Life is good most days

and today was another of those days. We woke up to the sound of Kaley (one of our cats) asking for his breakfast. He usually insists around 4:45 a.m. and by the time the alarm goes off at 5:00. am , he may have bitten one of us already! His brother, Summer, is a totally different kind of cat. Summer never stalks us when he's hungry; he just goes to his place setting and waits for us to realize why he's patiently sitting there, waiting for one of us dummies to figure it out on our own! However, if Summer wants to come in from outside, he nearly breaks down the door, scratching and actually pulling the door open with his paw. Poor wild man Kaley just sits there looking up at the door, silent. Two brothers, so different in all ways except one; they both love to lie on top of us totally spread out, luxuriating in the long caresses they expect. Their purring makes it all worthwhile. I don't know how a person could live without some type of animal in their life. We have four dogs (opps! that was a slip...we lost the oldest dog three weeks ago) and two cats. We're always talking about adding more and different types of animals but come to our senses just in time. We have a nice balance now and living with them softens the real world tremendously.