Hello, Dearies!!!
I am Joan-with-a-Z, returning, but only in spirit, for this month. I will be away from the keyboard a lot for the next 2 weeks, but should be able to pick up week 3, if no one else decides to take it.
My goals this month are:
1: To survive... there's a lot going on right now and I am not the best at realizing that I'm not supergirl anymore, so I need to be careful not to overdo things...
2: To see the scale move downward, at all, by the end of the month. With everything going on, eating right will be difficult.
3: To get back to 10k steps per day on my fitbit after 15 June... (until then I'm not wearing it... I am helping relatives clean out/close out a household, and it is dirty, sweaty work... don't want to ruin my new toy, don't need confirmation that I'm working hard, don't need the rash from sweat under the watch band, don't need to be nagged if I sit actually find time to sit still for an entire hour, etc...
4: To get the summer off to a successful start... DDs' last day of school is the 14th, so I have until then to get a solid plan for our summer, unfortunately, those same 2 weeks are going to be spent organizing the cleanout at my relatives' house, culminating with a yard sale at my house on the 15th... so too many plates in the air, I think... but wait, there's more!!!! ;P
So a while back I got those 4 feral kittens to foster, right? And they've been doing great!!! And the baby chicks we got in April? They are outside birdies now, spending their days in the enclosed tractor and their nights up in the attached house. Well, last years hens are bullying this years pullets, so they have to be kept separate, which is a shuffle every morning and evening so that the hens get to free range during the day, but are protected at night. Still all maneagable... and the bees seem to be settling in finally, no more escape attempts. Honestly, aside from checking to make sure they are still there, I haven't done much with them... I SHOULD smoke them and inspect how things are going... but since I wouldn't really be doing much (ordering them a new queen if they need it, for example,) there's really not much point in stressing over it right now. They have safe homes, I'll keep giving them sugar water to supplement their foraging, and that's about it...
STILL manageable!!!
And then... yesterday I got the text. 4 4-week-old crybabies need care. And my dumb butt said, "GIMME!!!!"
For those as common-sense-challenged as I am, here's a newsflash.... NINE CATS IS TOO MUCH!!!! In my defense, they gave me the eyes... the giant kitten eyes... WAY more powerful than "true love's kiss..." So my 12 week old Purrvenger kittens are now jealous, my actual cat, he's just disgusted with me, and now I have these teenie-tiny crybabies, too... We are calling them the Powerpuff Girls, 3 girls, not sure yet which is which... one boy who are calling Mojojojo... again, not the lame names they came with... they are all stupid sound R names, officially...but they are tiny, still looking to nurse but able to handle canned food, so that's what they're getting...
I'll post some pictures when I get the chance to take some... but, yeah... that's all while I'll be offline mostly for a while. All the babies are going for their spay/neuter surgeries on the 12th, and I'm not sure if any of them will come back for follow up care after that or go out for adoption right away... but it all still spells a very busy next two weeks!!!
(When I was little, I wanted to be a fairy godmother... gave it my best go as a young woman... realized that my magic is powerful, but not unlimited and people are greedy, so I retired and became a villain instead... all this is reminding me why. I. quit!!!! )
And now, dear friends, once more into the breach!