Weird Happenings

This afternoon, both cats went NUTS.  Ran into the family room, jumped up on the windowsill and gave the 'full alert' watch.  Muf even stood up on her hind legs like a ground squirrel - intently watching for whatever it was they saw.  Or thought they saw.  They are always doing weird things so who knows.  I tried to get a pic of Muf doing the 'hind leg pose' but she had moved by the time I grabbed my phone.  Things calmed down.

A bit later, I thought I saw something furry outside but it was in my peripheral vision and I often think I see things outside that aren't there.  Just distracted, I guess.  Anyway....the cats went on alert again...this time (especially) Nala.  She sat by the back sliding door on alert.  I looked at her and kept looking outside and...a squirrel peeked it's head around the chairs leaning against the fence.  Didn't quite come up on the patio but gave us all a look over before running back under the fence to the neighbors.

(Sidenote;  our back 'yard' is mostly a small patio and then a long 'ditch' lined with rocks.  The drainage ditch goes under each neighbor's fence so there's an opening under the fence between each yard.  Squirrels like that - keeps their options open).

It's been clear blue skies all day so when J. announced 'snow flurries in Carson City starting in 5 minutes', I thought the weather app is nuts.  Not a chance.  Sure enough, snow flurries started - in a sky where you can see blue while there are clouds gently sneaking in from the hills.  It just dropped a bit of flakes - didn't even land on the ground before they melted - but sure enough, there was snow while blue sky was visible.

The weather here is really something.

Cabinets arrived at the house today and they were working on getting all of them unpacked.  As expected, the installation scheduled for tomorrow won't start until Monday.  A slight delay (relatively speaking when compared to the zillions of other delays we've had with the house) and at least the cabinetry is there and waiting to be installed.

B. phoned this morning to share the news that his application for Staff Sargent has been approved pending him completing a leadership class.  He won't be able to complete the class until he's done with his current deployment but he's stoked.  J. handed me the phone so B. and I could chat a bit but B. had to cut the chat short when he got a work related call.  Of course, I said 'no problem, honey - love you - talk to you again soon'.  Later, he messaged me to say the Commander was on site - not unusual - but he said the CO personally congratulated B. on his anticipated promotion.  Really nice.

H. is working on figuring out how to get his mortgage class started and completed.  The guy who offered H. the job made it sound like the class was online and completely flexible - but it's not.  It's a 'virtual' class; however, he has to be online for specific periods of time.  It will definitely impact how many hours he gets at work - which of course will be well worth the fewer hours once he's working with the mortgage company for 67% more per hour than he's making at the gas station.

Had another phone catch up call with my friend K. in California.  She retired a couple years before me and we've been messaging each other pretty regularly.  She and her hubby travel all over in their RV - but they've cancelled all travel plans for the foreseeable future.

I complete H.'s taxes and will e-file for him in the next couple days.  He's not getting much back - mostly because he had some unemployment benefits paid in 2019 and didn't have any withholding.  But he is getting back some so that's good.

Now I will start working on ours but thankfully, we now have until July to file.  I won't wait that long but it is nice with all the other 'stuff' happening in the world to have that bit of a reprieve in the timing of 'must file'.  They are also letting people who pay estimated taxes delay their April payment into the summer as well so that will help.