I keep a list of pictures to use (and "usually" cross them off so I on't use them again soon). My 1st column lists the cats involved. Sometimes, it is "all". Sometimes it is just a few specific ones.
Today I realized I was still writing L-L-M (Lori, Laz, Marley) as if Ayla was still here. I changed L-L-M to "all". Habits are hard to break sometimes and painful.
Ayla is in a plastic bag in the basement freezer. I need to build a new box for her. I delayed because I could find a resin cat-figurine to match Skeeter, LC, and Iza's. I had to choose a wood one. I'll soak it in marine varnish, I suppose, to make it last outdoors.
I was ready to make a new box for her burial site, but it was raining. I need to remove weeds from the site and my little electric tiller doesn't deal with wet soil well. And I need to move stuff around in the basement to build a new box.
So it will be a few days before she gets buried around the Memorial Pond with Skeeter/LC/Iza. Well, at least this time, the soil won't be frozen. Iza is between them now, but I can't find the picture...
Found it..
I need to take a box inside to copy it. It will be a sad construction to build, but a good remembrance for all my remaining years. Maybe I should make 4 and set the others aside so I don't have to do it again. It hurts to make these Memorial Boxes... Or maybe not. Maybe that's the point of making them each time. Each one is a specific object of love and missing one.
*sigh*
