One Year Old!

Playing in the bigger pool!

Playing in the pool

I got this pool because it was cheap and I wasn't sure she would like it - she does (this was her second time out in the pool today, she'd already splashed out most of the water, and she was tired) so I think a bigger pool is needed!

Redesign

My newly redesigned family room - almost everything got moved and cleaned!  Freyja has decided that the couch is her fav spot to sleep!

Cleo

Cleo died May 1, 2013 at 8:15 in the morning.  It was the end of a stressful week for both of us.  She had bouts all week of eating/not eating, and she was fading quickly.  Throughout it all, 3 doctor's visits, travel (and she never liked leaving the house), she remained calm and her normal sweet self.

On our last trip together she was lying on the seat watching the windshield wipers sweep back and forth.  She was bright and alert (she had eaten the night before and she'd had her breakfast - real cat food for the first time in days) but it was clear that this rally was only temporary.

I'm going to miss her so much - she walked into my life almost 9 years ago when she sauntered in to the Oceanfront Library one day.  She initially went home with the manager but the other cat in that house didn't approve so she came to live with me.  Preferring men, she always thought of me as her staff but she was tolerant of my mistakes and, after several years, did sometimes purr when I held her!

I know she's better now - no more getting older and weaker, lots of sunbeams, fireplaces when it's cold and all the chicken and meatloaf she wants.  Bye baby girl -