< sigh > While Joanne cleaned up the pet carrier and Elizabethan collar, I bathed Kacey. OH MY GOODNESS ! ! ! Good thing I had trimmed her claws a few days earlier. I don't think I've ever had the misfortune of giving a kitten a bath before. And I hope I never have to again ! Especially at 4 AM ! ! !
Today Joanne baked a loaf of beer bread in the Sun Oven. We had it with supper tonight. It was quite good !
Right after lunch we headed for Gila Ridge High School's Performing Arts Center to see the Yuma Community Theater production of It's A Wonderful Life. I've always disliked the movie version and was hoping that a live theatre version would be more to my liking. Well ... it wasn't, really ! After the play we went to PetsMart to stock up on pet foods and supplies using a discount coupon I got online. Joanne and I made a very small contribution as part of a group here at Kofa Ko-op, headed up by our friend Carol Mae, that sponsored ( paid the medical and adoption fees ) for two dogs and two cats at the Humane Society of Yuma. At Joanne's suggestion, Carol Mae selected four older or special needs animals. With all fees paid, they were put into the Humane Society adoption wing at PetsMart this weekend. When we were at PetsMart around 4:30 PM this afternoon, two of the four had already been adopted. WOO-HOO ! Well done, Carol Mae ! The seven year old dog Glen and the three year old ( ugly ) cat Baxter had new homes ! We visited with the special needs dog Scrappy that was one of our group's sponsored animals. Scrappy the fuzzy little terrier had been severely injured when attacked by two larger dogs. He required extensive surgery. He is now healed, except for permanent nerve damage in one front leg. It twitches constantly ... I think with each heartbeat ... and makes him look somewhat like he's constantly waving. He's cute. I hope he's adopted soon. He deserves a second chance.
We returned home in time for the Sunday ice cream social. Afterwards we had supper while watching the season finale of Amazing Race. Congratulations to the gay goat farmers. Who'd have thunk ... ?
Monday ; HA HA HA HA HA ! Kacey has decided that Bo's ears are kitten toys. She leaps up onto his head and attacks his ears. HA HA HA HA HA ! Good dog, Bo, just relax !
The park's assistant managers are refurbishing their Class A motorhome. Yesterday they offered us some of their motorhome's old furniture for our Arizona room. YES ! Thank you. This morning we picked up their sofa bed and dinette table with booth seating.
We took Bo and Sully to the veterinarian today for their annual examinations and innoculations. Sully's blood pressure is good, indicating that we are administering the correct dosage of medication. BUT ... HA HA HA ... each of the three times they checked his blood pressure ... it rose ! HA HA HA ! He's so irritable ! Bo and Sully are both in excellent health.
This afternoon we rearranged all the furniture in the Arizona room, incorporating the new sofa bed and dinette booth. I spent quite awhile installing the dinette table and booth seating. The new furniture and the rearrangement of all the furniture makes the Arizona room even better than it was. It's great !
We continued to dehydrate pineapple slices in the Sun Oven today. I went by myself to The Foothills to send a package at the UPS Store. Very bad service, and outrageous pricing. The package returned home with me ! We'll be taking it to the Post Office tomorrow ! On the way home from The Foothills I stopped to look at an old Class C motorhome for sale for $8000. What a piece of crap ! The $5000 one we saw a few weeks ago was better. Back at home, before the sun set, I did some minor home improvement and maintenance projects. In the evening I did some online financial work.
As I type this at 10 PM all three animals are asleep on the sofa, Kacey sleeping right on Bo's butt. How cute !
Late this morning we headed to Bard, California. Normally if we were going to Bard it would be to get date shakes. But today ... I was headed to the Bard Post Office to mail a package. I will NOT go the Yuma Post Office in mid-December ! Been there, done that ... not stupid enough to do it again !
After mailing the package, on the way back to Yuma, we stopped and picked a few
( oversized and left in field ) heads of lettuce from recently harvested fields. Always a bonus included on a trip to Bard. HA HA HA ! We returned to Yuma to meet our friends Lynn and Micha at Golden Corral for a late buffet lunch. We had a great meal and spent the afternoon eating and talking. We returned home just in time for the daily pack walk. Lynn and Micha joined us with their dog Gypsy. After the pack walk they joined us in our Arizona room and spent the rest of the afternoon visiting with us.
Our first meeting of Lynn, Micha, and Gypsy was here in the Kofa Ko-op dog park five years ago when Gypsy was a pup. We used our old cat Teddy to introduce Gypsy to cats. And that was the genesis of Gypsy becoming cat friendly. She visited today not only with Bo, but with Kacey as well. So Kacey continues to learn that some dogs can be friendly towards cats. And the circle keeps going around and around. HA HA HA ! Gee, we're good with animals, n'est-ce-pas ?
After they left Joanne went shopping. Renie and Paul came over to visit Kacey ... and bring us a container of fresh, home made cookies. Well ... thank you very much. I sought their opinions on Kacey's future. I'm being encouraged to surrender Kacey to the Humane Society SOON ! As in ... before Christmas ... to increase her chances for adoption. I'm resisting that !
Wednesday ; Los Algodones, Baja California, Mexico
This morning I did an obedience session with Bo in the dog park ... well done, Bo, good dog ... then we left for my dentist appointment at noon in Mexico. My dentist has a "crown specialist" on staff, and I didn't even see the dentist today, just the "crown specialist". She yanked out the temporary crown, then fussed and fiddled with the new crown for about half an hour before getting the fit exactly correct. Then she decided she wanted to send it back to the lab for some final repolishing. I snoozed in the reclined dental chair for half an hour. HA HA HA ! When it came back from the lab she glued it in and ... adiós, señor. The line up at the border crossing back into the United States was about ten minutes today. WOW ! CBP is getting faster and faster !
On our way home we stopped to visit the brand new Humane Society of Yuma animal shelter, opened yesterday. I spoke to them about the likelihood that we will have to surrender Kacey to them on December 27 when we leave here < sigh > if we have failed to find her a new home by then. We arrived home in time for the daily pack walk. That was followed by tonight's communal turkey soup supper at the clubhouse. At the soup supper we discovered that some old friends from Ontario have arrived here at Kofa
Ko-op. We visited for awhile with Hans and Peta. Following the soup supper was Kofa Ko-op's annual "Christmas parade". Our intent was to walk with the parade, with Kacey in a Christmas stocking, and a "please adopt me" sign. BUT ... the parade moved much too fast for us to keep pace with, so we didn't get to exhibit her as much as we would have liked. Afterwards Carol Mae came over to discuss Kacey's future.
Thursday ; Today was mostly sunny and mild, becoming cloudy, cool, and windy late in the afternoon. It rained heavily in the evening. Ironically, it also rained heavily on this date last year.
Joanne went shopping with her friend Eileen today. I went shopping by myself, to Wally's World, Al's RV, and Arizona Market Place, mostly for hardware for home improvement projects. I spent the afternoon working on home improvement projects.
Friday ; Last night something happened in our bed that hasn't happened in 3½ years.
< whispering > Bo was thoroughly lick groomed by a cat. HA HA HA ! Kacey was grooming herself while cuddled close to him. He rolled over, shoved his head up against her face, and soon she was grooming him. And now that he's figured out how to get her to groom him ... HA HA HA ... he's getting his share every time Kacey grooms herself.
This morning we went on a tour of Datepac, the world's largest Medjool date processing and packing facility. A tour that I arranged for Escapees Roadrunners Chapter 7. We had 32 people on the tour. And it was a very good tour ! Afterwards we drove to The Foothills for the annual huge Helping Hands Yard Sale at Gila Mountain United Methodist Church. We each bought a few small items.
Tonight I am deeply saddened by the tragic massacre of twenty children in Connecticut !
Saturday ; We got up early again this morning. HMPH ! Potluck breakfast ! I'd rather sleep ! Joanne prepared her contribution and off we went. When breakfast was over our friends Hans and Peta came over to visit. We spent the rest of the morning visiting with them, and as they were preparing to leave around noon, Peta leaned over to Hans and whispered ... "I want the kitten". WOW ! Didn't see that one coming ! I just about fell over ! HA HA HA ! Just then Renie arrived for a visit with her cat Loxi. So ... Kacey's original rescuer got to see Hans and Peta tentatively adopt Kacey.
Renie visited for awhile and as she left with Loxi a new neighbour was walking by with her cat. So ... we invited Dana and her cat Louis into the Arizona room to visit with us and meet Bo. By the time Dana and Louis left after a brief visit it was time for a late lunch ... and, of course, a nap with Sully. HA HA HA ! Sully is very happy that Kacey has left.
This afternoon I converted the third and last of our fluorescent light fixtures to LED. We went on the regular daily pack walk, then walked over to Hans and Peta's to see how Kacey was doing. We had told them to take Kacey for a "test drive" and to feel free to return her to us if anything didn't work out. By the time we visited Kacey had been with Hans and Peta and their cat Simon for about five hours or so. And everything had gone well so far !
It would be wonderful if Kacey found her “forever home” with Hans and Peta. Let's hope !
DSK
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