Shake, Rattle, and Roll

Mary-Denise Smith, who blogs at www.crumbsonthetable.com, shared these photos of Joey.

She writes:

Joey is almost 17 years old, we think, and has lived all his life in Green Ridge House - a senior living apartment house in Greenbelt, MD.

Two years ago, just as the shut downs were slamming everything shut, Joey’s human died, and Joey was sent to the Greenbelt animal shelter. 

I found out about him from our wonderful house manager, rushed over in the very last hour before they closed, and brought Joey home with me.

It took him quite a while to get over the shock and confusion of events, and to living with a new human. But he rose to the occasion like the gentleman he is, and is now a champion lap cat.

Here he is doing something new - messing with seed packets! He had so much fun making them rattle and skip around, I was sorry/not sorry to pick them up!

In the photo below, he is peering out from under the bedsheets on laundry day.

According to Wikipedia: 
"Shake, Rattle and Roll" is a twelve bar blues-form song, written in 1954 by Jesse Stone (usually credited as Charles F. Calhoun, his songwriting name). The original recording by Big Joe Turner is ranked number 127 on the Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. 

   Bill Haley & His Comets covered it in 1955.