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There are days when i work for Ms. G when we stand in a small room sorting things, or even a bigger room sorting things, and i get sleepy enough to nod off with simply being bored as she works very slowly.
Then there are days like yesterday, where there is something bigger than both of us worth doing.
Because there are neighborhood feral cats where she lives and several people put out feeding stations for them, they are all fixed, ear tipped, and given a rabies vaccine, others who want to get rid of their cats simply dump cats in the neighborhood figuring "someone" will care for the animals.
One such poor guy was chased up a tree by a neighborhood bully cat (yes, some owned cats are allowed to roam as well, not good for them but it can't be stopped) and was high enough up there he needed a rescue, but Mr. Rudy the rescue guy could not get his equipment into the tree because a smaller tree grew right next to it and interfered with every shot to get his ropes up there.
Thus Ms. G and i spent yesterday removing a very large crepe myrtle which should never have been allowed to grow right in the roots of a water oak, cutting it into pieces and dragging it to piles where it will be picked up by trash collection people in a few days, and in between doing that, we took a break for Ms. G to go get the wheelchair from storage to lend it to someone while i went to deliver snacks to Ms. Fiona, who has been craving banana flavored Moon Pies.
Once the crepe myrtle was down, Mr. Rudy came, got the cat, and Ms. G took charge of it, it will get neutered today and since it is friendly, will go up for adoption to a good home, much better than the one it came from.
Linking up with Denise at Girlie On The Edge Blog, where she hosts Six Sentence Stories, and the cue is Nod.
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While Good Fences Around the World seems to have gone the way of the dodo bird, i still enjoy looking for and posting interesting fences, so i will!
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Angel Brian's Family of Brian's Home - Forever hosts the Thankful Thursday Blog Hop. It's time to share something for which i am thankful.
Today i am thankful Mr. Rudy was able to rescue the cat, who is friendly, and he goes in for a neuter today and to be placed up for adoption. Also, Ms. Fiona has her Moon Pies.
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It's Remember Me Thursday! Shining the spotlight on the pets still in shelters waiting for their forever homes.
Thanks to Barb Kowalik and The Cat Blogosphere for the event badge.
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Today is:
Amilcar Cabral's Birthday/Independence Day/National Day -- Guinea Bissau(1973)
Armed Forces Day -- Peru
Constitution Day/Recoronation of King Norodom Sihanouk -- Cambodia
Do Impressions of Famous People Around the Office Day -- again, i wonder about the intentions of those who start these things
Feast of Our Lady of Mercy -- Catholic Christian
Lady of Mercedes Day -- Dominican Republic
La Merce -- Barcelona, Spain
Festival of the Latest Novelties -- an internet generated holiday to celebrate everything from traditional whoopie cushions to some of the more modern and weird novelty gifts out there; a great day for practical jokers
Gallbladder Good Health Day -- seems unsponsored, but there's information about keeping your gallbladder healthy here
Going Forth of Isis -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)
Haustmánuðr -- Icelandic Calendar (beginning of traditional Autumn Month, during which all the summer chores are finished, including livestock rounded up, before winter begins)
Heritage Day -- South Africa
Lady of Mercedes Day -- Dominican Republic
Mahidol Day -- Thailand (commemorates the passing of Prince Father Mahidol Adulyadej, the "Father of Thai Modern Medicine")
Moose Day -- the day Bullwinkle J. Moose, from Frostbite Falls, MN, US, and his pal Rocky the Flying Squirrel (Rocket J. Squirrel) debuted in 1959
National Bluebird of Happiness Day -- US (and no one knows why, but it's supposed to be a day to go spread some happiness)
National Cherries Jubilee Day
National Punctuation Day® -- US, but good punctuation matters everywhere! make sure you are using those punctuation marks correctly! Jeff Rubin can help
New Caledonia Day -- New Caledonia
Republic Day -- Trinidad and Tobago
Santa Cruz Day -- Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
Schwenkfelder Thanksgiving -- Pennsylvania Dutch followers of Silesian Reformation theology
St. Gerard's Day (Patron of Hungary)
St. Rupert's Day (Patron of Salzburg, Austria, where it is an official school and government holiday)
Transatlantic Telephone Day -- the first cable across the Atlantic was completed on this day in 1956
World Maritime Day -- UN and IMO (this year's theme is “From Policy to Practice: Powering Maritime Excellence")
World School Milk Day -- UN
Birthdays Today:
Morgan Hamm, 1982
Paul Hamm, 1982
Nia Vardalos, 1962
Kevin Sorbo, 1958
Alan Colmes, 1950
Gordon Clapp, 1948
Phil Hartman, 1948
Linda McCartney, 1941
Jim Henson, 1936
Anthony Newley, 1931
Sheila MacRae, 1924
Jim McKay, 1921
F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1896
John Marshall, 1755
Horace Walpole, 1717
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Nevermind"(Album release), 1991
"No More Lonely Nights"(McCartney single release), 1984
"The Love Boat"(TV), 1977
"60 Minutes"(TV), 1968
"Daniel Boone"(TV), 1964
"The Munsters"(TV), 1964
"Love of Life"(TV), 1951
"Once in a Lifetime"(Play), 1930
Today in History:
Prophet Muhammad completes his hijra from Mecca to Medina, 622
The last Emperor of the Komnenian restoration of the Byzantine Empire, Manuel I Komnenos, dies; the empire slips into terminal decline, 1180
The Dutch Republic surrenders New Amsterdam to England, 1664
The first autopsy and coroner's jury verdict is recorded in the state of Maryland, 1657
John Jay is appointed by George Washington as the first Chief Justice of the then six-person Supreme Court, which was instituted by the Federal Judiciary Act passed that same day, 1789
US Attorney General Office is created, 1789
The Northern Daily Times becomes the first provincial daily newspaper in London, 1853
Alexander Dey patents a dial time recorder, 1889
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints officially renounces polygamy, 1890
U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower in Wyoming as the nation's first National Monument, 1906
Cathay Pacific Airways is founded in Hong Kong, 1946
The Honda Motor Company is founded, 1948
Forest fires black out the sun over portions of Canada and New England, and a Blue moon (in the astronomical sense) is seen as far away as Europe, 1950
Camp Nou, the largest stadium in Europe, is opened in Barcelona, 1957
President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends 101st Airborne Division troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation, 1957
The United States court of appeals orders the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith, 1962
Swaziland joins the United Nations, 1968
Compu-Serve launches the first consumer internet service, which features the first public electronic mail service, 1979
Periodic Great White Spot observed on Saturn, 1990
Hurricane Rita devastates Beaumont, Texas, southwest Louisiana, and finishing off some of the parts of New Orleans and southeast Louisiana that Katrina missed, 2005
The G20 Summit in Pittsburgh, PA, US, marks the first use of LRAD for crowd control in the US, 2009
Nigeria's government opens two swollen dams and displaces about two million people, 2010
Plastic polystyrene rubbish is discovered for first time only 1,000 miles from the north pole by an international team of scientists, 2017
Spain's Supreme Court rules the body of Francisco Franco can be removed from the Valley of the Fallen to a municipal cemetery, 2019
The "post-tropical storm" remnant of Hurricane Fiona makes landfall near Whitehead, Nova Scotia, with sustained wind speeds of 165 km/h (103 mph); the strongest low-pressure system in Canadian history, 2022
NASA's OSIRIS-REX mission to retrieve a space rock from the asteroid Bennu successfully returns to earth, landing in Utah, 2023
Twenty-three miners trapped for two days in a collapsed gold mine shaft in Segovia, Antioquia, Colombia, are rescued alive, 2025
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I'm glad that the myrtle is finally down. A great Six! 👍
ReplyDeleteHow wonderful the Wildcats are so well taken care of there. But what a lot of work to cut down that crepe myrtle. And I do have to tell you that I absolutely love your fence picture because it's covered in red cardinal Vine. I grow that here in the summertime on my porch and the hummingbirds simply love it.
ReplyDeleteQue boa história e esse gato deu trabalho, mas ao final, tudo ficou bem e ainda teve a ajuda! beijos, lindo dia! chica
ReplyDeleteWe just don't understand how anyone can just "throw a pet away". What is wrong with people? They are living creatures and just because they are an animal, doesn't mean they can survive on their own. Most cats and dogs are domesticated. So sad.
ReplyDeleteAww, cat eh? (and dogs too)
ReplyDeleteMe da mucha pena cuando cortan un árbol y me acuerdo de mi gatito Risky. Un abrazo
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ReplyDelete*ok, dudette**
**my original affirmation still stands about your Six
Bravo to the rescuer and rescues ~ Hugs ^_^
ReplyDeleteWell written. No matter what I feel a bit sad for the crepe myrtle, but it fell for a good reason.
ReplyDeleteCharlee: "We're glad that poor kitty was rescued from the tree, thank you all for helping him! But boo on anyone who would dump their pet!"
ReplyDeleteChaplin: "Yes, our beloved brother Dennis and other members of his pack were all dumped out in the desert and left to fend for themselves. We give a hiss and a scratch to whoever it is who did that."
Charlee: "Our Dada did some detective work back in the day and suspects he knows who it was, and it just makes the whole story even sadder."
That was quite the day and hooray for the kitty rescue. I hope a wonderful home is found soon..Thanks for joining Angel Brian's Thankful Thursday Blog Hop!
ReplyDeleteI have never heard of a rescue that first needed a tree cut down. Well done and I am glad the cat is well and friendly too.
ReplyDeleteSo happy to hear about a cat rescue. I hope the kitty gets adopted soon.
ReplyDeleteSort que el vareu poder salvar.
ReplyDeletePetonets, Mimi.
That was a lot of work but worth the effort.
ReplyDeleteI am glad that you and Ms. G are taking care of those cats. I hope the latest one finds a good home soon.
ReplyDeleteGlad the kitty was rescued and will have a forever home. XO
ReplyDeleteWE LOVE YOU BLOG. PLEASE SUBSCRIPE US TO IT as we have to go all round Robinhood's pad to find it properly and lordy, lordy, when do you have TIME, with all you do in life, to do such a perfectly wonderfu blog?????
ReplyDeleteAhah. I saw I could tick the Notify Me box. YAY But I don't need followup comments, I would like the blog to contact me daily.
ReplyDeleteHopefully the cat will live happily ever after!
ReplyDeleteSo many good deeds related here, week after week! 💖
ReplyDeleteYes, so many good deeds and thoughts and positive thinking...we need this so badly!
ReplyDeleteWow, I am so happy the cat got rescued... Hopefully they will find a New home and nobody will miss that Myrtle...
ReplyDeleteBanana Moon Pie, I mean who wouldn't crave something with a name like that!
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