We just got home last night from 8-days in the Bay Area, so you won’t be getting a fresh batch of Feline Friday photos.

But I went back to the archives and found this end-of-the-year review of our cats in 2012.

Warning: It’s too long. It runs 9 minutes. And each image is just there for a second. So it’s a light show of cat images which leaves some viewers frustrated, others bored. But you can fast forward, or jump in and out to taste.

We lived with a bunch of cats in 2002.

Here’s my list, which I think is accurate.

Kili & Wally. Rescued as kittens after being dropped from a moving car along Kahekili Highway on a Saturday morning in 1998. They were the matriarchs that ruled our cat household for years and years.

Duke. His mother was a beautiful Siamese we rescued from a hoarder’s house in 2002. She gave birth to three kittens. We kept Duke, who grew up to be a handsome Tabby Point Siamese. When he was eight years old, he was diagnosed with feline diabetes, and required insulin shots for the rest of his long life.

Toby. Found as a tiny kitten after we heard tiny cries from an overgrown field near our house in Kaaawa. He required bottle feeding for several weeks, which meant that he was totally comfortable with people. Such a great cat!

Annie. Rescued on the beach in Kaaawa in late 2003, not far from where Polinalina Road hits Kam Highway. She had apparently come through a drainage culvert under the road, and was on the beach trying to scramble up to the highway. We snatched her and took her home. She died of complications of a kidney condition in June 2020.

Silverman. He appeared in our lives in September 1999, when Meda and I returned from a trip to Chicago and found that this beautiful blue-eyed cat had learned to come through the cat door to share meals with our cats. They accepted him, and so did we.

Romeo. He was several years old when he apparently took refuge under our house on a noise Kaaawa New Year’s Eve, December 31, 2004, then hung around looking for a good meal. After getting vet care, and getting snipped, he knew a good thing when he saw it, and moved in. He finally died earlier this year.