for adoption and posted the photos on the bulletin board in the clubhouse.
After much nagging from me Joanne began to wash the trailer late this afternoon. Driving south through fall's typical wet weather leaves a lot of road grime on the trailer. And a couple of weeks of baking in the Arizona desert sun makes it extremely difficult to remove. We should have washed it before now !
Pretty sunset tonight !
This morning we both stepped out of the trailer for a few minutes and when we returned ... Bo was hobbling around on three legs. He seems to have re-injured the toe he broke late last winter. Poor Bo !
Late this morning we headed to Mexico for my mid-afternoon dentist appointment. We shopped for a tablecloth for awhile before having lunch. We found a tablecloth that we both liked and wanted. The "opening" price was $65. I offered $10. HA HA HA ! Welcome to Mexico. We broke off negotiations and walked away when the seller's price was down to $20 and I was offering $18. HA HA HA HA HA ! We'll return next week and buy it. Hopefully for $19 ( ROFLMAO ).
For lunch we went to a restaurant that we've never been to before. It was ... very disappointing. Oh, well ... ya win some, ya lose some ! We ended up there because we were exploring an area on the edge of town that we've never been to before, despite how many times that we've been to Los Algodones over the last eight years.
Last summer I broke a tooth. It needs a crown. Today Dr. Camacho ground down the broken tooth, took impressions to have a permanent crown made, and installed a temporary crown. My appointment to have the permanent crown installed is ... wait for it ... the 12th hour of the 12th day of the 12th month of the 12th year. HA HA HA !
For the hour that I was in the dentist's chair Joanne went shopping. And came back with packages of Nugs, mini-Nugs, and mini-Coco-Nugs. OH ... good girl, well done ! HA HA HA !
We returned home just in time to join the daily pack walk that was already underway. Bo was eager to go, but after we helped him over the back fence, his toe was too sore to allow him to join the pack. The pack's attitude was ... "he's injured, leave him in the desert to die, let's go". HA HA HA ! We went to today's late afternoon "heavy appetizers social hour" and chatted with Reenee and Paul, the rescuers of Casey. Reenee was surprised that Dr. Camacho's charge for a crown is $290, all inclusive. And he's one of the most expensive dentists in Los Algodones. She paid about $2000 for a crown recently at her American dentist.
Thursday ; WAAAAAYYYYY too early this morning ( 7 AM ) we took Kasey ( named by me but spelling determined today by Joanne ) to the Humane Society of Yuma Spay & Neuter Clinic. We returned home and I went back to sleep for a couple of hours. Joanne went to water aerobics as she does every weekday.
This afternoon we continued washing the trailer. We're not finished yet. Shortly before it was time to go pick up Kasey we headed to Arizona Market Place. I needed assistance from the LED light bulb vendor. < sigh > It didn't take long to ascertain that I had wired both fluorescent fixtures incorrectly. It was just plain dumb luck that the eighteen inch fixture actually functioned, despite being wired incorrectly. We went to the HSOY Clinic and picked up poor little baby Kasey.
Back at home we fed her ... she was very hungry and thirsty. She was still fighting off the anaesthetic, and was very anxious. She became even more anxious when we put an Elizabethan collar on her ... Kasey the cone head kitty ! It took a long time to get her settled down in the pet carrier that will be her home for awhile. First Carol Mae and then Reenee came by to visit her.
I took Bo into the dog park for the daily pack walk, but his injured toe was still too sore to allow him to walk much. We waited for the pack to get three quarters of the way around the dog park to our "oasis". The dogs all had a drink, visited with Bo, and carried on.
I rewired the twelve inch fluorescent fixture. And tested it. And rewired it again. And tested it. And rewired it again. And so on ... until I finally got it right < rolling eyes >. Tomorrow
I will remove the eighteen inch fixture, rewire it correctly, and reinstall both fixtures.
Friday ; Kacey was much better today. And the spelling of her name has changed yet again ! As I type this ( at 10:40 PM ) she is cuddled up to Bo on the sofa. Good dog, Bo, just relax and allow the kitten to lie against you. While Kacey is recovering from surgery quickly, Bo is not recovering so quickly from his toe injury. Today was his third day of hobbling around on three legs.
HEY ! That was a sonic boom ! Some young Marine pilot learning to fly the newly arrived F-35 Joint Strike Fighter at night is going to get his knuckles rapped for that !
Today I took a hydro meter reading, after using our new solar panels for a week. Our daily consumption of "paid" electricity has diminished from about two dollars a day to about fifty cents a day ! WOW ! And I think most of that fifty cents a day is going to power the large fridge in our shed.
I removed the incorrectly wired eighteen inch kitchen light fixture, rewired it correctly, and reinstalled it. Then I reinstalled the twelve inch fixture over the dinette table. I quite like the new LED conversion lights. I'm planning to convert the last fluorescent light fixture in the trailer, a twelve inch fixture over my desk.
We finished washing the trailer today. WOO-HOO ! Late in the afternoon we went to run some shopping errands. Wal-Mart on Pacific Avenue, Wal-Mart in The Foothills, Fry's, Walgreen's, and finally ... Wienerschnitzel for supper.
Saturday ; Kacey seems completely recovered, although we know that's not true. She's just been spayed / had a hysterectomy, and has a surgical incision with sutures, so healing will take a least a week. BUT ... she's trying very hard ... and mostly succeeding ... in convincing us that she no longer needs to wear her Elizabethan collar and no longer needs to be confined to a pet carrier.
Yesterday we bought a couple of pineapples on sale for a dollar apiece. This morning we put thin slices of pineapple in the Sun Oven to dehydrate. It's a two day process to slowly and completely dry them. Joanne went thrift store and grocery shopping by herself.
I worked on home improvement projects. Well ... and I napped with three animals. HA HA HA ! Before Joanne returned home I did "pet care". Cleaned everybody's ears, trimmed Bo's and Sully's claws. Pretty hard to do "pet care" without help. The process was unfamiliar to Kacey so she squirmed a lot. And Sully is in a bad mood because of Kacey, so he screamed loudly in angry protest while I trimmed his claws in the back yard.
I wonder what the neighbours thought I was doing ? "Does that guy rescue cats just so he can torture them ?"
We attended today's "barbecue your own meat" potluck dinner. It was good ! I spent much of the evening "setting up" the new computer I will be receiving as a Christmas gift. HA HA HA !
DSK
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