In addition to his disgruntled cat housemates, Felix has been receiving visitors. His paternal grandmother Connie came to spend a few days with him. In fact, Felix invited her to wash his skivvies, but she gets to play with him as well.
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Felix's grandmother did get to hold him for a
few minutes when she first arrived from the homeland. Felix responded to
her attentions the same way he responds to all well-timed attention, by
sleeping. Fortunately, Connie has had some experience with babies and
takes sleeping in fine spirit.
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| As part of the grandmotherly visit, Felix got
gifts from his family in New England. He was willing to check one of them
out in detail, a quilt his grandmother made. Grandmothers from New England
make quilts.
This particular quilt is made from pieces of an old shoe-bag found at an antique sale some years ago. Each of the panes depicts a child playing a game.
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Felix's grandfather Glenn made a book all
about his life, which takes in a fair bit of recent history. This history
occurred in black and white until Felix's grandfather was a teenager. He
was, as he points out in the book, a beautiful baby. We all wonder what
happened..
Felix's current interest in the book is approximately nil. We'll show it to him again in a few years.
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| Felix's aunt Kim would have loved holding
him.
This is a cross-stitch pattern that Kim made. In the future, when cross-stitch patterns are all made by autonomous cross-stitch-pattern robots in space, Felix will have even more reason to cherish this item from his late aunt.
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