This post is from late November 2016. I had forgotten all about this treat dispenser. We must not have had it very long, but I have no memory of what happened to it.

Here are Frankie and Floki sitting on the catio like a couple of bookends. I wanted to photograph them looking out the screens but opening the door distracted them.

We want to wish everyone who is celebrating today a Happy Thanksgiving. I have been so busy I didn’t think to create a new Thanksgiving graphic so I thought I would combine it with Throwback Thursday and share one from 2016.

Our homeowners’ association consists of six houses and four empty lots that we all own a share of. Often, but not always, my walk with Frankie consists of a circle around the property. Our house is on a corner lot near the street. At the end of the alley, there is an open area and a large wall that separates the next neighborhood. Whenever we reach that end, Frankie always rubs his face on a stick that our neighbors use to hold up one of their plants.

I have read that this is another way to mark their territory besides the obvious method. We did see the girl cat named Frankie in that area yesterday, so maybe that is why he does it.

Here is a fun post from November 19, 2016

I saw an email from OneDrive yesterday labeled “Your memories from this day.” In it were a few cute photos of our cats from this day in history. I thought this would be a good place to share some of the photos.

Frankie has always been a photogenic cat. Here he is in November 2016.

My wife insisted that I start seeing a chiropractor again after suffering a terrible back injury early last week. Surprisingly, finding one in a neighborhood of 31,000 old people was quite difficult. I eventually found one and made an appointment for Friday. An hour later they called and said they had a cancellation and could get me in at 3:00.

I hesitated to see anyone about my back earlier since I was in great pain, but by yesterday morning, the pain level was around twenty percent of what it was at its worst. The chiropractor examined me and did some gentle manipulations, but didn’t do the typical back-cracking technique. When I left, I felt a little worse than when I arrived, but that’s sometimes normal.

The pain continued to get worse throughout the evening. By the time I was ready to go to bed, my back hurt worse than it did at the peak of pain a week ago.

The terrible pain continued this morning. It was a struggle to get out of bed. I eventually was able to hobble to the sofa. I couldn’t get up to do my work, which I do from my desktop computer, so I asked Rose to bring my laptop to me so I could work from the sofa. Frankie had other ideas.

He sat on my laptop for probably ten minutes while I pet him. I didn’t want to make him get down since today would be another day he doesn’t get his walk. Rose did let him out on the catio, but considering our temperature dropped to 36 degrees this morning, he decided it was better to stay in the house.