Last week, we mentioned we had added an Amazon wishlist button and that we didn’t know yet for certain if it worked. Honestly, we had no expectations. We figured we’d send something to ourselves once we won a lottery we don’t play or that Nigerian prince would finally come through.
Well, you, all of you, went right on out there, checked for us and have had so many great and wonderful things sent to us. Quint’s Fancy Feast and Tessa, Pia, Olivia and Viola’s chicken Iams and litter and toys for all, too! Well needed food and soap, cleaning supplies and personal items, tea and coffee to get us though the mornings, cat water fountain filters and gift cards and then, many of you clicked on our PayPal Donate button over there on the right sidebar and gave there, too.
To all that initiative, thoughtfulness, kindness and incredible generosity, we shout a hearty THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU, oh, THANK YOU! From the bottom of our hearts, let us THANK YOU!
All the Colehaus Cats thank you and Viola really thanks you because some of those boxes that came with cat food and litter came with . . . crinkly paper!
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A Colehaus Cats flashback:
2019 – No post 2018 – Three Word Wednesday 2017 – No post 2016 – No post 2015 – No post 2014 – Still Cleaning 2013 – No post 2012 – No post
The very last Quint painting shipped yesterday and is making its way across the U.S. to a fine, forever home. There may be a few tears included with that last painting but we don’t think anyone will notice.
Thank you to all who asked for and purchased the last of Quint’s art to help us build our emergency fund toward keeping us together and with a roof over our heads. While we don’t know what our future holds, we don’t like thinking Quint will never paint again.
Please keep us in mind and think good thoughts and perhaps Quint will, once again, be able to share his passion for painting.
With the holidays behind us and finally an off-work weekend in sight (for Mom, Dad works weekends), we wanted to share Quint’s painting retirement news and answer some questions going forward.
Yes, Quint has retired from his 6 year painting career. Yes, it has everything to do with when or whether we’re going to lose our home this year. Yes, this pains us to admit publicly. Yes, we’re living very, very lean and doing everything we can to keep us all together. Yes, undoubtedly, Quint will tell us when he wants to paint again. And yes, it’s possible we won’t be able to do anything about that. The only thing we can do is to take each day the best we can and hope everything turns around, finally and at last.
A friend mused that, if Quint couldn’t paint with paint, perhaps he would go back to painting the walls with cat litter and yikes! Honestly, we didn’t think of that. Hmm…
No, we don’t dwell on what might have happened to change our luck from good to not-so-good. Yes, we will continue to work toward being the best humans we can possibly be for all animals and for this planet, regardless of where our road leads.
Yes, Quint still has a few unsold paintings, and yes, he’s willing to part with them, to see that they go to good homes. We simply ask anyone interested in purchasing one of Quint’s last paintings contact us via email and allow us to send photos of what remains. All sales will go through his PayPal Donation account.
And yes, trolls and haters will continue to be ignored.
We’ve added our Amazon grocery wishlist to our lower right side bar here on this blog. And we thank everyone who recommended we do so. We’re not sure if it actually works or not, but we figure eventually we’ll find out.
In other news, Dad continues to look for a better job that, hopefully, is 1) in our own state/town, and 2) pays enough to pay the bills, including, as of the day after Christmas, the nine thousand dollars unemployment wages – for the one year Dad was out of work – our state has demanded back for some unexplained reason. He has a hearing next week.
On Monday, Mom is being hired on at her manual labor job and getting a teeny raise out of it. No longer a minimum wage temp employee (but close), she’ll get paid for some holidays now, and she gets to pay for her own medical and life insurance benefits. She says she can’t even imagine what that will be like.
Yes, we’ll continue blogging as usual for as long as we can. Yes, we’ll continue to work toward keeping our personal worries out of it and focus on what’s important – those Colehaus Cats. They love that kind of attention!
We’re celebrating 8 years of blogging this month with many of you being here through our highest highs and lowest lows. We thank you for your time and for your support. We are tickled beyond reason that some of you leave comments here. You wouldn’t believe how much each of those make our day brighter. Thanks for visiting and reading us. And thanks again for sticking with us.
The folks at Colehaus Cats
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Per Pia’s approval, we’re taking Monday off so Mom can sort through her work paperwork of which there is a LOT.
