Back in Fargo
Aug. 14th, 2008 10:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shakatanyI arrived in Fargo, ND on Tuesday afternoon after a relatively uneventful journey with just the slightest case of travel fatigue caused by not really sleeping the previous night, getting up early and dozing on the planes. My friend CM met me at the airport and we fell into our rhythm, picking up where we left off last August.
Yesterday was Summerfest, the annual picnic for the Cass County Democrats and as usual CM had volunteered to help with the meal and drafted me and her husband, the Prof, to help out too. We spent the morning baking a chocolate chip pie for the silent auction and putting together a fruit salad for the picnic itself. Later we drove around buying the hamburgers and hot dogs and buns and condiments for the endeavor, arriving at the picnic place around 4. The Prof arrived a bit later to barbecue about 120 hamburgers and dozens of hot dogs. Four hours later we were back at the house exhausted having served some 150 people and raising over $2000 for a good cause.
Today we went to PAAWs so CM could do a few chores around the place. We entered and I was in cat heaven. Cats rushed out to greet us and check us out. Beauty, the resident cat and Stella were especially friendly and required lots of petting from me. Some came by for a bit of petting and the rest stayed in their safe places. All, at some point, had been feral cats, living on the streets so to speak, until caught and brought to PAAWs. Some would find homes and the ones too untamable would be neutered and rereleased. In another couple of rooms were kittens, small adorable balls of fluff especially 2 white ones named Thief and River who purred up a storm. At the end of a couple of hours my black pants were covered in cat hair but it was worth it. Tomorrow is surgery day and I get to wear scrubs!
Yesterday was Summerfest, the annual picnic for the Cass County Democrats and as usual CM had volunteered to help with the meal and drafted me and her husband, the Prof, to help out too. We spent the morning baking a chocolate chip pie for the silent auction and putting together a fruit salad for the picnic itself. Later we drove around buying the hamburgers and hot dogs and buns and condiments for the endeavor, arriving at the picnic place around 4. The Prof arrived a bit later to barbecue about 120 hamburgers and dozens of hot dogs. Four hours later we were back at the house exhausted having served some 150 people and raising over $2000 for a good cause.
Today we went to PAAWs so CM could do a few chores around the place. We entered and I was in cat heaven. Cats rushed out to greet us and check us out. Beauty, the resident cat and Stella were especially friendly and required lots of petting from me. Some came by for a bit of petting and the rest stayed in their safe places. All, at some point, had been feral cats, living on the streets so to speak, until caught and brought to PAAWs. Some would find homes and the ones too untamable would be neutered and rereleased. In another couple of rooms were kittens, small adorable balls of fluff especially 2 white ones named Thief and River who purred up a storm. At the end of a couple of hours my black pants were covered in cat hair but it was worth it. Tomorrow is surgery day and I get to wear scrubs!
