Today was better than yesterday . . .
Tomorrow will be better than today.
First off, Jan and I want to thank everyone for the outpouring of your kind thoughts and feelings. It was the most comments we’ve ever had for any blog post, and we had comments from many readers who had never commented before. It really means a lot to us, and we thank you.
As many readers said, Mister was a very unique cat. So unique, that even my friend Nick Russell, who says he doesn’t like cats, liked Mister.
And as you can see, Mister liked Nick too.
If Nick came over to our rig to visit, Mister was in his lap. Of course, that may be because Nick’s lap is extra soft and fluffy, but whatever the reason, they were kindred spirits. Nick says he doesn’t like cats, but he liked Mister because Mister thought he was a dog. And that’s probably true.
He would stay outside on his lease, and even walk on a leash. Or he would just follow me with or without a leash. If I was taking the garbage down to the dumpster, he’d follow along, there and back. And if it was one of those ‘picky’ parks that says all pets must be on a lease, he had not problem just dragging his lease behind him.
I’ve never found a set of park rules yet that says the lease must actually be connected to anything.
Wrapping this up before I get too maudlin, at some point in the near future I’ll probably put up a new page of just Mister pics and some of his antics, because he was always getting into something.
And again, our thanks to everyone.
Today was Friday Wal-Mart/Bring Home Lunch Day so I headed into Carthage a little after 11, dropping off the garbage at the pad along the way. It’s really nice to so close to town here, with only a 10 to 15 minute drive. At sites in south Texas it’s been an hour to a two hour drive – one way. Getting groceries was pretty much an all day job.
Besides the usual stuff, one thing on the Wal-Mart list was a new hooded sweatshirt. The zipper had broken on the old one, so a new one was in order.
Two things were nice shopping there today. I didn’t have a problem at the pharmacy with one of my $10 prescriptions like I did last time, and unlike the Wal-Mart in Shreveport last Sunday, they haven’t made the chipped cards mandatory here yet, so I was able to check out in about 10 seconds today, as opposed to 10 minutes last Sunday. Much better.
Coming home I stopped at Chicken Express for fish. Yeah, I know. It sounds funny to me too. But we kind of alternate between their chicken and their fish, because they’re both so good. And today was fish day.
Jan’s started digging out our jackets and cold weather stuff. This is because, along with very pleasant fall days we’re having now (it was 79 and sunny today), we’re having much colder nights, i.e. it’s 50 right now at 1am and still dropping.
At the present time I have raised the DEFCOLD alert level here to the two-heater condition, and am fully ready to escalate things to the three or four heater level, if necessary. I am nothing if not prepared. Though it makes my head itch, I’m even wearing my pull-over knit cap to keep my ears warm.
I’ve found that people around here look at you funny when you try to buy earmuffs.
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Thought for the Day:
“Ideas are more dangerous than guns. We won’t let our enemies have guns; why should we let them have ideas?” – Joseph Stalin
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