LOL! I remember that one! That really is a funny picture. Frank is so urbane
and Mir is a little kitten goof!

He was such a handsome gentlecat. Kind of looks like he's saying, "What
did I do to deserve this weirdo lying behind me?" :)

Joyce

Awwww - what a sweetie.  I hope you have a good trip Marina - we'll be
thinking about it.  I imagine it will be bittersweet at the island and I'm
so glad you've got Caliban and Mir to keep you company.

Susan M
Otis and Chester

Joyce:  It seems to me that if Nikki's ashes are on the island, Marina
may never feel closure until Frank and Nikki are together.  Because
that's how they spent their lives.

I myself am likely to keep my cats' remains for the rest of my life,
but I can say, if Kumani's ashes were buried or scattered somewhere, it
would not be right in my mind for Tyche's ashes to be kept somewhere
else, not even with me.  The sisterz are inseperable in life, and
should remain so in death, physically as well as spiritually.

Marina's opinion may differ.

--Fil

I am toying with the idea of getting the caskets buried alongside their
mother and sibs in my garden.  At the time these 3 died I didn't have anyone
close enough to ask to bury them for me so I had them cremated.

Later, I did, so I have 5 doggie graves here with snowdrops, crocuses and
tiny rose bushes planted on them.
When my mother died suddenly we three kids had an awful dilemma about what
to do with the ashes of her beloved border collie who had passed away about
18 months before.  What would mum have wanted?  Should we scatter them down
amongst the fields and gravel pits where they used to walk every afternoon
to look at wildlife?  Or at least my mum did!   Cassie used to do huge
"outruns" like she was herding sheep if she saw anything herdable.  Is that
a word?  Well, you know what I mean.  It certainly kept her exercised.  We
thought about this as an option but in the end - because the undertaker had
been a friend of my uncle's (her brother) having gone to school together and
then members of the same skiffle band - he just slipped the little wooden
box into my mother's coffin and they were buried together.   I don't know if
it's legal or not here.  Probably not.
My point being that I don't want to leave boxes of ashes that my brothers
don't know what to do with if I die suddenly like my mom did.   I really did
have to take a fresh look at my mortality over the last year and make plans.

Tweed

Awww, I think that's really sweet. It's nice when you can share that
with someone.

Joyce