BIG Announcement!!!!

Joey and I are both at the keyboard today because we have a BIG announcement.

Joey: Actually, it's a HUGE announcement!

Scout:  I'm not sure if it's HUGE, but it is pretty BIG!

Joey:  So, what do you think it is?  Did Mama find a job?

Scout:  LOL, No, but it's bigger than that.

Joey:  Is Mama pregnant?

Scout: LOL, No, thank goodness!  I wouldn't want a baby crawling all over me.

Joey:  A baby would probably drop a lot of food.

Scout:  That's true, but a baby drools worse than you.  It would steal all your toys. I think we would be told "No!" a lot if a baby lived here.

Joey:  That is true.  A baby sounds like trouble. Good thing it's not a baby.   Is it a new greyhound?

Scout:  No, we definitely don't need another greyhound.  You are more than enough for me to handle, Joey.

Joey:  I don't know, I think another greyhound might be fun.

Scout:  ::::sigh::::  Trust me, Joey, another dog would not be good. Can you imagine how cramped the Jeep would be?

Joey:  Okay, so should we tell them?

Scout:  Okay, ready?

Joey and Scout:  WE ARE GOING TO BE TRAVELING AROUND THE COUNTRY IN THE RV!!!

Joey:  Yep, Daddy got a new job and it involves traveling 99% of the time, so they are allowing us to come along and live in the RV.

Scout:  The longest we will stay in any location is three months. 

Joey: We plan on doing a lot of sightseeing on weekends.  We will visit a lot of state parks and maybe national parks.  There will be lots of things to explore around the RV parks, I'm sure.

Scout:  The worst thing, we think, is that we will come home for the winter months and Daddy will have to keep traveling without us.  He may only come home once a month, so that's going to be hard.  We don't want to be driving the RV on nasty winter roads and the RV is not really equipped to be warm in bitter temperatures, so that's why we have to come home.  Daddy said we may need to save money over the winter months because living this type of lifestyle is not going to be cheap (gas prices, pad rent, etc.)  If we happen to luck out and get a warm location for the winter, we may not come home. I wouldn't mind living in a warm location for the winter.  Mama and I are dreaming of a sandy beach instead of snow.

Joey:  Daddy put us on a pretty strict budget.

Scout:  Yep, Mama needs to order bully sticks before we leave because I don't think they are in the new budget.  Plus, it's hard getting mail when you don't have an address.  We can use the RV park's address, but it sounds like a lot of trouble.

Joey: We leave on March 24th!  That's in just three weeks!

Scout:  Joey has his surgery on March 13th and the vet said he will be ready for travel on the 24th.  Mama wishes we had another week for Joey's recovery, but we don't have a choice.

Joey: Mama has been busy getting things ready to go.  She canceled our cable and trash service.  She has been doing a lot of shopping.  This week, she will take the car in for some work. The RV goes in for repairs today.  It's a good thing she is not working because she wouldn't have time for it.  LOL   She is hoping to find a job that can be done on the road, but if not, it will be okay.  She may try to make a little money with a new blog while we are traveling.  We will just have to see what happens.

Scout:  There is a lot to do when you are leaving home for 9 months, but so far, everything has gone smoothly. Daddy's dream is to retire and travel in the RV, so this is almost as good.  We just can't choose our locations, but we still have a steady income, so he is VERY happy.

Joey: We will take all of you along on our journey, of course!  Our blog was getting a little boring, so this will give us new content.  LOL   Mama says our lives will never be the same once we begin our journey.  It's so exciting!!!!

Joey and Scout
The Greyhounds Who Are Preparing For A BIG HUGE Adventure!

Paper Shredding - Part 2

Watching Mama shred all those papers got me wanting to try some of my own shredding.  Last night, Daddy was reading the paper and I ran up to it and tore out the middle.  I know, pretty funny, right?  LOL

Daddy said "NO!", but then he started laughing so hard that I don't think it was really a NO.  Mama about fell off the couch laughing at me.

Mama tried to re-create the incident and I was more than happy to help her with that, but Daddy (the fun police) said it was not a good idea.  So, we took these photos instead.  I look a little vicious in this one.  I'm chewing a bully stick while Mama looks through the damaged paper.

Here's another one, but you really can't see the paper.

It doesn't sound like we are going to the park today.  Mama and Daddy are busy with doing chores around the house and it's a little chilly today anyway.

Joey,
The Greyhound Who Knows How To Have A Good Time

Paper Shredding

I've been very busy helping Mama this week.  What have we been doing? We've been shredding papers.  I don't mean just a few papers.  I mean we shredded a year's worth of credit card applications and other papers that Mama said she didn't want to get in the wrong hands. You really don't realize how much of that stuff comes in until you stack it up and shred it.   After we shredded all the old mail, we moved onto an old filing cabinet that had things dating back 25 years.  Apparently, Mama used to be quite organized with her paperwork.  Her shredder broke a year ago and chaos set in.  The filing cabinet now has recent paperwork and the old, unneeded items are shredded.  We worked on this shredding/office cleaning for three days.  I bet when you saw the blog title for today you thought that I had been shredding paper on my own.  LOL  Nope, I just watched it all happen and then barked at the vacuum when it had to pick up the stray shreds of paper.  It really was exhausting.

Joey,
The Greyhound Who Is Mama's Little Helper

It's Leap Day!

I'm not really sure what Leap Day is, but I'm not going to worry about it.  I have sunshine on my shoulder and life is good.

Joey,
The Greyhound Who Is Very Content

Ourdoor Toys?

Yesterday, I decided to take my large hedgehog outside for some sun.  As I was laying there, I thought that it would be fun to toss him around in the yard.  Mama told me that I was getting him all dirty.  She asked if I wanted my outdoor toys.  I didn't know I had outdoor toys.   I was only here a week before I was put on restrictions, so I don't think I ever had a chance to play with them. Mama brought out the toys.  One ball has a rope attached to it.  She thought I would like it best, but I'm not really sure what to do with it.  She put the rope in my mouth and I just dropped it.  Scout came out to investigate and she put the rope in Scout's mouth and she dropped it.  Mama laughed at us.  I like the blue ball better.  I'm still trying to figure out how to play with it, but I like it.

The green fence you see in the picture is just the fence that keeps me out of the main yard.  It's not the fence that is holding me in the yard.   It will probably come down or be expanded after my surgery. 

Our weather is supposed to be good all week, so I plan on spending as much time as possible outside.

Joey,
The Greyhound Who Has Outdoor Toys