With Rex recovering from the removal of a benign mammary tumor (he’s having his stitches out on Monday), it seemed like as good a time as any to upload this photo…
It was taken at the tail-end (ha ha) of the Christmastime 2013 visit by my daughter, Alexandra, with my son-in-law-elect, Thomas, and his sister, Jocelyn. That’s Rexy—the most common of whose countless Madame BOF-ascribed sobriquets is Doodley Day—on my left shoulder, natch, with our nut-job ex-feral, Sally, sprawled on my right arm and poor Mina‘s surviving sister, Lucy, tucked into my right hip…