Well now, the two little kitties were not even gone a full day! Early in the morning, the couple calls. They're bringing the girls back.
We rewrite the listing on Craigslist. Even though we emphasized this verbally, we need to put it in writing: no, these are not kittens that will immediately crawl into your lap and shower you with kittie kisses. These are kittens that until about a month ago lived in the nasty, threatening outdoors. They've come a long way. They love me, they love Ed. It will take a few days for them to understand that there are other friends to be had besides just Ed and me.
Phew!
And now we have another interested person. She seems more accepting of the fact that they wont be chummy with her from day zero. They will be scared. They will need a little bit of reassurance.
Was there anything to the day besides cats?
Well, there was my morning walk to feed ... the cats.
And there was breakfast, on the porch, before the arrival of the couple with ... the cats.
And there were multiple conversations and texts about ... the cats.
You're asking (I can hear it!) -- you mean to say you spent/wasted the entire day attending to farmette cats?
Well now, there was that hour in the middle of the day when Ed and took apart the kitchen stove. Does that count as more exciting? [No, there is nothing wrong with the stove, but it appears that the installation of a new water heater requires an analysis and an inspection of gas flow to the oven. I have no idea why. As you can readily guess, I am not the person switching out the water heating system at the farmhouse. Ed has taken on that project. We're changing to an "on demand" water heater. May it work!]
Too, toward evening, I was very happy to get on Zoom with these guys.
A truly wonderful diversion from ...the cats. Even though earlier, I'd picked up a couple of books for them and, coincidentally I swear, they were about ... cats.
We rewrite the listing on Craigslist. Even though we emphasized this verbally, we need to put it in writing: no, these are not kittens that will immediately crawl into your lap and shower you with kittie kisses. These are kittens that until about a month ago lived in the nasty, threatening outdoors. They've come a long way. They love me, they love Ed. It will take a few days for them to understand that there are other friends to be had besides just Ed and me.
Phew!
And now we have another interested person. She seems more accepting of the fact that they wont be chummy with her from day zero. They will be scared. They will need a little bit of reassurance.
Was there anything to the day besides cats?
Well, there was my morning walk to feed ... the cats.
And there was breakfast, on the porch, before the arrival of the couple with ... the cats.
And there were multiple conversations and texts about ... the cats.
You're asking (I can hear it!) -- you mean to say you spent/wasted the entire day attending to farmette cats?
Well now, there was that hour in the middle of the day when Ed and took apart the kitchen stove. Does that count as more exciting? [No, there is nothing wrong with the stove, but it appears that the installation of a new water heater requires an analysis and an inspection of gas flow to the oven. I have no idea why. As you can readily guess, I am not the person switching out the water heating system at the farmhouse. Ed has taken on that project. We're changing to an "on demand" water heater. May it work!]
Too, toward evening, I was very happy to get on Zoom with these guys.
A truly wonderful diversion from ...the cats. Even though earlier, I'd picked up a couple of books for them and, coincidentally I swear, they were about ... cats.
