We took last week off, my first real vacation from my newish job. It is reassuring to know I can take time off without having to do a ton of work out of the office. My old job demanded I work every day; I'm not sure why I didn't parlay that into a full time work-at-home situation. Anyway despite the presumed free time, we were unbelievably busy the whole week. Read More
Let's catch up! We have been busy with cats and landscaping projects (which are, not coincidentally, cat-related). We took a bunch of cats to the new Glendale, Queens, ASPCA spay/neuter clinic, the newly-opened facility that replaces the mobile clinics. In order to better provide mobile spay services to the public, the ASPCA decided to stop running concurrent vans for both regular folk as well as us feral cat enthusiasts. I guess it makes sense, but there is a big learning curve for the new system, for both us and the ASPCA.
Bad fire on the next block, house burned down, damaging at least 3 other houses and killing 2 people. We watched the firemen work, I don't know how they can do that job. Frightening and humbling.
Some more photos here.
Here's something slightly less cat-centric for once (though still totally related to cats):
I'm taking part in a big bake sale on Saturday in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. The proceeds from this sale will go to the group Big City Little Kitty, an overlapping bunch of good-hearted folks who help cats in the Brooklyn-Queens area. This is also part of the Worldwide Vegan Bake Sale, an annual event that helps raise awareness of veganism. Mainly, it helps people to realize that 'vegan' isn't a synonym for 'yuck.'
I will be providing brownies to the effort, pretty much the only vegan dessert I think I've perfected. I guess I can do okay chocolate chip cookies too, but the brownies usually come out more consistently than anything else I try. Let's hope that holds true for this weekend!
There will be bake sales all over the place between Saturday and the following weekend, but our booth with be on Saturday from 1-4pm in Greenpoint on Manhattan Ave between Nassau and Norman (G train to Nassau).We'll be set up in front of (and possibly inside if it rains) Natural Vitamins. Please swing by and help us out!
Check out this great post by BCLK that encapsulates the kind of work we do. Hope to see you Saturday!
Gray Boy on his way to his new home. Again.
We have adopted out another cat! This one is not the run-of-the-mill adoption, it's the adoption of an essentially feral cat.
