Well I have some sad news to report. The reason you haven't seen me post anything lately is because my grandpa got really sick and he passed away in January. I am still so sad. But his ashes are in grandma's living room and sometimes I sing to him when I am there. Grandpa loved to hear me sing. Here's a picture of me singing happy birthday to my grandpa on his 86th birthday, September 16, 2012.

Been BUSY!

Wow, it's been a while. I have been SO busy though buying new trailers and rebuilding old ones. Ted, my teardrop, is almost done. We started him in November of 2011 and worked on him all winter and all year so far. We actually got to sleep in him last weekend. In the garage, without a door (on Ted, not the garage). Glad we were in the garage with its doors closed because the coyotes came around and sang for us three times. I was very glad mom got the jumbo LL Bean sleeping bags so I could snuggle all the way to the bottom when the coyotes came!

Mom has redeemed herself

Thank you whoever you are who let Mom know I expected more double cheeseburgers in lieu of me missing the trip Up North last weekend. Mom went to the International Auto Show in Grand Rapids yesterday and she came home with one. And I didn't even have to whine about it before she left me in Delton with Grandpa and Grandma.  BIG SMILE!

And to top it all off...

They went to the Blue Tractor for dinner. And Mom got their pulled pork quesadilla. I LOVE pulled pork quesadillas! And well okay, when Mom got home on Sunday, she had stopped at McDonalds and brought me home a double cheeseburger.  Note I said double cheeseburger - that's TWO pieces of cheese. She didn't cheap out and get the McDouble with only ONE piece of cheese (I LOVE CHEESE).

But that is not nearly enough. I still have my McDonald's charge cards that my good camping buddy Marlee (and Uncle Dom) sent me. And I am thinking Mom better be planning on stopping TONIGHT, Friday, Jan. 27, and bring me home something good. Maybe even two something goods!

I missed the cool cabin decor store too???

Not cool. Not cool at all. I am the decorator in this family. Nothing gets done here without my say so and approval.  NOTHING. But they stopped at the cool cabin decor store in Traverse City without me anyway. And, saw Lake Michigan which is really pretty with all the snow and blue water.

More fun, and more importantly, FOOD, that I missed

So Mom, Emily and Jeremie headed first to East Jordan where they got to tour Timeless Travel Vintage Camper Restorations. Hey Mom, did you forget that I LOVE VINTAGE TRAILERS??? Mom said it was really really cool and they got to see 25 vintage trailers, restored, being restored, or waiting to be restored. Me? I got to see nothing!

After the tour, they headed to Elk Rapids and ate at Pearl's a New Orleans cuisine restaurant. They'd never been but it will be a new must do place when heading up north from now on. Sigh... I guess I will never know how good it is, but it sure looks like fun and I am sure that I love New Orleans cuisine!

Really Mom? Really?

So my Mom went up north again with my cousins Emily and Jeremie. She said I could not go because they were staying in a motel that didn't allow "pets". PETS?  Is that what I am now? A "PET"? I think not. Then she tried to make me feel better by saying I wouldn't like to go anyway. SNORT. I guess I was supposed to feel better that she took a picture of the giant trout fountain in Kalkaska and the army tank in Mancelona. Not buying it Mom and it's gonna take way more than a McDonald's double-cheese burger to make it up to me!