I arrived a few minutes late at the airport when I drove to the next town to pick him up. Or, a happier way to put it, I arrived on schedule, but his plane arrived ten minutes early!
The boys were pleased to see my brother, as was I, because the place is neatly picked up and vacuumed (don’t check for dust…!) even though I didn’t finish the job until literally the last minute before I had to leave to pick up my brother.
We’ve lived in filth and squalor lately because I figured I should wait till the last minute to clean up before my family arrived rather than clean up when the place needed it, then have to do it again at the last minute. I don’t know, but I think next time I’ll clean twice instead of live in filth and squalor again!
Even I have a limit, I discovered. I had to empty my vacuum canister four times, there was so much crud on the floor. This is not that big a place! And I forgot yesterday was trash day. I barely got the trash out the door, but the sack with the week’s accumulation of “cat litter” — well, clumped urine and poop — didn’t get out in time. Not what you want to live with a second week. Andy and Dougy are cute, but there are some downsides to them, too.
As cats will do, they made sure the scent-marked him by wrapping their tails around him as they nonchalantly walked past him. At least Dougy did. Andy was more discrete about it.
My brother and I sat down, being old guys with bad knees and sore feet. I’d brought out a new toy the cat brothers both really, really, really like. Andy oftentimes is a bit fussy about toys, so anything he really, really, really likes counts as a major home run! Have you seen the price of cat toys?
I hate buying something both Andy and Dougy won’t play with. Andy, anyway. Dougy is a play slut: He’ll play any time, any toy! Especially if its his favorite human uncle, my big brother! Both boys enjoyed their play session with my brother and the new toy.
After all that last-minute cleaning, I hadn’t managed to bring in anything easy to make, so I was happy I had some frozen sloppy joes in the freezer. My brother and I had that for supper, and topped it off later with some mixed nuts.
Time to finish this update and get on with the icky chores for today!
We managed to stay up till a bit after 9 PM, though we both managed to nod off from time to time doing it. Yeah, we had to watch all the Andy and Dougy videos I made since the last time he was here, then we watched something on television.
The cats got me up at the usual time this morning, after two, before three. I caught up on my e-mails, videos, blogs, and Facebook since my brother wisely stayed in bed. Of course the cats know I’m the one who feeds them, so my brother gets to sleep in! 🙂
Today, I have to apply flea-tick-whatever stuff on the boys, clean their water fountain and put in a new filter, and — still — give Andy his medicine. He’s been begging me for attention, but I’ve ignored him on the thought he might be ready to be caught when I complete this update. Or not. Andy is no idiot, unfortunately, and he can run faster than I can!
This is a historical document that you would like to live again, Doug .
In friendship
Michel
Yes, my brother’s visits always were big events for the kitty boys and me! Andy and Dougy love, love, loved Dick. Me, too. Dick was a fine fellow, lots of fun.
Have a grand time with your brother. The cats will love having two humans playing with them.
That’s a post from some time back. We had a great time because my brother is lots of fun! The kitty brothers think he is wonderful and my brother plays well with kitties.
Oh, crikey, I hadn’t noticed it was not a new post.
Unless you noticed the number of the post was in the 400’s and that the last one before it is in the 1000’s, it would be easy to do!
Ha! I’m not as observant as I think, eh?
Many people missed it, so don’t feel special. LOL!
Whoo-hoo! Have fun with bro! The boys are cute as always. Save me a sloppy joe! woof!
Actually, there was just enough left over for one sloppy joe. If only I had known…! We like ours spicey, so it might not have been suitable for a doggy.
Say hello to your brother for me – if both Andy and Dougie approve of him in the house – he’s a friend of mine!!
Today’s the 1st anniversary since I signed onto your blog, which means a toast is coming later today! That said, I’ll pass the hello on to him, and make sure the Scotch is neat!
He was a Seabee. One place he was sent was Thailand, where he helped build a landing strip for Air America (wink-wink!). I found the story of that landing strip for him one year when he was here (which helped confirm is suspicions about the nature of the secret airfield), and yesterday we tried to locate it using Google Earth. We think we found the remnants of it and the new commercial airport built around it. That was interesting! Unfortunately, there isn’t a ground level Google view of things, so we had to settle for the best we could from around 450-500 ft up.
Oh, yeah, and we played with the cats till they were good and tired! They were very pleased with that!
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, it’s been a great year and I hope we plan on having many, MANY more!! (Psst -I’m going to wimp-out here tho and put one ice cube in that scotch, keep that to yourself 😉 )
>-I >-I >-I
Tell your brother, it would be great to hear more!
Just a touch of water for us, just enough to awaken it, but I’m looking forward to the occasion!
>-I back at you!
Sounds like a win-win situation; the house clean and spending some time with your brother.
Well, the boys are starting to speak (a little) with me, but I don’t know where they are at the moment. Main thing is, that housecleaning should stand up a bit better now that the boys are in summer haircuts
So happy your brother got there and you got all of the house work you wanted to get down in time.
Dust bunnies run wild trough my apt.
Oh man I bet the boys do contribute to greatly to the litter box.
Ali got her advantage yesterday as she does the 6th of every month and she is still not speaking to me, except when she hears the word nummy.
You, your brother and the boys all have a wonderful Saturday.
I do know how that goes! Until I brought out their new toy, Dougy ran when he saw me, and Andy wouldn’t come into the same room where I was. LOL! We’ll have a great time, as always. Thanks, Ruth!