Cat Lackey

We're enjoying having time together. Bonsai, a.k.a. Trixie, is seen here making sure Michelle's body-heat doesn't go to waste.

I have a phone consult on Monday with a cardiologist. Unless he has something besides bypass surgery to offer, afterward I'll head north.

I was up at 11:30 last night being amazed by the roar of the traffic; everyone must be coming out at night. Between the neighbor's music and the occasional "woof" from the dog next door, I put in ear plugs....and look forward to being somewhere quiet. But I miss her when we're apart.

Domesticity

We've not lived together since 2004. But it was after I "went nomadic" (emphasis on mad) in 2010 that Michelle began making changes.

Recently, she painted the living room walls (yellow and pale blue) and added the leaf pattern. Previously scattered throughout, she brought some of her pictures together in this salon-style hanging.

We usually disassemble the Xmas tree in March.

That's Trixie's "food station" on the right end of the couch. The green blanket is an heirloom from her Grandmother's estate. The portrait of Trixie on the back of the couch (in the center) was a gift from a cousin Michelle and her brother Steve visited a few years ago. She is an illustrator and cellist.
The background of the painting is, as befitting a cat, gold leaf.