Ahoy, Matey!

It's Talk Like A Pirate Day!

Joey,
The Greyhound Who Doesn't Know How To Talk Like A Pirate, But He Sure Looks Cute Dressed Like One.

Almost Wordless Wednesday - 9/18/2013

Joey,
The Greyhound Who Has It All; A Nice Bed, A Soft Stuffy And A Bully Stick

Stuffy Update

All the stuffies except for one survived their trip in the washing machine/dryer.  The monkey came out without a voice.  Mama opened him back up and removed his bad squeakers and put new ones in him.  He is fine now!

Thanks, Mama for fixing my toys!

I love the ducks and hedgehogs the most!

Buddy is now officially licensed.  His license plate arrived on Saturday.  Do you know what it says?  It says "MOPED".  Mama laughed because that rude salesman told her a moped had to have pedals. Well, Big D (that is the name on his business card), in Texas mopeds do not have to have pedals and we have proof.  BOL! 

Saturday, the folks bought a new helmet for Mama.  She thinks she looks like a cartoon character.  She says she looks like the martian that was on the Flintstones.  She's silly. She is not green.  BOL!  The helmet is a half helmet and has ear flaps that zip off on hot days.  It also has a visor.  It was more money than Mama wanted to spend, but it is comfy and Dad said that was very important.

Mama took Buddy to town today!  Yep, she did it!  She drove to the Family Dollar store, but once she got there, she decided to keep going.  She rode on some side streets and then decided to head into traffic.  She stopped at a stoplight and then cruised on down the hill towards our place.  She was doing 25 in a 30 and people started passing her. She said she was fine with that.  She would rather have them pass her than have them ride her butt.  Her first trip is out of the way and she is happy.

Joey,
The Greyhound Who Is Happy That His Toys Survived The Washing Machine

A Surprise On Our Walk This Morning

The weather has turned quite cool here.  :-)  It was so cool that Miss Scout decided she would join us on our second walk of the day.  I am glad she went because otherwise she would have missed what we encountered.

"What the heck?"

Do you see it?  Probably not.  We only had our cell phone with us.

It was two foxes chasing each other  They probably did at least five loops running all around.  We were pretty excited.  We have been pretty bummed about the lack of wildlife here.  There is like one squirrel, a lot of geese, a few ducks and the fake swans.  Yes folks, those swans are FAKE!  We noticed that they always stayed in the same spot and then we saw birds sitting on them.  BOL!

We laid in the sun after we returned from our walk.

Last night, Mama took the toys we had in storage out for us to check over. 

We found that many of them needed repairs.  Since we have some toys that we don't play with, Mama decided to take their squeakers and fix the toys we like.

The squeaker donors.  Since the pig has 16 squeakers, we were able to save the other donors for later.

The squeaker recipients.  They were cut open, new squeakers were put in and then they were stitched back up.

Then the worst possible thing happened to them.

Yep, they took a spin in the washing machine. They are still in there.  GULP!

Joey,
The Greyhound Who Hopes His Toys Survive Their Trip In The Washing Machine

I Fit!

I Fit!  BOL!

We are having a beautiful day here except it is windy. They said tomorrow is supposed to be windy. They said nothing about wind today.  We hope they are wrong because if this isn't windy, we need to put some more weight in the motor home.  BOL! We are creaking like crazy today.  You should hear all the noises that this place is making.   It is definitely a day that awnings should not be used.

Mama walked to town this morning.  She went to an antique shop, a store with homemade items and the dollar store. The dollar store isn't really a dollar, it is $1.09 plus tax.  Mama bought a few things today.  The main reason she walked to town was so that she could eat at Riccardi's Red Hots and Soda Fountain again.  The folks ate there on Sunday and Mama fell in love with the place.  Dad has that rule were they don't repeat restaurants, so Mama will go on her own from now own.  BOL!  However, they have broken that rule here already. There is an all you can eat Chinese buffet and they have eaten there twice so far.

Inside Riccardi's Red Hots and Soda Fountain

Egg and Bacon Burger with fries and fried pickle spear

Today, Mama had the egg and bacon burger with fries and just one fried pickle spear as she didn't want a full order. She said it was good, but so messy with the egg.  She said she plans on becoming a regular customer.  The next time she hopes to ride Buddy there.  Yep, the license plate left Texas today and she hopes it will be here on Saturday.

Joey,
The Greyhound Who Has All Legs On His Bed Today