Hot Potato

Building on Joeja's post about having to take the grind 'em out assignments with the exciting ones I had two consecutive days recently where I literally covered sunshine and kittens (to be exact with the order it was kittens and sunshine).

Anyway, someone dropped off a recliner at a thrift store and when the chair started purring the store employees realized there was a stow-away kitten inside. It was unhurt but untagged and the family was long gone so it fell on me to write a heart-wrenching abandoned kitty story (someone eventually stepped forward to adopt it so stop your goddamn sniffling).

The next day it was, shockingly enough in July, hot. The difference was it was really the first time this summer we had consecutive days above 90 so it was a late start to our hot, dry summer season. So Joeja and I were sent out to various wholesome family cooling off spots (water playground and sno-cone shack, though I would have liked to check out some happy hours) to talk to people about the weather.

As Calvin's dad would say, it builds character.