Bully

I started this yesterday…but just couldn’t publish it yet.   So here it is:

I have SO not looked forward to this day.  Although we are both excited and eager to get on with our adventure, we knew the day would come when we had to part ways with our beloved kitty, Bully. 

Our veterinarian, Dr. Kipp Metzger, (Animal Health Hospital in Tucson) posted on his Facebook page that we needed a new home for our Bully.  Within a day a young man from Flagstaff said he was interested.  This young man, a longtime friend and fellow bike racer of Dr. Kipp’s, seems to be a custom fit for Bully.  He has dogs (that like cats) and cats (that hopefully like other cats) and an indoor-outdoor environment that Bully is used to.  Plus he is in Flagstaff, so much more like the mountain environs that Bully came from.  I’m sorry I didn’t get the chance to meet Heidi, but I assume she and Bully will hit it off as he is definitely a ladies man.  We met Dan halfway – which meant Phoenix.  

Despite this seemingly being an almost perfect match, I blubbered all the way to Phoenix, then back home again.  Poor Steve would look over at me and start in himself.  Yeah, he tries to be the tough guy…

Dan promises to keep us up to date on Bully though Facebook.  I think I will suddenly be checking in more often.

One week to go.  Most of our personal property is gone to either sale or to charity.   We have an old card table and chairs that are pretending to be our dining set, lawn chairs set up in the living room, and a mattress and box spring on the floor in the bedroom.  Most of everything we don’t need on a daily basis is packed.  The table, chairs, lawn furniture and an assortment of other things will be picked up next Friday by - again - a charity.  The mattress/box spring will be picked up the same day by the city of Tucson – with whatever trash we have managed to find/create by then.  That leaves us the wonderful mystery of where we will sleep on Friday and Saturday nights.  Maybe the back of the Van (in the garage) with a ton of packing blankets to make it sort of soft?  Or maybe the nearest motel?   We will decide that…then.