HOLY CRAP!!!

now i know how crazy aunt purl must feel with all of the comments!   oh my.... thanks to all of you for your kind words.  it's been a difficult few days, but today was the first day that i thought about him without crying.  and thank you CAP for sending over so many of your friends. 

a few of you asked if i was going to adopt another feline friend, because really, what is a knitting blog without a resident cat.  well, there's no need.  because although napoleon was the star of the show (he was the little emperor after all), there were two ladies waiting in the wings.  

this is sparky and droopy *cough*.  until about 9 years ago, there was a josephine (yes, go ahead and mock) but she got sick and had to be put to sleep.  napoleon was despondent and lonely and so after a year of it just being the two of us, i adopted sparky and droopy, two 3 year old sisters whose owner needed to move and couldn't take them with her.   her children had named them sparky and droopy and i renamed them sophie and madeleine, but the names never stuck.  what we call them now is "little black kitty" and "big black kitty."    and those are pretty much the names they respond to.

napoleon was the coverboy because he was the easiest to photograph.  his markings were distinctive and his fur didn't cause all sorts of issues with exposure.  since he followed me around the house, he was always ready for a photoshoot.  and he didn't move all over the place.  "little black kitty" is a spaz and can't sit still for a minute.  "big black kitty" is so entirely black (her only white markings are on the underside of her paws and a tiny patch on her chest), that it's almost impossible to focus on her.  and when i do get a picture, she just looks like a great big black blob.  i don't know how chris does it.

once again, thank you for your stupendous outpouring of love for my beautiful napoleon.  (ok i'm going to stop now because i'm getting weepy again).

my next post will include knitting, i promise.