Friday Evening in Darrington

Hello once again, friends......I'm back!! Mommy did a nice job on my blog, for sure, but she doesn't have the sharp sense of humor that I do. So, while she could be informative, she sure wasn't funny. I like my blogs to have a little ZIP to them, ya know? Life is just full of laughter if you know where to look and I'm always lookin'!

So, sorry I haven't been very faithful to my daily doin's......Uncle Charlie is tighter than the bark to a tree and refuses to upgrade to Wyfi or high speed internet and this dial up thing drives me nuts. Takes half an hour to get the computer up, another thirty minutes to connect to the internet, twenty plus ten minutes to get the blog site up and running, and then I can type faster than it shows on the screen so I have to wait every little while to see what I've said. Didn't know I could type, did ya. That was rhetorical......I am one very smart pup.

OK, I have to go back a couple of days, and I'll just have to fill you in on what Mommy and Daddy did on Wednesday. Let's see. They got up, ate breakfast, drove to Port Townsend, saw some nice old Victorian homes on the hill, shopped, got on the ferry to get back to the mainland, got lost, ended up in LaConnor where they shopped some more and had dinner, and then they came back to Uncles Al and Charlie's. They were tired and their tummies hurt.....from laughing, not eating. All they really wanted to do was go to bed. That was OK with me, because I had had a hard day helping the uncles work in the gardens as they readied the place for the big party this weekend. All of Uncle Charlie's family is coming for a reunion, so we've worked really hard while Mommy and Daddy were off playing. I followed the uncles all around and did the heavy lookin' on......not the easiest job in the world, I tell you. One would go one way and the other the other and I had a hard time keeping up some of the time. When that happened, I'd just go down to see the horses, or out to the chicken coop to make sure the girls were OK.....until I was called and then I came back. I was a really good girl. Uncle Al came out Tuesday morning and found me on the couch.....it's a very comfortable couch......much better than the floor.....and he didn't even get mad! He just got an old towel and put it on my spot.....so I slept there the next night....he likes me a lot.....and he's kind of an old mushy guy. Like Uncle Dick and Uncle Gale and Uncle Boband Uncle Butch. For some reason, all my uncles like me......Daddy says it's because I'm a black girl, whatever that means. But Daddy loves me wicked, so he should know!!

Yesterday we had to work some more. Poor Mommy had to help Uncle Al clean the house. She did the toilets and washed the floors on her hands and knees and did all the wash and made the beds and vacuumed and..........well, she did do some of that stuff. Uncle Al did all of the cooking and Daddy finished the roof over the porch and put on the front shutters and me? I just walked around making sure they were all doing what they were supposed to be doing. I have a future in supervision, I'm sure.

Today Mommy and Daddy moved their things back into the camper so that Uncle Charlie's mom could have her room when she came for the party. She's so cute! Mommy says she's a little old white haired pygmy like Grammie Grace......

After lunch, I went down to the river for a swim. It was/is so hot here.....100 degrees! The river is glacial water, but it sure didn't feel so cold today. It was great. I swam and swam and swam and wouldn't have gotten out but Mommy said I was getting tired. She promised to let me go back tomorrow, so that's OK. She took pictures....but I'm not putting them on this poor excuse for a computer connection......maybe later when we all go to town and can use Uncle Robert's wyfy.....wify....the fast stuff.

So that catches you up to date on what's happening here. Air conditioning for us tonight. WooHoo!! The couch in the camper isn't as good as Uncle Al's but it'll do.

Off to the party! Talk to you all later. Miss you and love you bunches....licks to all. Juni