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• Funny Vid

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  Posted: December 14, 2009, 9:58am EST
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• It's Over (for today) in Home Repair Nightmares and My Own More Rational Climate Change Plan

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  I'm quitting! Yessirree, quitting. Home Repair on a Budget is laying down her dollar store tools for the day. Off duty!I'm not taking it badly, having no stove currently and no bathroom sink. Big deal.I could put the stove back together for use but why? New one tomorrow!I could see [...]
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  Posted: December 13, 2009, 5:57pm EST
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• Confounded Plumbing!

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  This White Cat may be one of the homeless camp cats I took in to be fixed almost two years ago. I can't see it clearly enough, from such a distance, to see if its ear is tipped or not. Doesn't look in great shape, out basically sitting in frozen [...]
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  Posted: December 13, 2009, 1:13pm EST
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• Frustrating

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  On craigslist today, lots of cats are listed that people are trying to find homes for. If I was still was able to get cats fixed, I'd be calling every one of them, and the ones with willing caretakers, would be fixed immediately. God, it is killing me to see' [...]
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  Posted: December 13, 2009, 11:32am EST
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• Merry Christmas to All

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  Christmas approaches. I think of all that has gone on in my life. My life has not been pretty. Most of my life was spent wallowing under the heavy hand of the mental health system. I had no purpose, no meaning, and suffered in severe loneliness, abuse, boredom and under [...]
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  Posted: December 12, 2009, 1:34pm EST
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• It's Over

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  Things kind of went wild today, on the Poppa front, and it's over for me with the funding. Long story, but it's over and done with. I'm no longer a cat wrangler.This may be last post for awhile. I am anticipating possible power outages. I had not been home long' [...]
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  Posted: December 11, 2009, 9:22pm EST
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• The Morning After

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  Posted: December 10, 2009, 10:55am EST
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• Christmas Tree

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  I got a Christmas tree. This made the cats super happy! Their plans: climb it, chew on it, drink its water, sleep under it, knock it over if possible, tear off the lights, use the ornaments as cat toys and look innocent every morning.I'm glad I got it up because' [...]
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  Posted: December 10, 2009, 1:40am EST
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• Walmart Coming to Albany

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  Guess I'm not jumping up and down at the news. Am I the only one in the world who thinks they're not very cheap? I say that in regard to two items: cat food and human food. Their human food choice is very limited and the price is not affordable, [...]
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  Posted: December 09, 2009, 8:19pm EST
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• Black Pearl and Toby

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  Another yard stray but I think this one is owned across the street. I'm not sure, however. He's huge but I think neutered. Not sure on that either. The cat has been around since I've lived here and a neighbor pointed out the house where he supposedly belongs. Maybe I' [...]
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  Posted: December 09, 2009, 2:54pm EST
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• Unknown

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  The unknown looms. Poppa funding will soon end. I felt tonight like telling them to just end it the first of the year. I don't know why. I suppose to end the suspense, the agony of it. Also, because I am reminded that Poppa does not exist to fund me.' [...]
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  Posted: December 09, 2009, 12:31am EST
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• Five Cats Being Fixed Today

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  Five cats are up being fixed today. Two are adult females from Lebanon. One is more like in her late teens. The people have two kittens, too, leftover from one of the cats' litters. I will weigh them to see if they are two pounds and could then be fixed.The' [...]
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  Posted: December 08, 2009, 2:46pm EST
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• Black Pearl and Toby

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  I was so hopeful today when the couple came to look at Black Pearl and Toby, but they didn't show well. They hid in fact. I could not believe it. They're both completely tame. The problem is no volunteers to help socialize the cats to anybody other than me. It's' [...]
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  Posted: December 06, 2009, 3:46pm EST
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• Busy Day!

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  Despite my pledge to sleep late this morning and nap most of the day, for makeup sleep, I didn't. I took six cats to the vet this morning, to update their rabies vaccines. I wanted to take ten, but they all panicked after I got three into carriers. All ten' [...]
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  Posted: December 05, 2009, 8:47pm EST
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• Hard Day

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  Black and white male kitten, one of seven born to a torti on Queen, who is also now fixed. One kitten died. The other six were adopted out, but I kept track of five of the six and the sixth will be fixed by its new owner. The fifth kitten [...]
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  Posted: December 05, 2009, 12:50am EST
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• Piss Me Off

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  Passive Agressive behavior pisses me off. It really does. This woman calls I've dealt with for years and years, getting cats fixed, taking cats from her and for awhile, even taking her cat food ewery time she'd call saying they had none. For gosh sakes, I've got almost no money' [...]
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  Posted: December 04, 2009, 3:37pm EST
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• Dam The Ducks!

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  Ok, I'm getting into the civil war thing.Dam Those Ducks!Here they comeFlocked and featheredGreen and yellowMellow yellow!!!Greet those ducks with a Beaver Bellow!Dam up those ducksClap! Clap!Diiiive!Surface slowly, beady eyedClap that tail, then go wideChisel teeth stained mellow yellowAs Beaver Nation Bellows!Dam those ducks!Clap! Clap!Dive!!!!!' [...]
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 7:20pm EST
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• Sanctuary of the Dead

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  She's just a frightened desperate little girl, watching the cars go by, hungry, cold. Last night, when a car pulled into the Scravel Hill Cemetery parking lot and the door opened, she saw what might have been her last chance at life and she went for it. She darted into [...]
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 4:27pm EST
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• Such a Waste

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  I spent three hours trying to catch a cat that never showed up on a rural couple's trailer porch. The worst part of it was listening to right wing rant for all those hours. It was really quite difficult. My patience was tried to the hilt.To hear her go on [...]
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 3:20pm EST
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• Couch is Dead

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  Tonight, I sat down in pee. On my couch. Again. It's Sam. Peeman Sam. He's got hairball issues and when that happens, he starts in. But it was the last straw.I ripped and cut off all the cloth and foam parts tonight, leaving mostly the wood frame and wire seat. [...]
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 3:26am EST
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• Three Cats Fixed Yesterday. Frig Repair. Shimmer Gets a Home.

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  Lebanon prev spay female.Albany in heat black female.Albany tabby female.Ice, on the coils behind the false wall of the freezer compartment.Same thing, only ice now gone.When I removed everything from the freezer, I could see ice between the joint of the back and the bottom, at the bottom. That shouldn't' [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 3:34pm EST
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• Come on Tiger. Give Us a Scandal!

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  Tiger Woods isn't cooperating. He's not providing us the material for a nice juicy scandal to consume media talking heads for the tedious months of winter. We need it, Tiger. Come on!Just talk to the media. Make a little slip when a zillion cameras are in your face. When they' [...]
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  Posted: December 01, 2009, 9:57am EST
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• Global Bunk?

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  The e-mails exposing phony scientific practises by some of the climatologists is pretty good news I think. I hope the globe isn't warming badly because I don't like bad things looming up there, dark and mysterious, in the misty future.So I think bad news for some, in this case those [...]
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  Posted: December 01, 2009, 12:47am EST
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• Three Cats for Tomorrow

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  I have three cats for tomorrow to be fixed. One is a KATA referral from Lebanon. I thought I was going to trap a wild cat, but the cat is completely tame and I think I feel a spay scar. I also stopped by a house where I have gotten [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 10:58pm EST
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• Christmas Past

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  I have no warm and fuzzy memories of Christmas Past. Not many anyway. I have spent Christmas alone most of my adult life.A few times, I did make the trek to spend Christmas with my parents and brothers, or one brother. Sometimes, I would be handed a camera to take [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 1:54pm EST
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• An Outspoken Christian Farmer: A Moral Way to Farm

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  Click the post title. This article is MORE than interesting. [...]
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 6:01pm EST
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• Calculating

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  It was confirmed by Poppa's treasurer in an e-mail, that they will remain viable through May, but not after that. I have been considering my options.I have thought about starting a nonprofit myself to fund spay neuter around here. But, I am not good at most of the things required [...]
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 11:42am EST
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• Bridge to Somewhere

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  Yesterday, boredom I guess, drove me into project mode. I had some scraps of this and that and decided to create a bridge. For the cats. I fastened clips to two ends of two pieces of equal length wire rope and attached four eye hooks to hook each end of [...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 11:17pm EST
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• Violence is Out of Hand

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  There have been so many killings in Oregon lately, I am beginning to wonder what is going on. Domestic violence killings have become commonplace in Oregon news. Just today, some guy killed his wife and apparently shot a son, before the coward thankfully turned the gun on himself. Such miserable [...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 2:41am EST
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• Black Friday and the Christmas Parade

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  Black Friday? Ha. I got no bucks to spend, so it's just another day.As for the Christmas parade this evening in Corvallis, I don't know if I will go. I go every year. But, I guess it is always a let down. I go thinking there will be the Christmas' [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 7:53pm EST
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• Outdid Myself

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  When my T day plans fell apart yesterday, I resigned myself to a home alone with the cats T day, which isn't like being alone at all. I made soup. And I must say, it was delicious. My crockpot is my absolute favorite appliance.My second favorite appliance is the Hamilton' [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 2:38pm EST
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• Four Cats in Need

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  A woman called KATA wanting to get what she called a "very pregnant" cat fixed. She said the cat came with the property and this would be her third litter this year. KATA called me and asked if I could get the cat fixed. I picked her up. She is [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 9:58am EST
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• Twisted Carnivore Christians' Letter

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  This is in the Gazette Times today. Click the post title. Boy, is this person twisted up or what? God gave us animals to torture and eat? The letter garbles up a hefty serving of fruitcake! I guess it explains a lot about why our world is the way it [...]
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  Posted: November 26, 2009, 10:01pm EST
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• Turkey Day Fiasco

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  I messed up badly on Turkey Day plans. Armed with 8 bottles of Martinella sparkling cider, I headed south late this morning. My younger brother invited me to Roseburg, to the home of a friend of his. His family, his wife's parents and his wife's sisters family were all meeting [...]
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  Posted: November 26, 2009, 4:01pm EST
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• Toby and Shimmer Get Fixed (Black Pearl's kids)

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  Toby and Shimmer got themselves fixed yesterday. So did another stray from Jefferson.The Jefferson stray is a female teen torbi, tame and delightful, dumped off in the yard of an old woman who feeds strays, much to her chagrin, because she's struggling severely financially and even with household chores already. [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 1:45pm EST
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• Big Hairy and the LB Cat

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  Big Hairy!LB stray.Big Hairy, an amiable stray, brother to the female who stayed here six days to recuperate from URI and spay, was fixed yesterday. He is from the Jefferson colony, most of whom are tame abandoned strays. Big Hairy's brother, a short hair tabby, was fixed last week. His [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 10:27am EST
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• Push to the Finish. Let's Get Those Nebraska Cats Fixed!!!! Gosh Darn it.

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  Frustration! That's the word to describe my efforts trying to find help for a Nebraska family who took on caring for a neighbor mans' ten unfixed cats after he died. There's no help to be had in Nebraska!The one feral group I found in Omaha never answered her, nor me.' [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 5:25pm EST
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• Accidentally Deleted a Post so Here's Another

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  I was going to edit my last post and boom it was gone. Oh well. I've done that twice in the last week. I'm not sure how, exactly. Not paying attention maybe. Anyhow, click post title to go to HB Livin's blog and see recent photos of Tiny Tim and [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 3:49pm EST
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• Was Jesus a Vegetarian?

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  Someone who subscribes to my youtube channel had this on their favorites. I was watching it and it does make good points. I've thought about how our species behaves towards our own kind and towards animals. We are bloodthirsty and savage and this behavior does not at all go along' [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 10:53am EST
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• Health Care Debate and Costs

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  I saw a short bit on 60 Minutes tonight. The interview was with a doctor at a hospital describing the delusion of end of life care, how people want to be immortal and deny they will ever die. Or families are in denial that their 80 year old parent can't' [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 7:19am EST
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• Turkey Toasted

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  I put in a turkey to roast last evening. I set the buzzer for 11:00 p.m. After the buzzer sounded, I would remove the cover, baste the turkey and cook for 1/2 hour more.Every year at this time I cook several turkeys, if I can. I get them at Winco [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 7:02am EST
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• Frustrated

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  Those homeless camp cats are likely starving. I have been unable to find anyone willing to feed them or even to do a drop of me and cat food bags, while I run them in. This is a ten minutes of time thing, the latter, but nobody even returns calls [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 2:24pm EST
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• Future?

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  I'm not sure I'll have a job by mid December. A lot of people out there are losing their livilihoods so I better not complain much. I think both my brothers are also hoping that they too soon won't be without jobs. So many people are getting laid off. I' [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 12:00pm EST
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• Three Cats Fixed Today

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  I am in exhaustion. Took in three more cats today. One was a KATA referral out of Lebanon. A family was feeding a pregnant female and didn't want more unwanted "born to die" kittens. So she got fixed and is still here, actually, for the night, because I"m too tired'" [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 9:48pm EST
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• 11 Cats Fixed Today

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  One of the four females fixed today, from the Deceased Foster womans' trailer.Gray tabby tux female, from the Deceased Foster Woman's trailer colony.Big muted calico, fixed today, from Deceased Foster Woman's colony.Black tux female, one of 8 cats fixed today from the Deceased Foster Woman's colony.Gray tux male from the [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 9:26pm EST
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• Six Kttens Fixed Today. 11 Cats Caught in Foster

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  At Foster Nicki colony, a gray tabby tux male, watches a very large gray and white male descend from the woods. I caught both.Gray tabby kitten, not caught yet, with the elderly white male, who is with KATA now.One of many black tux adults with the gray tabby kitten. The [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 3:00am EST
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• Honey is Back

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  Honey is back. The minute she got out of the carrier, she went running around in circles meowing frantically. Sam rushed up to greet her and would not leave her alone. She raced around greeting every one of her friends, tail up, meowing nonstop. She was soooo happy to see [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 9:43pm EST
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• Seven Cats Being Fixed Today.

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  Below are photos of six of the seven cats up being fixed today. The photos are of the six cats from the same Albany location.This is a blue point male. I netted him in the garage this morning of the family who feeds him.This is a beautiful orange tabby male, [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 1:30pm EST
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• Worried

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  I am worried about Honey. Yesterday, the student who adopted her e-mailed me that it wasn't working out and she would like to return her. She said she'd been trying, but Honey just hides. I should have known. I e-mailed right back, asking when she would like to do that. [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 11:44pm EST
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• Finally, One Leaf Pickup. But the Mess They Left!

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  Finally, mid November, after most leaves have been down three weeks, Albany gets its first leaf pickup. It was a crappy half ass job that was done. Take a look. They left a huge mess.I'll have to clean that up but I'm sending Allied Waste the bill to do it. [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 6:32pm EST
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