Hello friends, welcome to Ruff life. Holy, if
I cussed I would have used a really bad word
right there, but lucky for you I don't because
let me just say this has been one of the most
if not the most stressful weeks of my entire
life. It started on Monday when they started
predicting this historic catastrophic whatever
terrifying word they're using to describe this
storm and it ended with our transport van wrecking
literally moments ago. So buckle up because I'm
about to tell you all about my week. Let me just
start by saying Melissa, our foster coordinator
who you've all talked to already has absolutely
been kicking butt these last three transports.
I mean, she always she's always done a good job,
but these last two transports, she crushed it.
And then this transport specifically would have
made any other sane person throw in the towel
and quit and walk away. So on Monday, when we
found out that the storm was coming, Dr. Burton
decided that we need to. to move transport from
our typical Saturday departure to Friday. So
leave Friday, arrive Saturday to avoid the storm.
Unfortunately for Melissa, she was so on top
of her game, doing such a great job at her job.
She had already called and confirmed all of our
fosters for this transport. for a Sunday morning
pickup time, so changing the day and time meant
that she had to call everyone again, make sure
they could still pick up the animal that they
were supposed to, and, you know, keep it an extra
day. So a bummer for her, but not a big deal.
Insert me. A big deal. Since we had a transport
scheduled for this week and next week, I had
previously been prioritizing animals from specific
rescue partner groups so that each group would
only have to make one trip out to me, not back
-to -back weeks. Does that make sense? So all
of our Alabama shelter friends were going to
come on this transport and then none of our Alabama
shelter friends were going to come next week
so that they didn't have to make two trips in
a row. However, when we saw how bad the storm
was going to be and I realized that it meant
all of the shelter animals were going to leave
their shelter and be in Virginia foster homes
while all of our outdoor fosters and our waitlist
animals were going to be outside with minimal
to no shelter. I was like, nope, we cannot do
this. So on Tuesday I dropped a bomb on Melissa
that not only did she need to call and confirm
the new day and time with everyone, but you now
need to call almost all of the fosters back again
and tell them that the animal that they were
expecting to get is not coming this transport.
It's actually coming next week and these are
the animals that are coming now. Do you want
one of these? Literal chaos. Imagine, like imagine
at your job. you spend an entire week doing your
job exactly as you're supposed to and then someone
comes up to you three days before your work is
due and they go hey you're doing a great job
by the way undo all of that and redo it now as
quick as you can okay because you only have three
days she didn't say anything mean to me to my
face she was so nice but i bet she was cussing
me under her breath when we got off the phone
and and rightfully so She got it done though,
and not only that, she got fosters for everyone
that I swapped in place of the shelter animals,
and then last night I asked to add on one more
single so that its foster down here could take
in a whole litter that we needed to get in instead
of just having one puppy. So while Melissa is
frantically recalling and reconfirming fosters
and then finding new fosters to cover the new
dogs for fosters who wanted to wait until their
original dogs come up next week, We down here
are frantically battening down the hatches because
is literally catastrophic storm coming. So because
we cut all of the Alabama shelter pups who are
safe and warm and taken care of during the storm,
they're fine. we were able to empty all of my
fosters. So any of my indoor fosters who were
fostering something got to send it on transport
today and then take in new animals that would
have been outside this weekend so that those
animals are safe. And then any of my outdoor
fosters got to send their animals on transport
today and not worry about keeping anything warm
and safe in their kennels this weekend when when
things are it's going to be I think at one point
it's going to be like four degrees insane. So
things were looking up until Thursday When my
transport driver who I love so dearly called
and cancelled and don't get me wrong I wouldn't
want to go either. I literally didn't go like
like I found another driver so that I wouldn't
have to go. She typically drives transport by
herself and she drives there after work, spends
the night and comes home the next day. However,
because the storm was coming, she would have
had to drive there and back the same day through
the night after work in bad weather all alone.
And she didn't feel comfortable doing that. Like
who would? But that. definitely did not help
my stress levels at all this week. So Jessica
and I start desperately looking for new drivers
and we had to change the meet time so that both
drivers, the Virginia driver and the Mississippi
driver, would be able to get back before the
really bad weather hits. So for those of you
who don't know how transport works, we have two
cargo vans. One leaves from the Wolf Trap Hospital
and it is full of supplies for me. The other
leaves from the doghouse from transport in Mississippi
full of animals. They meet halfway in Knoxville
late at night. My driver gets out and gets in
the Virginia van and the Virginia driver gets
out and gets in the Mississippi van. And then
they both drive right back where they came from.
So each driver is just going to Knoxville and
back. Jesse and I actually used to drive all
the transports way, way, way back in the day.
And he would say we were like ships passing in
the night. That always used to make me laugh
when he would say that. OK, so. We find a driver
relatively quickly and easily given the circumstances
things are better life is is good. My Walmart
delivery order got picked up with minimal substitutions.
Mary Sue, my 20 month old's snow suit, got delivered
in time, so we're going to be able to play in
the snow. All the animals are taken care of.
Fosters are found. If we can just make it to
Friday evening, life will be great. We can get
snowed in all weekend, have a wonderful relaxing
time, not worry about any animals. Just make
it to Friday evening. Everything will be okay.
Just got to get to Friday evening. So Friday
evening arrives. Our drivers meet, swap vans
and head back where they came from. That is very
important. That is a critical note that Dr. Burton
failed to read in my emergency text to her. The
drivers had already swapped vans. So about two
hours after swapping, my driver calls me. That
is never good. And I'm not saying that because
I hate talking on the phone, which I do. It's
because it is never good news when your driver
calls you. So I answer and he says, hey, Miss
Katie, how's your day going today? And I said,
well, Chris, it's going pretty good. Are you
about to ruin it? And he goes, I'm afraid so.
He explains that he got in an accident when an
18 wheeler like. came over into his lane and
so he veered over onto the shoulder to avoid
getting hit and it looked like the guard rail
had been hit before so it was like bent and poking
out the metal part and it sliced through our
tire. Totally fine, I say. We have AAA for this
reason. They will have you back on the road in
a jiffy. Oh friends, I could not have been more
wrong, so... While we're on the phone, Highway
Patrol arrives. And so technically, he's in Georgia
right now, which if you're like me and you're
like, why you're leaving from Mississippi, you're
meeting in Tennessee, why would you be in Georgia?
There's like literally one mile of interstate
where you leave Tennessee, you go through Georgia,
and then you're back in Tennessee. So he's in
Georgia and I guess Tennessee Highway Patrol
shows up and they're like, or no, I guess Georgia
Highway Patrol shows up and they're like, oh,
well, actually where you hit is in Tennessee.
So Tennessee is actually going to have to come
out here. So like a whole big long thing. And
I'm like, I'm kidding. Like you're it's you can
see the state line. I don't know. It's so ridiculous.
So. While we're on the phone, Highway Patrol
arrives, they tell him zero chance he can drive
the van the way it is because it's way worse
than he originally thought. So they also explain
that AAA doesn't work on the interstate, at least
there, I don't know. So they have to call on
their end and have them come. Otherwise, AAA
won't be able to find where my driver is. Whatever.
So the tow truck arrives, confirms what the officer
said, explains that there's no way the van's
gonna be drivable tonight, and actually probably
won't even be able to be looked at anywhere until
Monday. Thank you, Storm. But he'll tow my van
and my driver back to the doghouse back home
for $1 ,100. Such a bummer, but oh well. Come
on home. It's fine. Actually, no is actually
gonna be one thousand eight hundred plus the
three hundred dollar triple a fee for the cops
calling instead of us. I'm like, whatever. Just
just get our guy home at this point. I don't
care. We'll just we'll pay it. Actually, no.
Just called my boss, the owner of the tow truck,
and he said the weather is going to be getting
so bad. He doesn't want to risk his truck getting
stranded. And so the guy is not allowed to tow
the van back to Mississippi. I'm like, OK, well.
How far can you bring it? Because remember, I
live in Alabama, so like, you know, can we meet
here? Nope. Can't tow it anywhere. He doesn't
even want his truck to leave the area that they're
in. I'm like, fantastic. OK, so I get back on
the phone with my driver and I'm like, listen,
ball's in your court. What do you want to do?
I can put you up at a hotel until the van gets
fixed. You bring it home. Is that going to be
Monday? Is that going to be two months from now?
I don't know. Or I can come get you tonight.
I can get you back home. You'll be with your
family before the storm hits You can spend the
night get a hotel tonight See how bad it is in
the morning and then decide what do you want
to do? And he's so nice and he just like kept
apologizing and saying miss Katie. I feel so
awful that this happened I don't want to make
you get out in this weather. My wife is blowing
up my phone though she's freaking out that she
may be snowed in alone and so he's like I gotta
get home to her. I totally get that, like especially
for her because she lived through the ice storm
of 94 in our town. We had like no snow, it was
just ice, but because it came through all at
once and it was so heavy there were hundreds
and hundreds of people without power for two
weeks. Some even went three weeks without power.
It took forever for the roads to thaw. So everyone
was just stuck wherever they were for days and
days. That's actually why my graduating class
was so big. And by so big, I mean there were
86 kids in it, which is crazy big for down here.
I won't elaborate on that any further in case
there's any little ears listening, but if you
do the math, I graduated 18 years and nine months
after the ice storm of 94. I'm losing the plot
here though. Okay, so let me wrap this up. Anyways...
he decides his son is gonna come get him and
drive him back home tonight so that he can be
there with his wife if they lose power or anything
and then when the van is done and the roads are
clear he's gonna go back and get it because he's
laid off right now and he's like I'm more than
happy to go get it so They tow the van to a body
shop right there and weather permitting, they're
going to start working on it on Monday and hopefully
won't have to order any parts or anything like
that because the tow truck driver was like, yeah,
man, you better hope you don't have to get parts
because parts are really hard to get nowadays.
I'm like, OK, that's great. Great for my stress.
I'm also my mom was like, oh, wow, hope they
don't just total it out. I'm like, oh, yeah,
yeah, I really hope that. I'm very, very worried
about my van. In the meantime, because it's going
to be like five hours before his son gets there,
I was like, just go get a hotel room. Just go.
If you guys decide to stay until morning, great.
If not, like he can just settle down, take a
nap, recover from this roller coaster of emotions
he just went through. And then hopefully he'll
be rested enough to stay awake or help drive
home so his son can sleep. But when I told him.
he was like no no no i'll just have him drop
me off at like a 24 hour gas station or something
and i'm like no get a room take a nap just relax
for a few hours i'm serious and so We were on
the phone and he says to the tow truck driver,
you got any five star hotels around here? But
he was kidding. He went to like a super eight
motel or something like that. That was his compromise.
But oh, OK, so back to Dr. Burton. I send a message
in our group chat and I'm like, my driver just
wrecked our van. This is what happened. Here's
the pictures. and I thought because I said my
driver and my van she knew that it was just my
driver in the van with the supplies not the driver
with the puppies, but she didn't realize that
they had already swapped because remember we
moved the meat time earlier so really they they
shouldn't have swapped yet because we moved it
like I don't like three hours earlier. So she
calls me literally in hysterics and she's like,
what are we going to do? That van is absolutely
not drivable. How far away is the other van?
And I'm like, what? Like, why would we have the
other van come back? Like, what would that help?
And then we both realized at the same time what
the other one was thinking. And I was like, well,
wait. They already swapped. Your driver, for
now at least, is totally fine. The animals are
safe. This is my driver coming home with the
supplies." And she's like, you just took me from
a level 15 to a level five instantly. She's like,
I don't even care now. She was kidding, but really,
if this had to happen tonight, this was pretty
much best case scenario. If you have been around
since last year, though, you might be getting
a little deja vu. We have been doing these transports
every other week for over 10 years now, and we
have had three wrecks. One was like, I don't
even remember, like 2018, 2019, pre -COVID, I'm
pretty sure, our wonderful Jeannie, who I love
so, so much. She was driving home with the puppies
and she hit a deer, but like they came, they
got the animals, they towed the truck. It was
fine. It wasn't a big deal. Then just last year,
almost to the day we got in another wreck. But
what's even eerier is I totally predicted that
this was going to happen today and it's totally
Melissa's fault. Last year on Transport that
was going to have a Valentine's Day weekend adoption
day, like this one, we did a Valentine's Day
theme with like lovey -dovey pet names. That
van got in a bad, bad wreck. Total the van...
It was awful. But thankfully, it was only 20
minutes from the Wolf Trap Hospital. So the driver
gets taken to the hospital, the human hospital,
and he's fine, you know, just getting checked
out. Several of our animals got loose on the
interstate. All the puppies were found. Five
cats went missing. We found two of them, but
we never found the other three. Okay. So earlier
this week, Melissa says she wants to do names
for this transport. And if you know me, you know
I will never not want someone else to do names
for me. I'm like, absolutely go for it. But when
I realized when she put the names in and I looked
at it, when I realized she was doing a Valentine's
Day lovey dovey name theme again, I immediately
texted Jenny and I was like, what do you think?
Am I crazy? Like. Is it even safe to speak these
names again? Are we jinxing ourselves? Like,
what is happening? Jenny's like, I thought the
same thing, especially with the storm coming.
Like, this is just bad, bad juju. Here's the
thing, though. Jenny and I are so sick of coming
up with names that we didn't even tell Melissa
this because we didn't want to have to come up
with a theme ourselves and do the names. So we
didn't say anything. We left the names the same.
But as soon as my driver called me, I texted
Jenny. I might have even texted Jenny before
I texted Dr. Burton in the group chat. I'll have
to check. But I texted Jenny and told her what
happened. And she said, you totally did call
that. So I am very proud of my psychic abilities,
but wish I could have prevented it somehow. So
here it is Friday evening. I am not any less
stressed than I thought I would be but I do have
to say my people in Virginia and my people in
Mississippi absolutely Crushed it this week.
I am I am just so amazed by this whole team Melissa
got a foster for every single animal that we
needed to send literally every single animal
shout out to all of you who signed up to foster
and especially those of you who signed up to
foster and then we were like just kidding will
you take something else instead and you were
like yeah sure you guys were so flexible with
all the changes i am so so grateful and then
my mississippi people got every single animal
we were asked to to help with indoors and safe
before the storm hit. Now, there's definitely
still animals outside that will probably definitely
freeze to death this weekend, but none that we
know about and none that we were asked to help
with. And that is going to help me sleep so much
better tonight. As soon as my driver gets home
and I know he's safe. But oh my goodness gracious
that was such a long intro if this is your first
time listening I am so sorry like I am known
to talk a lot but never 20 minutes just on an
intro a lot Let's get into the stories the whole
reason you guys are even here Valentine so another
rescue asked if we could take him because she
didn't have room for him and we said absolutely
He is actually the last minute add -on So that
his foster could take in a whole litter right
after she dropped him off. He was found and left
in a barn by himself. Apple of my eye was my
baby. Like literally the apple of my eye. Listen,
y 'all OGs know that I don't do puppies. Give
me all of the adult dogs. I do not foster puppies
unless they are sick and dying. But when my neighbor
showed up to my house last week with this itty
bitty teeny tiny mangy thing, I had no choice
but to foster him. He was found in the ditch
just a few yards away from my house and my neighbor
Rob, who I am literally obsessed with and think
is the coolest person ever, saw him while he
was on his tractor taking care of his cows. Have
you figured out yet why I think he's so cool?
He sees him while he's on his tractor, hops down,
picks him up. He knows I do animal rescue because,
A, I just took friend a few weeks ago from his
brother and he saw friend at my house all the
time. And because I am literally just about every
day in his field feeding and snuggling his cows.
So he brings this puppy over to my house. Now,
y 'all remember right after I moved into the
house, like literally a few weeks in. I had parvo
puppies here, so I am still on parvo lockdown.
But because Dr. Burton has taught me and trained
me so well, I am fairly confident in my cross
-contamination tracking and I know what areas
are still parvo free and what areas are a parvo
hotbed in my house. So we bring the puppy in,
we put him in the bathroom right away. Mary Sue
is absolutely unbelievably tickled to death.
Remember what she was like with those kittens?
Just like that, just like it. And so Justin,
my husband, is talking to the puppy and he goes,
hey buddy. And Mary Sue started saying over and
over, she was trying to say, hey buddy, but she
couldn't say buddy. So she was going, hey Bodie,
oh Bodie Bodie, sweet Bodie. So obviously we
named him Bodhi. They were two peas and a pod
for about four days. I'm for real They were stinking
cute together uh and then I said he cannot live
in our bathroom anymore because he is driving
me crazy and he can't go outside in our yard
and like that's not fair to him because I do
have parvo in my yard so I sent him to one of
my fosters he was just as happy there probably
even happier to be away from Mary Sue over there
but me and Mary Sue and Bodie were all so excited
for our little mini reunion at transport today
he looks So much better. His hair is growing
back great. His little face was all scabbed up
and pitiful when I had him, likely from mange,
but it could have even been a flea allergy. We
never found any other puppies on the road or
anywhere around, but someone a few roads over
found one that looked just like him and was roughly
around the same age. But she gave him away before
I could get it. Anyways, we love our Bodhi baby
so much and we would love any and all updates
on him from whoever fosters him. The tea litter
of three, the owners of the mama dog actually
ran the mama dog over on their way to school
one day. Very traumatic for everybody. They raced
her to the vet, but she didn't make it. The puppies
were 11 days old. They went to our bottle feeder
foster and then they went to mama Becky when
they were just just finally weaning. And Becky
said that's that she's had them for three years
and that's what these last three weeks have felt
like. It's been a long time since our last transport.
The S litter of five, one puppy showed up at
a lady's house. They heard a car door or something
outside and they went to look and this puppy
was in their carport. We were making plans to
get it to a foster and then she said, oh, we
found it a good home, quote unquote, good home
with somebody that they knew. So two days later,
another puppy shows up. Uh, and then the next
day she realizes there were five more of these
puppies at her neighbor's house. They were so
Adorable so staking adorable that we knew she
would absolutely give every single one away.
So This is actually, uh, jessica pole But we
called Tasha and we were like, Tasha, do you
have any fosters? All of our fosters are full.
And she had someone that was able to take them.
So the next day one puppy was missing. They never
found it. I'm wondering if the lady gave it away.
But the lady loaded up the other five and took
them to meet Tasha. And then Tasha almost kept
one, too. But luckily, she knew what I would
do to her. So she sent it with the others. The
K litter of two one of our fosters friends she
runs a daycare for kids not for dogs and She
texted our foster a picture of two little puppies
that had shown up outside the daycare She took
them inside and asked if she would just swing
by and get them on her way home that day Which
she absolutely did it and if I haven't yet Remind
me to post their picture and the fosters page
because it is the absolute cutest picture you
will ever see The F letter of two, a lady was
doing door dash delivery at way way way out in
the boonies and she turned around at a church
cemetery and she saw these two teeny tiny puppies.
Her husband is going through some pretty major
health issues but she scooped them up and hung
on to them for a couple days until we could take
them. She was also trying to give them away on
Facebook though for free. She's actually a good
friend of ours. She's not a good friend. She's
a friend that we know and she used to be a good
foster for us so we were happy to help her but
we were kind of tickled because she said that
she wasn't able to keep them in her house. She
had to keep them outside because her husband
is a lung transplant recipient and she doesn't
want him around these puppies because they're
unvaccinated. Don't get me wrong. Puppies are
gross. 100%. But you're not going to catch anything
from puppies just because they're vaccinated.
It doesn't matter if they're vaccinated or not.
Meanwhile, we have my stage four cancer mom and
my stage four cancer stepdad fostering dozens
of puppies every month for us. But it was funny.
We were happy to help. The older of three, the
mama dog belonged to the niece of one of our
fosters and she was hit by a car on Christmas
Eve. Can you even imagine? They live on a 60
acre farm and she rarely went close to the road.
So they were shocked that this happened. The
guy who hit her brought her up to their house
just apologizing, which is so unheard of around
here. I cannot stress how rare, that is that
people even stop if they hit a dog. So our foster,
the aunt, took the puppies and bottle fed them,
and she has spoiled them terribly for the last
month. The day that we vaccinated them, she made
them a special homemade chicken dinner since
it was such a traumatic day for them, she said.
The G letter of three where owner surrenders,
the owner messaged us on Facebook asking if we
could take the two black ones and I was like,
um, yes, absolutely. And then she was like, great,
I've been trying to get rid of all of them, but
I just can't find anyone to give these last two
away. And I've got another lady who was supposed
to come get this third one, but she hasn't messaged
me back yet and I keep calling her. And then
she sent me a picture of the brown one. And listen,
I'm not a doodle lover. Like, I don't get it,
but... I know y 'all are and that is why I fight
so hard to get doodles for you guys and why I
fought so hard to get all three of these. So
I immediately told the woman if she would give
us all three I would make sure we had a foster
for them a whole week sooner. So they were originally
supposed to go next weekend but I was going to
send them to a foster down here after this transport
if she would let me have all three of them and
we would give her a spay voucher for the mom.
She was as excited to give me all three as I
was excited to get all three. So you're welcome.
The Bee family, one rescue agreed to take the
puppies but said that they couldn't take the
mom. And then another rescue that really didn't
have any room went and got the puppies and left
the mom there. They were just abandoned. So Tasha
asked if she could help the rescue just by taking
the puppies since they didn't have room for them
anyways, and they agreed. And then Tasha, sneaky
little Tasha, had one of her friends go and get
the mom so she could reunite them back together.
The mom was so happy to be back with her babies
because the babies were only about four weeks
old at the time, so they should have still been
with their mom. And then a few days later they
broke with Parvo. The first one... it was just
one of the puppies that broke and then the mom
got it a few days later. Luckily they were with
our wonderful rescue partner Tasha who is unfortunately
for her a parvo expert at this point so she caught
it super quick. She knew exactly what to do for
them and they bounced back in record time but
unfortunately because of when they broke they
had to miss last transport which meant Tasha
had to keep them for a very very very long time
so she's very excited to get rid of them. The
D family. So a homeowner found these puppies
and the mama out in the woods behind her house.
She had to feed them for a week or so before
she could even get her hands on the puppies.
She brought them home. She put them in her dog
pen and the county that she lives in just had
a hoarding case where over 200 dogs were seized
from a property. So all the shelters and rescues
are just so over capacity over there. No one
would help her. So she reached out to us and
we were very happy to help. help her. Stay tuned
for the story on the hoarding case because some
of those will be coming on a future transport
in a few weeks and it's wild. As for the cats,
Cupcake was dumped at Dr. Jamie's clinic. Dr.
Jamie was Dr. Burton's student in vet school
and then became her lifelong best friend. Dr.
Jamie asked if we could take this sweet kitty
for her and she neutered him and kept him until
we had an opening on transport. Queen wandered
up to someone's house and their three dogs were
being mean to her. This is from my mother. She
says, a male cat has been hanging around the
area too. He's also gray. So we are expecting
gray kittens. We have no idea. We have no idea
what these kittens are going to look like. But
the homeowners said that their neighbor moved
off and left all of his pets behind and they
think this was one of his cats. Nerd is from
the C letter of 2 from last transport. This is
the same lady that we were supposed to take a
pregnant cat from last year, but she couldn't
get her hands on the cat the day of transport
and then we ended up taking the kittens when
she had them because the mama wasn't feeding
them and we had to bottle feed them. All the
cats belong at an abandoned house across the
street, but they're basically hers at this point.
She asked us to take this litter back before
Thanksgiving, but we didn't have any room. Some
of them are too skittish for her to even catch,
so we're gonna work on catching those as soon
as we have a foster spot. And we did. We caught
this one just after transport left, but he has
something wrong with his eye. Dr. Burton's gonna
take a look at it and decide if it can be saved
or if it needs to be removed. I'm thinking it
needs to be removed. And my... Medical expertise
They are litter for they were owner surrenders
and they were supposed to go on last transport
but when we got them a few of them were just
way too snotty and Weezy, so we held them back
and took them a little longer than Jessica thought
it would to get them Well, but she said they
have been the most well -behaved and sweetest
kittens She said I never thought I was gonna
miss four four to five month old kittens, but
I will sure miss these Then the rest of the cats
are from our Alabama shelter friends. If you
listen to the rant at the beginning, I know what
you're thinking, but I did save them a trip because
I could fit all of their cats in my car. Mary
Sue and I stopped and grabbed these on our way.
I would not have been able to fit their 20 plus
puppies and dogs that were scheduled to come
though. We love our Alabama shelter friends,
but because they're a shelter, they usually don't
have a lot of information on their animals. Enchantress
was brought in as a stray. Macheree was brought
in as a stray. Hotshot was brought in as a stray.
Partner fell out of a car engine and was brought
into the shelter as a stray. Lovebug was turned
in with an entire litter and a way older sibling.
They were left behind by their owner that moved
away. Everyone got adopted except for him and
the big one. She didn't tell me who the big one
was though, so I don't know. I don't know if
the big one is in this in this group that I sent,
but I'm going to try to figure out who the big
one is. And if we don't have him, we'll put him
on next transport. And then the J letter of two
were found in a ditch when they were just barely
weaned. They were so teeny tiny. But Lord have
mercy. That is all the stories for this week.
I hope, hopefully. Hopefully, there won't be
any more updates. Hopefully, our driver in a
sun may get back before the storm hits tonight.
Hopefully, my van is fixed on Monday, and hopefully,
hopefully, hopefully, we still get to do transport
next week, like, scheduled. Thank you so, so,
so, so much for fostering. Thank you for listening.
You guys are truly saving lives. We absolutely
could not have done any of this without you.
Also, Claire, Claire, if you're listening, I
am so sorry for not texting you back all week,
literally. Claire has texted me, I think like
three or four times, different days. It's like
she could sense when I was in the middle of a
disaster and like about to freak out and she
would text me and I would be like, okay, I can't
answer you right now. I read all of your texts,
Claire, and I promise I will text you back soon.
I'm so sorry. It's a Ruff life, but someone's
got to do it.