My wife’s sister, Felice, sent her a photo of a stray cat they have been taking care of. She is a female they have been calling Koki. Felice didn’t notice the arrow on her head until after she took the photo.
The original photo was a bit blurry, so I asked AI to clean it up a little.
What do you think of Miss Arrowhead Koki?
Our Frankie was at our neighbor’s house looking for her Frankie the other day.
Her curtains were closed, which made it more difficult to see inside like the last time.
The other day, as Frankie and I were walking, we encountered a group of vultures attempting to remove roadkill from our streets. Frankie was very interested in them and pursued them more like a reporter trying to get an interview than a cat trying to catch dinner.
Several days ago, my wife said she saw something in our bird feeder that she thought might be a rat, but she wasn’t sure. Yesterday she saw it again and called me over to look at it. it was definitely a rat enjoying our bird food. I didn’t have my phone, so I didn’t get a photo of it at the time.
It ran away and returned sometime later. This time our neighbor’s cat Frankie saw it and forced it off the feeder and into the bush below. We cheered Frankie on, but rather than go after it, she just stood there waiting for it to come out.
After a minute or two I decided to go out and try to scare the rat into the waiting jaws of Frankie. Instead, I scared Frankie in one direction and the rat in the other.
Needless to say, Rose was not happy about the situation. She wanted me to get rid of the bird feeder. I understood. I didn’t want to encourage rats to come to our house, but I do feel bad that the cats will no longer enjoy seeing the birds and squirrels. In addition, Rose and I will miss seeing the family of cardinals that came by several times a day. Now I have to figure out what to do with the big bag of bird seed I just bought.
I was playing around this morning and uploaded a photo of Chris and me to ChatGPT.
I typed, “Can you recreate this image as a formal portrait painting in high resolution?”
It gave me this, although it ignored the high-resolution part.
I then said, “Now, recreate the uploaded photo as a 18th century formal painting,” and got this.
It then said:
If you’d like, I can also:
🎨 Turn it into other historical styles (e.g., Renaissance, Victorian, Impressionist, or Baroque)
🖼️ Create a museum-style framed version
📜 Make it look like an aged canvas hanging in a palace gallery
🐱 Or even create a matching portrait of just the cat (which could be fun if that’s Frankie!)
I said, “Yes, create a museum-style framed version.” I then told it that was me and Chris and mentioned when Chris died.
I wasn’t happy with my hair, so I asked to have it combed neater.
I then asked it to remove the picture from the wall and crop it so the entire frame was visible, but it said I reached the free limit for chats with attachments. Oh, well.
My wife likes to think of Floki as her cat and gets jealous whenever he pays attention to me. Hopefully she won’t see this post.
Because of the cold the other day, our cats didn’t want to go out onto the catio, but that didn’t stop Floki from wanting to look out there.
Floki is the laundry king, and his throne is warm laundry, straight from the dryer.
Rose and I were watching an animated movie called The Star on Christmas Eve. Floki decided he liked the movie and watched it with us for a good fifteen minutes.
He then walked over to Rose, got two minutes’ worth of attention, then returned to the coffee table to watch more of the movie.
It has been a week since I threw out my back. Technically, I hurt it a little last Saturday, but Monday Morning, I hurt it a lot. I could barely move for three whole days. Here is Frankie Monday morning demanding I take him for a walk.
Frankie has a habit of sitting and staring when he wants something. It really is effective, but this time I couldn’t help him. How do you explain to a cat who is used to getting morning walks that he can’t go out?
I am feeling about fifty percent better today and was able to take Frankie for a walk this morning and yesterday morning, which I’m thankful for, and so is Frankie.
Unfortunately, my bad back meant that I couldn’t ride in the car today, as my wife went to visit her 92-year-old dad on the other side of the state. He fell on Monday and ended up in the hospital. Now he is in a rehabilitation center and may not ever be able to go back to his house.
In other news, I finished the script for the fifth installment of my Last Healer Mysteries series called “Last Hope.” While I am involved in getting an artist to create the cover, I have decided to release on Amazon a short story I wrote, titled “Repeat.” It is available for free as an e-book today and tomorrow. Click here to get a copy. It is a fifteen to twenty-minute read, and I think you will enjoy it, especially the twist at the end.
Bad Cat Chris 