The first month of 2022 is coming to a close, so I’m looking back at another January. One not so long ago time-wise, but that now seems like several lifetimes in the past! And it kind of was. I’m talking about January 2020, when nobody realized that in a matter of weeks, the whole world was going to shut down! There I was, ready to go out in the world, headed for more adventures than ever before!
Instead I was stuck at home for the better part of the year, except for occasional visits to pet stores. In fact, I didn’t get to have an overnight trip again until my human took me to her boyfriend’s desert house in December, 2021!
And those pet store visits? If I’d known what was going to happen, I’d have spent more time browsing and visiting while I was shopping. Here is one of the last times I had a normal trip to this particular store for a long time. It’s such a tiny shop that when things were really closed down, only one shopper was allowed inside at a time. Everybody else had to wait in line outside for their turn.
I was convinced I’d get to travel to a climate where I could wear this cute, puffy pink jacket! Except for once on a cold cat show hall morning, it’s been hanging on my clothes rack since this modeling session.
I appeared at two cat shows in January and one in February before they halted altogether for the year. One (the one you see above) came back a couple of weeks ago.
The San Diego cat show still isn’t back yet. It is one of my favorite shows, and 2020 was the last time I went! It’s supposed to be back in 2023, and I am crossing my paws!
Do you have any fond memories of the weeks just before 2020’s lockdown? Let me know in the comments.
Other posts you’ll enjoy:
- Show Kitten Throwback Thursday
- San Diego Cat Show Flashback
- ThrowbackThursday – What Was Sparkle Doing in 2011?
2022 Somali Cat Calendar Starring Summer Samba
See all of Summer’s merch at her her Zazzle Designercat Shop
Yes Summer and I may cry. I’m in a rescue. We’d show our cats at Petco. We had adoption events every two weeks. I also cleaned cages twice a week. (How I met my girls). I played elf to my friend Jim’s Santa. Did it 4 years. Well Petco won’t let us back in and all out fundraisers have been cancelled. That was my life and now it’s gone. I played elf for the last time that Christmas. I’d show you a photo but I cant do that here . Heart broken
Great memories! It’s unimaginable how life has changed since such a short time ago.
The world sure has changed, but you are still adorable. XO
Our mom has missed seeing you and your human at the show here. Maybe next year! And maybe your human can come meet us!
Summer…that jacket is perfect on you!!!!
Summer you look so cute inn yore pink dress an of coarse yore Teeara an necklace.
An yore so rite bout Covid!! It shut THE werld down….an it iss still purrty shut down….
Mee an BellaSita Mum agreed our faverite thing was Aunty Mary-Ellen comin to vissit us an bringin stuff for us!!! Then shee an BellaSita wuud go out an due ree-tail therapee!
***nose rubsss*** BellaDharma
thanks for sharing the great photos. It is certainly very different now almost 2 years later.
That had to be super sad for an on-the-go kitty like you sweet Summer!
It is amazing how very fast things changed. We’re hoping things turn around quicker and that no more variants pop-up to harm folks.
Two years ago this week my son, daughter and son-in-law were in Disneyland. It seems like it was a lifetime ago, though. I barely remember the trip. I miss like before COVID 19, but I know we’ll get some semblence of normalcy back again some day. I don’t know if things will ever be like they were.
Like everyone, you have missed out on a lot. Things will
surely get better and better….
Mom got to go to our human granddaughter’s wedding in New Jersey right before the lockdown.
I wish things were like they were before the evil virus came.
Two years ago today, #1 has her knee replacement surgery, and then everything went pear-shaped. Will we ever return to the world of before? Her knee certainly isn’t back to “normal” whatever that is.
Purrs,
Tama and Benny
Everything was better before COVID19
The thing I did like about the lockdown was that mum was home all the time.
Mum is thinking it would be fun to stay home all the time so she will be doing that in a few months!
Purrs, Julie
If someone had told us what was coming we would never have believed it!Our lives and the world changed completely.