Dante's first "donut bed"

I stumbled across this photo in my files the other day, and got quite sentimental looking at it with a wry smile. Since I had written an entire post on the "history" of Dante's beds not too long ago, I thought I'd share this one (I don't believe I've ever posted it before) -- a 14 month old Dante snoozing away on his very first "donut bed", which had been, as you can see, patched up many times over and not too far away from its eventual "demise" at the time the photo was taken:

Ah memories ...