This was the West Virginia.

Cold weather, wounded cat, water-gun warrioress

Poor DT lost a fight — stitches, broken tailbone, probably bruised all over but you can’t see it because of the fur. Three days at the vet’s, the horrible Cone of Shame collar and locked into the guest room for recovery. There have been two stray dogs wandering this part of the mountain, seeking whom they may devour and they just about did for DT. So I went and bought a ‘paintball’ gun (it actually shoots water pellets) and it took me FOREVER to learn how to put it together.

It looks very outer-space. Hopefully if I see them I can approach them sneakily and blast them with my interplanetary deadly-water weapon and maybe they’ll go somewhere else. If not, more serious measures ensue. This goes for coons, squirrels stealing all the black-oil sunflower seed etc.

What to read? I am ordering The Iliad. I have never read it. Have read The Odyssey several times over.

Cold weather has arrived; 50 degrees today and down to low 40s at night. So looking forward to the Tren Maya trip.