Mimi came to join us on June 10th, 2022. She was not quite fifteen months old: born March 15th 2021.
As the pictures clearly show, she is a princess, fully conscious of her rank and beauty.
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First day at home: nervous. |
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Day 4: starting to relax. |
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Day 8: peek-a-boo! |
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Domestic harmony. After some unpleasant incidents with growling (Basil) and hissing (Mimi), by October they have settled down into a wary harmony. Each has claimed one piece of living-room furniture: Basil the sofa, Mimi the armchair. |
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Helping Mom with her work (on Mom's desk). |
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Sleeping Beauty, mid-November 2022. |
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This picture and the next two are from April and May 2023. Mimi-Basil relations have improved somewhat, but there are still occasional standoffs. |
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Our lady has established some locations as indisputably her own. Here is a favorite one, on the back of the living-room sofa. |
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When doing a jigsaw puzzle I first sort the pieces into categories by color, shape, or content, and give each category a tray or box-lid of its own. I have learned that a box-lid full of carefully-sorted puzzle pieces is Mimi's favorite place to squat. |
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When the spirit moves her, Mimi slips into the home office to help Mrs Derbyshire with her work. |
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We lost our sweet Mimi on the evening of May 18th 2026. A neighbor in the next street over called to tell us that Mimi was lying
lifeless in the road there. I went round, and sure enough she was, yet with no sign of any injury — no blood, no broken bones. Subsequent
speculation has been that she may have swallowed rat poison, or perhaps a poisoned rat. There has been a plague of rats in the district recently. I wrapped Mimi in her favorite blanket and took her home. The next day Danny dug a grave for her out back, next to those of Boris and Toby. We buried her there with her toys. The headstone, purchased online, was added a few days later. Rest in peace, our sweet Mimi. |