On Sunday, December 21, the doorbell rang around 11:00a.m., and what to my wandering eye should appear but Andy, my son arrived on Frontier. Ron had arranged for Andy to fly here as a Christmas Surprise!!! I had been asking if we could drive to Colorado for Christmas so we could see Andy. I was so lonesome. It would have been the first Christmas without him. His friend Ray went to Midway to pick him up. Andy was dressed in a Santa suit. I could not believe my eyes. It was so good to see him.
Andy got to visit with his friends. One evening they went to play Bingo. Would you believe he won $110.00 on a straight line. He was so happy. I think my Mom was looking out for him. A bunch of his friends were home for the holiday. He got to go skating and dancing and had to hit Gene and Jud's for hotdogs.
On Wednesday we had our Christmas dinner. I fixed turkey with the trimmings for his dining pleasure. We were thinking of going to the movies on Christmas Day, as our tradition in the past. We did our annual drive to look at Christmas lights. There is a house just off Farnsworth, south of Ogden that is truly the encrusted creation of the season. This house is loaded with lights. Every square inch has a light on it. All four sides of the house had strings of lights. The blue LED lights are so bright. It was quite a sight.
Christmas morning we did get up to open presents. Andy's presents were in Colorado. They had arrived on Friday, before he flew here. I had gotten a couple of things to put in his stocking. We had a left over lunch of turkey and the trimmings. We had decided to go see Marley and Me. We went to a theatre on the way to the airport. Andy's flight was to leave at 7:05 pm. The movie was good, but a tear jerker in the end. We stopped on the way to the airport at a Denny's on Route 83 for our dinner. We got him to the airport in plenty of time. All was good. About 8:00 we received a call from Andy. They could not start one of the engines and he was still at Midway. After about a hour and a half, they were finally able to get off the ground. He got home safe. Thank heaven!! It is a good thing. The weather in Chicago became horrible on Friday and
Saturday. He would not have been able to get out. We had zero visibility. We had gone from 9 degrees below zero, the Sunday he arrived to 60 degrees above this past Saturday.
When Andy had gotten home, Rocky was not feeling very good. He seemed to be listless. When Andy got home from work Friday night at 4:00am (Saturday) Rocky was not feeling any better. Andy took Rocky to the Vet's right away. They said he was dehydrated. They were going to keep him for 24 hours. Andy visited him during the day, but he did not seem to be getting any better. By Sunday am the doctor had called and said they really did not know what was wrong, he was not responding to the hydration. They had put a note on his cage that everyone needed to be careful, cause he would try to bite and could scratch your eyes out, except Rocky does not have any claws. (Little kitty humor) Andy went to the hospital and went to be with Rocky. Things just were not looking good. Andy made the decision to let him go. Andy said Rocky put his paws on his arm. Andy said he wished he could have curled up with him just once more. It was not to be. Rocky is in Kitty Heaven. It has been a really sad time for us. We will miss him. We adopted him March 10, 2001.
