What an ordeal. I am glad the cats are well and less clawful. Hooray for Rush's interventions and their car! Speaking of which, our Sassafrass packages arrived today. Thank you!

I am glad that you and Spatch and the cats are back in the air conditioning and hopefully the jackhammers have gone to sleep for the night. I hope they don't wake up quite so early tomorrow, but I don't hold out hope, as they tend, as a species to be up with first light. Some of them are even quasi-nocturnal, hopefully not the ones that are in your local environs.

They're currently demolishing the house across the street from us, and our house only sways from time to time, but they're using a cherry picker, and it beeps incessantly as it backs up. This has been pecunium's alarm clock for days now. He is not amused.