National Clean Up Your Room Day

Journalist Rocky the Squirrel here – Keeping his paws on the nuts of the world 

May 10th – the perfect holiday for ALL parents far and near.  If you have kids, you can relate  to this National Clean Up Your Room Day.  The kids may think that everything in their ‘organized’ room is treasure and things they will need tomorrow but we all know that plate, one sock, various toys and Lego’s and clothes are things that need to be cleaned up.  Sometimes the mess is so bad that you can’t walk through the room and stuff is packed under the bed, the dresser and the closet is overflowing.  How do these kids live in this mess?!

To mom and dad’s delights everywhere – today is National Clean Up Your Room.  Get out your shovels and pull the truck up to their window.  It’s time for everyone to clean their rooms.  Especially that Bacon, he’s not perfect either.  I took a picture of that little fellows room before his mom got to it when she got home from work.  WOW – that’s all I can say.  I can just imagine the places I could hide some nuts in that room – chitter chatter.

P.S. my friends.  This day also applies to adults.  Kids make sure you check your parents rooms as well.  Fair play is fair play !

 

National Clean Up Your Room Day

Journalist Rocky the Squirrel here –

Keeping his paws on the nuts of the world –

May 10th – the perfect holiday for ALL parents far and near.  If you have kids, you can relate  to this National Clean Up Your Room Day.  The kids may think that everything in their ‘organized’ room is treasure and things they will need tomorrow but we all know that plate, one sock, various toys and Lego’s and clothes are things that need to be cleaned up.  Sometimes the mess is so bad that you can’t walk through the room and stuff is packed under the bed, the dresser and the closet is overflowing.  How do these kids live in this mess?!

To mom and dad’s delights everywhere – today is National Clean Up Your Room.  Get out your shovels and pull the truck up to their window.  It’s time for everyone to clean their rooms.  Especially that Bacon, he’s not perfect either.  I took a picture of that little fellows room before his mom got to it when she got home from work.  WOW – that’s all I can say.  I can just imagine the places I could hide some nuts in that room – chitter chatter.

P.S. my friends.  This day also applies to adults.  Kids make sure you check your parents rooms as well.  Fair play is fair play !

 

Journey with Friends

Welcome my friends to our weekly issue of Journey with Friends.  This is a time that we come together for support, for encouragement, for fellowship – all with one single goal in mind – to live better.  Welcome to our journey to share our goals and our accomplishments and our disappointments and frustrations.

Together we can do this!

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 Hello my sweet friends!  How was your week last week?  I’m thinking in the past couple of weeks, I need a pat on the back.  Why do you ask?  Let me tell you some facts 🙂  The first week I started, I walked 10.41 miles total.  I was encouraged.  Last week, I only walked 7.95 miles due to my pain levels being really high from my rheumatoid arthritis and my hip bursitis. But although I was in pain, I ate clean.  So eating clean and moving more, drum roll please, I weighed Saturday.  And guess what?  Are you sitting down?  I’m down 16 pounds since we got back from vacation.  Now that to me is amazing.  That weight loss is from 3 weeks and it’s a high number but I usually start off that way and then narrow down every week.  I’m *beyond* excited.  Tomorrow I go for my yearly insurance biometrics so that will also give me some panel blood numbers to go by when I get my blood work done again in three months.

So I’m excited.  How did you do my friends?

Miles Walked Since 06/13/2016:  18.36 miles

 

Dear Bacon

Dear Bacon – All of these young gals cramming the local Starbucks in search of the perfect cup of Java. Who says that us dogs can’t appreciate this too?  I dressed up and walked into our local Starbucks – no one could tell the difference.  I had my hair did, my scarf and my doggy Uggs.  I ordered my double shot of Mocha and told them my name was Nicki with an “I”.  Can YOU tell the difference?  Signed Nicki

Oh Nicki – that is hilarious!  I absolutely love it and see no difference in you ordering your favorite cup compared to anyone else around here my friend.  I say sit back and enjoy that cup – you so deserve it!

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Dear Bacon – There I was playing with my favorite toy like I do all of the time – I love this toy!  That’s when things turned bad very quickly.  It attacked my face.  I can’t get it off.  I’m so glad the human found time FIRST to take a picture, don’t you?  Help please.  Signed Alien

Dear Alien – Snorts!  I’m laughing with you my friend – really.  I’ve seen this kind of contraption around here at the Hotel Thompson with Houdini playing with it.  I look don’t look forward to it when it attacks him – I can see it now “Toys Gone Wild”.

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Dear Bacon – What?  Don’t all households look like this at the end of the day with two strapping lads playing hard?  I mean what else are we to do when the humans are gone all day long without us?  So we play hard.  Signed Dos Destructives

Dear Dos Destructives – Snorts!  I’ve seen the Hotel Thompson look like that in two hours with a 6 pound Yorkie my friends.  Does it happen – yes.  All the time – um no.  I say you two did a fine job that day.  I’m sure your humans were greatly impressed… or not.  Maybe next time, clean up before they get home.

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 Dear Bacon – What out for me okay.  I know the staff keep this treats for me in this cabinet.  I just know it.  I’m going to take a peek while you watch out.  Give me a sign if you see them coming into the kitchen okay.  Signed Tip Toe

Dear Tip Toe – I think it’s the cabinet to the left of the one you are in… well it is here at the Hotel Thompson.  Let me ask you this though my friend.  Once you get the container, how will you open it?  Nods head – I see the lights coming on now on your face.  Maybe give it to the barky thing (if you have one) to play with for a while.  They are amazing at opening things.  Then you can blame it all on them.  I’m just sayin’.  Double snorts!

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Dear Bacon – Shaking my head in disgust.  The human was getting dressed and dropped this contraption on the floor.  I picked it up and got snagged myself.  Why do these things happen to me?  Signed Busted

Dear Busted – You poor thing my friend.  Sometimes it’s not good if it fits you must sits kind of situations.  I say plea to your human as soon as possible to get untangled in your weave of despair.  Good luck!

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REMEMBER FRIENDS – Dear Bacon can’t happen without YOU.  Please keep sending me your letters and pictures to my email address 🙂

 

 

National Clean Up Your Room Day

Journalist Rocky the Squirrel here –

Keeping his paws on the nuts of the world –

May 10th – the perfect holiday for ALL parents far and near.  If you have kids, you can relate  to this National Clean Up Your Room Day.  The kids may think that everything in their ‘organized’ room is treasure and things they will need tomorrow but we all know that plate, one sock, various toys and Lego’s and clothes are things that need to be cleaned up.  Sometimes the mess is so bad that you can’t walk through the room and stuff is packed under the bed, the dresser and the closet is overflowing.  How do these kids live in this mess?!

To mom and dad’s delights everywhere – today is National Clean Up Your Room.  Get out your shovels and pull the truck up to their window.  It’s time for everyone to clean their rooms.  Especially that Bacon, he’s not perfect either.  I took a picture of that little fellows room before his mom got to it when she got home from work.  WOW – that’s all I can say.  I can just imagine the places I could hide some nuts in that room – chitter chatter.

P.S. my friends.  This day also applies to adults.  Kids make sure you check your parents rooms as well.  Fair play is fair play !

 

Are You A Member?

Mommy said the strangest thing to me last night.  Mommy said that I was a member of the clean plate club. I wasn’t sure what she meant until daddy explained it me mumbling something about eating him out of house and home.  Rolls piggy eyes – he so exaggerates.

But of course I am a member of the Clean Plate Club.  I mean really, I’m a pig.  I ain’t leaving nothing behind food wise.  Sometimes when I eat my apples in the front room one will roll up underneath the couch or fireplace ledge.  Heck, you should see me going after.  There should be no food left behind in my trough – I mean plate.

Momma even calls me her little hoover.  I go around the floor sniffing out any scrap of a crumb.  Dad says I’m better than vacuuming. If it’s out there – it’s in my tummy!

Are you a member of this elite Clean Plate Club?

 

 

National Clean Up Your Room Day

Journalist Rocky the Squirrel here –

Keeping his paws on the nuts of the world –

May 10th – the perfect holiday for ALL parents far and near.  If you have kids, you can relate  to this National Clean Up Your Room Day.  The kids may think that everything in their ‘organized’ room is treasure and things they will need tomorrow but we all know that plate, one sock, various toys and Lego’s and clothes are things that need to be cleaned up.  Sometimes the mess is so bad that you can’t walk through the room and stuff is packed under the bed, the dresser and the closet is overflowing.  How do these kids live in this mess?!

To mom and dad’s delights everywhere – today is National Clean Up Your Room.  Get out your shovels and pull the truck up to their window.  It’s time for everyone to clean their rooms.  Especially that Bacon, he’s not perfect either.  I took a picture of that little fellows room before his mom got to it when she got home from work.  WOW – that’s all I can say.  I can just imagine the places I could hide some nuts in that room – chitter chatter.

P.S. my friends.  This day also applies to adults.  Kids make sure you check your parents rooms as well.  Fair play is fair play !

 

Who Needs a Hoover

Momma says who needs to clean with the Hoover when I’m around. In fact, sometimes she calls me her little Hoover. Not sure what that’s about. I’m just a little pig doing what a little pig does…rooting around to see what I can find.

Momma says she does that on the big black box in the kitchen that she gets food out of. One day – I will conquer that big black wonderful box. Mmm there’s a lot of tasty things in it.  I know that’s where my carrots, salad, celery and strawberries come from.  One day I will figure out how to open up that contraption.