Bernie is still chugging along, more or less. We thought we was going on Sunday but, he's still here, sleeping comfortably and is still enjoying our wood stove but, he's climbing stair slower and has big trouble jumping on the bed. The biggest worry is that he won't eat unless you hold a spoonful of food under his nose, then he chows down. He's also taken to going behind the couch at least once a day. I think that's where we'll find him if he goes on his own.

In the meantime, we're spoiling him as much as we can and hanging out with him even more than usual. He's taken to sitting on a chair near the woodstove (on my 20˚F sleeping bag, too). He's never sat on that chair before but, it faces my studio and he watches me work while he lounges. Every now and then he'll jump down, walk to the door (never in) and meow until I sit with him for a while. Got a stack of comics near the chair for just that purpose.

We're monitoring and I'm not expecting him to live to Xmas. Just keeping him as happy as possible until the end.

The other update is, that with Bernie staying so close, I've actually been drawing! Two more pages of William (posting tonight) and another four-page comic commission in the works.

I've also been sketching an idea for an anthro superhero in a non-anthro world. I did an inktober of a caped bear lounging among Notre Dame's gargoyles and the title: L'ours Supérieur: Guardian of Paris came out. Hmmmm....

Anyway, thanks for reading!

Hope all of you are well and enjoyed Friends, Food and Family.