Almost Wordless Wednesday 12/12/12

Wake me when it warms up.

A Life Lesson

Yesterday, I had a life lesson. I thought at the age of five that I knew it all, but I was wrong.  Are you ready for my life lesson?

Not everything is soft like a stuffie.  

A very soft stuffie.

A vacuum is very hard, not soft.

It hurts to bite a vacuum.   I hate that vacuum and yesterday I had enough.  Mama was using it and I bit it hard.  OUCH!  I thought I broke my teeth.  Mama checked and said I was okay, but I was stunned.  I just laid down and thought about the lesson I learned.

 It has been really warm here until this week.  We were at 80 on Sunday and then our high yesterday was in the 50's. It was near freezing last night.  We know that is not that cold, but our motor home is very drafty. The good thing is that we will be using our air conditioners by the end of the week.

We either need to go further south or buy a better insulated motor home.

It is really nice when the sun is out because it warms up our motor home fast.

Scout liked the sun for a little while, but then got hot.  She prefers cold weather.

The flowers are still very pretty.

Isn't this cute?  Santa is in the tent and the reindeer are roasting marshmallows.  At night, the fire lights up.

Last night, our Emeals was a Mexican pizza.  Mama loved it!  It made a pretty big mess in the kitchen though.  She fried the tortillas, so that took a skillet. She browned the ground beef in the electric skillet.  She added refried beans to the ground beef.  She then layered each tortilla with ground beef and beans, salsa, black olives, green onions, tomatoes and cheese.  She stacked two of those on each other and baked for about ten minutes.  Mmmmm!!!!

Mexican Pizza

Mama has a new review on her restaurant blog. It is on Little Pappasito's Cantina.

Rumor has it that we will have a package delivered today full of bully sticks and other chew things!

Joey,
The Greyhound Who Has Learned That You Are Never Too Old To Learn Life Lessons

Mama Made A Mess!

Last night, Mama and Dad didn't go out to dinner.  Mama looked over her Emeals menu and decided to make a meal that she knew would take a while to prepare and would also make the biggest mess.  She decided she would rather do it last night than some other night.  I don't know why.  That is just what she said.  Mama always says that fixing spaghetti makes a lot of dishes.  You need a pot to boil the spaghetti, a skillet to fry the hamburger and a strainer to drain the spaghetti.  The meal last night added even more dishes because the spaghetti was placed in a casserole dish and baked.

Are you ready to see what our little kitchen looked like after Mama fixed the meal?

Yep, this is a messy kitchen.  You don't see the electric skillet that was used. It is next to the stove.  It has to sit on the side because the stove top was used to boil the spaghetti.  The skillet normally sits on top of the cook top.

Here is it all cleaned up.

This is what caused the mess.  It is Layered Baked Spaghetti.  It has spaghetti, ground beef, sauce, green peppers, onions, cream cheese, parmesan cheese and a can of french fried onions.

Here we are watching the mess being made.  Yes, our house is a mess.  Mama says it is hard for it not to look messy even when it is clean.  We only have so much space for things.

 

Me thinking "If I made a mess like that, I would be in trouble!"

Dad really liked the casserole.  Mama didn't care that much for it.  She is not a huge fan of cream cheese.  She likes it in cheese cake though.

We hung up our Christmas lights.  Mama chose snowflakes. They are blue and white.  It is hard to see in this picture, but it really lights up our motor home.  We can see it all the way from the dog run.  BOL!

We need lights for our tree now.

I Did A Funny!

As you probably remember, the walking area for us here is not very good. We have the dog runs, but we have to get to them.  There is very little grass for us to sniff along the way.  Well, I came up with a solution for that.  Yesterday, I just peed in the street drain.  Mama said "JOEY!"   I just looked at Mama and gave her the biggest smile.  We both laughed then.  She told Dad about it and he said "It's no big deal.  It all goes to the same place anyway, right Joey?"  Yep, Dad and I have a connection.

BOL!

Joey,
The Greyhound Who Is Pretty Funny

Tigers?

There is a man here who loves Louisiana State University.  How do we know? Well, he has LSU license plates and he has this:

Tiger on dash of motor home.

 The first time we saw the tiger, we did a double take.  Mama told us it was fake.

This morning, we saw this:

They look like two normal poodles, right?  Wrong!  They have a haircut that says "LSU" on one and "TIGERS" on the other.  Mama wishes she could have gotten a better photo of them.  The letters are not shaved into them, but rather their hair is cut around the letters.  The hair on the letters is longer than the rest of their hair.  Yes, they belong to the same man.  We just saw them leave the park with their motor home, so we will not have another chance to see them up close.  :-(

We have a few more things to show you that we have here.

Outdoor kitchen

Firepit

We have two or three of the outdoor kitchens and firepits.  We are not excited about them because we are not allowed in them.  They are near the forbidden lake.

Last night's Emeals meal was Polynesian Chicken.  This was super easy.  It is all done in the crock pot (slow cooker).  She placed chicken thighs in the crock pot for four hours on low.  She then added crushed pineapple, apricot preserves and soy sauce and that cooked for another hour.  That is all there is to it.  It was good!  Mama fixed buttered noodles as a side as well as a salad.

Paper plates are not flattering, are they?  BOL  This is Polynesian Chicken and Buttered Noodles

Things are looking hopeful on the house selling front.  There was an agent's open house on Tuesday.  We had 20-25 agents who came through.  Twenty of the agents left comments.  We have had three showings since then.  Actually, one showing is taking place as we write this. Two of the showings were interested, but have not made an offer yet.  We really think we will get an offer soon.  There are only two homes for sale in our town in our price range and we are one of them.  Our agent says people are buying again.

Joey,
The Greyhound Who Is Glad Is Hair Is Not Long Enough To Have Things Written On It