Wow how can it have been fifty years? This feels a bit surreal.
This morning started off with rounding up the kittens (Orange Juice and Chemæra) and getting them off to the beach for their sterilization. Liesl forgot that she was going this morning and wasn’t awake and ready. So we had to get her up and moving so we were running quite late. Once we got her ready and the kittens packed into the backpack, we drove to Marcela’s house in San Mateo to get Happy and we were off to Gigi’s on the beach for the clinic. Happy is visiting everyone that he already knows, but for our kittens this is their first real trip. Chemæra has gotten lost for a few days and once went to Dr. Jorge’s vet clinic so she’s left the grounds before, but this is Orange Juice’s first time outside of the estate walls in his entire life.
Both Fritter (very pregnant) and Cruller, the parents, were there as we took the kittens to the clinic, watching us leave from the garage. Hopefully both of them can be sterilized soon as well. No need for more batches of fur babies.
Felipe is at Marcela’s house today doing a day of work on her garden. She’s been in the house for over a year and a half now and has never had the time or energy for any real projects. But she has so much nice space there that she can do something with. She’s been cleaning like crazy the last few days trying to figure out if something in the house is contributing to how sick she feels. She is always worse when at home. Now they are working on her front garden area. She doesn’t have a car so the “driveway” is a perfect spot for a big garden. And there is ground all the way around her front patio, so her seating space could be contained in a surrounding wall of plants.
Once back home I’m back to work, calls and programming. At one point I went out to the garage to visit with the cats, Fritter and Cruller, and ended up laying down on the garage floor and napping with Fritter. She really appreciated that and actually came and snuggled. She’s so sweet.
Our babies came out of surgery a little after noon and were doing just fine. But we were unable to get them as early as we should have because a powerline came down on the Poneloya Road and started a house fire. They had to shut off the power and close the highway so that they could work on it. So we were unable to return to the beach this afternoon and the house got very hot. We really wanted AC today, it’s a warm day.
The power was off about two hours while they dealt with the downed power lines. Then Dominica and Luciana went out to the beach and picked up OJ, Chemæra, and Happy and brought them home. Since Marcela went to church and is going to be in Managua tomorrow he needs to be here. So he is in my office (and yay, he puked on my desk while I was working.)
Tonight Luciana and Dominica baked me two apple pies for my birthday, and Luciana did decorations to make a fox (my favourite animal) and Happy 50th on the pies along with lots of autumn leaves in different colours. They turned out so well, both in how good they looked and in how good they tasted. These were “just like back home” pies! Really successful. Best I’ve had in many, many years.
Marcela and Happy went home around eleven. Happy was doing well once he was back in his own house. Marcela has to leave at 5:30 in the morning tomorrow to go to Managua for three medical appointments and to get her kids and bring them back to Leon for the weekend.
Once I was hope, Liesl, Luciana & I moved into the game room with the two little kittens who had had surgery this morning and we watched the final few episodes of H2O Just Add Water which has all of the makings of a simple, feel good, cute show but is saddles with some truly epically terrible writing that leaves you truly hating every single one of the characters and upset that the show deals with really traumatic child mental abuse and plays it off as silly and not important. It’s certainly not a good promo for Australia to have their best known children’s show portray child abuse, toxic parents, abducting children, threatening the lives of children, attempting to enslave children, illegal seizure of public lands, etc. as problems. They show things like children being abducted and their lives being threatened and not one character in the show considers it a problem or reason to say, involve the police or coast guard. It portrays Australian society in such a horrible light, it’s amazing that the government didn’t do anything to limit its release. In nearly every scene we’re all yelling at the screen like “Why are you staying with these terrible people?” and “Why is no one involving the police?” And basically no character is even slightly innocent. All the parents openly hate their children, all the protagonists lie to everyone around them and behave totally awful and create all their own problems, everyone is beyond dumb and forgets the entire context of the show every few minutes, even SeaWorld who seems to have sponsored the show is often shown specifically as not knowing how to care for animals and being an abusive employer.
At the end of the night, the kittens seem to be all in good shape.