Eureka, we did it!

Eureka, we did it!

What did we do? Well, we managed to finally get another blog entry and update online and we got the cats today. All five cats that we have been feeding for the past three months. We caught all of them, we even managed to get the mother, and never in a million light years did I really believe in catching her. She has been suspicious of the trap the day I started to feed the cat inside of the cage. But, guess what? She must have been really hungry today.
It was actually easier than I thought it would b, never the less very emotionally touching. After the last cat was in the box I really cried - maybe because I felt relieved, maybe all the stress just stopped.
Our wonderful neighbor Marianne managed to convince the boss of the Humane Society and their janitor that it would be best to bring them to the kennel today rather than tomorrow. We have no place to keep five wild cats… Well, we had them in four transport boxes (thanks to all of our neighbors) but we did not want to keep them all boxed up inside our apartment. Anyway, the janitor came out to the kennels and we left the cats there to be castrated tomorrow.
We will now have to wait and see, if they want to keep the cats so that they can give them up for adoption, or if they will give them back to us so that we can bring them back to the place where we caught them. I guess they might keep the kittens, and return the mother - who might just be pregnant again… We didn’t get too close to her to have a proper look.
What a day…
In the end we had the trap like six weeks and were patient enough not to rush things, now we have the whole lot and at least from that batch there won’t be any new cats!
What else is new? We are leaving in less than two weeks for our vacation in Florida. We both can not wait to get out of here.
I am sure when and if Jens has the time to write he will tell you why he needs it - I have been working like silly for the past four weeks. We had our bank merger on the weekend of the 23rd of September, mostly everything went smooth on our end, but since we are not alone in this world and there are other banks that can make mistakes, let me tell you - THEY MADE MISTAKES.
Things are finally cooling down thus I can actually take a day of next Thursday - both Jens and I get to take a day off… The 19th of October is our “Kennenlerntag” - the day that we met - ten years ago. So we want to do something special on that day. We might so out for lunch or dinner and we want to go and see “The Devil Wears Prada” - the preview look fantastic so we thought that might be a fun thing to do on our special day.
Anyway - sorry for not posting anything here for the past two months, but we have simply been too busy with other things.
Smiles from Berlin - where fall is knocking on our door - the temperatures are dropping close to 0°C at night, and where the colors of the leaves are changing from green to yellow and red and the chestnut trees are almost without any leaves already…

Torsten