As some of you know, we do a lot of moving. I have lived in at least twenty-three homes in my lifetime, soon to be twenty-four. Rose and I have lived in nine places together. Chris lived in seven of those homes. Rose insists this will be the last house we ever buy.

We currently live in a fifty-plus mobile home community in Florida and have a large historic home in West Virginia that we haven’t been to in three years but plan on spending half a year there starting next June. After surviving two hurricanes this year, we decided we should look for a real house.

We found one south of Tampa in Sun City Center. It is about a hundred square feet smaller than our current home, but it is in great condition.

It is an unusual setup, with the sidewalk on one side and the street and driveway on the other. We plan on screening this area for the cats and us, too.

Coincidentally, my mother moved to Sun City, Arizona, a couple of years ago. I didn’t realize they were connected, but there are several Sun Cities throughout the states. I heard Arizona was the first, and this one was second. I was hoping to find something not in an old folks’ community, but I have learned there are many things to do here so maybe it won’t be bad.

In other news, my books, Bad Cat Chris and Saving Apollo, will be free today only on Amazon. I need reviews on all my books, especially Saving Apollo, so I hope you will help me with that. Also, my books The Last Healer and Falling Star are free on Smashwords throughout December. I recommend The Last Healer since I am now working on book four, and I think you will want to read more when you finish it. Speaking of that, the other two books in the series, Last Rites and Last Chance, as well as my first novel, Identity Crisis, are seventy-five percent off. Of course, these are eBooks. I wish I could offer print books for free, but they are expensive to produce.

My wife bought me a new camera for Christmas back in 2009 and let me open it ten days early. I took several photos of our cats to test it out. All except the last photo were taken on December 15, 2009, between 9:12 and 9:24 p.m.

First up is Chris. He’s a little out of focus, but it’s the very first photo taken with a new camera.

Here’s Abbey, who is near Chris on the bed.

Here is Chris again.

Alex and Tigger.

Finally, Chris again.

I was disappointed that I had so few photos of Flash from that time period, but I found one taken the following day. Here is Tigger and his brother Flash.

We lost Flash the following April. Unfortunately, he died young, like our other black cat, Puck.

Here is another post about Floki posted July 7, 2016

Frankie and I ended up at the clubhouse again the other day. This time, something was going on inside.

A man spotted Frankie peeking in and came out to greet him.

After the door was open, Frankie stuck his head inside, getting a lot of ooos and ahhhs from the people inside. I didn’t get a picture of that but you can imagine the scene.

Here is Tigger on this day in 2009.

I would guess that we just put up our Christmas tree and Tigger was there to supervise.

Here is another post about Floki’s origin from July of 2016.

Here is Chris fighting with a stuffed animal the day after we adopted him.

He was soon tuckered out.

This post is very late, but when I realized what the date is today, I had to say something. Today would have been Chris’s fifteenth Gotcha Day.

That day in November 2009 was quite memorable. A little gold cat took over our household, and our lives have never been the same since.

Here is Chris and Rose on that first day.

He spent that night attacking our feet in bed and almost destroying the blinds in the bedroom windows. What a joy he was. I miss him.