I must be the world's worst storyteller -- because there really is an interesting story to tell here, but I keep wanting to begin it with a mysterious 3 a.m. knock at the door 16 years earlier. o_0 I guess you had to be there... But the gist of it is that my cats were born 4 years ago today. The mom-cat had been a neighborhood fixture since at least January of 2005, and by February (unseasonably warm that year) she had staked out my yard and porches as her own territory. And although she was... read more
