tele_mark says:
"Mee-Kesh", although sometimes I'll get lazy and say it "Mick-esh"

doerscheln says:
Good Floppy is back home again together with his brothers and mother. Moritz's urn stands between his mother Paulinchen and his uncle Willi.

doerscheln says:
Now I am curious....how do you pronounce Mikesch ? 😉

tele_mark says:
Yes, mom named her. Not sure of the spelling. It's what Dad wrote on the back of the pic. That's how it was pronounced - "Berba-Lee". Or, "Berbie" for short.

iluvcats says:
Blessings to your loving heart my friend.

tele_mark says:
Floppy is home, on the right. They're all together again. Daisy, Robocat, Ivan, and Floppy. They'll all be getting picture urns like Daisy. FINALLY ordered Robocat's yesterday.

doerscheln says:
Berbele was a cat friend!

doerscheln says:
Maybe your mother named the dog? Looks like our minimization of "Bärbele"

doerscheln says:
Sweet pic and yes, could be Storm's great-great-great......grandfather (mother) 😺

tele_mark says:
My brother with Tabby, in 1961, He (or she) really did look like Storm!

tele_mark says:
"Berbele and Tabby, 1962". Looks like Storm!

tele_mark says:
1960 -- "Berbele and un-named cat"

tele_mark says:
It was only about 35F, not too cold. The thing was, the day before it reached 70F and there was no snow!

2catts says:
I am truly sad to read this. He was a fine old boy. Even when expected, the loss of our furry friends is sad. My Charlie (17) died very suddenly a couple of days before Christmas. I now have a gorgeous orange tabby rescue (named Handsome) who is about 3. We are starting our journey together and I have done the same math that you have Mark. It is a life's commitment that we make when we accept a new boy into our homes.

doerscheln says:
Brrr looks like here in Bavaria. At this momemt in the early morning it is -19 celsius. I don't want to leave the house today!

doerscheln says:
Sweeeeeeeeeeeeet!

doerscheln says:
Yummy!

doerscheln says:
Wonderful to find such treasures. Only a few weeks ago I was looking at 50 years old pics together with my mother and we found something like this, too. I was holding a few days old kitten in my hands when I was about 6 years old.

tele_mark says:
My sister says the cat's name was Tabby. A color pic shows he/she looked amazingly like Storm, and was very much in love with the family dachshund, Berbily.

tele_mark says:
He'll eat all the raw string-beans I shuffle over to him.