November 9, 2010

Woke up in a strange house today—on the lake! Nice—but different. I don’t know what to do so Mamaw is patient with me…We aren’t in any hurry to get around today cause we’re on vacation. But we do get around finally, and start our day. Dan took them on a BIG ride and they went to the store to get some food. (Don’t worry she brought plenty of treats and food for me. She even brought bottled water in hopes my tummy wouldn’t get upset. But my tummy is a little upset—guess it was the long drive. Mamaw wants me to eat but I’m just gonna fast for a while cause I don’t want to throw up in their house.

Then we got home and Mamaw started raking leaves—they are huge!!! She said she’d get her exercise that way today so she raked and raked and really seemed to enjoy it. Dan and Poppy thought she was CRAZY of course, who would enjoy raking leaves anyhow? She picked em up in a really big thing that had wheels and hauled em over to the place Dan can burn them. She did good. Poppy said, “You’re gonna be on hurtin status tomorrow and you’ll be complainin.” She said, “I promise not to complain.” Poppy and Dan laughed. (I did too but I didn’t want to offend Mamaw so I had to kinda try to hide it.”

Isaiah needed to be brushed so Mamaw took that on too. He looked so handsome the black and white puppy next door sidled up to him. I tried to stay out of their way. She’s got energy to kill I tell ya. She is really enjoyin herself and knows that a week won’t be long enough…that’s another story for another day though.

And then Dan has to shower and go to work. Kim and Jonn won’t be home for a few hours so Poppy wants to take us on a ride. That’s okay—but not a really long one I hope. We saw black squirrels and geese on water everywhere. I tell ya people, Michigan has lots of lakes. Dan says there are four just around him—now that’s a lot of water!

I was tired when we got back but very soon the rest of the family came home. I haven’t seen James yet—he lives in a condo with 4-5 other boys and they go to this school called EPIC. We’re gonna see him just as soon as he looks at his schedule and knows when Mamaw can cook for all of em.

Watched a wonderful movie tonight, “The Day After Tomorrow” and it was GOOD! We didn’t have popcorn though—they put dinner in the oven and they ate in there where they could watch. I begged—got NONE—got scolded and told mine was in our bedroom. Bah-humbug…guess I’ll just continue to fast.

FINALLY at 9:00 p.m. my begging got her attention and off we went. Outside to go potty first though. I got to lie in bed with Mamaw for a while—Poppy vegged out on the couch. I don’t have any idea what time we took me to the kennel. I was hopin since we were on vacation I could just sleep all night with her but…didn’t happen. Good night Jonn.