Wordless Wednesday: Our Beautiful Boy

R.I.P.

Flashback Friday

Lucky lucky me just won this calendar set over at Oscraps. Thank you Merkee for the gift!

Merkeley 2012 Wallet Calendar

Now, you may ask why this is FlashBACK Friday and not FlashFORWARD Friday with a 2012 calendar. Good question. The reason is that someone is going to get a calendar for Christmas with all photos of our late beloved cat Sebastian.

I have to flashback to his happy days. Ok, relatively happy days. He was a Siamese and they do tend to be pretty fussy. He made his preferences known, and I was not on that list. Ironically, he entered our lives as MY cat but from the git-go he was dh's cat.  Not that dh was interested in being owned by this boy but Sebastian made it clear. He did not want my lap, he wanted dh's lap. I was relegated to litter box cleaner and periodic medicine giver.  But give me the time of day??? Hardly. When I would go to pet him as he sat up on his window tree perch, he would let out a 'Ehhh' of disapproval, and turn his head away from me.

Nonetheless, I loved him dearly and was the one to help him go over the rainbow bridge. Well, Sebastian, you are going to be immortalized just a bit more. Enjoy!

Flahsback Friday 11 06 24

Ah...our deal old Sebastian. He almost never climbed up on the chair to sit, or at least the chairs at the table. I think some of the reason was that he instinctively knew he wasn't so good at jumping up any more and that he didn't have a lot of space to work with here. His favorites places were over near the Jotul, even when it wasn't on. I think he knew that was a source of heat and eventually, maybe in 6 months! it would come back on.

As much as I miss him, I don't miss the litter box or the need for a pet sitter every time we wanted to go somewhere. Dear little one, I hop you are happy on the other side. You were one special cat.

Noticing

5a.m. and the old boy Siamese was awake.

Awake and hungry? awake and feeling poorly? I don't know, but I do know he was awake and howling to beat the band when it seemed like night time to me. (We have great new blackout curtains.) The man of the house thundered out of bed to investigate but then again, he gets up at 05:30 usually. I just drifted in and out of sleep until about 6:30. Never totally asleep again, but happily in that half dreaming state.


There were vague notions of going to the gym, but they got vaguer as I got myself downstairs for the first glass of iced tea. It was time for noticing. Seeing the light shine in from the east is lovely. Seeing the smudgy sliding glass doors is not. So after taking some photos, I cleaned a few panes of the door and decided just to enjoy the morning, no matter when it started.

The gym? maybe tomorrow.

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