Changing of the Guard

Originally published at Robin Hobb. You can comment here or there.

I will begin this by saying that the Pi cat is alive and well, or as well as a 19 year old cat can be. 

But of late, she has decided that the hike down the stairs to the always cool basement where I work is not to her liking.  She spends most of her days snoozing now on her cushion in front of the fireplace, even when there is no fire there.  Her greatest joy is when my granddaughters arrive to fuss over her and brush her...