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Ahhhhhhhhhh July 4th weekend…….  life is good.  Spent most of the day yesterday between this house and the new house schlupping all of our camping crap back over here so that we can get packed. I KNOW something will be forgotten, and I’m prepared for the disappointment. When you go camping, it’s a given that you will inevitably forget something. Last year, camping with the Rich’s…. I.. um…. forgot the hamburger for the burgers AND forgot the oil for the fries. So I walked around the campground with a $20 bill in my pocket, just crossing my fingers that some prepared camper had brought extra oil… afterall… you can’t go camping and not make homemade french fries with your burgers.  Ended up paying the campground host the said 20 for her last remaining 2 cups of oil, and then proceeded to watch the old hag laugh on the way to the bank.. They weren’t very nice hosts anyway..  So we are leaving today… thru Sunday….  Camping is one of those things that I didn’t get to do at ALL as a kid, as I grew up right by a campground. I mean,,, why go camping when you pretty much live in a campground. My dad was a campground foreman for 20 years for the southern California Edison company and ran a very nice campground in the central Sierras. Yep,,, that was me and my little sister… the two toe-heads, cruising around on our banana seats taking candy from the hosts……   Everybody loved the Rosander girls ;c)  Anyways,,, back to my original thought,,, heading up the mountain with the Rich Family. Except this year, we are in the same site. Years past, we’ve always been a couple sites away from each other and the walking through others’ campsites has gotten old, so this year we are in the same lakefront site. And then…  our friend Naomi and her family are already up there at a different campground, but they’ve extended their stay and will be moving camp to be right across from us for tonight. Our other friend, Rebecca… lol….. (who has never camped before you see) will be near us as well for tonight and tomorrow night I think. She’s petrified…  says she’s going to need therapy after this weekend. Her idea of camping is camping her ass on a chaise lounge, poolside, with someone rubbing her feet.  Boy is she in for it!!  Typically we only go for two nights. And on that third day we always say,, “Okay, next year we’re booking it for three!!” and so we did this time. Camping is so much work though. Good thing, because you sleep like crap, so to be exhausted gives you that one little bit of push to just pass out.. Excited!!!

Got our house rented!!!  Boy has this been a disaster….  we had it rented to a friend of ours, who wasn’t able to afford the rent, so he found some friends (a married couple with three kids) to move in with him and cover half the rent. We were totally fine with the situation, until we discovered that the couple had been late on their rent EIGHT TIMES IN THE LAST 12 MONTHS….  no bueno..  So we had to disappoint our friend. I should’ve known better than to even think of renting to a friend…. stuff like this always turns sour,, then the friendship is in jeopardy…. ;c(  …  sucks…  he’s mad… I know he is… but we need to take care of our assets. I put it on Craigslist at about 3pm last Sunday, and had it rented by 5 pm. Craigslist is a wonderful thing…  found a nice family relocating here from Alabama. Little do they know, but they have just committed to moving into the one  house in Oregon with the best view…..  Lucky them ;c)  Nice family, and they are landlords themselves down in Alabama, maybe they can teach us a thing or two. ;c)

Pictured is Rusty…… perched atop our fish tank. He likes it up there…  it’s HIS spot. Sometimes I like to leave the hood open so that he can sit his cute butt right on the glass and watch the fish swim under him. Oh how I love my Rusty… He’s still pooping in the cat box… and that makes me sick. He’s starting to get the swing of the cat door,,, but he can’t figure out how to get back in. Which reminds me,…. we’ve still gotta figure out how the cats are going to get in n’ out at the new house…  Not looking forward to relocating my cats. They get all wigged out..    

Happy 4th of July my friends!!!  I’m off to the store to get the things that I’m sure I’ll forget…

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