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crohnsinct, Glad you're back, if only for a few minutes! I am glad that things are going well and you can be living fully!
I could use a glass myself after the day I have had. Thought I'd share with you ladies just in case anyone else had a crazy day! This is the story I posted on Facebook: (Sorry for the length, but it's a funny story!)
By now, most of my Facebook friends have seen my post about the cat. What a day! So for my Honest October (see my other posts), I want to share with you what I will call the Treed Cat Caper!
Yesterday, I heard a cat meowing all day, but could not find it. My neighbor Kathy came over and said that her cat had been missing for a few days and was up a tree in Gena's yard. We tried talking it down,
then Gena tried talking it down, then all of the kids tried talking it down. No luck! So we went to bed hoping it would find it's way down over night.
First thing this morning I received a text from Gena. The cat was still meowing in the tree. So off to school with Ryan who said he would not get anything done today for worrying about that cat in that tree! I reassured him it was coming down...now why did I do that? Because I'm a Mom obsessed with worrying about a flare! Set myself up, huh? Gena went for a run and I tried to do some work. We agreed to meet out there after her run. I met up with neighbor David and we stood there trying to think of a way to get it down. No ideas, so back in the house to work. While Gena was running, I decided to do some internet sleuthing on getting a cat down and posted on Facebook for ideas.
We might have been inclined to leave it alone to come down on its own except for the circling hawks. We were flapping our arms to shoo them away as they circled the tree. They could hear the cat and smell the tuna. We were not about to have a wildlife program about predator and prey going on in Gena's front yard. So let's just see....hmmm, food at the base of the tree....Gena and I put a can of tuna in a bowl. I threw a rope over a limb and we hoisted the food up into the tree. It got stuck on a small limb. Picture this....Gena got a ladder and went up to move the small limb keeping the bowl from moving. I am under her holding the ladder and she tilts the bowl. Bam! Now we are both covered in tuna standing under a tree talking to a cat and giving it climbing instructions! I HATE tuna! Now I have to say that the cat did come down about 10 feet for all the effort.
During all of this, my neighbor Kathy (who actually owns the cat) is calling tree services to get the cat down. Finally, she calls that Lee Montz is on his way to get the cat down (THANK YOU BARBARA)! So I go in to grab some lunch and one bite into my sandwich, he shows up. I don gloves and a pet carrier and we head across the street. 4 people on the ground directing and Lee in a bucket, the chase is on! The cat, not being a people person, dodges every effort to be rescued. Lee is probably sea-sick from moving around in that bucket, but he continues his pursuit. Up, down, all around...until finally the cat, who we have discovered can climb both UP AND DOWN just fine, jumps from the tree and runs like H*%@ for home.
So the cat is down, the tree guy's gone fishing and I am sitting here, smelling like tuna, telling you about the Treed Cat Caper! What a crazy day!