We arrived inward Hemet, California, yesterday. It was most a 3-hour drive from Blythe, too uneventful land it lasted. Sadie rode all the way inward her footling quilted nest.
This beingness the showtime twenty-four hours of the month, at that topographic point was a rather long line of other RVers checking inward for the calendar month of March. It's our showtime fourth dimension staying at this common equally "monthlies." Prior to this, we've felt similar youngsters mingling alongside one-time people because they, later all, were retired. We were soundless immature people alongside jobs (at to the lowest degree 1 of us had a job) too responsibilities. (Does beingness a mom to cats count?)
So anyway...we acquire here, too everyone seems downright ancient. Only, it all of a abrupt dawns on us that nosotros agree correct in. Now, how did that happen? As I mentioned, at that topographic point are activities...most of the "low impact" type. Also a duet of sewing groups. They receive got names that aren't rattling descriptive, too hence I receive got to figure out precisely what goes on at that topographic point earlier I'll know if I desire to participate. And, man...I never persuasion I'd acquire hence old. Next fourth dimension I write, I powerfulness live a shuffleboard shark. From what I understand, that's variety of how it happens. You depository fiscal establishment check into an RV common equally a "monthly" too the adjacent matter you lot know, you've got 1 human foot inward the grave too roughly other on a slippery shuffleboard surface.
Also, I mentioned that I had roughly other things to tell most Hemet. Mainly, I just wanted to tell that my paternal grandparents were "snowbirds" earlier anyone started calling it that. They lived inward Nampa, Idaho, too they were doing it earlier big fancy RV's existed. They did their snowbirding inward a footling slide inward truck camper...smaller than the 1 nosotros sold because nosotros persuasion it was besides small. Originally, they wintered over inward Yuma, Arizona. When my nation of war machine household unit of measurement moved to Oceanside, California, for the duration of my dad's career, they started wintering over correct hither inward Hemet. And they genuinely were shuffleboard sharks. So, fifty-fifty though nosotros didn't programme it that way, it soundless feels equally if we're continuing a household unit of measurement tradition to live snowbirding to Hemet. Hopefully, we'll alive long lives similar they did, too we'll live able to render hither for many winters to come.
My justice is that you're wondering where the "dumb too dumber" fits into all this. Well, here's what happened. We acquire backed in, leveled out, too unhitched, too and hence nosotros noticed there's a footling truthful cat tethered to a storage shed a duet of spaces over from us. In betwixt are vacant spaces. And this footling truthful cat is in all likelihood a woman someone because she's a calico, too she appears to live inward that phase betwixt kitten too fully grown. She's rattling friendly too vocal. So nosotros pet her, too we're thoroughly smitten alongside her. As nosotros walk away, I wonder most someone who leaves their truthful cat tethered exterior too unattended. I'd worry most her slipping out of her harness or beingness attacked past times roughly other animal. Oh well...not genuinely my problem, right?
So then, I think it's a practiced persuasion to acquire Smitty out of the RV. As a showtime trip out, I don't hold off he'll remain out long because at that topographic point are cars, too people walking dogs, too mostly to a greater extent than action than he's accustomed to. And the other truthful cat is soundless outside, but I tell myself nosotros won't walk past times the boundary to our space. They tin sack glare at 1 roughly other from a distance, right? So that was the dumb operate of this story.
When nosotros acquire outside, they create glare at 1 another, too Smitty starts trembling, which isn't odd for him when he's inward a foreign place. Only then, the yowling starts up, too I realize I necessitate to acquire him dorsum within the trailer. I'm worried most him slipping his ain harness too attacking this piteous footling truthful cat across the way. So, I create the dumber matter which is to achieve downwardly to selection him up, too man...he chip my left mitt alongside an astonishing viciousness. And wow. That hurt...it really hurt! Fortunately, Mike was correct there, too nosotros managed to acquire
So nosotros got it wiped off too covered upward too headed off to an urgent help clinic. There, they took a human face at my mitt too unopen the seize alongside teeth marks alongside steri-strips. Also, I've started a circular of antibiotics. If you've ever seen what happens to an untreated brute bite, too hence you lot know antibiotics are an absolute must. The seize alongside teeth was deep, too hence at that topographic point was lots of bacteria deposited within the flesh. Fortunately both Smitty too I are upward to appointment on our vaccines, too hence I didn't necessitate a tetanus shot. I was just glad it was Smitty who chip me too non the other cat. At to the lowest degree I know Smitty is healthy. This morning time my mitt is sore, but it's non looking whatever worse than it did yesterday. Hopefully, the antibiotics volition ward off whatever infection too we'll all live equally practiced equally novel inward brusque order.
Wanna catch what a bad truthful cat looks like? That's right, Buster. Hang your caput inward shame. We'll just start calling you lot "Fang" from immediately on.
Purlease convey my apurrologies for my furocious behavior. I purromise it won't occur again. It must receive got been the total Luna that caused me to acquire tempurrarily insane.
And the matter of it is, I create think he's sad most what happened. He's e'er a snuggle bug, but concluding night, he got nether the covers alongside me too was unusually affectionate...laying his paw on my cheek too nuzzling me alongside his nose. It's difficult to live mad at him, too honestly, he did just what I should receive got expected him to do. And since the truthful cat adjacent door seems to live hither permanently, I justice that agency Mr. Smithers (aka the Incredible Hulk Cat) won't live going out over again until nosotros caput for dwelling line solid inward April.
Today we'll live getting caught upward on life for our remain hither inward southern California. We'll live getting groceries too running a few other errands. As always, there's enough of laundry. We powerfulness receive got a leak inward 1 of our propane tanks, too hence nosotros necessitate to acquire that taken help of correct away. We already receive got a few meet-ups scheduled alongside roughly friends from high school. Mike too I both graduated from Vista High School, just a duet of hours southward of here, too hence nosotros receive got many friends inward the area.
You powerfulness shout back that nosotros were losing weight on the Cooking Light Diet earlier nosotros left home. We haven't been keeping upward alongside it during our travels, too both of us receive got gained dorsum a footling of the weight nosotros lost...not bad, however. It could receive got been much worse. But all of that to tell that political party fourth dimension is over, too we're equally determined equally ever to acquire to our respective weight loss goals. With that inward mind, our grocery shopping today volition live alongside the diet inward mind, too I've spent roughly fourth dimension on the reckoner this morning time working out our carte du jour on the website. If you're novel to this blog, I'll just tell that we've had rattling practiced luck alongside the diet. It's cheap to bring together at $33 for 6 months (I think), too the website is slow to use. Anyway... I'm non genuinely shilling for the Cooking Light Diet, but it does work.
Also inward the adjacent few days, I just must acquire roughly sewing done. I joined inward a cloth postcard exchange, too the deadline to post service our cloth postcards to our swap partner is March 16th. I receive got everything I necessitate to brand mine, too I know precisely what I'm going to create (which is one-half the battle, inward my mind). When nosotros signed upward alongside our information, nosotros were also to render a 1 give-and-take prompt for our partner to exercise inward designing our postcard. My ain partner gave the prompt "Irish," which is an slow one...thank you. As for me, anyone help to justice what my 1 give-and-take prompt was? You'll never justice inward a hundred 1 one 1000 thousand years.
Yesterday morning time I traced out the adjacent block for the Snow Globes quilt. I'm on Block v now: "Holly Jolly." And if you're similar me, you're immediately infected alongside an ear worm. My apologies.
It's hooped upward too develop to go.
And immediately seems similar a cracking fourth dimension to acquire started on it.