The little kids wanted to go camping, so we loaded up Friday and went up to the camper. We had 3 kids and 3 dogs in the truck with us lol. Before we even gone 2 miles, Sadie decided the back seat was to crowded for her and she climbed over onto my lap. Gizmo then went to the back seat. Then Sadie decided she wasn't comfortable, she climbed up me and got behind my head and laid across my shoulders. Crazy girl, she isn't as big as Pete but she is no lap dog.
Then we stopped at a stand to get sweet corn. Before we could stop her Sadie was out of the truck. While we were trying to persuade her back in, Gizmo jumped out. He and Sadie ran around hiking on everything (yes she is a girl and yes she hikes, don't know I have ever seen a female who hikes, of course she begs also and on her hind legs, how many Coon Hounds have you seen do that?). So once their bladders were empty they got back in the truck and we were back on the road. Once again Sadie took up residence on my shoulders. We got there (we had the camper parked at a friend's lake), fixed supper and we all crashed
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I got up about midnight to tinkle. Gizmo went with me, as usual. he walked into the bathroom but then walked back out. This should have been a clue for me. I was just about to sit and noticed a black rope in the tub. Uh no, it was a snake in the tub climbing up the shower wall. I started yelling snake and ran out slamming the door. Ava Beth and Rylan both sat straight up and Bill came in to see what was going on. He went into the bathroom (like I would lie about a snake in the bathroom in the middle of the night). He shut the door and stuffed rugs along the door so the snake wouldn't get out, and we tried to figure out what to do. I suggested his extra long BBQ tongs. He got them and went back into the bathroom, by now the snake had crawled around the bathroom and was on the wall above the stool. He got it with the tongs and took it down to the creek to release. Back to bed, just fell asleep and Rylan came in the bedroom scared and got in bed with us, then Ava Beth did. You know those camper beds are not normal size beds, right? Well the 4 of us and Gizmo slept in ours the rest of the night.
Saturday afternoon, Bill's sister, Lori, came up for a quick visit before heading back to LA Sunday. We were visiting in the camper and Ava Beth wanted to fill the ice trays in the freezer (I have the old fashioned metal kind like most of us had as kids since I decorated it in a late 50s early 60s style). Well she opened the door and said Bubbah (that is the name my oldest grandson gave me, so all the others followed suit) what is that?! I looked, um, go get Papa. It was a huge mouse nest, almost all of a roll of toilet paper (which explained why the roll I hung when we left, was empty when we arrived). With a mama and 3 babies in it. Bill managed to scoop it all up and took it out by a wood pile to let them go. I pulled the ice tray out of the freezer to wash and cracked up to find Mama Mouse had stored 1 in the shell peanut in each section of the tray. lol
Shortly after that a neighbor stopped by to let us know Sadie had killed one of his chickens. He was very nice about it, we all felt bad, so that will be Sadie's last trip up to the camper. When Lori went back to the folks she brought Sadie home.
We had an uneventful trip home, thankfully. What a weekend.
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