Buried the dead cat

Today when I rode my bicycle by the dead cat next to the highway I picked it up and took it home.   If the ground was too frozen to bury the cat then I would lay it in the pasture until the ground thawed.   The pasture certainly would be a better place for the cat than in the ditch next to the highway.  I was able to dig though the frozen ground and make a hole to bury the cat.  It is buried in the south pasture.  The cat will rest in peace better there than next to the highway.

A very pretty cat

Dead cat on highway

As I get older dead animals bother me a lot more than they did in the past.  A few days ago, as I rode my bicycle along the highway a short distance from where I live, I saw a dead cat on the road.  It didn't quite make it across the highway.  It is a four-lane road and a busy road.  There were no marks on the cat.  It appears to have been killed by the force of the air under the car knocking the cat to the ground.

I didn't want the cat's body to be flattened by the vehicles. I waited for a few cars to pass and they avoided the cat's body.  Then I ran out and retrieved the cat and laid it in the ditch.  The cat was limp so it must have been killed a very short time before I found it.

It was a very beautiful cat.  White-ish body.  The legs were a rich brown all the way to the shoulders.  And some other rich brown on ears and tail.  And it was a long hair cat.  I felt so sad for the cat.  If the ground wasn't frozen I would have taken it home and buried it.

Walking on the roof in the snow

Yesterday I wrote about falling off my house roof.   https://tallpinesranch.blogspot.com/2025/02/fell-from-house-roof-im-alive.html

I'm doing better today. Sometimes I feel worse the second day, but not this time.  But I am still stiff and sore and moving slower.  After my skull fracture five years ago I was down to 8 lives left.  I guess I am now down to 7 lives left.

I had mentioned clearing some of the snow off earlier (about a week ago).  When I cleared the snow off earlier this is what I found on the roof.  Since the fight with the neighbor's cat over a month ago Rascal doesn't care to go outside.   One of the few times he was outside he must of went up here.  In the past I knew Rascal could climb up the shrub on the left side of the first photo.  But I didn't know he could climb up the other shrub on the right side of the last photo.

Helping paint the toolshed

Yesterday on my main blog I posted about painting my toolshed.    https://tallpinesranch.blogspot.com/2024/12/tool-shed-painted-for-now.html

Rascal helped me when I painted the east side of the toolshed.   He did management to make sure I was doing it correctly.   Then he came up close to check the paint job.   I don't have photos of him after I painted the side.  But in the photos below he did the same thing after I painted the side.  Over the next few days I had to brush and/or use scissors to clip his fur to get the paint off from his tail and his back.

From where he sat in the previous photos he can stand up and jump onto the building's roof.  He was looking over the edge to watch me.  By the time I got my camera out he walked away.