BYC Café

[DobieLover]

Good morning Cafe. Coffee is on.
Light rain here. I hope Bunny is okay too.

 

[Shadrach]

Good afternoon Cafe.
Thanks for the coffee DL.
Had a fair bit of rain overnight. Cooler and damp here now. Looks like more rain is on the way.
Internet has gone to shite again.

 

[aart]

The feral mother cat removed 4 kittens about 4 days ago. The same 4 I handled. So I imagine I'm now a threat to her kittens in her eyes.
The next day it was just her and the 2 most skittish kittens. Yesterday morning she was gone with one of the kittens and left the most feral kitten behind. I've been feeding it. But she's now been gone 2 days. I don't understand why she left it behind.

OhBummer!
Probably should have 'caged' her quicker....she's probably off cavorting with that Tom.

 

[DobieLover]

OhBummer!
Probably should have 'caged' her quicker....she's probably off cavorting with that Tom.

Maybe. I'd like to know where she took the other kittens. There's always the chance she'll come back with them.
Or come for the last one. It's not like she doesn't know she left one behind.

 

[sourland]

Good morning, Cafe'.

Waiting on Isaias. Several bands of very heavy rain so far, but no wind - yet.

 

[drumstick diva]

The mayor of Chicago, Lori Lightfoot has just removed Christopher Columbus statues from two parks "until further notice," ???

At least 10 states and more than 140 cities now celebrate some version of "Indigenous Peoples Day." Hopefully Chicago will do the same.

The Chicago Tribune posted a photo of several Native Americans who were turned away from the Columbus Day parade in 1970. Seeing this now, I have to say I had no idea Chicago even had any Native Americans. I'm wondering where they had lived, since parts of Chicago have not been kind to any group who is different. Sadly that still holds true.

If I recall the 70's were when I really became aware of the opposite sex, probably spent all my thoughts on them.

If it wasn't for 007 Sean on BYC, I probably wouldn't have given much thought to Indigenous People. Fortunately he opened my mind to them and have I been pursuing their culture ever since.

Still find it odd that in my public schooling, no mention was ever made of Native Americans or even Jews and the Holocaust. Guess in Chicago(and probably elsewhere) we were given only a "sanitized" education.

I'm getting off of my orange crate(platform) now - just makes me wonder what else we were never taught in schools. Some years ago the movie "Hidden Figures," introduced the Black women who were largely responsible for the early success of the space program. At the end of the movie, the audience en masse said "we never knew that."

No wonder I'm nowhere as smart as I might have been- if given privy to this knowledge.
Never knew you could have chickens in Chicago either, although the Chicago neighbors who poisoned our dog (and failed - the vet saved him) would have poisoned them or done horrible things to them as well.

For now I wish I could myself for being so stupid.

 

[Mtn Margie]

Morning! Thanks for the coffee. Still here and not too sore and that tree was 40+ inches at the bottom diameter.

 

[DobieLover]

The somewhat wet mother was back this morning when I stopped to feed the kitten. Don't know if she is splitting her time between the 2 locations, plans to move the last kitten today or just stopped to get something to eat.

 

[Perris]

good afternoon Cafe.
Raining here too, and very cool for this time of year (16 C, 60 F). The weird weather continues.

that tree was 40+ inches at the bottom diameter.

do you have plans for it?

 

[Mtn Margie]

Not my tree to make decisions on, but it will be firewood. It is cut into foot rounds to dry out. It died from mistletoe and spruce beetle infestation.