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I didn't see the silver tabby kitten all day yesterday. On Monday afternoon, I terrified the poor thing by turning on a sprinkler rather than providing food when he or she ventured out from under the car. Monty retreated but hung around and came for dinner, and I saw the tabby on the fence beside the driveway while I was finishing the front yard with hand watering, but no sighting after that ... until this morning, when the dog woke me at 6:30 and I stumbled out into the grey morning with food. When I peeped through the curtains before going back to sleep, it was apparently still dark, because the grey kitten was eating. And so was the tabby. But no Monty till I just spotted him at 3:30, snoozing on the teddy bear's lap as usual, and took him out some food. So there's that on a nerve-wracking day.
The fuller story is that the owner decided to replace a workhorse single-story commercial building, part of which had been rented as the downtown post office since I think the Carter Administration (and whose large lobby would have been perfect for socially distanced lines this year) with an office tower. It's across the street from a huge only partially tenanted office tower, and around the corner from a pair that are even larger and even emptier, and the same lot apparently includes this 1986 building, which has 10 1-bedroom and 10 2-bedroom apartments ($1,900 for a 1-bedroom in 2016) and two small commercial spaces plus the rental office.
The fuller story is that the owner decided to replace a workhorse single-story commercial building, part of which had been rented as the downtown post office since I think the Carter Administration (and whose large lobby would have been perfect for socially distanced lines this year) with an office tower. It's across the street from a huge only partially tenanted office tower, and around the corner from a pair that are even larger and even emptier, and the same lot apparently includes this 1986 building, which has 10 1-bedroom and 10 2-bedroom apartments ($1,900 for a 1-bedroom in 2016) and two small commercial spaces plus the rental office.