Wednesday Morning in Deer Park, Washington

Good Morning, Friends known and yet to know,



Here we are in Washington State!! It's pretty here, but not as awesome as Montana.....at least not yet. We drove to Aunt Tammy and Uncle Glenn's on Sunday. It was a pretty drive and we had to go over a high pass to get here. I think Mommy took some pictures but I'm not sure. Aunt Tammy has a really nice house and I made three new friends there. Cassandra is sixteen, has long, blonde hair and a really funny little attachment on her hand. She keeps looking at it, and hitting it with her thumbs, and smiling. She says her boyfriend, Nathan, is on it and she is talking to him with her thumbs. They really have some silly ideas out west. Everyone knows you can't talk with your thumbs. Anyhow, we humor her 'cause she's a really nice person and Mommy said we had to. She and Daddy needed to use their house for a shower. Then there's Callon who is thirteen and.....well.......an active lad!! He was a lot of fun to play with and he'd throw the ball for me and pet me, and I really like him. We went to their lake.....they live in Loon Lake, WA...and went swimming. Boy, did I ever have a good time!! Daddy would throw sticks and I'd go get them. But the best was when Cassandra and Callan went far out, took their flip-flops off, and threw them back to shore as far as they could get them. It wasn't far enough, so I had to retrieve them, one at a time, and bring them back to Mama. Oh, that was fun and Mom was soo proud of me!! I'm just so darn smart.....AND cute!!



Aunt Tammy has horses at her house, too. I didn't get to see them because they were in a different pasture, but ya know what I did find?? Their POOP!! I loved it!! Mom said it gave me bad breath, but hers isn't the best always, either! I don't tell her to stop eating chocolate just because it makes her tongue brown, so I don't know where she got off telling me not to eat horse turds anymore. They were just delicious!! Tammy's dog Rascal ate them, too. Course, she's ten and a little fat and not as smart as I am, but I figure if she lasted this long on a diet of dog food and horse turds, a little sampling wasn't going to hurt me any. Mom disagreed.......and she has that black thing that bites me when I'm bad, so I quit. Oh well..........



Callan kept Mom occupied by giving her a pedicure and fixing her hair. She loved the pedicure and she says she has Hooker Pink toes now, complete with bling! They do look nice, I have to admit. When he was done with that, he tried to fix her hair but he got the round brush stuck in it and couldn't get it out. It took a lot of pulling and swearing on Mom's part to get it out.....she can say some pretty nasty things,sometimes and Callan really isn't all the things she called him, but she was afraid she'd go bald like Daddy!! She was finally able to get the brush out, so it all ended OK.......and Callan's not allowed near her head anymore.



We stayed there for a couple of nights, and then we came here to Deer Park to Aunt Lela and Uncle Butch's. They don't have horses here, but they have other wonderful things. Fancy is the first thing. She's a four year old Labradore Retriever and she used to be really pretty until Aunt Lela decided to cut her hair. The cutter she bought doesn't work very well and she sorta looks like she used a hack saw on her......so Daddy thought he could help and cut some more. Not the best idea so now Fancy looks like she has this terrible disease where her hair is coming out in clumps. Cutter didn't work for Dad either. You know that old saying about good intentions? Gone awry. Anyhow, Fancy is a lot of fun and we run and chase chipmonks and humming birds and bark at the least little noise and go in and out of the house and eat each other's food and have the most wonderful time!! This morning, Uncle Butch gave me some treats from an open bucket and I thought I'd died and gone to heaven. Wow. So when he turned his back, I just got up on my hind legs a little, and helped myself to more. Mom was in the bathroom and heard me crunching, and caught me. She gave me a lecture and sent me outside......not such a bad punishment.......that's where all the chippies are!!! Woo hoo!!



So, we're having a wonderful time. Daddy gets to rest a little and Mom and Tammy and Lela all get to catch up on gossip. Mom had Tammy in the sixth grade when they all lived in Darrington, WA at the base of the Cascade Mountains. That's where we'll be going next. It's hard to leave all these new friends of mine.......old ones of Mom's.......but they're all gonna come visit is sometime in Vermont. That'll be wonderful.



Hope all is well with everyone. I love you all.......Junie