Neighbors

I don't recall - did I ever tell you this one? It's not something I did but it's a thoughtful thing that an old friend did and it happened in the trailer park when I used to live there in Oak Creek Canyon.

It was done by a nice guy, an older man - had been around, done this and that and of course was very fond of animals. There were several cats that came and went, no one was really sure who they lived with on a regular basis and we weren't even sure if they did but they were nice to have around.

My old friend who I will call J had been working on his trailer and adding to it over time and had noted once that this particularly friendly but feral, as it's called, cat would sometimes be on his roof and he wondered why. Did the cat just like to be up high or was it maybe because the cat enjoyed something else and sure enough J saw him one day.

He was snuggled up to the smokestack for J's stove. He used the stove sometimes when it got chilly and of course regularly in the winter and so J got a clever idea.

He figured out how he could build just a little bit of a housing between 2 eves since the trailer had a special roof that he had put on it and the attached cabin which he had built also had a portion of the roof there and if he was careful he could tack on a few boards here and there without damaging the roof and without causing too much heat to be trapped in that spot in the roof since he slightly vented it but that there was enough room for the cat to crawl inside and be nice and warm especially on snowy winter days and that's exactly what he did.

He also put something up against the side of the trailer cabin so the cat could easily hop up there. Now that's what I call being a good neighbor.

Goodlife.