The One-Hour Cat Shelter

Cat House Fun Time! Nasty, bitchy-bad weather is rolling into Texas today. And since I was hoping the winter would be mild, we kept putting off building a cat-shelter for the half dozen to dozen feral cats in the woods around here. By coffee-hour Saturday, 9:30 AM, there was no way around it. I’d have to cowboy up and build them a quick, safe hangout where they could do one of their pile-on’s (clowders) and …

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Winter Yard Work Pays Big Dividends

I Need “Mow Time!” We didn’t have time for a build this week. For a couple of reasons.  The main one was that “Big Yeller thang in the sky.“ As much fun as it would have been to light off the outside cooking stove (one of these guys) and toss a few pounds of stew meat, veggies and a cup of red wine into a Dutch oven and sip some adult beverage while basking all …

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