This is a picture of Simon at his first Christmas three years ago. It’s still his favorite holiday, although, he never turns down an opportunity to celebrate. Simon is an outdoor cat who loves to climb trees, hunt moles and bunnies and chipmunks, chase blowing leaves and bumblebees and moths, and smell the flowers. In the winter though, he has to be content to watch the birds through the window – he hates the snow.

Simon is my first only cat and spoiled rotten. He just has to roll over and ask for a belly rub to be forgiven just about anything.