April 8....on the road again.....

Good Evening, friends and relatives, far and near and just down the road,

After a couple of really nice days in Englewood with Cousin Lena May, we're on our way back north. Gramma Peck has taken a turn for the worse, and Mommy and Daddy think we need to go back home to find out exactly what is going on. We left early this morning, and got slowed down a little by an accident, but we're in Tifton, Ga right now, enjoying the wind and the rain and hoping we don't get to see the tornado they say we're going to have somewhere around here!! Mommy and Daddy keep making lists about all the things they don't like about Georgia and Florida.....and all the things they do, too. Wanna hear some??? OK....here goes.

These are the things they don't miss about Georgia:
bumper to bumper traffic
general congestion and noise
bugs that eat your house
kudzu
cookie-cutter houses
red dust on the furniture
fast growing developments in agricultural land
humidity
late rising sun
concrete, concrete, and more concrete
carpenter bees
fire ants
slow moving store clerks
no see ums

Things that they do miss about Georgia:

Peter and Jodi and Katie and Matthew and Alisa
good neighbors, Lee and Paul, Helen and Ralph
friends....Ruthy and Diane and others
early spring
long growing season
late setting sun
82 degrees on April 2
low taxes
respectful yes'mam, no'mam
courteous drivers...for the most part
waffle fries....Chick Fila

Things they don't miss about Florida:

humidity
discourteous drivers
traffic
slow moving clerks
continuous road construction
fire ants
sand sand sand
black dust on furniture....from exhaust.....

Things they do miss about Florida:

warmth
fresh fruit
huge avacados
beach/ocean
flowers/bushes/cactus
palms

And that's all they came up with so far. I just don't like the heat or the fire ants. They bite!! I don't think I'd like to live down here much.....and I'm trying to persuade Mommy and Daddy to stay in Vermont and after Mommy got bitten in two spots on her foot by those ants? I think she's on my side. Nasty critters.......

So. What can I tell you. Uncle Monroe is in an assisted living apartment now. It's very nice and I think he will be happy there. He has to have his blood tested for sugar levels four times a day, and that means sticking a pin in his fingers. I know that hurts, but he's a brave man. Once in awhile he has to have an insulin shot, but Mommy says that doesn't hurt.

I was such a good girl at Aunt Lee's house. She and I and Mommy went for a long walk the first night we were there, and I saw two squirrels and a little bunny rabbit! I almost dragged Mommy across the lawn to play with that bunny, but she was too strong for me. Oh welll........

So....that's the news from me. Hope you are all happy and well....and I'll probably wait until we get home to finish the trip blog. Sometimes they don't have internet in the campgrounds in the south, if you can believe that. Daddy says they're a little slow down here and that's why they lost the war......I don't have an opinion on that......

I'll be back,
Juni