Jill's Chat: All Creatures Great and Small

Saturday, January 25, 2014

All Creatures Great and Small

I haven't posted since Christmas for a couple reasons, the biggest being an attack of the luck ick. It's my term for the nasty bout of bronchitis I get every few years. This year it came on Sunday before New Year's and I'm still trying to get back to normal. I "never" call in sick but this time I left work early New Year's eve and pretty much slept or coughed for a week. Naturally the day I decided to try to rejoin the world was the coldest day in a couple decades - timing is everything.

But, enough about crummy health. Because of it I really haven't done anything worth blogging about. So that's why the silence. Until today. Today is a day worthy of breaking the silence because today is my big boy's birthday.

12 years ago Chief came into this world and 3 months after that he changed my world. I've mention how he got his name before but for his birthday I'll repeat it. I've always named my critters for family members. Jessie was my initials - JC. Jamie was after my brother Jim. (I use family names but not a straight copy of the name). Chief got his name the first night I got him. I brought him over to my folks house and he played with Dad on the floor and then crawled up on Mom's lap and fell asleep. We were talking about names and during this I said he had all of us wrapped around his little paw and Dad said it was just like the Chief. Grandpa was a Chief Petty Officer in the Navy and when he said to do something - everyone jumped. So with that, the new little bundle of fur was named after Grandpa. To this day he still has me wrapped around his (not so) little paw and he is the Chief.