HOW TO STAY WARM

By Susie-Q

Hi Blog readers, Susie-Q here, still living with the Happy Campers.  I dodged the bullet again this week as Uncle Neil cancelled his trip to Laughlin in January, when Rex was going to have Uncle Neil remove my front claws.  Guess I better be using the scratching post a little more often when I stretch after my cat naps.

I’ve turned into a “House Cat”, I just just don’t enjoy the great outdoors. Rex calls me a Scaredy Cat, and even leaves the screen door open on purpose to entice me outdoors.  I sit on the step just to see what he’s doing outside, but don’t cross the threshold.  He’s forced me outside a few times, but I just slip my collar and run inside the camper and hide from him.

Now that the winter weather has closed in I’ve found a couple of warm places to hang out.  During the day it’s in front of the window with the sun shinning in.

In the evening I stretch out in front of the gas space heater.

 

 

The Happy Campers are gradually switching me off of kitten food and on to adult food as I weigh 7.5 pounds at 7 months old.  I can just barely squeeze under the bathroom door when it’s closed.

Enjoy the upcoming Holidays !!!

Wood Cutting

......This weekends project was cutting up the wood from four oak trees we had cut down.  They were diseased and threatened to fall on us.  We had an all-star cast of experienced woodcutters........



....Jake manned the chainsaw.....




.......Renee on the splitter ............



....Hannah and  Mom carried and stacked, highly technical and demanding work.....



.....Hannah and Renee had their dogs there, Sam looks so much like a deer that we keep him in blaze orange during the deer-hunting season.......
      (Hannah too!!)



....Jake's dog Woody gets crazy around the chainsaw and has to stay in the truck.  It is amazing to me that he simply does as he is told in spite of the fact that he obviously wants to get out of the truck..............



....Thank God the chain gets dull every now and then.  We can take a break.....


....here Jake shows Renee the fine art of hand-sharpening a chain.........

....The assembled crew at rest, not much resting today...........



....Jake cuts the last log...........


....Renee splits the log she used all day for a chair.  YAHOO!!.............




.....Jake's share of the booty.............



....our share of the booty.  I hope our Dad was watching us.  We used to have so much fun cutting wood with him 35 years ago.  He always said,  "it warms you twice".
                            Here's to you, OD......




I hope everyone had a Great Thanksgiving!
Uncle Hans

Crane Chicago Style

I was going through the pictures of Chicago and I found I forgot one set of pictures I intended for a blog.  They had blocked off a street and moved in a huge mobile crane.  I have never seen one so large, yet still on a truck.  They were using it to lift a large air-conditioning unit (built by Carrier) off a semi-truck and onto the top of a building about 40 stories tall.  I will just let the pictures tell the story..........
















.....this is what the crane truck looked like.


....this is a shot of our hotel, the Chicago Stock Exchange Building, taken up through the "El" track...........



....our window was one of those on the top floor....................


......we will be going back to Chicago....for sure!!...........

Uncle Hans

jenga Chicago Style

There is an old kid's game called Jenga Blocks.  The object is to remove blocks from a tower of blocks without crashing the tower.................









.....................We found it in giant or adult form at the neighborhood bar, "Streeter's", in Chicago.  Here Renee is learning about the rules.............





.....The tower looks pretty shaky.  In this game, $100 changes hands when the tower crashes.  It weird what people call fun.  We are in the middle of one of the entertainments capitals of the world.  That $100 would buy a great deal of fun in a great number of crazy activities within blocks of there.  Yet these guys choose to play a child’s game in a little tavern....................




....we are going to send the idea to a couple of local bar owners to see if they like it.......





....I leave you with this sunrise over Lake Michigan in Chicago.  It is out our hotel window.  I collect sunrises. 




I am working on a blog about a remodeling project  we have going now involving ripping out a wall. 

Stay tuned.............

Uncle Hans

RUFF !!! RUFF !!! RUFF!!!

RUFF !!!  RUFF !!!  RUFF !!!

THAT'S DOGGIE TALK FOR :

HOY !!!  HOY !!!  HOY !!!
AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY BAILY !!!

PAULIE, REMEMBER WHEN SHE LOOKED LIKE THIS?