Did some good work on my novel outline this morning--- worked on settings, am more-or-less on schedule, and so I have time to do other things. Like the Great Cat Inventory.
You see, I live on a small farm out in the country, and have a lot of cats. Some are cats I got on purpose, and the kittens they have, others are strays or the kittens of strays.
Every year we have a few cats disappear. They may have gone off and died, they may have been eaten by our county's most unwelcome wolf and coyote population, or they may have moved to some neighboring farm--- sometimes they come back after that, like my tomcat Biwu who disappeared for a few months and came back when he'd gotten all the neighbor's cats pregnant.
And of course kittens are born or just turn up. So I don't really know how many I have.
So today I'm starting a cat inventory. I'm going out to see how many cats I can eyeball, and will note down their names (if any), descriptions, gender and neutering status, year of birth and family relationships if known, and how catchable they are.
When the survey is completed I'm going to make some plans to get some more of the females neutered. I don't know where the money's going to come from--- I've pretty much given up on adding to my retirement income account, I can barely afford to feed us now, and I find that in these hard times no one seems to be willing to hire an oddball like me.... I will be working on some Associated Content articles but I'd have to write about 30-100 to neuter one cat....
But anyway, doing a cat inventory might be fun, so wish me luck on it....
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