10/24/2025 – A Bedtime Story as told by Quint

Want to hear a story? This is my bedtime story and surprise! It features beds in it. I just love bedtime stories about beds, don’t you?

Once, a long time ago, my usual blanket fort was disrupted and I was forced to improvise a different blanket fort. It wasn’t very cozy.

It wasn’t very warm. It wasn’t snuggly. I wasn’t a big fan of it. It was . . . disruptive.

Sometimes, not often, in my disruptive “blanket fort,” I’d pop my head out, look around and say to myself, “Really? Is this what I’ve come to? Even my favorite fleecy blanket isn’t happy! There’s got to be something better.”

And then, one day, it was. And I said, “Whaaaat?” Earlier in the day, some people came in for the briefest of brief moments, and there was crinkly plastic sounds (one of my favorite sounds next to my food bowl opening) and then it was just my dad fussing around with sheets and blankets. And there was my favorite fort blanket, draped just the way I like it.

I knew there had to be something better. First I was disrupted, then I nearly gave up hope (I think my fleecy blanket did give up hope), and then, almost suddenly, there was a bed where there once wasn’t. Almost like magic! Except the part about the other people and the plastic crinkly sounds, it was magical.

Don’t let other people tell you us orange boys don’t have many brain cells to share. Some of us are pretty smart and never give up hope that good things, like a real bed and a favorite fleecy blanket waiting for fort building, are there on the horizon. I knew it all along! The end.

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A Colehaus Cats flashback:

2024 – No post
2023 – No post
2022 – MultiCat Monday
2021 – No post
2020 – No post
2019 – No post
2018 – Wordless Wednesday
2017 – No post
2016 – ManCat Monday with Quint
2015 – No post
2014 – Patrol Sergeant Zuzu
2013 – No post
2012 – Quint’s Paw and Paint. The Weekend Project.