Naturally Optimistic

 Beavis - May 1995 - December 11, 2011 Beavis - taken about a week before his death. My heart is heavy this week as I had to say good bye to one of my long-time friends and constant companions. Beavis (Bociefus, aka "Tan Man") ended his journey with us on Sunday afternoon. After going downhill quickly in the past few months, there was nothing we could do for him. It was excruciating. He started really deteriorating quickly on Friday (he was already down to about 5lbs from his normal 12) and we were pretty sure the end was near...but he hung on. He wanted to be with us, he seemed to still like being petted, but by Saturday afternoon he pretty much stopped doing too much. It became hard for him to walk, his eyes began to look glazed, his spunk was definitely gone. Early December 2011 Saturday night he could no longer walk. He tried. In fact he went into the back room on his own power & we were sure that was it. But it wasn't. It was heartbreaking. We didn...

I'm so behind on all this blogging. Ay yi yi - I have completely neglected to mention that our new family member has arrived! Meet Juno! I have yet to get a decent photo of her. She's a spaz and is always running all over the place. She's a Siamese and she's about 9 weeks old. We got her from a crazy farm far away in the boondocks. Sheesh! She is super playful and sweet and much nicer to hold now that we clipped her nails (by 'we' I mean Steve). Dahlia loves to play with her which is awesome. Give the girl a cat toy and she can entertain the kitten for quite some time. They chase after balls together which is funny. Juno likes to jump on the pages of magazines that Dahlia is looking through. Dahlia doesn't like that too much. Beavis is warming up to the idea of her. She always wants to play with him and he is mostly like, "whatever" but I think soon they'll be tearing around. One night he was trying to get her to chase him (he likes to be the p...

Beavis enjoying the nice sunshine through the kitchen window. Steve's Easter basket filled with coffee & chocolates. Our Easter hike - FULL of snow! The quiet woods (once the snowmobiles left).

This is what I look like every night when I go to sleep. Beavis tucks himself right in next to me. ** this is a real shot. I was woken up by the flash going off on the camera! Steve said he just couldn't resist.

On a very hot night (97 felt like 104) Beavis decided to just sleep in the bathtub all night. He was there at 12:45am....still there at 5:30am....and so cute.