Jiggity, Jig.....

Saturday early morning......Ohio.....

Sun just peeking over the horizon....

And all the way up.....very bright...

Mohawk River/Erie Canal

Not my best side....but....helping to drive

Early Sunday morning....

Daddy getting us ready to move....

the green, green grass of home....Grammie Grace always told Mommy that there was no other green as beautiful as Vermont green.....

Coming into Middlebury! I knew where we were and I began to get excited.

Going over Lewis Creek on our new bridge

Mommy and Daddy's bank

Daffodils in our backyard

Good Morning Family and Friends, wherever you are,

I'm so sorry I worried any of you by not blogging. The internet in the campground in NY was sooooooo slow it wouldn't download pictures, so Mommy got frustrated and turned it of off on me. I have a hard time getting the top up by myself, you know, and need her help to do that so I couldn't turn it back on. But we're home and we're fine and I am one happy dog. No LEASH! I do try to be good with the leash when we are traveling, but oh, I really don't like it. It just takes away my freedom, and here at home I can go out and come in and go out and come in and wander all around the house and chase leaves, or birds, or watch the turkeys and deer, and it's just so much nicer.

Well, anyhow, let's see what Saturday brought. The New York Thruway....not the best of roads and they charge you sixty bucks to go across it. Unreal. We felt sorry for all of the people who had homes backed right up to the thruway.....we are so lucky to live where we do.

We noticed on this whole trip that there were not as many campers as we had seen on our travels the past two years. Some of the folks that Mommy talked to told her that they were not traveling far, or that they weren't coming to camp as often. Prices have gone up, not only for gas and diesel, but also for campgrounds. The most expensive one we were at was $54.00. And when you're there for one or two nights....just traveling through and not using any of the fun stuff they have there for kids, seems like a lot. And we weren't getting anything more than we got last year, or the year before, so to have to pay $54 for less than a $20 night doesn't make a lot of sense. Mommy and Daddy guess they'll stay closer to home and hit the state parks now until things settle down some....if indeed they will.....we can only hope. Even the state parks are charging.....$17.00 a night for the one we go to over Memorial Day weekend.

So....we stayed just outside of Buffalo Saturday night and Daddy decided not to unhook the camper so we could just get up and go the next morning. That was OK....'cept we were on a bit of an incline, and everything sloped down to the back of the camper.....made cooking interesting....pan kept sliding off the burner, and Daddy had to keep catching it. Would have been nice had he missed....just once.....and that good smelling chicken had fallen on the floor where I could have leaped to the rescue and cleaned it alllllllllll up!!! Ahhhh, dreams......speaking of which, Mommy took me out for a walk when we first got there. I don't like to be around all the noises of setting the camper up.....freaks me out.....so we always go for a walk, and didn't I find the BEST of smells??? Ohmydog, it was wonndddeeerrrrffffuuuuullllll....so I rolled in it.....and I got it all over my neck and head before Mommy could haul me off of whatever it was and oh, it felt so good. I can't repeat what Mommy said, or what she called me, but I think it might border on dog abuse......

Well, as you might guess, I had to have a spit bath. Mommy had to do it because stuff like that makes Daddy gag.....that's really funny, isn't it? Daddy can take care of bloody stuff, but Mommy has to do anything that had a bad.....for them.....smell. So once I got my neck and head all washed and dried, I could go into the camper. Then.....it gets better.....Mommy found a friend on my head. I was just giving it a ride....and apparently a little supper......and she made Daddy take it off. Good grief, you'd have thought I had a brown recluse spider on my head. It was just a teeny-weeny tick and Daddy took it off with no problem. Later that night, they found one on my ear, and took that one off, too. So last night, I had to have that stuff put on my back that makes all the little hitchhikers look for someone else to get a ride and a bite. And, ya know what? It worked! This morning Daddy took a shower and had Mommy come look at his head in the back and there she was!! So Mommy had to take that one off Daddy, and now they're all paranoid and keep checkin' me and themselves and washing sheets and all that stuff. Funny. All over a tick. Now Mommy wants Daddy to take me to the vet and have a blood test to make sure I wasn't exposed to any disease. I've had that done before.....no big deal.....and if it makes her happy.......

So here we are, home again, home again, jiggity-jig. Daddy and I are going grocery shopping and banking this morning, and Mommy is doing the wash and putting things away....all with an eye to light surfaces just in case...... It's sunny but it's suppose to rain today and then for the next three days. I don't care. I'm happy. I'm home. And I'm off my leash. Yippee Aye!!!!

I may continue to blog just to let you know what's happening here at home. I like to write stories, ya know. Keeps my mind active.

Hope you all have a wonderful day. I love you all.

Juni