Thursday, January 17, 2008

29 more days. Pitchers and catchers.

The sweaters are coming along fine. Sleeve #1 on sweater #2 well under way. Although I haven't been plying the needles the last couple of days, they are coming along nicely. All I have to do after the sleeves are finished is sew up all the seams and block them.

Liz and her friends went to a club in the city Saturday night to celebrate Tara's birthday. The funniest line of the night, and perhaps the only funny line of the night, was Liz saying, "The last time we were in a club none of us had cell phones."

What is it with this "male" thing in this world? It is just that it gets a little tedious at times. I had lunch with the head of the volunteers at the New Rochelle Humane Society today. She was telling me that last Monday they saw a woman pull up in front of the shelter, take a 11 x 14 inch box out of her car, about 10 inches deep-like a Macy's coat box-and place it on the bench in front of the shelter and start to get back into her car. They went out and spoke to her before she had a chance to get away. Inside the box were three mother cats and 16 kittens, all crammed in and piled two or three deep. The woman has a 16 month old male cat at home but she thought he probably wasn't old enough to bring in to have fixed. Let's see. He was old enough to impregnate these three females but not old enough to have his little testicles "altered"? When asked to bring in the male to effect this alteration she hemmed and hawed and said she knows she should, etc, etc, etc. but just hated to do it "to a male". What?

A good thing that may come out of today? They would love to have lots of pictures of the animals at the shelter and to post on their website. They had them for a while but they have slacked off-the usual political "stuff" that goes on in an organization. I told her that is something I would love to do so we are going to start working on that.

Finished reading "Bootlegger's Daughter" and am starting the chat book.