Casper is still around and growing but I don’t think my name preference is going to win out. Pretty much everyone else calls him Dipstick. Obviously I wasn’t going to call him that, though I will say the name has only slightly been growing on me. Besides being mostly white on the rest of his body, his tail is dark brown and I guess looks like the part of the car where you check the oil.

I wanted to get him stocking like the rest of the cats. So when we were in Target the other day, I was hoping to find one with his initial on it to match the others. My daughter initially found one with a C, except it was a rainbow pattern instead of the classic solid knit like the other ones have. And then she found, you would not believe this, one that matched the others but with the letter D.

There were like four stockings that matched and all of them had the letter D. There were no other letters. I figured they’d be picked over but I wasn’t expecting that. I was actually fine getting the C with the rainbow pattern but no one else liked it. So occasionally I have called him Dipstick but neither of his names feel right to me now. If the others want to call him that, that’s fine.