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.

Here is a post from July 4, 2016. It is one part of several about Floki’s origin.