The neighbor situation exploded tonight. A neighbor near me is piping mad about them parking all over the place. It's every night. I think she might have gone and told them off or something.I came home, in the dark, and one of them, in a pickup, is backing up half on the sidewalk in front of my place, possibly to not be

My nephew graduated from the U of O. Afterwards, he could not find a job. Rather than sit on his butt, he signed on for a year long adventure, that starts in Haiti. It's with his church and he'll be doing anything he's told to do. His first Haiti stint lasts three months. He'll be sleeping on a cot in a hospital hallwa

Beautiful Starry, from N. Albany.Starry again.Peko, with ringworm in tow.Nemo, who likes my trendy trap bed.Nemo took over the trap bed from Buffy. Before that, Gretal had dibs on the trap bed.Machi, taken shortly after he was returned. He now has one spot of ringworm on his upper lip.The athletic sisters Echo and Fantasi

Our little street is becoming very interesting.Last night, I saw a dark car pulling down the wrong side of the street. I peeked out the window. It was a cop car. What this time, I thought.The officer got out and walked along the street, and began shining his light into the window and garage of one house, after knocking r

Hairy is very ill with a severe URI. He is currently in a rabbit hutch in my garage. Poor fellow has gone through way too much. He was trapped by a woman out on Country Club Drive because he was fighting her cats for food. He is thin as thin can be.I'm trying to figure out who he is and where he comes from. He was desp

The black long hair eartipped feral, whom Heartland asked I rescue when he came to them in a live trap, was not the cat lost nearby with same description. He has been up in Wilsonville for almost two weeks. The person who took him took him to be scanned a week ago. He was put under light anesthesia and it was determined

Glad I'm cutting way back, on road to quitting, the insane cat wrangler business.It's really nuts.So, I was so tired today, for some reason, I had to sleep in a rest area on the way back from Portland. Cats got dumped at a rural tavern, not that far from where Recycled Gardens used to be. It was like a trip back down memo

Travolta's movie "Basic" was on TV last night. I am a John Travolta fan and this movie is classic Travolta. He's a great actor and is at his best in this movie.I also like this movie, because of all the plot twists.The plot twist at the very end of the movie is the greatest!

Briefly on the news tonight, not much coverage of either, two rallies in WA DC. Glenn Beck and his followers then bunch civil rights people honoring the I Have a Dream speech of Martin Luther King.Although they represented opposing politics, the rallies were peaceful. Nice tribute to Dr. King, in that regard.I guess the t

Just got a call from someone, said they have a four month old kitten needs fixed. I asked where she lives and she lives in Brownsville. So I said, "Have you tried Spay Inc.?"Turns out, she bought the kitten from Spay Inc. I said "Wait a minute! You bought a kitten at Spay Inc. that was not spayed and want

I love my garden. I put no effort into it. I don't have a green thumb. No. Wasn't born with one.So I planted the easy crops. I planted squash cause it grows itself. I planted sungold cherry tomatoes,those yellow ones, cause I love them. I planted onions and kale and collards and lettuce and bush beans. The yellow bush

I might be sinning. I am having too much fun lately! In one week's time, I floated an Oregon river on an inner tube (hey, it's free, why not?), and tonight, danced crazily to night glow over at the Art and Air Festival. They had a Blues musician playing while some hot air balloons periodically filled with light for a few

We're going out on strike! Our demands: That the populace of Oregon exhibit responsible and kind behavior.That talking head groups who claim Oregon is advanced because of its anti abandonment and cruelty laws actually track how often those laws are enforced/prosecuted before touting them.That breeders be exiled to an isl

The cul de sac garage constant party is on again. More characters roaming the street down to the garage and back out. Two young girls just went by, headed to garage central, black guy leaving. I have no idea what is going on in there, but the range of characters passing makes me realize I need to get out of here.I never

In trying to tie up loose ends, I decided to call the people with kittens after I'd fixed the moms. Teh Lebanon woman who feeds strays and pushes religion has five kittens, feral, with the last mom cat there I got fixed. However, it isn't easy to get cats there, due to there being lots and all of them fixed, supposedly.Th

I am trying to tie up loose ends before I quit this completely. So I call a rural woman whose females I took in a month or more ago and yes she has five kittens needing fixed.But she finally tells me her landlord, the farmer, is paying someone else to get all the cats fixed on his land. I know who it is. And, a worker a

I got a call this a.m. I'm still groggy from being up half the night over that darn pickup outside my bedroom. I finally fell asleep on my couch. I did not want to sleep in my bedroom a few feet from strangers with intent unknown.And it got cold last night, really cold. Seems like fall is coming on quickly.So this morni

I was looking at lost and found ads, on craigslist tonight. I see one for a black long hair cat, lost less than half mile from where the feral black long hair was caught. I thought "Boy, that's kind of more than coincidental."Yet, the cat in the trap acted quite feral. Except. Except feral usually don't eat t

Heartland called. An eartipped cat had been brought in. Very feral. If I didn't come get the cat, he would die. I e-mailed someone who had trapped kittens nearby, but they said it was not a cat they had trapped. I do not know if the cat is a male or female, it was too feral to tell. But, someone up north said they wou

Now, 18 in all, Oregon high school players at a football camp have been hospitalized with compartment syndrome in their triceps, which causes swelling and high creatine levels that can damage the kidneys, if not brought down.It's rare for this to happen. Allegedly the workout was not vigorous, so the cause of so many playe

These two big boys were fixed yesterday, from the Albany apartment complex, making a total of seven fixed there. They think that's all the unfixed cats and I hope so. Getting these two big guys fixed should quiet the neighborhood considerably. The other five were a young black tux female, abandoned across the street, by

I was just about to sleep, on my couch of course, and the phone rings. I'd checked on the big boys fixed today one last time. And the phone rings, after 11:30. Who in the world? I always think it's an emergency of some kind and my heart starts to pound.Not. Some asshole, doesn't say anything, just blast indistinguishab

I had barely raced home from the Wilsonville clinic with the big apartment complex males caught last night, the last two thankfully, there, when the people arrived with the returning kittens. I'm sorry I can't see any ringworm. She said "Well put him in the sun, you'll see the light redness over one eye." Maybe

Peko broke out in ringworm. So the woman is bringing both back. Sad thing is, takes about ten days after exposure, so the kitten likely got it there. They've been there one day shy of two weeks. But, if I wouldn't take them back, she was going to have them euthanized. It's barely showing, I guess, tiny line over one ey

Tabitha, Slurpy and Prancer, after I retrieved them back from Heartland the first time. Tabitha and Prancer went back to Heartland, once well, were spayed and Prancer was adopted out. Tabitha became ill again, following her spay, and, mid July, returned to me. She got over her cold and was adopted by a family leaving on vac

Mickey, before I netted him, in the old car.Brambles and Mickey, cuddled in a rabbit hutch in my spare bedroom.Mickey now. He lives in Canada. Brambles remains here.Mickey was one of the 90 or so cats I got fixed, feral and tame, on one short street off Knox Butte Drive a few years back. I saw him first in an old car so

The two sisters are very bonded and do everything together.Fantasia still nurses on Meesa, her mom.Fantasia is very athletic and likes to hang upside down, for some reason, maybe because she looks slightly like a bat?I am getting worried I won't be able to find Fantasia, Echo, Starry or Nemo homes, before they get to be tee

Disgusting project for today: rid myself of the stinky loveseat.Now, I've had that loveseat almost since I moved in here. When I came here, I had virtually no furniture to fill such an expansive living space. My tow truck friends, whom I know from trapping cats at one place of business they've had to another and then at t

Charles Goodrich is a Corvallis poet (click post title) whose latest poetry book, "Going to Seed: Dispatches from the Garden" is on the poetry best seller list. I never knew there was a poetry book best seller list.His book deserves the ranking and probably a higher ranking.I don't really know him. When I was doin

That darn reeking recliner. It had to go. But how to get rid of the thing. That was my problem.I eyed it for days and schemed. Why not, I thought, save the money the dump charges, to dump it, which is about $25 minimum now, and make some money by scrapping that heavy steel frame. I figured I'd make about $6 or $7 on it and