“DANNY ❤ BROTHERS”
He wrote it with chalk:
It’s the “Goldilocks” season: warm enough for spending a good part of the day out of doors, and cold enough that after we go inside, Abel naps an extra hour.
(I heard it’ll snow later this week.)
♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
Before she fades from memory, I should tell how we parted with the friendly cat that had been following us around (and trying to break into our house).
She’d divided her time between our yard/porch and the neighbors’ yard/porch. Karin, pitying her, had built her a shelter, using a blanket and a series of cardboard boxes (and, eventually, a plastic bucket).
But we dreaded the winter. We’ve known cats to freeze.
Even so, we couldn’t bring a fourth cat into our household.
The neighbors talked of adopting her. But they adopted a different cat instead.
Then this cat began climbing up and hanging onto the screen of our front window, to peer at us from outside. (Amazing what a cat’s claws can do.)
It wasn’t the creepiest thing of all time, but it was unnerving enough.
This cat is obsessed with us, we said.
So, today, Karin put her in a carrier and drove her to the Animal Resource Center. Let’s hope she’s adoped by a kind soul. She really is a sweet-hearted, devoted cat. (Devoted, in the way that Jennifer Jason Leigh in Single White Female is devoted to Bridget Fonda.)
We’re sad she’s gone.
It’s the “Goldilocks” season: warm enough for spending a good part of the day out of doors, and cold enough that after we go inside, Abel naps an extra hour.
(I heard it’ll snow later this week.)
♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
Before she fades from memory, I should tell how we parted with the friendly cat that had been following us around (and trying to break into our house).
She’d divided her time between our yard/porch and the neighbors’ yard/porch. Karin, pitying her, had built her a shelter, using a blanket and a series of cardboard boxes (and, eventually, a plastic bucket).
But we dreaded the winter. We’ve known cats to freeze.
Even so, we couldn’t bring a fourth cat into our household.
The neighbors talked of adopting her. But they adopted a different cat instead.
Then this cat began climbing up and hanging onto the screen of our front window, to peer at us from outside. (Amazing what a cat’s claws can do.)
It wasn’t the creepiest thing of all time, but it was unnerving enough.
This cat is obsessed with us, we said.
So, today, Karin put her in a carrier and drove her to the Animal Resource Center. Let’s hope she’s adoped by a kind soul. She really is a sweet-hearted, devoted cat. (Devoted, in the way that Jennifer Jason Leigh in Single White Female is devoted to Bridget Fonda.)
We’re sad she’s gone.