Hurricane Dean

WHEW!!! Looks like we avoided a hit from Hurricane Dean. Though I feel badly for the people of Jamaica, the Yucatan, and Mexico, at least we didn't get it. Hurricane season has two more months, so we are not totally free yet.

On a lighter note, the kittens are growing by leaps and bounds. They are staying out of the carrier now, since they are old enough not to get caught behind things anymore. Azrael came in to investigate the other day. Eek didn't like him coming too close.. hehehehe

So anyway, here I sit at work..and I should be working. Better get back to it, before someone figures out that my typing is not work related.. :P

Hot Weather and New Babies

Well, everyone asks me now and then, how hot is it in Texas during the summer?? Let me tell you, it is a heck of a lot hotter when you have no A/C. This last weekend, we had a power surge that fried the compressor in our A/C Unit outside. Well, of course by the time the electrician traced down all the problems already in the house, it was late Friday evening. The A/C repairman came out Saturday and found the problem in the unit. He could not get a new compressor until Monday. The outside temps got up to 102 over the weekend, and when you live in a trailer, it becomes an oven in a short period of time. We put in two small window A/C units, just enough to allow us to move without melting, but the temp in the house reached 100 on Saturday afternoon. If you have ever heard the expression "Long Cat Weather" we saw it. I cat stretches out on the floor, and gets longer and longer when it is hot. Now, imagine 6 long cats on the floor, and that was our house this last weekend. The good news is, the A/C guy will be there this afternoon and all should be good again in the Miller house.

Now, for the rest of the story.....

We have two trailers on our property. One we live in, and one that is used for storage (think of it as a huge junk drawer.. lol). I went up to the old trailer on Thursday to find a new container for the dogs' water outside, and OMGKITTENS!!!1!!1! Four 3 week old kittens skittered and ran to hidey places before I could get a good look at them. Went back up on Friday night, couldn't find them at all. So we put food and water down for Momma cat, and went back again on Saturday afternoon. Momma cat runs out, and the kittens high-tail it under a cupboard. So, since we live in a semi-rural area and do get a lot of possums and loose dogs in the area, we decided to take the kittens back to the house and "socialize" them, then we will take them to the Humane Society when they are about 10 wks old. (If you take them earlier, they are put to sleep and I can't let that happen). Well, after baths and full tummies, we now have: Eek (Male Orange Tabby) , Mystikk (Female Tortie), Isis (Female Orange Tabby) and Katamari (Female Orange/White Tabby).