ADELE FERGUSON: Christmas trees and cats

I DON’T put a Christmas tree up any more so I didn’t have to worry this year about hearing a cat throw up under it.

I’m also down to only one cat, Pimp (formally, The Scarlet Pimpemel, for her talent in disappearing at the arrival of strangers). When I had lots of cats, I even made it a point when we re-rugged the living room to pick a pattern we thought would be barf proof, both in color and texture. You have to think like that when you have eight cats and two dogs My tree in those days was usually 12 feet wide at the bottom and took a week to decorate. There was so much stuff hanging from it...