(Posted by Ray on May 17, 2009.) Here is a picture I dug up from the past of Suzanne, me, and Scooter. I don’t remember exactly when we got Scooter. I know it was before we moved from Orleans Avenue to Magazine Street in November 1992. She was an Abyssinian. We adopted her from Lakeview Veterinary Hospital, where she had taken up residence. She was already old when we adopted her, but very active. Sometime after we moved to Magazine Street, she decided that her spot was the peninsula between our kitchen and breakfast area—the center of activity in our house, where she could monitor everyone else’s doings. Getting her to sit still for this picture was a challenge; of all the exposures on the roll of film, this was the only one where we could get her to look in the camera’s direction, and that took a bit of physical restraint. Most of the other takes looked like the one just below at right.
I’m not 100% sure what year these photos were taken. I found the negatives among several other photos labeled 1993, which is probably close enough. So let’s call it 1993.
Around Christmas 1993, we had been living in our Magazine Street house for one year. I was an associate at Sessions & Fishman LLP, doing general litigation. Suzanne was working for the State of Louisiana determining claimants’ eligibility for Social Security disability benefits. I was still in decent physical shape then; my string of consecutive top-500 Crescent City Classic finishes stood at 11 and counting. I was still driving my 1985 Dodge Colt, my first car with air conditioning.
