Jan 25, 2018 | Uncategorized
well, here’s the great photo of lester and chester, as chester patiently waits for les to finish his meal so he can swoop in and devour the remains. poor little kitty. winnie, sleeping on a “mutts” pillow. here’s mom’s living room facing...
Jan 24, 2018 | Uncategorized
sometimes i’d called Chester “chestertarian,” making up a little song, rhyming it with librarian, unitarian, vegetarian, egalitarian, rotarian… here he is in august 2012. i love this picture of the three of them, something that could be an...
Jan 21, 2018 | Uncategorized
i haven’t felt like posting, or doing anything at all for about a week now. i’m recovering from the flu, which is hitting everybody hard this year, it seems. i got sick last saturday then kevin got sick then he got better then i thought i was better, but...
Jan 10, 2018 | Uncategorized
some more photos of chester from November 2011…he and les were such good friends. this is about a week after we got him, and already they were snuggled together on the bed. the middle of november, out in the back yard with les. in December 2011, lester giving...
Jan 8, 2018 | Uncategorized
i took this picture on sept. 28th, 2011. we kept chester in the hot tub room for a while, separated from everybody else, because we hadn’t taken him in to be neutered yet. when we first got les and he was also not fixed, we let him roam freely in the basement...
Jan 6, 2018 | Uncategorized
this is a post from Tuesday Sept. 27th, 2011. we had found Les Paul in June, and on Saturday Sept. 24th i was getting ready for a wedding celebration for our friends Janice and Garrick. at the end of the post i said that chester had killed a mouse but didn’t...
Jan 5, 2018 | Uncategorized
that we got to enjoy the company of our charming chester for six years. yesterday, our vet, dr. kris myers, found that his kidneys were grossly enlarged, meaning lymphoma. such an incredibly caring person, dr. myers carried chester into the exam room on a big soft...
Jan 3, 2018 | Uncategorized
in the photo on the left, chester is patiently waiting for les to quit eating so he can hop up and polish off les’s food. he’s always ravenous, and the vet did say he still has a big appetite, a good sign.
Jan 3, 2018 | Uncategorized
well…as of right now, 9:50 on wednesday morning, we have some hope. early yesterday morning kevin picked up chester from the emergency vet and took him to our vet, dr. kris meyers. during the day they just weren’t able to get his blood sugar to go down...
Jan 1, 2018 | Uncategorized
yesterday morning, the last day of the year, i woke up to see chester lying on the bathroom rug in front of the shower. chester never, ever does this, and i knew that something was wrong. he was acting lethargic, and i worried that his blood level had dropped...