March
12, 2018 - Opie's Diary of Daily Doings
at Rikki's Refuge
Early
morning and nobody up at the 9th Life Assisted Living, Retirement and
Psychiatric Center
Wake
up Blue! Gotta get used to our new
time !!!
Remember
.... we have no hot water. That bad
vapor sensor went out on the water heater Saturday morning. So Papa Doug gets on the phone and calls and
calls and calls. And finally locates a
place in Fredericksburg that can get the part.
That's like an hour away. They
check the computers .... they say, yeah.... you better buy several of those,
those kind of water heaters burn those out all the time .... and then they
don't run .... and don't even thinking of trying to bypass it cuz you'll ruin
the board and then that's like hundreds and hundreds of dollars.
They find out there are four of these vapor sensors in the United States ...... but none in Virginia. They can have it in tomorrow and it's only about $16 says the nice man. Come on in tomorrow and we'll have it for you.
Oh well .... one more day of heating every thing in the microwave ..... all the cleaning water and the mopping water and the laundry water .... oh no .........
Clarence had noticed some leaking in the roof in the Feed Store ..... that's the big red barn where we store the nums for the big animals. You can't have leaking on your nums .... no sireeee .....
They find out there are four of these vapor sensors in the United States ...... but none in Virginia. They can have it in tomorrow and it's only about $16 says the nice man. Come on in tomorrow and we'll have it for you.
Oh well .... one more day of heating every thing in the microwave ..... all the cleaning water and the mopping water and the laundry water .... oh no .........
Clarence had noticed some leaking in the roof in the Feed Store ..... that's the big red barn where we store the nums for the big animals. You can't have leaking on your nums .... no sireeee .....
Mr.
Clarence is a really good fix 'em upper ....
so he climbs up on the roof to take a look ..... and uh oh ...... I thought I was gonna have to get a bar of soap and wash his
mouth out !!!!!
He said, come on little orange dude ... come on up and you'll see why I'm saying that. And look at that !!!!! OH NO .... there was a small leak a couple years back and look how somebody "fixed" it .... If you know even 1/2 what I do .... and I don't know much cuz I'm a cat and I make hoomans do that kind of work .... you'd know you ain't a gonna fix a leak by putting a strip of rolled roofing down ...... where the higher shingles are just running the water right under it ..... and now a whole lot of wood is rotted.
He said, come on little orange dude ... come on up and you'll see why I'm saying that. And look at that !!!!! OH NO .... there was a small leak a couple years back and look how somebody "fixed" it .... If you know even 1/2 what I do .... and I don't know much cuz I'm a cat and I make hoomans do that kind of work .... you'd know you ain't a gonna fix a leak by putting a strip of rolled roofing down ...... where the higher shingles are just running the water right under it ..... and now a whole lot of wood is rotted.
So
Mr. Clarence made up a list of supplies he needs me to get for him and said go
get to work figurin out how to buy this wood and shingles and stuff for me
...... and hurry up .... if this gets
any worse all this food will be ruined.
OH
NO ..... it's a lot of supplies
..... I'll have to take the Goat Truck
and go fill it up ..... but I need
green trading papers ..... maybe you
can help me? www.RikkisRefuge.org/donate
AND then Mr. Clarence said, and while you're at it little orange dude ...... the temp runs need decent roofs.
You
won't be able to use this space this year until it's done. So you better hurry up. You want to save lives .... you need a place for a group of ferals to
quarantine .... well get me 550 square
feet of metal roofing and let's get it done.
OH NO ....... more green trading papers !!!!!!
OH NO ....... more green trading papers !!!!!!
But
look !!!! Said Mr. Clarence .....
Little
Orange Dude, Did you notice I fixed the door at the Life Center yesterday? And I didn't ask you for one single green
trading paper, now did I? I had
everything I needed to fix it so the door didn't keep just about falling out
the jam right in my truck and it didn't cost you a cent. So don't complain about what I need.
Oh
...... and one other thing ...
Mr.
Donkey's roof got a hole in it during the last storm. It's really in bad shape too ..... you just can't patch it up anymore. So grab me this list of materials while you're out shopping,
Little Orange Dude, and I'll fix that too .......
Sigh
....... I've really got my work cut
out for me, don't I ? Papa Doug had
asked for gravel for all the driveways, he wants to put up a few small barns
and run ins, the medical treatment room still needs the inside finished, we
have a new quarantine building that needs lots of work before it can be used,
and Miss Cindy wants to fix all the roofs on the dog Club Houses ....... and everybody thinks I can just find the
green trading papers to make it all happen.
Will YOU help me look and find some? Every $ counts. You know, nobody had nuf money to do it all, but when we share, we can get everything done the animals need.
Will YOU help me look and find some? Every $ counts. You know, nobody had nuf money to do it all, but when we share, we can get everything done the animals need.
www.RikkisRefuge.org/donate Thank you .... every little nail is a great big help ....
I
took a little break in the afternoon and snuck off to the Bandit Memorial
Picnic Pavilion with half a case of Fancy Feast to relax, watch the clouds and
have eat in peace .....
but
I got no opposable thumbs and I still can't figure out how to open these cans
.......
Sigh
.........
Thank
YOU for being MY friend.
Love,
Opie
Thank
YOU for making it all possible !
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