This basket is even older than the hammock on the previous
picture page.  It belonged to Sam, my first cat,
and has to be at least 30 years old.

Keeping an eye on the property from the upstairs window.

Tamerlane, exhausted after making a long,
arduous trip from the food bowl to the sofa.

Curled up next to his stuffed shark on the first night we had him.
We thought he ought to have a stuffed animal and
the shark was the only one we had available.

With his stuffed shark on February 28, 2001.

He spends a good deal of his life in this position.