23rd Apr - had to
you spend a lot of time reading one blog with cats, this has to happen.
https://bookofjune.com/2021/04/22/irises
i will forever love this blog. we are all friends even strangers.
"Afterward, Ned came over to dig a hole. I told him not to look at Iris, whom I’d wrapped in a towel and put in a basket, but he did, and then he spent 10 minutes on my porch steps, sobbing. I tried not to be irritated by this, as I’d emphasized I needed stoic from him. Stoic. I needed more Milhous, fewer sobs. But Ned loved Iris, and she him, so I understood and found myself saying, “It’s OK. It’s OK that my cat is dead.”"