Goodbye Cricket

Well, I had intended to post about my last-minute speed knitting today (I managed to make Norberta and two Back to School washcloths* and a Mason-Dixon felted box in about two weeks - a record for me) but woke up this morning to find that my 16 year old cat, Cricket, passed away last night. Getting her was the very first thing I did after I signed the lease on my first apartment after college. She'd been with me in Boston, Milwaukee and now Columbia, through 3 jobs, grad school, two more cats, a dog, a husband and a daughter. 16 years from just post-college to closing in on middle age. I will miss her very much.

*one in blue with an orange"Go" and one in orange with a blue "Gator" for a Gator fan.