Last night when I was coming home from work, as I pulled into our drive, I noticed a large, dilute calico that crossed my headlights. For a minute, I thought it might be Madison, but it was way to large to be her. This girl is beautiful and pretty beat up. By the time I was able to pull in and park, she was headed at a fast clip to the barn.

Because of recent donations sent to me (thank you to all who opened your hearts) I have extra cat food stored in the tack room. I was able to leave her a large tray of food and some water.

The sad part is, she looks pregnant. 🙁 I will be looking for her in the next few days to see if I can trap her and bring her inside. Boy, but she looks a lot like Madison though.

It is supposed to be the hottest weekend here in 15 years. It isn’t even noon right now and it is already 92 degrees. Most of the kittens are laying in the shower, but a few enterprising youngsters have upended the bathroom trash can and are sleeping against the cool sides of the plastic.

The older cats are outside on the porch, on the brick, or in the living room on the cool tile. If that doesn’t tell me something, then I am not listening.

I have to work tonight. Last night was hard, my foot started to really hurt about 9:00 p.m. But I am not going to complain. I have already lost a lot of my hours already and I need all the hours I can get right now. I found using an icy hot patch helped to alleviate some of the pain. I have to go see my primary care doctor soon as my hands are now starting to get numb. Not a good sign-

We took Gretchen to the lake this morning and threw her ball out for her to fetch. I stayed in the shallow end of the shore, but a few times, the ball drifted out a bit. She is a smart puppy. She knows where the water is deep before she goes to get the ball. She will come over and wait with me, until the ball bobs closer to shore before going to get it. I don’t know how she knows where the deep part of the lake is, she just does. I guess its the border collie thinking part of her.

I had to give Racer a bath today. His Royal browness is a fly magnet in the summer time. I used a new shampoo I recently discovered that has a fly shield in it. I will let you know if I see any improvement in the fly strikes on him.

Here he is after his bath

Last night, I dropped a cardboard flat into my freezer. There was nothing on it, just the flat of cardboard. This afternoon, I took it out of the freezer and put it in the kittens’ room thinking they might like to play in it. Immediately, they all crowded into it and fell asleep in the coolness of the corrugated cardboard. Nice way for them to beat the heat.