Travels with Howie

perFebruary 12, 2013   9:30 pm st   61 degrees and cloudy

This is Dorothy.  She had some sort of back injury years ago and this is as much as she can straighten now, but it does not stop her from her daily routine of feeding the stray cats in back of Walmart, in back of the supermarket and at the water kisok.  106 of them in all.
Not only does she feed them, she takes them home and doctors them if she thinks they are ill, she removes any kittens and finds homes for them and she even has some of  them spayed.  She says the batch she is getting ready to take to the vet will cost her $3,000. 

We offered to make a contribution and she backed away saying, "No, no, we don't do any of that." I expect by the term we, she was including the man sitting in the truck reading the paper, but he never even looked up while we were there.
Dorothy says when she first started doing this, someone was taking the cats in back of the supermarket and using them to train pitbulls. I assume she meant for fighting.

I can't get usedto seeing ducks on the roof

Or in trees. 

I was kind of surprised to find out how messy palm trees are.  If they are not trimmed,

  the falling fronds  can scratch your car pretty good if you park near a palm on a windy day.

Not very many places hire tree trimmers to take all the dead fronds away. 

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This is the fried shrimp I had at Dirty Al's last week.  Next day we were out and about at noon so we stopped at Church's Chicken and I had popcorn shrimp for lunch.  Without thinking much about it, we had Shrimp Alfredo for dinner.  Three meals of shrimp  in one 24 hour period.

Well, that weekend I was so bone weary and sore that I couldn't do my expercises or finish my daily walks.

Long story short:  the Dr.  says it could be  that I had too much shrimp causing something like gout..a abundence of purines    Just what I need, another bone problem. and,  AND....I had been losing wieght up until then and this visit, I had gained 3 pounds.   Bad week!
One redeeming thing: I can use a cane now and have gotten rid of the miserable walker.

We often see families or  just a lone  person at a grave just siting or placing flowers.  These local people  do not neglect the family members who have gone on.  Very respectfull.

Gotta wonder why this potty is here out in the middle of nowhere.