THE CAT HOUSE

 Oh what a difference a few miles make.  It's a chilly 41 degrees this morning back in Central California.  What's for breakfast?  Why macaroni salad of course.  In a few days, after I've lost the three pounds I gained, I'm going to try and replicate it.

For those not familiar with an It's-It ... this is it!  They can usually be found in those ice cream bar freezers in mostly Mexican food stores, at least around here that is.  I'm sure gas stations have them also.

And THIS is what it looks like after you drop it on the floor and Cooper steps on it.  It's okay, it was still in the package.  There's an oatmeal/cinnamon soft cooky on each side, filled with pumpkin ice cream and covered in sweet chocolate.  OH MY GOSH!  I was in HEAVEN!!  I'm buying up every one of these I can find.

No Mr. Cooper ... you don't get any of this stuff.  Okay, I gave him one tiny fingernail full of ice cream.  He loved it.

While I put things away getting ready to move out, Jonathan slept.  I was surprised he did so good this trip.  He climbed the cage, flapped his wings and ate pretty well.  Not much in the noise department this time however.  That's probably a good thing since I never announce him as a PET on my reservation.  

Time to unhook the rig, an easy proposition compared to this guy.  Maybe Jim can explain.  I know they have small tanks, but WOW ... he's got electrical, water and sewer all hooked up, cable TV, along with a spray hose (no idea what that's for), two big tables behind his rig, one of which holds a gigantic barbecue, and two LARGE chairs.  Oh and two spotlight stands which remained on the entire time.  This all for a small camper on the back of his truck.

All I had to do was unhook one electrical cord.  Oh ... and I remembered to turn the propane OFF!  YAY!

The drive home was not nerve wracking in the least since I was going in the right direction.  If you ever go to the coast, always drive home on Saturday when everyone else is driving TO the coast.  Traffic wasn't bad, but I kept it at 60 mph.

I stopped in at the quilt shop, but I'll relate that tomorrow.  I'm usually not good at stopping.  Once I get going, I just want to get home.  Oh the things you can miss.  In the old days, I used to stop in at Wolfsen's Meat and Sausage quite often.  It's in a tiny town on the backroads of rural California and close to the National Cemetery.  They have at least 40 different kinds of sausage they make right there.  The Bingo guys LOVE their jerky, so I stopped in to pick some up.

This place also has packaged meat ... some of the best I've ever had.  I imagine it's not cheap nowadays, but there's nothing better.  This is their awesome tri-tip sandwich and it is amazing.  Thin slices of delicious barbecued meat, smothered in onions, green peppers and the best barbecue sauce around.  I could only eat half it's so huge, and less than Habit Burger.

Finally home, I unpacked a few things and headed to the back door where I stopped in my tracks.  No pictures because you would throw up.  There on my back door mat was the remains of three lizards ... count them, THREE, who had been chewed up, swallowed, and then thrown up.  Will she ever learn?  This happens WAY too often.  Maybe I need to feed Kitters more.

I unloaded more stuff, making enough noise that the neighbor brought over the box I had delivered.  Okay folks ... here it is ... the VERY expensive CAT HOUSE.  There are NO directions on how to put this thing together, only one small picture.  And SMALL would be the operative word here.  It's almost too small for Kitters.  I admit however, it's actually VERY well made.  

I moved in a bigger table because I know she won't stay on the ground.  I stuffed her in it, which lasted two seconds.  Let's try a bit of food ... and I stuffed her in there again.  I know she ate those six morsels in two seconds, but she stayed inside for well over an hour.  That was a BIG surprise.  Apparently the heater, though it doesn't put out a lot of heat, was quite nice.  She was back inside late last night ... maybe they put catnip in the seams!!  

Today I'll stabilize it a little more and put something underneath to hold the heat in.  It seems to be Kitty approved.

Today I'll go through the fabric and finish packing the rig.  Why PACK THE RIG?  Because I ran out of important things like toilet paper, hair spray, soap, paper towels ... and the extra clothes I thought were still in there had disappeared, along with my finest paper plates.  

That's when I found the LIST of things I needed to replenish after my LAST trip.  And so I'm off to Wally World early this morning.