Ginger, My Wild Boy, behave yourself at the rainbow bridge :) Options

[gingerspal]

Dear Ginger,
I hope that all my friends that I have made at Lightning Strike will scroll down to take a look at your photos. If it were not for them I would still be crying. But, they have lost their friends too, and because they know how much I miss you, by way of commaradarie, I have been healing.
I have the hardest time explaining all your many ways! You were a cat that at first "bit the hand that fed him". How I put up with you in the beginning is beyond me....but what a prize I had in the end. You know it wasn't easy apologizing for you all the time. And remember how people thought that sign on the fence was a "joke"? (ha-ha! go ahead and pet him and see if it is a joke! ) How about when you would hiss at all the children who came to the door? Remember when you nearly ran down Dave's grandchild in the backyard, like she was a gazelle and you were a puma? Yeah, you didn't make big points that day. And Spencer still has a scar on his arm, having "visited" you declaring later: "I don't think Ginger likes me very much". Well, that was the trouble, you looked so "inviting" to those who did not know you. How is it I could fall so in love with such an irksome cat?? I don't know. Maybe precisely because you were hard to love at first. I didn't set out to love you so much. And you did love me after I wouldn't give up. Because I always knew that I could convince you that I was your "Mommy" and that I would never hurt you no matter what you did. That is especially WHY I was so upset with how it all ended. Because I would NEVER have hurt you for anything in the world. Well. Buddy, it hasn't really ended either, because when I look at your pictures I know you are still here with me. I sure do miss your sweet face and inexplicitly I miss your cranky attitude. I guess maybe I even miss having to apologize for you. Don't you be devouring any squirrels or birds at the rainbow bridge---ok?? You be a good boy, and I will see you when I get there.
Love,
Mommy

[gingerspal]

Hi Ginger,
Just wanted to say hello to you today. I is fun to see your photos here. I do love that last photo so much...you used to hang on the screen like that..wanting to come in and be the "family cat" ...but of course if you came in too early you wanted to go out again--contrary silly goose. I am trying these days to miss you appropriately and not let it all turn into a full fledged depression. That won't do either one of us any good, will it?
My big ol alleycat.