Casa de los Gatos will be having a BIG yard sale on at 10700 E. Tanque Verde Road (about 1 mile east of Houghton), on Friday and Saturday, February 12 and 13, from 8AM-3PM. Wonderful volunteer Jackie has spent 2 months going through all the items donated since the last sale, cleaning, checking, categorizing, pricing and preparing for this event. If you have items to donate, please drop them off behind House #2, on or near the tables, the morning of Thursday, February 11. They cannot take any items before that time, as their storage area is completely full, and they don’t want to leave items outside and risk having them ruined by rain. Please bring only clean, good, working items (no clothes at this time). If you can help with preparation (Thursday afternoon), the sale itself (Friday and Saturday, 7AM to 4 PM), or clean up (Saturday 4-6 PM), please email me at TopDog@AnimalHomeBuddies.com, and I’ll give your contact info to the person organizing that portion of the event.
In addition to the usual yard sale type items, there will be baked goods, produce from the garden of yours truly, firewood, and ceramic cat collectibles. All proceeds go to support the Casa cats!
Fred Yost, a longtime member of the animal rescue
community, and TNR expert, has come up with a new fundraiser this winter: he’s cutting wood for cats! Fred started with the downed mesquite trees on Casa de los Gatos’ newest property on Tanque Verde Road. At first, it seemed that once the wood from the former nursery was cleared away, the fundraiser would end. Then a generous neighbor offered his large lot of fallen cottonwoods (thanks, Peter!) and a kind employee at the Ace hardware store donated her fallen trees when she learned why Fred was having his chainsaw sharpened so often. It’s also been a nice way for those on the northest side to learn about their new neighbor, Customers have been everyone from snowbirds wanting just a few armfuls for a cozy evening by the fire to a gentleman starting up a barbeque business. So far, Fred has made $2,500 this winter, for the Casa cats.
If you’re interested in buying wood, look for the big yellow and black sign at 10700 E. Tanque Verde Rd, 1 mile east of Hougton, on the south side of the road. If you would like to donate the wood on your land, or help cut, you can email me at TopDog@AnimalHomeBuddies.com and I’ll forward your information to Fred.
