July, 1962 Central Illinois

I can hear the cicadas buzzing.....

Princess Chuchi

Her Royal Highness has decided to grace us with her esteemed presence for a couple of days.

OH! The excitement is too much!

Here is Chuchi's day:

Lie around on her Chuchi throne while Fred stands guard

See if anything around here is edible

Rest

Stretch to get ready for our morning walk

Rest

OK Let's go

Survey the kingdom

TRY to rest

When the dog's away, Raccoons will play

Fred finally got home.
He is NOT happy.
I am not sure whether it's because we left him. Or whether he did not want to come home.
It seems the other wildlife thinks that our deck is now their playground

Fred is not happy about the mayhem, and does not in any way think it at all funny

Naperville, but no Fred

Dogs are not our whole life, but make our life whole.

Rochester, Mn

My version of Freddy's inner tube

I won't terrify you by inserting the actual leg into the brace.  Just what every woman wants-- added bulk around the legs! Yay!!!! (clap clap)

OK Let have something cool for a change:

Busted out and alive

Thank god I'm outta there....well, I guess you can tell I was flying pretty high last post. This has been quite the trip to hell and (not quite) back.
Never thought the Staybridge Suites would feel like the Ritz, but there ya go.
My poor hub has been quite the stand up guy through this....next time you see him ask him how he feels about projectile vomit. Everything is funny in hindsight, right?
Time for some drugs and some zzzzz's....

This is really a good day

When you are alive and kicking (almost). After getting a brand new ceramic and plastic hip....things are going well...more later!

There was ONE good part to the day

The Gelato store!!

With lemon and chocolate fudge gelato...yum

The whole entire rest of the day?

Finalizing plans for this

tomorrow

Oh boy. 

But here are our cool digs

Wonder if I get an innertube?

Camp Tico

My brother makes everything so fun, that his name and everything he does has been called "Camp Chris" *  for several years now. A trip to the local pee-wee golf can possibly turn into a cross country trip with tickets to a World Series game. You just never know.

So, Freddy gets to spend this week with super duper fun Tico, whom you may remember as the dog with the longest tongue in the world.

Chuchi will probably have to babysit these goofballs (Sigh...why does she have to do everything..aaaaa?)

* "Camp Chris" : possiby originally attributable to Ms. Blogopause

Not gonna sleep on the floor (OR: Does this chair make my butt look big?)

BUT,

JUST CAN'T

SEEM TO

GET COMFORTABLE

Wow! Windy today!

Fred finally got to go to our local dog park

None of his old friends were around though..

But when we got home, look at what the wind did to a tree on our block:

????????

The dog with the longest tongue in the world.

Sure. He looks normal here:

But, take a gander at this!

The kids, and their pups, Tico long tongue, and Chuchi came for dinner ....Fred and Tico wrassled and rolled around to the point of absolute exhaustion

HELPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!

Uncle!

Chuchi as always, finds all this juvenile behavior excruciatingly boring