hotcha:

Hetty,

Queenie would be in a bad case trying to enter the garage.  That's already the domain of four girls who would not take kindly to the intrusion of a strange cat!  The only ones who get to come in are the neighborhood raccoons.  In the pecking order it is raccoons first, cats second and both know it.  To discourage the raccoons, I limit the amount of feed I put out so the cats run out before the raccoons start their rounds.  But this means I have four hungry kitties glued to the front door when I open it in the morning!  Yow!, Yow!  Abuse and neglect!

My real whine at the moment is that I'm fully invested so have little loose cash on hand to take advantage of the bargains shaping up beyond several DCAs into mutual funds.  Ah well, the quarterly paying CEFs as well as the monthly are starting to roll in, so maybe by September I can scoop something up!

Hmm, dear Hotcha, I may be outnumbered by the kitties and the raccoons, but I'm bigger and possibly meaner!  ;)

Yesh, I whimper about loose cash hypocritically while having a little sitting in my brokerage accounts that I could use BUT I AM A BIG SCARED BABY right now.

*whew, felt better to confess that*

My usual sunny outlook has taken a whomp, so I shall take a Zen, minimalist approach for the moment....and do nothing until at least after Labor Day while attempting to take my own advice...

my time frame is forever. 

;)

Hetty