Love your friend @parus and your secret garden! Here's one of my friends - Oreo keeps me company while working on the computer, watching TV and lets me know when her food dish is empty. Keep searching for some happy thoughts. Here's a video by Dr. Amit Sood that hopefully will put a smile on your face - it's from http://stressfree.org. There are more short videos you may want to watch on his site but this one always brings a smile to my face.

okay a feline that reminds me of a chessboard. Thanks for the youtube thing even though I for so long heard that tune the melody turns me sour...can appreciate the humor though from my perspective as that guy in the tall hats...this type of thing rather falls into the oldie "Don't Worry Be Hapjohn
py".

Not a personal slam-now back to the chessboard feline...no one I know has ever played chess and Skipbo is the rage or UNO both of which bore me to a rage. I will stay w/ nature and my friends that require little more than a hospitable habitat and some drinks of water when needed...I do very much my Rottweilers...gentle giants and so good w/ my now adult children.

holding the fort w/ grand dogs whilst son and family are on mini vacation. nice to know I can still be of use at times.

chronic pain has caused treatment resistant depression to be waaay too much on the dark side...at least I am aware of such...thanks @johnbishop