A Girl Named Katie

The neighbors behind us are the paternal parents/grandparents to the neighbors to the front of us. Katie, the youngest child was in Aundrea's class and the two played together when ever possible when not in school. This was before the children were all sent to Oklahoma to live with the maternal grandparents, because the family thought the house was sold and they would be moving soon. Ok so not so soon as they thought but it is now sold and they will be moving.
..........which is a very long way around to explaining why Aundrea asked me "why did Katie's family have to sell their house?" They didn't have to but Katie's mom told me that they were selling because they could get enough out of it to pay cash for a home in Oklahoma and live with no house payments and Katie's dad can work anywhere. Her family is there and the Paternal family will follow them where ever.
.......Now Katie had a very different story. She said that they had to go to Oklahoma because her grandpa had a hernia and couldn't lift much so they needed to help him. By now we know that Katie tells quite good tales. In fact the child only resorts to the truth as a last resort. At one time she said that they couldn't move cause the landlord was very mean and wouldn't let the other people have the house. One of her other famous stories was that a boy at school had stuck a long needle (hypodermic type) into Aundrea's backpack. He was trying to stick it into Aundrea but she moved. I asked Katie's mom if she had heard this and she said no but if Katie said it, ignore it. Perhaps these stories are why Katie is often confined to her room and cannot play with the other children?
........On another thought altogether, I wonder why people don't put down roots like they used to. When we moved to this house, almost everyone had been here for years. We have been here now, more years than I can count. Well I can count them but don't care to. Our roots here must go all the way to the center of the earth. Or at least our children will think so when we are gone and they have to dispose of our stuff. I am attempting to lighten the load somewhat but there will be plenty for them to do.
............It does seem to me that people don't stay like they used to. Or have we gone back to the days when the west was being settled and people were moving west in covered wagons? Our wagons are now moving vans and the trip is shorter in time anyway. In our circle of friends we seem to be the minority. Most of them have moved several times. Mostly for work or military service. Still I wonder if we missed out or are the winners? If you base it on the sheer volume of STUFF, we win I am sure. Of course we are the minority when it comes to staying married too and I am not sure if that is presistance or stupidity or laziness.

September 8, 2006

.....Just to update anyone interested... it is now Friday night and Aundrea has yet to go back to school. She has however been to the dr x2 and will go again tomorrow. She is sick! Well now she is actually better. She should be because she has had about $250 worth of medicine in that tiny little (NOT SO MUCH THESE DAYS) body. Somehow her state ins lapsed and they can't seem to get it going again so it was fortutitous for her that she got ill before I paid any bills. Now I will pay fewer bills. Oh well......... the important thing is that she get over this. She seemed better today.. I think the meds are finally kicking in.
......Callie, the new mamma... got out!! This NOT a good thing. Roy was outside doing what ever he was doing and he looked up and she was sitting on the truck watching him. She didn't fight him when he went to bring her in. Her wee one turns out is a he... had icky stuff on his rear parts and smelled bad so since she wouldn't take care of him I bathed him and THEN she bathed him. She is not a good mama. Since we have had them, I have seen her maybe 2x actually nurse him. SHe is also terrible skinny and we are trying to fatten her up but she is a picky thing. She must have been treated like royality at her previous place.
......We took Frankie in on Wed and she got spade (Iam sure that isn't spelled that way but can't figure out how) and a micro chip and went to live with Robin and Elaine. She is such a sweetie that I am sure she will gte away with murder. Next week they will get Bandida. Hmmm I wonder what color Christopher's cat is? Both of these are white or nearly so and both dogs are white...... Do I see a similarity here??
.....Well I am off to bed... as Aundrea is home with her mom, maybe I can sleep past 8 am tomorrow.

September 4, 2006

........I know it has been a long time since I posted but I thought I had done it since Aug.1! Oh well that will just make this one longer to catch up. Last weekend we went over to Tacoma to help move Robin into a new place with new room mates. It is a really nice house and has a big backyard for the doggie kids to play in. Of course in the process of bringing in the truck (can you say rent a monster truck?) some one, who ever was driving which time, ran over the sprinkler's for the neighbors house. He was very nice about it sort of....he just said something about please keep your truck out of my yard. Off to a good start with the neighbors already. But the other neighbor tells us that he is really easy to get along with so maybe if they replace the sprinklers or what ever it was... Anyway we took Albertson's chicken and potatoe salad and bread and lemonade and every one was better after a rest and some dinner. I don't know if the 3rd room mate has moved in or not.
.......For some reason school started on Aug 31 this year... seems dumb to me but it was supposed to be for "more teaching days". Seems if they had a few less early out days they would have plenty of teaching days. So on Thursday they went til 1:30... and Friday Aundrea didn't go at all cause she has the crud. It started out with the bug everyone at dance has had and went into the darn nasty cough that just makes us crazy. Her mom got her on some steroids and breathing treatments so we hope she will be back on her feet tomorrow for the great return.
......Dance starts this week. On Wed she will have ballet and jazz and on Mondays she will have performance and competition jazz. At least it is only 2 days a week. Tho on Wed she dances at 4:30 to 5:30 and then again at 6:30. So I guess dinner on Wed will be what ever we take with us.
.......Friday we took our kittens out to get vacinated and weighed. 3 were big enough to stay but we brought Frankie home cause Robin is adopting her and one other and the shelter said there was too much chance of her being mixed up and give away so to keep her and bring her in on Wed to have surgery on Thursday. So while we were there, we got another mom with one little one to bring home. The mom is named Callie.... how not origional... our Calico was called Callie many many years ago. But she is really sweet even if she does try to push out all the screens so she can get out. We have to really watch the doors. Her baby is 4 or 5 weeks old so as soon as mom gets some of the milk dried up she will go back. The new baby just jumped into the middle of the pack. Frankie, who Robin is adopting is pure white and deaf. That is the 3rd or 4th one we have had at the shelter over the summer that was white and deaf. The other one she is taking is siamese and looks like she is wearing a mask..... I call her bandida but Robin calls her Smeezie or some such.
.......Last Friday after we took the cats to the shelter and back home we went to get our prescriptions and a few groceries and came home and I put dinner in the oven. The phone rang immediately and it was Joyce saying get over here, I baked you a birthday cake and you need to be here at 6 for dinner. So I took dinner out of the oven and put it in the refrigerator and we went over. She had invited Terry and Barb and Barb's mom Norma and Lynn and Jessica. And Marcel who is living with Mike and Joyce. . Michael grilled steak and ribs and it was delicious. It was a fun evening. Barb's mom is a nut. I just love her.
........Saturday was Roy's mom;s 88th birthday. There was a gathering at Estella's for her. Gene's daughter Kim flew in from Denver for it and Merle's daughter Michelle was there with her 2 youngest ones. Her daughter takes ballet and jazz at Just for Kicks in PO. I told her to bring her down to the Dance Gallery so she could try out for the dance team. We will see. but it would be fun. Lora's grandaughter Cheyenne was there with out her mommy. Her mommy Laura, was at the rodeo.... I wore Aundrea's pink cowboy hat and Cheyenne got ahold of it and it is now hers. I guess I will have to get A another one. She just had a ball with it. Anyway it was anice day and a couple of Grandma's old friends were there too.
.......Sunday I was at PetSmart and got there to find no paper work and no bags ... I called the shelter and they said that Chelsea was coming down. OK... so 1 1/2 hrs later I called and Jason said he would have her call me. So another hour and I called and said never mind I am bringing the cats back and closing. So here comes a volunteer on her way to lunch bringing me more cats. I said fine just leave them and I will take them back with the others cause I have no paperwork and couldn't do an adoption is I wanted to. So she left and came right back and stuck a cell phone in my face and said George wants to talk to you. Who the hell is George?? So I talked to him and he said to stay there and he will bring me the paperwork. I said no, i am bringing everyone back. I have no paper work and by the time you get here I will be cleaning up anyway and I also have a sick cat. So Roy was there and we cleaned up and took every one back and I gave the sick cat to Josh to look over and I asked him who was George. He said he is from animal control and is manager when Judy is not there. Oh well so I probably ticked off someone in charge and the volunteer is probably on the board or something. OH WELL, that is the way it goes. So now I have to write a email to Melissa so when they accost her on Tuesday she will know what went on.
Til next time................................