Our Time In Reno is Almost Up

It has been 5 months since we first got here, we were able to help Tina & Steve out a little bit, but not as much as I had hoped to. We got 5 of their female cats spayed, but were unable to get the other 20 cats fixed. We were not able to get homes for any of them, but the coyotes had some good dinners it seems. We were not able to get them moved out of their current house and moved up to their house on the hill, nicknamed the "80". We don't know why it is called that. We were not able to help them liquidate very much of their stuff, although we helped them sell $3000 dollars worth of items on ebay and through direct contact with buyers. (to sell the bass fiddle.)

It has not been that much fun because we did not have any money, I was denied foodstamps. (yes, I went through all of that nonsense at the "Welfare Office" only to be denied after one month.) Our weekends were spent going to Costco or Sam's Club so Tina & Steve could buy cat food. Some of the highlights have been, going to the Rock & Gem show, Rendezvous, getting the cat spayed, selling the Bass, getting 5 of Tina's cats spayed, visiting Penny & Jerry and planning to go home.

I cleaned too many stinky refrigerators, too many pissed on items, ate too much fish, too much salad, and went to Sam's club once too many times. I did have time to crochet 42 hats, Tina sold one at work for $35, and gave one to one of her co-workers. I didn't make them to sell, I just needed something to do that didn't include cleaning or going through all kinds of stuff.

There doesn't seem to be much more we can do to help Tina & Steve, so it is now time to go home. Tina will not like this, she will have to deal with it. I can't believe how barren it is here, and that I didn't remember it being this way. Reno seems to be a very backward place, and if they didn't have the casinos, they would just be a windy speck on the road. OK I got the venting done.

I had some more pictures of the cats to post here but Steve decided to put new software on the computer and in the process, deleted all of them. I am going to take more because you just need to see the two big FAT cats she has. Also, she needed to use an ear candle, so Brian took a picture of her that I will post. Tina gave me a bunch of stuff that I will probably have to leave here because we just have Brian's car. I won't miss the stuff, and being here shows me that collecting a bunch of stuff is not worth the hassle. If I collect stuff, I will have to be very strict about what I collect, and I will have to be able to sell it if it gets to be too much. Time to stop the ranting and raving. I am really looking forward to getting back to Cedar.