Thursday 09-03-2017 – Panic Day? No Worries!

Didn’t make it in to the Cafe yesterday.
We have had lots of rain, with some areas getting a months rain in less than a day. Flooding, slips and closed roads became the norm for those areas. We had plenty of rain here but not to the extent of floods. It’s not finished yet with more heavy rains forecast over the next few days.

Morning KJ and MS! …. squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee – what is that baby thingy? …. looks like maybe an otter? ……. just about all baby things are cute!

time for me to start a busy day ….. blessed to have the business, but will be glad when things mellow out for a while! ….. made plane reservations for Mr. AV to take Lu to Boston to meet Son the first of April …. poor girl’s been with us since Christmas …. she misses her Ve and Daddy! ….. logistics aren’t easy when we live so far apart!

I love otters. At the Biodome here in Montréal, there are some otters with a natural-type setting including a tank they can plunge into. They are at least as playful as kittens. Lovely things, unless you are a fish.

Livia, not really panic, but very upset as the weather has turned cold again. She did go out for a bit in our garden below, but she didn’t stay long, with the cold wind. And is mightily annoyed at me, the Deity in her eyes, for turning off the warm, sunny spring weather.

I’m still watching X Company, speaking of panic. Sabine is actually learning some Polish from Anya, whom she addresses by her real name. As all hell breaks loose!

Nothing like coming into the cafe really, really late, but I did make it!

JJ, so glad that you got some cat food for your crew from the shelter! You are wonderful for the work you do for your kitties! I hope your mom isn’t having any lingering effects from her fall.

MS I hope all is well for you. There’s nothing quite like suffering through a drought, then all of a sudden getting hit with a deluge of rain! Too late to do any good now, but a good soaking would have been great a few months ago I’m sure.

We are supposed to get a couple of inches of snow tonight, after it being 60 here this afternoon. Rain, changing over to snow with winds, ugh! We have lit a fire in the woodburner yet again!

Oh Livia, I’m so with you on being upset with the cold weather!
I have been through floods when I lived down the valley and again when helping clean my mom’s flooded house. It is a messy and sad job.
How often does Shadz get her allergy shot? At this last round with Comet the vet is thinking allergies as he seems to be snotty and sneezy about every six months.
KJ, that wind was nasty here today too. Yep, the Flying Nun reference is a good analogy to you on a windy day!
It has gotten sharply colder here too. The wood burner had a rest for the past two days but has been going in the evening and is currently going. Of course Miss Leela is happy! A few inches of snow is expected late tonight into tomorrow morning. I just took an inventory and there are three cats in shelters in my yard, makes me happy. A fourth, of course, is lounging inside. Mama Cat goes wherever it is she goes. I hope that for the next few bitter cold days she decides to stay close to her food source.
I’m leaning toward the conclusion that Louie had a heart attack. He was a big boy, so he was certainly at risk.
Before all of this happened I was thinking of my Uncle Ray, dad’s second to youngest sibling. 9 years ago today Chief Ray answered his final fire call. He was felled by a massive heart attack at the scene of the fire, which was only a few miles from my home. When I think of how I am pet as well as adult and infant CPR certified and that I am 0-2 in reviving unresponsive cats, I think of Uncle Ray and how first responders were already there, and they couldn’t save him. When one is trained for CPR, they don’t really come out and say that sometimes there is too much damage and you cannot save the person. Life sure is tricky, and I am happy that TDKr’s here seem to live life to the fullest. There’s always time for a kitty cuddle!

KJ, just wondering who will survive at this point… Wouldn’t bet on Faber, as he’s brassed off both sides…

Yes, I also had to watch parts of it a couple of times as it was very involved. I guess we’ll never know how the Polish partisans managed. An interesting mention was of Stalingrad, a turning point in the war and deliberately hushed by the Reich during their celebration. After all, they are in 1943 now (the 10th anniversary of the Reich).

I think Alfred pretty much has to survive as a bearer of remembrance, but other than that have no clue…

Hmm, Sabine might take up with someone decidedly non-Aryan after the war such as a returned Jewish Berliner or a Black Allied soldier.