Friday October 29, 2021 Pic of the Day.

This is taken in very low light - just one 60 watt lightbulb in the room. Avensby on my cross legged lap, Andi on the blanket in the background. This is my world before I go to sleep. I don't use a bed, I just put blankets on the cement floor in the basement and sleep with the cats around me. I've done this since I was a child. My parents used to wonder why they would find me sleeping on the floor in the morning even though I had a bed. I like this, though for years I didn't tell people as I thought they would find it "weird" as my parents would say. Now that I'm an old man, I don't really care what others think of it. Besides, the cats love it and surround me at night. Over the years I've tried to "grow up" and use a bed, but I end up going back to the floor. At one point of my life, I had an 1880 house near a river. The basement had a cement floor, but it would flood a couple of inches deep now and then if there was a heavy rain. Because of that, I had 2 wood pallets on the floor to sleep on. One night, it rained heavily, and it flooded while I was sleeping. When I woke up, I was covered with house centepedes who had climbed up on me to get away from the flood. Luckily, I like house centepedes (the fluffy looking grey-tabby coloured centepedes). Here is something everyone who has house centepedes should know: they eat spiders, spider eggs, fleas, flea larvae and other little things we'd all rather not have in the house. They are not aggressive and not poisonous. How good is that? I think of them as grey tabby cats of the insect world. Why? Because cats keep away mice which are a problem for humans because of disease and getting into our food supply, and house centepedes keep away things like fleas, spiders, etc. Wow, did I ever get off-topic from a cat picture today!
Taken: October 2018.