So, pretty much a typical summer. We did acquire a new investment-cat from the animal shelter on Clear the Shelter Weekend. We'd decided that Beba-cat was eating too many butterflies and not enough mice, so we thought we'd get her some help, and now we have Roger MacKenzie. Roger is much friendlier than Beba, but that's probably because he came to us already "fixed," while Beba still remembers what we did to her and blames us.
I call him an "investment-cat," because he was free and already vaccinated and neutered, so we thought we had a good deal until we invested in special food, a new carrier, some eye salve and antibiotics for a welcome-home eye infection.
Roger also came to us already named. I had to look it up,* and found that Roger Jeremiah MacKenzie is a character on the TV series Outlander. It turns out that there are lots of similarities between Our Roger and TV Roger. Our Roger is a black cat and TV Roger is a "black Celt." Both are curious. Both have green eyes, TV Roger's mother's eyes were green and so are mine. Both Rogers are Presbyterians. Both Rogers were orphans who were adopted by Presbyterian ministers. The Rogers' middle name - Jeremiah - means "YAHWEH has uplifted," which I think is a nice touch. TV Roger's favorite music is Gaelic hymns and our precocious Roger has already memorized Be Thou My Vision, which I sing to him every morning after the daily Psalms.
Clearly this was a match made in heaven!
Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart. Ps. 37:4
