Craig's Joy

We were supposed to spend the last two weeks of December in Europe, and I thought I'd have a slam dunk awesome picture that would come out of those travels. Then, in mid November, one of our kitties got sick, and as the date for the trip approached it became obvious he was going to require more care than we could trust to a cat sitter, even if we had the sitter come every day. So we canceled our trip and spent the holidays here at home. My subject for "Joy" is said kitty, Lemur. Here he is in his two recovery collars, since he kept figuring out how to get out of (or bypass) every one we tried on him. He's my joy for a number of reasons, but the main one at this point is that he's much better and well on the road to recovery. We just took him to the vet for a check-up yesterday afternoon and everyone agrees his horrible skin infection is recovering wonderfully (and, as expected, slowly), but no complications and he may only have a couple more weeks in the collar.