We Love Our New House!!!

Friday June 3rd 5am - mom wakes up and takes a whole lot of stuff down three flights of stairs to the truck.  She is gone until 8pm - then she pulls up with the trailer!  Then her and Dad and our grandma Linda load stuff into the trailer until about 10pm.  Then they left us home all alone!  They stayed in the new house in the Lowe's parking lot.  Guess they have a "generator"  (what's that?!!!) and can stay anywhere!  They came back at 6:30 am Saturday and took showers (mom forgot to switch water heater from electric to gas.....oops) then we got locked in the guest room while they had their last garage sale.  They cleaned the entire apartment and took about 20 loads of stuff down the stairs today!  Then mom went and hooked up the new trailer (again) and came and got us and we all left for Mooresville.  Mom backed the trailer in "blind" with some assistance from the campground manager thank goodness.  She said she couldn't see the pad until she was 75% on it cuz she had to back in using just the right mirror!  Me and Panda were kinda impressed, to be honest.

Anyway, we have our new house!  We have sniffed and checked out and crawled in, on, or around every square inch of it and we like it.  And mom is sitting in her bathrobe drinking a glass of wine and talking to all the fabulous, wonderful people at iRV2 who helped her get here and says she has never been happier.  Dad is passed out in a coma in the recliner and told mom he wasn't moving no matter what.  Mom and Dad and grandma have worked really hard and we are all super, super, super happy with our house and life!

A Bomb Went Off In Our House

Panda and Seven:

We don't know WHAT is going on around here, but our house is a mess.  It must have something to do with this "new house, new adventure" thing that has mom bouncing from crazy happy to tears from minute to minute.  It's like the whole house has gone insane.  And I guess we are moving to Mooresville, NC for a "workamping" job before we go to the one in Texas.  What is that all about?

All we know is that the bed is gone, the dining room stuff is gone, there is stuff EVERYWHERE in the house.  And we aren't kidding when we say everywhere.  Our pooh box moved, our food moved.  Even with our little cat feet we are having a hard time making our way through the garage sale maze that is our house.


We've had all kinds of people in and out of the house.  And during the whole garage sale thingy - we get locked in the guest room!  That is so unacceptable.  The worst part of being locked in the guest room is the pigeon that comes and sits outside the window and taunts us.  Oooooh....if we could just figure out how to open the window.

Our New House

Panda and Seven:

It's official - we have a new house and we are moving into it around July 19th.  Meow, meow, meow.  We are doing the happy cat dance.  It's really cool and mom is really happy and we think that we are going to get to see LOTS of new things.

Officially it is a 2011 Rushmore 35CK.

Schulenburg, TX Here We Come

Seven and Panda:

Mom and Dad got a "workamping" job in Schulenburg, TX from July through at least October.  And we think we got our new house!  More on the house later....

So, we will be "out west" in between Houston, San Antonio, and Austin.  I guess there's a lot to see and do out there and Mom says the lady at the campground is really nice.  Schulenburg RV Park

So, we are all ready to get duded up and head to Texas.  Yeeeee haaaaawwwwww.

The Shining

Panda and Seven:

Mom had to go to New Jersey for orientation for her now mortgage company.  She flew into Philadelphia and apparently got stuck on the Walt Whitman bridge in rush hour.  Her rental car was a little tiny Chevy Aveo and the bridge was shaking and rattling and apparently the whole thing was kinda scary.

Anyway....mom finally got to her hotel - The Tuscany House - and went to check in.  We should let you know that the hotel is in Egg Harbor City and is in the middle of nowhere!  Nothing for about 5 miles in either direction.  It is part of a winery called the Renault Winery.  So, when mom went to check in the person at the front desk told our mom that there was only her and one other guest staying at the hotel so they were going to close the hotel down at 10pm.  They told her she wouldn't be able to leave her room after 10pm because she would set off the alarms.  Mom said that was fine then went to go unpack and have dinner.

She went and sat at the bar to have dinner and in conversation with the bartender told him about the "shutting down the hotel" plan.  He said that wasn't unusual for the hotel.  But THEN - he said "you know you are in the Pine Barrens, right?  You HAVE heard of the Jersey devil, right?" 

Well, our mom said that was information that she really didn't need at that moment.  Of COURSE she knows about the Jersey Devil - she is a horror movie fanatic!!!  So, mom finished dinner and went up to her room - the entire hotel was dark - no lights in the hallways, no other humans to be seen.  So she locked up her door and then went to close the curtains to the room.  Upon going to the window she discovered that her hotel room faced out the back of the hotel (of course) and looked out on nothing but woods.  So now mom was thinking about the fact that she is in this huge hotel in the middle of absolutely nowhere, completely alone.  No idea who the other guest is or if there even IS another guest in the hotel.  And she is where the Jersey Devil originated and it is dark as a bear's butt outside.  So she started thinking about some drooling, slobbering, long-fanged devil creature lurking at the edge of the woods and just waiting for her to turn out the lights!

Needless to say, mom didn't fall asleep for quite a while and didn't sleep very well at all.  The next morning when she went to leave she STILL didn't see a single person - nobody - anywhere.  Very weird.  She said she was expecting an ax through the door and a "here's Johnny" at any moment!!  She also said "if that hotel would have had a maze I would have been out of there."

We don't really know a whole lot about this, so we may have to check out this movie called The Shining to see what she is talking about.  We are glad we were at home under the bed where it is safe.

But now we wonder - are there other areas of the country where scary creatures live and mom is going to take us there in the house on wheels?  We won't feel safe then!!  Will we see the Mothman, Bigfoot, the Jersey Devil, UFO's?????  Wow - this adds a whole new dimension to the "traveling cats" idea. 

We are kind of disturbed, we might need therapy.

Jezebel

Seven and Panda:

Well, mom has the first part of the RV thing taken care of.  We thought we were getting a motorhome but mom said this way is easier to finance right now.  We don't know what finance means, but we take her word for it.  Apparently someone in the chat room thingy said that the truck was too big to have a "girlie" name but that trucks, like ships, are girls.  So...someone named Kramer came up with "Jezebel."  We like it.  Now mom is fifth-wheel shopping every night.  We try to peek over her shoulder but so far haven't been able to get much intel on this fifth-wheel thing.  We will report back.  Oh, we did hear that the fifth-wheel will be named Josephine, so we will be traveling in Jezebel and Josephine.  We kinda like it!

Rest In Peace Shania (est 1/1/1998 - 3/5/2011)

Shania was peacefully put out of her pain at 8:30 am today.  She had a recurring bronchial issue and had a hard time breathing.  Last night we discovered a lump on the side of her neck the size of an egg that was not there the day before.  For the first day in her life she did not run to the kitchen demanding food this morning - she never came out from under the bed.

Rest in peace Shania - and say hi to Boobookitty for me.

Sherri.

A Sad Day

Seven and Panda:

Our sister, Shania, is not doing very well.   She keeps getting sick and mom said today that she was going to have her put to sleep.  Even we know this means we won't see our sister again.  She will be in heaven with Boobookitty, though.  Mom is really sad - she hasn't taken her to the vet yet but we think it will be in the next couple of days.  Our household is all very sad today.