A few days ago, my cell phone kept pinging. We were getting alerted to high fire damage, gusty winds up to 65 miles an hour. There is a active fire and 58 miles from where I live. This morning the sky was pink and swirly and gray and smelly. The sun was blood red. We lost power for two days. It was turned on finally this afternoon at 4 o’clock. I was getting called, emailed and texted with all of these dire fire warnings and Highwinds. Knock on wood so far the winds haven’t gusted as high as predicted. It is quite warm outside.  I just got back from filling the kitties water bowls with fresh clean water and putting out their food. They seem a bit depressed, the smoke was pretty thick and some ash was falling out of the sky.

Both Ashley and Magoo have been glued to the windows since the warnings started  it does make me wonder if perhaps the smell of the smoke reminds them of their mom? Perhaps that is what’s drawing them out? I don’t know but just like on the Fourth of July it seems like smoke and fire and ash is highly attractive to them.

The wasp nest is still active. I am not feeding out by the creek yet. I have another pest control expert coming on Monday  let’s hope he’s a bit more honest than the last. I really need to start feeding out by the creek because Bristol has been coming in and starting fights with the other cats. He is really beating the pound out of Goblin  so far it hasn’t gotten to the stage where abscesses are showing up, but cat bites are hard to find until it’s almost too late. Although goblin did let me pet him the other day, his trust isn’t such that I can pick him up and explore him for heat sources on his body. I’m just praying that by Monday the problem will be taken care of and I can again start feeding by the creek to avoid these confrontations.

It’s still insufferably  hot here, but at least with the power restored the house is cooler. I wish we had more canned food but we ran out this morning. We still have dry food but during this intense heat wet food is better for all. At least we didn’t have any fires starting close to town. That’s why they shut down the power grid. As long as I’ve lived here I have never seen McDonald’s close until this weekend. When I went to Safeway to do some shopping you would’ve thought it was a zombie apocalypse! There were so many people in the parking lot, the water, the ice, most of it was gone. So I stopped at the dollar store and bought ice cube trays and made my own ice to keep my freezer and my refrigerator cold once the power was going to be shut off. At least I was ahead of the game. With the work crew being here there was an outhouse in my front yard. So that came in handy. LOL! Good timing

My contractor just made two beautiful perches for the ferals  He attached them to the side of the house near the patio enclosure and they absolutely love it. The way they are designed, they will help the cats get into the enclosure and keep the raccoons away. It’s pretty cool to have a contractor who loves cats working on my house right now.