I reread that post and was aghast at what I'd written. Here is an edited version.

Damn! I just wrote a nice long post and then my fumbly fingers deleted it. I have problems with my hands. So I’ll fall back on the Microsoft dictation part of Word. I've been doing a lot of writing this way.

Earlier, when I was writing the first post, Wakana was petting Tora-Chan, the small orange cat that has adopted us. Tora-chan means “little tiger.” Back in October he began hanging around the house. He's small but has a huge voice. Back then he was just skin and bones. We began feeding him. At first it was just a scoop of food in the morning and then if he showed up at night he'd get another scoop. And now he shows up morning, noon, and night and sometimes he reports for midnight snack as well. As a result he's no longer skin and bones. He's still small.

Our initial plan was to get his trust enough to get him into a cat carrier and get him to the vet. When he first showed up he had a huge wound on the side of his head easily the size of a silver dollar (for those of you old enough to remember the silver dollar). In the 3 1/2 months since then the wound has closed up but he's still so skittish we can't catch him. He's only recently been allowing Wakana to pet him. I suggested to her that she could slip him into the box, and we could take him to the vet. But she doesn't want to abuse his trust. I guess it's up to me to get the cat to trust me so I can abuse that trust and get him into the cat carrier and take him to the vet. We need to get him there. He needs his shots and his vaccinations and a flea collar and we have to get him neutered. I don't think he's gonna like any of that.

I don't know what I've already reported. I'll make a list and you can tell me if you already heard some of it.
2019: My siblings sold the family farm and we split the funds we earned five ways. I suggested to Wakana we do a full renovation of the kitchen. She decided what she'd rather do is turn our carport into a living room and that's what we did.

2023: In March I had a biopsy on my prostate. Two days later I was admitted to the hospital with an extreme urinary tract infection. I spent five days in the hospital with antibiotics plugged into my arm. That was the start of a series of urinary tract infections requiring hospitalization. That was followed by kidney stones, big kidney stones (2 centimeters). Overall I was sick for two 2 1/2 months.

At the end of May we were hit by Supertyphoon Mawar only one day after I got out of my sick bed. I had no opportunity to prepare the house. We lost power and didn't regain it for a month. The worst part was the storm destroyed our mango trees.

Then Wakana had to go to the hospital for extreme abdominal pain. Gallstones! This was during our power outage so we had no air conditioning no refrigeration and she was recovering from surgery.

Also in June of 2023, after recovering, Wakana had to go to Japan to take care of her ailing mother. Mitsuko, unfortunately, is descending into dementia. When she left we'd been without power for most of four weeks. When I took her to the airport I commented that we'd probably get power back now that she was out of the house. We did! I was never so happy to see the power come on. I went through the house and turned on every light. I basked in the cool air conditioning. In the meantime, on her way home, Wakana got stuck in Japan and had to change her flight. She took a flight through Korea and got stuck in the Korean airport for 11 hours! 2023 was not a very good year.

Compared to 2023, 2024 was a pretty good year. The only problem was the disaster in November but I don't want to talk about that. I came back to Mudcat to get away from all the crap that's going on.

So I'm going to start to hang around here again. I miss all you guys. Let me know what you think.