Visit

I have spent the day with my sister and niece, whom I also visited yesterday evening. The blonde niece is more than a year older than she was when I last saw her, and able and willing to communicate in a way that she didn’t used to be. The family Cavalier King Charles Spaniel was also glad to see me; I don’t know whether she recognized me as an old friend, or would have been equally eager to greet anyone. She’s a lapdog, not a ferocious mastiff. My sister also has two cats, one of them recently adopted and quite shy, the other resident here for a year or so. Both cats were standoffish at first, but the senior cat finally let me pet him.