Q: Do your reading habits change in the Spring? Do you read gardening books? Even if you don’t have a garden? More light fiction than during the Winter? Less? Travel books? Light paperbacks you can stick in a knapsack? Or do you pretty much read the same kinds of things in the Spring as you do the rest of the year?

Nothing changes. I read what I want, when I want. So there! I will lug around a big 800 page hardcover all summer if I want to. I may intersperse my big novels with “quick reads”, but it doesn’t depend on the season. However, what I will not do anymore is read more than one novel at a time. What can I say? I’m a monogamist reader.

HENRY!!!

His full name is Sir Henry McSquishington Fluffybutt. I suggested “Henry” as his name because of his blue kitten eyes — they reminded me of Paul Newman & his character in The Sting was named Henry. I later expanded his name accordingly.

I wish I could work “ToeFur” somewhere into his name.. it’s so tempting to tug. McSquishington is for our Scottish side of the family as well as the fact that he is mister ploppy… you can plop him on your lap, your shoulder, honestly everywhere.

Here is an example of how squishy he is:

He doesn’t do so well outside… and has gotten stuck up trees about 3 times… however, we think that this is due to him being part Ragdoll. Ragdoll cats are typically docile and have no instincts whatsoever. For a while we thought he just wasn’t that smart, while my mother maintained he’d never been “taught” by another cat. Now we can blame it on him being part Ragdoll (unofficially as it’s one of those posh breeds that you need papers for), and he is most definitely an indoor cat.

But he still loves bugs: