Meal time in February 1997. We were in our kitchen in Kaaawa. It looks like I was serving up boiled fish that I had just cooked up.

There were five cats living with us at that time, and they’re all visible here.

The black cat on the counter in the foreground is Hiwahiwa. On the floor, our calico generation, Miki and Kua. The Cream Point Siamese looking down onto them from the the counter is Mr. Buster. And Mr. Lindsey is on the counter in the background.

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It may have been the last time we had fewer than six cats until Wally died last summer, which brought us down to five again.

And now we’re down to four. I can’t remember when we last had just four cats.