We walked past the clubhouse this morning and Frankie noticed that the door was open. Naturally, being the curious cat that he is, he had to see what was going on.
Curious Frankie
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Photo Friday: Classic Chris with Tigger and Alex
Here is Mr. Touchy-Feely himself with Tigger and Alex taken on October 31, 2010, fourteen years ago yesterday.
Hunting for Squirrels
Frankie spent a lot of time on our walk today chasing squirrels. At one point, he cornered one on a palm tree and decided to wait him out.
Unfortunately for Frankie, ten minutes is my limit for standing around staring at a tree.
My Newest Book: Saving Apollo
My newest book, Saving Apollo, is out now on Amazon. It will be exclusively on Amazon for the next ninety days, although I may release the print version elsewhere. This will allow me to offer the eBook for free. I think Amazon allows a total of five free days per ninety-day commitment.
This is my first family-friendly book and my first book with an animal as one of the main characters. I think many people who read this blog will enjoy it. Even though the story revolves around a dog, I believe cat lovers will enjoy how this book ends.
You can read more about this book on my personal blog here.
The Kindle version of Saving Apollo will be free through this Sunday, October 27. To get your copy, click here. As always, a review would be very much appreciated.
Throwback Thursday: A New Fourth Kitty?
Here is a post from June 2016. It was shortly before we adopted Floki on the Fourth of July.
Were Back
My wife and I returned from our vacation to Massachusetts and Maine on Saturday. We were glad to get home to our cats and Frankie was certainly excited that we were back. He has been ‘talking” a lot more than usual since we returned. The first thing I did was take Frankie for a walk.
Needless to say, he was happy about it.
My wife wanted to drive to the beach to see how the cleanup efforts were going after getting hit by two hurricanes. Things were far worse that I thought. We drove down some of the streets in Madeira Beach, and it was unbelievable. Almost every home had a large pile of trash in front of it.
We continued south until we reached our favorite beach, Pass-a-Grill. During the storm, a lot of sand was carried onto the streets. Most of it was cleared off the streets, but there were still several large piles in front of businesses. And then there was this pile and a similar pile nearby.
We also saw signs like this at the paths that lead to the beach.
Whatever was on the beach, it wasn’t your run-of-the-mill dangerous.
On the way home we saw this pile of garbage.
It was on some kind of park across the street from a condo development. I’m sure the people who live there are happy to see this every day. They must be trucking garbage here with the intent of moving it later. I would be surprised if this is gone before Christmas.
When we got home Frankie was more than willing to help us unpack.
Photo Friday: Moma and Baby Gorilla
I was looking through photos taken on this date and found this picture of a mother and baby Gorilla taken at Busch Gardens in Tampa, Florida on October 18, 2015.
Who likes Gorillas?
Throwback Thursday: A New Level of Badness
Here is a post from 2016. Spoiler alert: It turned out Chris was innocent.
Caught on Camera
I am writing this post from Kennebunkport Maine. We spent three nights on Plum Island in Massachusetts and we arrived here a few hours ago.
I have three Blink cameras at my house. One is in the living room, one is in the cat’s room, and the third is a doorbell outside. I learned our power went off Wednesday evening because I checked my cameras to see how our house was doing and they were offline.
The power came back on Saturday evening so I was able to check to see how our cats were doing. It seems like they are both doing okay but yesterday my phone kept notifying me that there was movement on my living room camera. Frankie walked by the living room camera 33 times in 59 minutes. He really gets antsy sometimes. Here is a screenshot of one of those times.
He did a lot of pacing today as well but not as bad as yesterday. I feel bad that I am not there to take him for a walk to relieve some of his energy.
Surveying the Damage
As most of know, we evacuated before Hurricane Milton to a hotel thirty miles north. The cats were not happy about it but they also accepted it quite well. Frankie had a nice window to look out of before and after the storm.
He even watched some television.
There wasn’t much to do so I decided to start writing my next book in the Last Healer Mysteries series.
I just finished my latest novella called “Saving Apollo,” which is about a genetically engineered dog who can understand plain English. He escapes and befriends a 12-year-old boy. It is my first family friendly story. I received the art from the artist but I haven’t been able to work on it yet
I was watching our house using my Blink cameras but they were offline when I checked around 5:30 Wednesday afternoon. Our power at the hotel went out just after 8 p.m. and the hurricane made landfall around Sarasota at 8:30.
Rose was watching the track closely. It started out hitting exactly where we live. It then slowly shifted south and then north and then south again.
Sarasota is less than 40 miles south of our house but that 40 miles makes a world of difference in a hurricane. We were happy to see that but, of course, we were sad for the people in its direct path.
The next morning the border to Pinellas county was closed so we had to wait for them to open the roads before we left. If we didn’t have cats to worry about we would have left and waited at the border. We didn’t have to wait too long before it was okay to leave.
When we got home we were stopped by a fallen tree that was behind our next door neighbor’s house.
The tree barely nicked the corner of the house behind our neighbor. Talk about luck.
Our home was undamaged except a downspout broke off and a window in the cats’ room blew out but it was undamaged and I put it back in the door.
I took Frankie for a walk because he was eager to get outside.
There was plenty for Frankie to investigate. Our back yard was filled with branches.
Later, Rose and I drove around the neighborhood. Many people suffered bad damage. Much more than the last hurricane. Here are just a few examples.
I’m writing this from the airport. We are flying to Boston and will travel up the coast to Maine for our 25th anniversary. Our power is still out but the cats will be okay. Our neighbor will take care of them.
Bad Cat Chris 