The first ‘party’ of the year is around Valentine’s Day, which puts birth on Tax Day. The next ‘party’ is at the end of May, which puts birth at the end of July.

Emancipation Day is the date the slaves were freed in DC by the Federal government paying for their freedom. It is a DC only event, and it does affect the city as there are parades and such.

my first batch were probably born right around the same time as your tax cats, but since i didn’t discover their existence until a few weeks later, and didn’t entice them into my house until a few more weeks after that, i mostly think of them, and the subsequent batch, all as the great cat explosion of summer 2007.

He is a grand old man, who really belongs in a leather wingback chair in front of a fireplace with a brandy and cigar on a small table beside it, as he grumbles.