Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Cats and Weather

So I was out delivering a wheelchair to a rehab in Pawling, NY, and as I was leaving, I noticed some precipitation. Have a guess what sort of precipitation I would encounter on a December evening. Try hail. That's right, kids, there was a significant fall of pea-sized hail in NY in December. Over a fair radius, too-I saw hail on NY 22 for like 3 miles. After the hail, there was a thunderstorm that continued on for like 20 minutes after the hail passed. Rather like a summer storm.

It kinda freaked me out. So I got done with my work, and on the way home I gave the ex a call to tell her about this weird thing. She said that she had heard there was a hail shower this morning-people were coming into work talking about it. She lives in Liberty-about 100 or so miles to the west of Pawling. Now I've heard a lot of hugger-muggery, puggery and thuggery and buggery about climate change; It supposedly doesn't exist, according to some. Now I must have imagined running around Brooklyn in shirtsleeves a couple of weeks ago, or today's snow to thunderstorm evolution, or the times I've been running around in 70 degree weather in Manhattan-in January. Or something, whatever.

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Speaking of cats, I got to see my old pal Spot the other day. He's actually attached to my son Nathan; but he and I have always liked each other, and even though I see him infrequently, he always remembers me-he doesn't run off and appreciates a pat and being picked up and paid attention to.

He's had a rough go of it of late: He's gotten some sort of nasty upper respiratory infection that's been lingering for a couple of months. For a while, I was worried that he was going to succumb to it, he looked really, really bad. But the last time I was up he looked a great deal better. His fur is smooth(though his tail is a wreck), he's eating, and of course, he was happy to see me and wanting attention.

He's still got sinus, and he looks like he has a little balloon stuck on the end of his neck with a cat face painted on it. Poor little guy. Not like he's suffering, since he seems in good spirits and all, but just the same. I told the ex to see if he can get a steroid shot.

Meanwhile, with my lot, someone in my crew(I suspect Corey or Jasper), does some funny stuff w/the litter box. If the box is not clean enough for his liking, he'll scoop out some clean litter onto the bathroom floor and drop a deuce on that. Today, I came home, and found that someone had left something in the scoop that I clean the box with. Guess they thought they'd cut out the middleman.