I have been working an amazing amount of time lately. Right around eighteen hours a day… I don’t have a LIFE! I used to enjoy sitting outside during the morning, taking in the fresh mountain air and the sunshine with Cassanova, my cat.

Cassie has been a trooper though. He sits next to me everyday all day long. Most of the time he sleeps, but sometimes he just watches me work. It is really nice to have him around. Dax my other cat would rather sleep on my bed or watch the world go by out the front window. But Cassie just wants to be with me, nothing more and nothing less.

He is getting to be about eight and a half years old now. I still remember when I found him. I had just returned from the hospital where I had my knee replaced from a work accident… that is a whole story of its own.

I was coming down the stairs to the apartments I was managing and I heard a tiny squeak. I stopped and hobbled around the corner and there was the cutest tuxedo kitten looking at back at me. Well, he wasn’t really looking at me as much as facing toward me. Someone had taken construction adhesive and glued his eyes, ears and little bum shut. He also had part of his paw torn off and bruises all over.

I felt so bad for him. I had never really liked cats before, but I could not just leave him out after seeing him like that. So I took him into my apartment and started to clean him up. He sat patiently in the sink and let me do what needed to be done.

He tried so hard, being a kitten, to follow all of the rules that I set after that. I think he understood that I needed time to grow up to love him and he was giving me the space and patience I needed to be a good “dad” for him.

He alone has taught me to BE patient. I did not know what it was like to really be loved until he loved me. I grew up without feeling like part of a family, even though I had one, but Cassanova gave me family and I, in turn, gave him family.

So now we both sit together, day after day, until all hours of the night while I work at my computer and he just loves me in his way. I love him too. He is a good friend. Life would not be as fulfilling without him as company.

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Today in History - March 9th

In 1841, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in the Amistad case, concerning captive Africans who seized control of the slave-trading ship carrying them, that they had been taken into slavery illegally.