It\u2019s interesting when something happens, and you think, \u201cIf I had left 5 minutes later\u201d, or \u201cIf I hadn\u2019t tossed X-item into the car.\u201d I had one of those in 2018 when I was trying to get a hotel reservation for a hurricane evacuation. We needed a pet-friendly room, and just as I was about to hit the \u201cConfirm key\u201d >BLIP< -room gone! So I scrambled and found an alternate 30 miles further on. While there, we rescued a little tortie cat who had apparently been dumped at the motel. We added her to our clowder and named her Florence, for the storm that brought her to us. She crossed her Rainbow last April due to FIV and Thyroid trouble, but we loved her, and she had a good life with us, and we miss her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It\u2019s interesting when something happens, and you think, \u201cIf I had left 5 minutes later\u201d, or \u201cIf I hadn\u2019t tossed X-item into the car.\u201d I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3776,1489],"tags":[3777,4909,1596],"class_list":["post-33503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-ed-brault","category-guest-contributors","tag-ed-brault","tag-fate","tag-guest-contributors"],"yoast_head":"\n