urinary tract infection?

Priscilla Ballou wrote:

One of those will probably be against my back door, making it difficult
for me to dig out the ferals' feeding station. :-( I'm not kidding. A
northeast wind would blow right up against it.

Priscilla


Uh-oh. The wind does, indeed, seem to be coming from the north.
Here, that means I should be able to open my garage. What do the
poor feral cats and other critters do during such storms?

--
Jean B.

In article , "Jean B."
wrote:

Priscilla Ballou wrote:

One of those will probably be against my back door, making it difficult
for me to dig out the ferals' feeding station. :-( I'm not kidding. A
northeast wind would blow right up against it.

Uh-oh. The wind does, indeed, seem to be coming from the north.

It's a nor'easter, after all.

Here, that means I should be able to open my garage. What do the
poor feral cats and other critters do during such storms?

In past storms, there's been somewhere they hole up. It at least used
to be up inside the back wall of my neighbors' house. I worry about
them staying inside the heated doghouse because it gets buried in the
snow. I don't want them suffocating. When I go down to the basement
later I'll look out the back window and see if they're hunkered down
under the back porch. They go there sometimes.

Priscilla

--
"It is very, very dangerous to treat any human, lowest
of the low even, with contempt and arrogant whatever.
The Lord takes this kind of treatment very, very personal."
- QBaal in newsgroup alt.religion.christian.episcopal

In article , "Jean B."
wrote:

Priscilla Ballou wrote:

Friday at work we were lamenting that we probably wouldn't, due to the
timing, and our boss was reminding us that we can telecommute if
necessary.

OTOH, if the university *does* close, I don't expect I'll be doing much
work. I think the question is purely academic, though. No pun intended.

Priscilla, listening to the wind start to pick up

School has already been called off in Boston for Monday, and I
think Tuesday too, so maybe you will be lucky--except for the
telecommuting part.

I think she was mostly joking. We've got a decent interim president at
the University, unlike the nasties we've had in the past. I suspect
he'll give us a day, particularly if we can't even shovel until tomorrow!

Priscilla

--
"It is very, very dangerous to treat any human, lowest
of the low even, with contempt and arrogant whatever.
The Lord takes this kind of treatment very, very personal."
- QBaal in newsgroup alt.religion.christian.episcopal

---MIKE--- wrote:

Here in the White mountains of New Hampshire we only got two inches of
snow. We need more snow for the snowmobile trails, The ski areas can
make snow so they don't have a problem. We haven't had more than 3
inches at a time since December 20th. This means the plowing expense is
low but the poor people that make a living by plowing aren't doing well
at all.

---MIKE---

Take mine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
--
Jean B.

Priscilla Ballou wrote:

It's a nor'easter, after all.

Here, that means I should be able to open my garage. What do the
poor feral cats and other critters do during such storms?

In past storms, there's been somewhere they hole up. It at least used
to be up inside the back wall of my neighbors' house. I worry about
them staying inside the heated doghouse because it gets buried in the
snow. I don't want them suffocating. When I go down to the basement
later I'll look out the back window and see if they're hunkered down
under the back porch. They go there sometimes.

Priscilla


I hope your ferals are okay, and that you can ascertain that.

--
Jean B.

Priscilla Ballou wrote:

I think she was mostly joking. We've got a decent interim president at
the University, unlike the nasties we've had in the past. I suspect
he'll give us a day, particularly if we can't even shovel until tomorrow!

Priscilla

Yes, it seems rather pointless now, alas. Otherwise, I would go
out and do a bit now.

--
Jean B.

"---MIKE---" wrote in message
...
Here in the White mountains of New Hampshire we only got two inches of
snow. We need more snow for the snowmobile trails, The ski areas can
make snow so they don't have a problem. We haven't had more than 3
inches at a time since December 20th. This means the plowing expense is
low but the poor people that make a living by plowing aren't doing well
at all.


Oh, wow, you live near Franconia, don't you?

"Cheryl" wrote in message
...
On Sat 22 Jan 2005 06:54:35p, KellyH wrote in
rec.pets.cats.health+behav ):

I'm terrified of losing power. I bought a generator last year, and
today I kept thinking I should get a tank full of gas in case I need
to use it. I also hate to waste gas if it has to sit in the gas can
(5 gal) and I never need to use it until grass mowing season again.
When I got the generator, I never thought about situations where I
couldn't even drive to get gas for it. Summer storms were what I
thought about.

Cheryl,

One of my shops had a couple of Mitsubishi diesel generators with an
automatic transfer switch - ran a few my medium presses or one big press.
The ATS monitors the electrical current at the breaker box and kicks in
automatically if the electricity goes out and shuts off automatically when
the power comes back on. It also discharges and recharges the the start up
batteries automatically so they don't go dead if the generator isn't used
for long periods.

You can also get generators that run on propane and natural gas that connect
directly to your home gas line and circut box - but they're not as efficient
and require a lot more maintainence. Its also possible - but not probable -
the gas and electric will go down at the same time.

If I had to do it again, I'd probably go for the natural gas or propane
generator since there aren't many power outages in my area and when there
are, they never last more than a few hours. Short of an earthquake or
H-bomb attack, a natural gas generator is probably the most practical
choice.

Phil.

"What cat was ever awkward or clumsy? Whether in play or in earnest,
cats are the very embodiment of elegance." --Charles H. Ross
Feline healthcare http://maxshouse.com
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Feline..._and_Behavior/

The automatic generators are a lot more expensive than the manual ones.
I don't want my generator to come on whenever there is a power failure
anyway. I have a battery/inverter backup system for lights and ceiling
fans etc. plus a gas heater for emergencies. I do need the generator to
run a septic pump which normally goes for 24 seconds three or four times
a day but it uses too much current for the battery/inverter setup. Of
course, if there was an extended power outage I would need the generator
for the furnace and water pump. I also have a gas stove.


---MIKE---

On Sun 23 Jan 2005 02:53:12p, Phil P. wrote in
rec.pets.cats.health+behav
link.net):

If I had to do it again, I'd probably go for the natural gas or
propane generator since there aren't many power outages in my
area and when there are, they never last more than a few hours.
Short of an earthquake or H-bomb attack, a natural gas generator
is probably the most practical choice.

There've been two times that power was out for a significant length
of time for me. I never want to go through that again. I don't know
how people lived before electricity. lol I got the generator for
that reason, and also because I have severe power problems at my
house that the power company refuses to acknowledge. Power surges
and dips that scare me, though they aren't as bad this winter as
they were last summer. I've had an electrician in and had my own
home wiring checked and the problem isn't inside. The power company
told both me and my neighbor who has the same problem, that the
only way they will address the problem is if (when!) the power goes
completely out. My home is all electric, no gas at all in this
block of homes. The last power co. tech that was out here guessed
that one of the deck posts was laid on top of a power cable and
they want to tear down the deck. Fine, but not on a guess. My
brother built the deck when he owned this house and he *did* put a
footing close to where the power comes into the house, but he never
had a problem in the 8 years he lived here after building the deck.
Of course it's possible that a line was nicked, and time and water
have finally taken its toll, but that wouldn't cause my neighbors
to have the same problem. I had Miss Utility mark the lines and it
doesn't "daisy chain" from my house to theirs.

--
Cheryl