This is Stevie, our neigbours' incredibly ancient cat. He comes over to see us (and scrounge food) every day, and is a great family friend. When we adopted Duncan a few months ago, one of our concerns

Bryde when we got her in June 2003, playing Clue I’ve written about my old cat several times, when she turned 20 and when she turned 100. There are lots of photos of her over the years in these posts.

On Tuesday morning the old cat wasn’t happy with me. It was to be low 50’s Monday night so I didn’t pull the shades. It was 67F inside on Tuesday morning and the old cat says it’s too cold. She found the

Bryde March 2006, age 5/36 One of my biggest fears is getting up in the morning and finding the old cat gone, especially on “anniversaries” during these first and second years after my husband died. We

On Monday I was pretty much useless and missed the delivery of my old cat’s early Christmas present, as I was asleep. But I got it into the sun for her on Tuesday and it only took her 5 minutes to find

On Friday when my intern took me to the store, I’d seen a sign for a tag sale on Saturday that was near my house. I thought I’d try to get to it early Saturday morning before I got tired. I looked online

We have heavy roller shades for each window. In the winter pulling them when the sun goes down adds another 5° to the inside temperature. They don’t go up until the sun is up, usually. But yesterday was

June 2003 We adopted Bryde in June of 2003. She was 2 years old. August 2003 She had only been a house cat, never outside as she’d lived next to a busy road. September 2003 There had been a lot of chipmunks

Treadmill in use…. It wasn’t until the middle of January on an almost warm day that we went out and got the tarps off the Small garden. Normally they are taken up the first week of December, at the latest.