Hello Loved Ones!!
Well guess what, this a good news email from me, I know, I know, it happens so rarely, so don't fall out of your chairs or faint!!
Mom & Kenneth were re-stored to the church this am. They had only attended services once this year ^ had just gradually fallen away. I know mom's health has a lot to do with it & Kenneth won't leave her alone but they decided that this was something that they needed to do. What makes it even better was that Danny Ray was there, Aunt Martha missed it b/c she is in the city until Tuesday. Loetta came up & they are just staying up there in a motel room which makes it easier to visit w/Randy. I don't have any new news on him as of today. I wasn't in the office much Friday to visit w/Dr. King so will pin him down tomorrow & hopefully will have an update for you all by the pm.
Hey I finally found out a dish that Kenneth doesn't like, chicken & dumplings. I mentioned that I was going to try to make some as I never have, asked him if he wanted any & he said NO. Almost threw me into a state of total speechless shock but wasn't shock enough to stop me from talking!!
Let me tell you all about an episode that happened last week w/one of my kids coming up missing (Tango, the black cat that we have had since 1998). Needless to say it is Zach's FAVORITE cat out of the 5 that we have. Gone, vanished, disappeared, no where in sight, get the idea? Looked high & low all that afternoon after work & well into the night, nothing, nada, zip, zilch, zero!! This was the day after the kids moved back in so I had nightmare visions that somehow they had shut him up in the moving van which had been returned to LAWTON!! Didn't sleep, 1 of my kids was missing couldn't. Got up early next am went down to our storage unit, checked to make sure somehow that hadn't transported him down there, nothing, not a sign. Was going to work, ran into the dog catcher, EXCUSE ME ANIMAL CONTROL OFFICER (who happens to be a female in Marlow), asked if she had picked up a black cat on Aspen street yesterday, she said sure did, caught him in a cat trap. I about had a coniption!! Asked was he hurt, dead, why, she said, no 1 of your neighbors is trapping cats in the area & turning them over to us. Then got furious!! Asked if I could go pick up him up, she said nope, when I was transferring him from the trap to the cage he got away from me, don't worry he should be home in a day or so I imagine. HEART ATTACK, HEART ATTACK!! Needless to say was late to work, went looking for cat, no such luck, went at lunch, no cat, went searching again. Hey this is one of my kids!! Took off work early after tellng Z what happened to keep him from killing animal control officer (federal offense, you know). Changed into ragged clothes, jeans w/big holes in umm, back side area, old sleeveless top used to mow yard in. So while Z went thru every back yard in neighborhood looking for cat trap, & threatening to kill neighbor when he found it, I went back to pound area, parked good 2 blocks away & started walking & calling, had stopped several times to ask if anyone had seen him, no one had. Was walking up road by city property, which is surrounded by 6 ft tall chain link fence, which is covered in shrubs, trees, poison oak, poison ivy, poison spiders, rabid snakes, monstrous bugs (you get the picture) and could hear him crying. Crawled thru dangerous poisonous area to get to fence & there was my baby!! Couldn't get to him, saw man setting on porch, asked if he had a phone I could use, told me nope was on my own, so continued to crawl along fence line thru poisonous yuck stuff till I found hole going under fence, probably from past escapees, had to dig hole out, lay on stomach & stick hand under & up to coax him to come to me, took quite a while but finally managed to grab hold of 1 little paw and pull him under fence. Meanwhile man on porch was getting good peep show from my jeans!! Price he must pay for not offering to help (scary sight I am sure). Walked 2 blocks w/cat in arms in 90+ degress to get to vehicle to get missing kid home. Meanwhile Z found neighbor w/cat trap, no trap but did locate who it was, IT WAS THE ANIMAL CONTROL OFFICER WHO LIVES COUPLE BLOCKS FROM US. After talking to my neighbors who ALL OWN CATS AND HAVE HAD SEVERAL DISAPPEAR IN LAST MONTH, lets say she won't be setting cat trap in our area again. TRAPPED WRONG KID!! But the good thing is I found out that I am not allergic to poison oak or ivy or sumac, didn't get bit by anything but a rabid mosquito!! WHEW!! And I say nothing exciting every happens around here.!!
Gotta go,
Love to you all,
Lisa
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