My wife got a shipment yesterday, removed the flaps on the box, and put it on the floor for the cats. I noticed Floki sleeping in it last night. This morning Rose couldn’t sleep and, while she was up, put a towel in the box. She woke me up when she came back to bed so I got up and saw Chris napping in the box.
If we paid top dollar for a cat bed it wouldn’t get used as much
Chris has changed his routine and spends a lot of time now on the bed in the spare bedroom. It is always nice to see when Floki goes in there to keep him company.
Here is a picture of Chris taken fourteen years ago yesterday when Chris was about a year old. He is in a basket next to my wife who made beaded jewelry as a hobby at the time.
Here is Chris and Frankie napping together the other day.
I don’t think I need to say anything more about this.
Can you believe Chris is fifteen? Sometimes, like after waking up to find puke and poop all over the house, I think he won’t make it to his sixteenth birthday. Other times, like as I write this, I see he has climbed up to his perch with no problem. That gives me hope.
He can also still be bad, although in more subtle ways, like turning over his food bowls.
I’m not going to dwell on how much time he has left, instead, I will enjoy each day he is with us. I will also remember some of his antics when he was young.
At some point this past year, Chris mostly lost interest in going outside but lately his interest has returned. Now, when I take Frankie for a walk Chris waits by the door so he can go out when we return.
Unlike Frankie, Chris is happy to stay close to home. Sometimes he eats a little grass but mostly he just wants to enjoy the great outdoors.
Chris’s bed needed to be washed. The last time I washed it I noticed it was ripped at the seam.
This time we decided it was time for a new bed. The photo above was from when it was new about a year and a half ago. You can see he barely fits in it. This time we decided to get him a bigger bed. The one we got is actually for dogs, but don’t tell him.
As soon as we put it down, both Chris and Floki were interested in it, but Chris muscled his way onto it first.
He then settled in for a long nap.
This new bed has enough room for Floki to join him. I’m hoping to see that sometime soon.
Here is another throwback photo. This one is of Chris, Tigger, and Abbey taken on this day in 2011.
I didn’t have many new photos this week so I thought I would find an old one (or three) taken on this day. I found a folder from April 26, 2011. It was labeled “Camera Test.” I don’t know what camera I was testing but I think it was a film camera. It looks like I took pictures of whatever, and whoever, I could find.
Here is Chris in our spare bedroom looking out the window. I think that was his favorite place in the condo. The photo is not great, probably due to poor lighting and no flash, but it is a good memory of Chris.
The next is Tigger. He was probably on the same bed as Chris but because I wasn’t pointing the camera at a bright window, the picture is much better.
Here is Abby looking out the window in the master bedroom. It’s another bad photo but a good memory.
Some days our house seems like a satellite office of the post office. I won’t mention any names but someone I’m married to likes to shop online.
After I took Frankie for a walk yesterday, Chris wanted to go outside, so I sat on the front step and watched him while he lay in the driveway and enjoyed the sun. The door opened and that someone I mentioned earlier threw the empty box from the first of four packages she received that day out the door. We often throw empty boxes out the door until one of us goes outside and takes them to the garbage can. The box was too much for Chris to resist.
Bad Cat Chris 