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 !
Welcome my friends to another week of Travels in the South. This week is all about daddy. Sometimes he craves bad things. It’s okay. It happens. This week he was craving a hamburger. Not just any hamburger though. He likes something called the Royale at a local hamburger joint. This thing has the works – hamburger, cheese, a fried egg and something that this little oinker won’t mention but you can see in the picture. This gigantic burger is happily served with french fries. Does it look good to you?
Daddy says it is messy and once you start, it’s hard to put down because it falls all over the place. Have you ever had such a creation?
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 !
Hello friends – welcome to another week of Travels in the South. Today I bring you one of my dad’s favorite sandwiches. Doesn’t it look delicious? This is called a Monte Cristo. Whenever dad sees it on the menu at a restaurant, he has to try it. Are you asking yourself what exactly is a Monte Cristo?
Well, a Monte Cristo sandwich has smoked ham, smoked turkey and two cheeses in the sandwich. The sandwich is then lightly battered and fried until golden brown. See I told you about us before being in the south and frying anything and everything – snorts with piggy laughter. After the Monte Cristo comes out of the fryer, it’s dusted with powdered sugar, cut into corners and served with an awesome raspberry preserve for dipping.
Be prepared to get messy when you eat this creation. There will be powdered sugar everywhere. There will also be groans of OMP this is so good! So the next time you check out a menu at a restaurant, look for the Monte Cristo. You won’t be disappointed.
May 10th – the perfect holiday for ALL parents far and near. If you’ve got 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. 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 !
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 !
Hello all! This is Bacon’s mom here. I wanted to break down the entire renovation and share our experience of ups and downs throughout the process. Today is Phase I which includes the start of everything. Our house was cluttered. Pure and simple it was. We have been here 16 LONG years and throughout those years, we have had many surgeries, illnesses and taking care of family members that some things taken second – like the house unfortunately 😦
I was having a couple of weeks of feeling good physically. One never knows how long these days last when you have rheumatoid arthritis. So when I told the hub unit I was ready to do it, he couldn’t believe me. We made an appointment with the floor guy first. We *had* to get rid of this awful carpet that had seen way better days.
The appointment was made 3/28/2015 with the flooring peeps. They came out and we went over all of the measurements and looked at the different types of flooring that was available. My husband gave me full reign over the remodeling so I picked a tan flooring. We signed the paperwork and picked the date of 4/16/2015 for installation. This gave us a little under three weeks to de-clutter, purge and get the house in shape for the floor. No small feat with what we had to work with as you can see from the pictures.
This same date, we went furniture shopping. A joyful occasion to most… except me. I despise shopping for anything. The most important factor was that whatever we picked the hub had to LOVE his sofa. I personally wanted something in the way of an oversized chair with an ottoman, etc – something that would be absolutely comfortable when I came home from work at the end of the day. We went to a company called American Signature Furniture and picked out a sofa, an oversized chair, an ottoman and an electric fireplace mantle. Sounds like heaven huh? We expressed several times that the furniture had to be delivered on 4/17/2015, the day after the floor installation.
Now as you can see from these pictures of the living room, there was a LOT to clean. I basically wanted to clear out everything and start fresh. But in order to get to the bare basics, I had to de-clutter and separate items into (1) Keep; (2) Donate; and (3) Junk. Just looking at the pictures you can tell that it was an overwhelming feat to start. If anyone is in the same position as we were, two words – BABY STEPS. I had a calendar and every night when I came home from work and on the weekends, we hit a different spot. Slowly, things started going away. AND, you know what we learned from all of this? Letting go can be medicinal and therapeutic. We made three trips alone to the Goodwill donation center down the street in the first couple of days. I know that our garbage collection company probably thought what are they up to because we had loads of stuff we threw away. Phase I took us the longest to get through – 9 days.
And then came the date that we asked Salvation Army to come to the house on 4/9/2015. They actually had to make two trips because we gave it all away: sofa, love seat, entertainment center, china cabinet, hutch, kitchen table, six chairs, rugs.
After they left, we cleaned more and started making a pile of trash. On 4/11/2015, we had 1-800 Got Junk to come out to the house. This junk company will come to your house and pick up your trash. According to how much you have to fill their truck, is how much they charge you. We had scheduled them to come out on this date between 3:30-5:30pm. To our advantage, they were running late so (1) we got to pick up and clean more and (2) the later they were we got a discount – which is always a great thing in my book.
The company *finally* got at the Hotel Thompson around 8:30PM – which they had been calling throughout the day to keep us aware of their schedule. I never got upset with them and it was a good thing. Other people had in their schedule. They came to our house and gave us a $125.00 discount for waiting. So it cost only $100.00 for them to come in, lift and take out our final junk. A bargain in my book because by this time we were so over lifting.
Now our neighbors had been watching all of the activity happening at our house in the pass 9 days. Word got back to us that we were moving which we laughed off. Nope – we were just doing some MAJOR spring cleaning. All of this work was Phase I – come back tomorrow for Phase II my friends 🙂
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 !
I’ve been meaning to share this video with all of you for a while. A short time ago, mom introduced me to taco night. mmm – taco night. The first time I had one, I wasn’t real sure what to do with it. I figured it out really quick. The second time I had one, I was a pro at woofing that taco down – snorts.
Mind you, taco night was extremely messy and not for the weak of heart. Thank goodness towels can be cleaned… as well as this little piggy. Get your clocks ready to see how long it takes for me to snarf down one delicious taco. Yummy!
I share this with you now because I got another one tonight. Mom/dad said it was because I have been extra sweet lately. If that’s all it takes to get extra food, call me sugar cause I’m going to be dripping with sweetness my friends!
May 10th – the perfect holiday for ALL parents far and near. If you’ve got 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. 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 !
This is Journalist Rocky the Squirrel reporting out – Happy Cleaning!
Miniature pot bellied pig and friends - Bacon, Houdini, Hemi and all of the Rock Clan with Journalist Rocky the Squirrel all out looking for adventures from the Hotel Thompson.
Now as you can see from these pictures of the living room, there was a LOT to clean. I basically wanted to clear out everything and start fresh. But in order to get to the bare basics, I had to de-clutter and separate items into (1) Keep; (2) Donate; and (3) Junk. Just looking at the pictures you can tell that it was an overwhelming feat to start. If anyone is in the same position as we were, two words – BABY STEPS. I had a calendar and every night when I came home from work and on the weekends, we hit a different spot. Slowly, things started going away. AND, you know what we learned from all of this? Letting go can be medicinal and therapeutic. We made three trips alone to the Goodwill donation center down the street in the first couple of days. I know that our garbage collection company probably thought what are they up to because we had loads of stuff we threw away. Phase I took us the longest to get through – 9 days.
house on 4/9/2015. They actually had to make two trips because we gave it all away: sofa, love seat, entertainment center, china cabinet, hutch, kitchen table, six chairs, rugs.
Journalist Rocky the Squirrel here –
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