Which school? The one in Maine begins in August. I'm not sure of the others in RI and MA.

 

The wifey is busy getting Christmas decorations out now that Halloween is over. She enjoys it and so does the cat. I mostly stay out of it. We bought a twinkling green wreath (w/ red bow) today to put outside, we've been looking for one of these for a while having seen some on other homes.

 

^ I am glad that your cat enjoys the Christmas decorations, too.

What is your cat’s name?

 

Oh she loves to get involved in our seasonal decorating, it is a ritual with her and my wife. It happens with Easter, Thanksgiving, Halloween, and Christmas decorating. She knows when my wife is getting ready to decorate and the boxes get dragged out from the basement. At Christmas time she likes to climb into the Christmas tree, I've posted this picture below before, it is our favourite pic of her.

We brought home our cat from a farm family that was selling it. We were told all along that it was a male. I think they sold it far younger than what they advertised it being as the cat would not drink water from a bowl when we got it home. We named it Rocky when we brought it home. It took us about 3-4 weeks to get it to our veterinarian to check over and get the first shots as they were very busy. Once we got it to the vet we found out that Rocky was a female, lol. By that time we continued calling her Rocky, and it has stuck to this day.

Rocky on the left , and our late cat Butterscotch (RIP) on the right as they anxiously wait for food ! lol



Rocky in the Christmas tree

 

I talked to my sister. It turns out he didn't get accepted this year.
It was in RI, I don't know specifics.
It's probably just as well. They're expecting the first on Pi day(3/14) and classes would have started in May.

 

^
I think there is only one school in RI that has the program. Maybe he and Ally will be classmates at some point! How old is he, how long has he been an ICU nurse?

 

Joey, I love that picture of Rocky in the Christmas tree, too!

So, you had Rocky and Butterscotch at the same time?

 

Yeah we love that picture. When we find her in the Christmas tree she stares at us like she is teasing us, and she is trying to prove that she is smarter than us, lol.

We brought Rocky home as a very young kitten. Butterscotch was 17 years old at the time. A few months after that picture was taken Butterscotch started going blind due to a mis-diagnosed thyroid illness by our vet, we eventually had to put her down. My wife was devastated. One year before we brought home Rocky we lost my best friend Hershey. He was the best cat ever, that was a difficult loss for me. It was hard to take and we said that we weren't getting any more cats, but one year later we broke down an got Rocky and got back on the horse lol.

 

This coming weekend I think I'll get started on re-settling the tractor shed. It's only a small 330sqft building that doesn't have a floor, and it was dragged into its current location with a large tractor about 6 years ago. The ground wasn't prepared in any way beforehand, and the relocation wasn't exactly gentle, so one side wall leans inward and the whole building is twisted like a dog shaking itself dry. At some point in the past (pre-move) I think a tree may have fallen on it. I made up some crude doors for it out of plywood and 4x2s but over time the building has settled further, so now only one door opens easily. I also reroofed it a few years ago, and replaced some exterior plywood and framework, which will hopefully at least hold the old, bent steel skeleton together during the exercise.

The aim is to remove the doors, lift the building using acrow props, straighten the leaning side wall, underpin it with a concrete footing, re-settle it, put in a limestone floor, then put the doors back on. It'll be somewhat heavily complicated by the fact it sits hard against the milking shed, and since it's moved the edge of the roof has slid slightly under the milking shed roof.

Nothing can go wrong, I've done this no times before.

 

My wife and my have an anniversary this weekend. 17 years married, 29 years since we started dating (Same date for both). So will be spending time with her this weekend!