UPDATES ON KATIE

I think all of us old folks are wearing out.  Allan and I didn't get to bed after midnight, but we didn't get up until 11:25 this morning.  Missed breakfast so we had a big egg brunch/lunch.  We were really tired.  It is afternoon and we would like to take a nap. 

Allan made a strawberry rhubarb pie very late last night.  We were given the strawberries and rhubarb so it was a pretty cheap pie to make, but good so Allan says.  I don't care for Rhubarb, but it is his favorite.

Allan has been busy planning our route home.  We will make a stop in Vermont to visit with some friends.  We will then head for Missouri for the Escapees rally and then to Kansas City for my genealogy rally.  That may be the long way home, but it should be a good trip.  We won't be leaving Maine until after Labor Day.

Katie doesn't have much to look at out our window, but she is happy we are not moving.  We do get a lot of enjoyment watching her.  She sleeps most of the time.  She is a cat.  When she is awake Katie is into everything.  We should have named her Dora the Explorer.  She rules the MH to say the least.  She is my administrative assistant and helps clean off my desk.  If I am missing anything, I can be pretty sure she has brushed it off the desk with her paw.  She helps me with my exercises.  She sits on the back of the passenger side seat.  I put her "play string" on there with her and she uses her paw to knock it down on the floor so I can bend down and pick it up, thus exercise for me.  We play hide and seek games, too.  She scratches on the door when she wants in the next room, which is every time one of us closes an interior door.  You know the saying "curiosity killed the cat".  Cats are suppose to have 9 lives.  She may be getting close.  Katie is our wild child.  At times she runs full blast through the MH and jumps up on the back of the passenger seat.  Occasionally there must be a malfunction in the jumping process as she doesn't make it and falls down.  Katie goes up to the dash and hides behind the curtain in embarrassment.  She has us trained.  When she meows, we know she wants to get in a cabinet.  She likes the high ones.  Some of the cabinets we don't let her in, but we pick her up and let her have a look.  That seems to satisfy the cabinet urge.

From 2012-07-07

From 2012-07-16

October we plan to work at Springville Camp in Springville, Al.   During that time we will be seeing all our doctors as November will be the month that I plan on having my knee replacement done. This should take about a month of recovery that Allan will have to stay close by.