So, we did visit Madison Cat Project's Kitty Palooza today, but much to the disappointment of my dog I did NOT come home with a cat. (I do have a new litter box for whenever I do find the right cat AND I bought a new feliway (plugin of comforting cat pheremone) to help the transition because I felt I should have those ready at home just in case so after farmer's market stopped by the new Mounds location to check them out.) Part of it was that Kitty Palooza was running 10a-4p and had 72 cats/kittens available for adoption today with all adoption fees waived. We got there right before 11a and I was #16 for the adult cat rooms (kittens get lonely so I would need to get a pair of them and I would worry about the trouble they were getting into with nobody home but each other in my absence) and they were at #10 for cat speed dating the adult cats and said they only had a couple left. by the time they texted me, there was only one more adult cat remaining. (they did allow our whole group to come in.) Alley was a tabby-bengal mix recent mother just weaned her babies from an overcrowded shelter in Kentucky originally -- she was gorgeous but also a bit spicy (she full on bit Crissy) and was a bit of an escape artist needed a bigger home than I could provide for adventures and catio time -- and we knew she loathed other cats but there was no idea about how she would do with dogs and it would break Waffles' heart to have a cat copletely reject and hate her. Alley and I got along but after I'd given her two treats told her that was enough wouldn't give her more, we studied each other a bit longer but we both reached the mutual conclusion, "I like you but you're not meant for me to live with" around the same time and then she gave me a last couple head rubs and licked my wrist while purring one last time before she went and sat in the window ignoring everyone inside so we left about 30 seconds before our time was up because we had reached that mutual recognition. And of the 72 cats/kittens they had for adopting, they actually had all 13 adults cats and all but 7 of the kittens homed by 1:30pm which is absolutely FANTASTIC!
Waffles was disappointed when I told her I hadn't met the right cat today (you should have seen/felt her excitement when she saw me put the cat carrier in the trunk just in case!) but I convinced her to go on an adventure with my parents this afternoon (a walk along Lakeshore down by the Union and hamburgers for all of them) while I get some gardening things done at work. She was excited by the adventure and burgers but then didn't want me away from her so it did take some convincing but then she got excited to go with them for it.
So no cat yet. We did buy some things from the vendors -- I got a t shirt that says "Leave me Alone I'm reading" and a necklace (a gorgeous moss agate with aventurine beads) made by a very nice black/green loving Wiccan who didn't say anything about it to my mom or Crissy (who were both buying jewelry as well) but when I asked her about the price on the one I'd been wanting she specifically told me, "And I smudge all of them every time to make sure no negative energy is attached to them from me and my home to you or from anything before they come to me." And then we started talking about it and she admitted there were some pieces, especially estate/antique pieces that she won't even physically touch or take apart anymore and has her son (who isn't energy sensitive) do it for her so she can cleanse them before ever touching them herself. But this is the one I picked out for me (it called to me first thing we got there after I got my name on the list to meet the available kitties, but the vendor at Green Dolphin jewelry wasn't at her booth right then but was back later after we met the cats and I spent a while holding the piece to be sure it was right for me as I explained to her that jewelry or crystals not meant for me always disappeared or broke so I wanted to hold it and browse til we were all three done before committing to buy it just in case it didn't feel quite right for me after all despite how much I liked it and it called to me today) -- and my mum and the artist who made it both made a point about how it was greens would sit right over the heart chakra and I said, 'O I hadn't thought of that consciously, it just called to me as what I need right now -- but you're right." then added for the artist/vendor who had already established was energy sensitive gifted Wiccan, "We're here today because my cat died end of May and I'm looking to find the right next house panther to guard me and my dog." And she was like, "O good luck! I hope they find you soon! And yes, heart chakra healing is exactly the right choice to have called to you right now for what you need."
Also bought from a very cool nature/fantasy/faerie/art nouveau artist, Meredith Dillman , that before I even got there my mom went, "O no. Dani. Don't look, you'll spend too much money here!" And then just as I walked in to admire her artwork, I got the text for my cat speed dating lol. We did go back and I bought too many prints (6 medium and 3 small -- but they were buy 2 get 1 free with no limits on the multiples of 6 you got; curiously three of the large prints were from her tarot series -- The Star, Page of Wands, and Strength were the ones I chose which is quite the spread) and her art book because I was being indecisive about trying to put some of the medium one back and could get me down to 4 but then for $18 more might as well have 6 because of the deal-- and really I have so much art I haven't even put up on my walls yet because I need frames.
Books and art and crystals/rocks and tea and music (I still own a lot of physical CDs, but I don't like streaming services and if I own them, I can always put them onto new machines) are the physical baggage that comes with me and you better be willing to make a lot of bookshelves space and space on the walls for artwork if you want me in your life, lol.
My mom also got some surprise gifts for my sister's family when they come visit, some Kahu collar bow ties for both dogs and my sister's cat, and birthday gift for her mom which is gorgeous we all think grandma will love. And Crissy bought a mug, earrings, two necklaces, and several art prints from Meredith Dillman.
And then at my mum's suggestion, the three of us stopped by Stella's bakery (right down the road) for some spicy cheese bread and Wisco-Pops because we were thirsty and some other bread/pastries as long as we were there.
And then my parents wanted to take the dogs on a walk down along Lakeshore and get them some hamburgers at the Union so I made waffles go with them on the adventure because I told her she would enjoy it more than watching me move dirt and plant flowers, lol. I think she did even if my da forgot to bring her back to me until nearly 7pm. And I got some of the soil changing taken care of and the flowers planted despite the terrible headache from the air quality (but it's not getting better any time soon y'know?) I'll likely sleep a LOT tomorrow (today now?) to make up for it. So it goes. And I feel better getting the petunia planters taken care of at least even if I still have the box out front AND the veggies to sort out.... (Did buy some more of the herbs I need for the veggie out back though.) And I bought myself some cut ranunculus and anemones for this week because one place had them and they make me happy even though I don't grow them in my (rather feral) flower bed at work.
And then I came in from playing in the dirt until the air quality from the Canadian wildfires made me so headachey and tired I called it a day and I learned about Los Angeles and Minneapolis today. Not surprised, because you raised a generation on the ptsd of school shootings and then take everything and every hope away from them having a better future than their childhood memories -- and you think they give a flying fuck if you threaten to shoot them with anything? It's not like they have anything to lsoe or any future world they can envision wanting to live in or to be able to afford a home or kids or even pets or to even be able to feed themselves while the world burns around them. Like, if you push people past the point of hope in the future AND they feel they have nothing further to lose AND you raise them on daily horror risk ptsd -- history is VERY clear what those masses of humanity will do and how they will react. How are you surprised? It gets worse before it gets better because it's a generation that feels they have no future and they have nothing left to lose and your threat of force is utterly MEANINGLESS because they have grown up under the nihilistic sword of Damocles ptsd of school shootings and mass shootings in every "safe" space they thought they could trust so they learned nowhere is safe and you can be gunned down anywhere and nobody in charge will care enough to do a damn thing about it or protect you -- so what does it matter who holds the gun when the threat is one you've grown up spending your whole life living with expecting any moment of any day might be your turn....
Anyway. I should finish this cuppa tea and pack up to head home. Getting hours in early over this weekend because busy week ahead. Thurs night my mam and I have an hour and a half long French wine tasting. Friday afternoon taking my gran to her optometry appointments. Saturday maybe in Chicago for Scottish Highland games. Sunday in Milwaukee area for Skerryvore show at JJs (not sure if da will want to do something for Father's Day earlier in the day or anything....) Got somewhere around 12 hours in today though which is good. Even if I do end up sleeping a lot tomorrow after all the smoke exposure today. (Farmer's market at 7am was aqi of 86 and that was the best all day.... Kittty palooza (except the cat speed dating) was all outside as was prepping/planting flowers. And yet today was considered "better" air quality because it's been under 100 all day... *rolls eyes*)
P.S. Astro Poets horoscopes for the week just landed in my inbox. So before i forget, here ya go:
"Week of 6/8 in Libra: The sunlight on the mountains is how you see life. You remember it all with light happenings. Crystal lenses around what you seek. You know the mystical world. It knows you."
"Week of 6/8 in Pisces: Some other horizon. That is what you are after. You do not need to know. It knows you. Speak that truth into existence."
[post title: lyrics to the Aerosmith song Dream On. One of my favorites of theirs, close tie between Dream One versus Kings and Queens. But I have heard Dream On more often in my life as it was released as a single so it's often a happy surprise on radio roulette.]
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