It’s been a busy and frustrating week, with some successes and failures. Biggest frustration was being bounced off the DAFDay website and having no idea as to why. It’s all fixed now, but man. Sometimes it feels as if we’re just floundering around in this fund raising effort. I sat in on a marketing webinarContinue reading “Saturday Musings”
Category Archives: Thoughts and musings
1st Year Anniversary
23 July is the first anniversary of our approval as a 501c(3) organization and the “official” date of the founding of Mandarin’s Retreat. If you’ve read through the material on the website, you would know that as a cat rescue, we’ve been caring for cats for much longer. Mrs H and I got our firstContinue reading “1st Year Anniversary”
Incidentals
Last week was busy and I didn’t spend much time on social media. Having eight kittens chasing their tails and falling off of counter tops at Kitten Day Care (KDC) in the office kept us on our toes. In addition, we’ve been dealing with two fairly sick cats: Cody and Carmello. Cody is not quiteContinue reading “Incidentals”
Odds, Ends & Asking for Help
Rather than post a Caturday Cat this morning, I thought I would catch everyone up on the happenings around Mandarin’s Retreat. The Retreat has had to spend a bunch of money – into four figures – fixing the HVAC system in the Retreat’s Office. We remodeled our back porch into a home office and ITContinue reading “Odds, Ends & Asking for Help”
Joys and Sorrows
Running a rescue is strange at times. We’ve had births and deaths, sickness and recovery along with just anger and pain. Mandarin’s Retreat is primarily a home for sick and hurt cats, but we try to branch out when we have the space. One of those branches is to be a temporary refuge for theContinue reading “Joys and Sorrows”