Right. So the good news is that we finished the house. We now have new carpet, new hardwood floors, new painted walls, newly cleaned rooms, and new carpet.
Of course this means that we can on longer be on the carpet with food or drink which is annoying, but by the time summer rolls around Dad should be fine again.
He also hadn’t wanted to put up a tree this year. 1) We got rid of our 15ft fake tree last year. 2) We haven’t found a new on that fits the new requirements. 3) Dad didn’t want a mess in the newly made room.
However, my sisters and I were adamant on getting one so decided that we would look for a real one and put it all up ourselves. All the boys would have to do is be quiet.
So we got our mom and set out. Of course though it was the 22nd and the roads were packed. First we stopped and got lights, a tree carpet, and water collector. We then set out to the garden shop we know still had some trees before trying the farms. We never actually got there though.
On the way we were passing by the old church were the Boy Scouts sell trees every year. They had just finished the day before, but 2 trees were still there. So we checked it out. Turned out that one of them was great - about 6.5 ft tall with no major holes. There was no sign, no rope, no nothing that indicated you couldn’t just take it - so we did and decorated it that night as a family. It has a few issues, but for a free tree it is great.
On to the bad news.
On Thursday the 20th I let out cat Minnie outside as normal. She is an indoor/outdoor cat and enjoys hunting so I thought nothing of it. That night she didn’t come back before dark (which she normally does in the winter) and we had a rain storm that night. We honestly haven’t seen her since that Thursday afternoon.
We have looked everywhere around the house, but with 55 acres in the back - about 50 of them being woods - it is really hard to even look. I’ve put up notices on Facebook, have the shelters on alert, sent out flyers to our neighbors, but we’re really worried. I honestly think she got hurt in the storm and is unable to get to us. Hopefully she can get to someone’s house and they take her to the vet (which we are contacting the day after Christmas).
All we can do is hope.
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