Oinker's entries
	Back | Home | Next

Happy Halloween!! The greatest holiday of the year is almost upon us and I can not wait!

Well, my website has had a busy couple of weeks - i have gotten my very first award!! It is the Special website award from Building a Web page Awards! It is displayed proudly on my homepage - along with an adorable winged piggy animation made and donated by Patty Neeley! I have also made some new garlands in time for Halloween!

I know that I am quite late at writing this, but we had such a busy weekend that I did not have a chance to get to it any sooner! Friday night we had a rather chilly and exng campout that involved some wild animals getting into some of the tents (not mine, luckily). Other than everyone leaping out of their tents at 4 am to see what all the yelling was about and getting frozen while we tried to chase off the animals it was a great camp out that night.

Since this weekend was the anniversary of The-Short-One and Charlie getting married we camped out all weekend in the wet and the cold - and then it turned out to be completely unnecessary as they were not home all weekend! They left early Saturday afternoon 9early for them) and then did not come back until late Sunday evening! Apparently they have made some new friends and the car quit running while they were visiting them, so they went to Charlie's dad's house or some such thing. I don't know, as it does not make much sense to me. Anyway, so by the time they came home Sunday evening we were all damp ad cold and quite irritable as it rained -well, not really RAINED as that would imply real rain, but rather spit continually so that it made everything damp and miserable. Needless to say, we are now done camping for the year. I will not relate to you all of the horrors of this particular campout, but I will say that it was the worst I have ever been on. Excluding the excitement with the animals. There was the hot dog fight at dinner Sunday night (we had had hotdogs for supper Friday and Saturday as well as lunch on Saturday and Sunday and no one could take another hot dog) in which Andy and the few bears which took his side ended up moving all of their tents as far away as they could get them and made a big deal out of lighting a fire and cooking their hot dogs. This was one of the last things that happened, after this we all voted and decided to forget it and go home - which is when we discovered that Charlie and The-Short -One were just getting home! See if we leave them alone next year - ha!

Some of the bears next door came over the other day and threatened the Harrys! It seems that there is a new edition over there - a frog named hopper. Anyway, he came over for a visit and the Harrys attacked him and said they were going to make his legs into French friend frog legs and chased him around with a skillet and flour. He was quite upset about this, and then someone - and I really do not know who - suggested he threaten them where it hurts - their buttons! So he returned with a team and they held the Harrys down and threatened to chop off their buttons if they didn't promise to be good. Since Harrys love their buttons more than anything else in the world, they agreed, though i have little hop that they really will be good, but it was entertaining either way.

The last whisker trimming went very badly. Nermal, the alien intelligence officer, has gone crazy! She used to be quite easy to manage as she would just fop around, but now she has gotten quite mean! Because of this we thought it prudent to lasso her with a rope made from Charlie's bootlaces to keep her form moving - which would have worked if Edgar had not been the one who volunteered to hold the rope. Booy approached with the scissors and the cat was up on her feet and streaking across the room, Edgar dragging behind her, after she had swiped Booy. We finally recovered Edgar from under the bed where he emerged covered in lint and told horrible tales of the dust bunnies that lived there. After they were both bandaged up, my generals refused to help me with the other two cats, so I finally managed to get ruby to assist, though she made jokes the entire time as she is delusional and thinks they are not aliens.

Other than that we are just working on the Halloween party here - i am going as Dumbledore and bubbles is going as Harry Potter - I did mention that we are themed this year didn't I? I think I make an excellent Dumbledore, the purveyor of all wisdom and knowledge in the Harry potter universe - a shame about the end of book 6.

Anyway, I will end this for now as I have some things to do before I go to bed tonight!

Happy Halloween!
O

Me and bubbles in our costumes.

here is our horrible, wet, cold campout.

l>