Here We Come!

Day three of our trip to Australia and we are nearing the airport!

Karl & Asta waiting for our arrival at the airport.

Graphic by Asta

 

Two of my dear ole friends, Karl and Asta, have been waiting for our plane to land. We appreciate their dedication on being there when we land and are so looking forward to seeing them soon.

Karl, Charlotte & Asta watching our plane land.

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We see it, the terminal in Australia! At long last our long journey is over. I sure hope our friends will be at the airport to meet us and help us to get to our hotel. We will freshen up then hit the town!!

Oh no she didn't!

 

WHAT! EXCUSE ME BUT WHY ARE YOU YELLING AT ME!!!???? I DON'T BELIEVE YOU ARE BEING VERY POLITE AND IF YOU WERE SMART YOU WOULD BACK OFF SISTER! YOU SEE I HAVE BEEN ON A VERY LONG FLIGHT WITH LITTLE SLEEP, HORRIBLE FOOD SO I AM NOT QUITE MY USUAL HAPPY SELF! . . . Sorry, I didn't mean to yell . . . let me count to ten and start over . . . one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten . . . OK, here I go . . . pardon me madam but if you would kindly remove your cart from my front left paw I will gladly get out of your way so you can bardge I mean make your way through the terminal to be first in line to pick up your luggage . . . phew . . . that not pretty horrible . . .

l-r: Charoltte, Asta, Gracie, Olive, Karl & Socks
 Watching over us: Angel Momo

 

Olive and I are thinking that making our way through customs and finding our luggage might be more of a workout then our long flight over here. But anyway all is well that ends well. We found our dear friends waiting for us and once again we are together for a fun time. Our hearts are happy as we start our vacation fun with our dear friends and share stories of old times and old friends who are furever with us in our hearts.

Watch out Australia here we come!!

Are We There Yet?

This has been one long day and at last the cabin is dark and we can now get some well deserved rest. I settle down for our long flight, and boy is it a long one, and think of my sweet Tamir and all of the fun things that we did together . . .

. . . what the heck! I am not ready to wake up and please if that woman would take the stinky food away from me and come back at a later time I would appreciate it! You really know I am super tired if I don't want the stinky food but right now rest is what I need, believe me you don't want me crabby. Olive seems to be thinking about grabbing the nip. Sure hope she waits until we land . . . which is a long ways off still!

. . . boy do I miss Opus and Roscoe's magical traveling van. We have been traveling a whole day and still are not there. Looks like we are half way to our destination of Australia. Thinking that on my return trip home we might find a time machine to speed things up . . .

. . . are we there yet . . . now are we there yet . . . are we almost there yet? It's been so long does anyone remember where we are going?!

Australia Or Bust

It's here! It's time.

Our 2012 Blogosphere Trip is starting today!

Olive and I checking our departure time

At long last the 2012 Blogosphere trip is here! What a fun time we will have. Many of you voted on our destination and after a drawing to pick our destination, Australia, we are now heading out for a week of fun! Olive, my niece, and I are flying out of Chicago's O'Hare airport today and catching an early flight. You can see from the photo above we are checking our departure time and what gate we need to be at. My tummy is nervous with excietment as we start our journey.

 

It is with a heavy heart as we wait on the plane for our take off. You see this has been a hard year in the blogosphere as many of our dear friends have left for the bridge and are unable to be with us on this year's trip. Each day we think of them and keep them close to us in our hearts. I have just recently lost my love, Tamir, though we had such a short time together we crammed a lot into our being together. He just recently went to the bridge and as a matter of fact he and I prescouted Australia last month to check out places to visit with our friends on this trip. As I wait for take off I settle back and read his last and only love note that he sent to me. I keep it near and it makes me feel close to him when I read it. I almost didn't come on this trip but Tamir's mommie said that he would have wanted me to not stay home, so here I am. I decided to invite my niece, Olive, as she too is sad with the loss of her brother Opus, he left for the bridge not even a year ago yet. I think this trip will be good for both of us.

My love note from Tamir

. . . Waiting for the go ahead from the control tower.

Off we go, Olive and I watch out the window seeing Chicago get smaller and smaller until soon we will not see it anymore. We now sit back and relax for our long journey across the big pond. We can hardly wait to get to our destination. We will keep you posted from Australia.

CATurday Saying~ Family, Friends, & Bras

 

Family and friends are like bras.

Close to your heart and

all about support.

Wordless Wednesday

It's Tocktober

It's Tocktober and the Tabby Cat Club is hosting ~Show Us Your Tocks~. My good friend Derby came up with this idea and every Tocktober we feature our tocks. Hope to see you at the club and don't forget to show us your tocks sometime during the fun month ofToctober.

Live Strong 2012

What Cancer Cannot Do . . .

It cannot invade the soul

suppress memories

kill friendship

destroy peace

conquer the spirit

shatter hope

cripple love

corrode faith

steal eternal life

silence courage

Author ~ Unknown

Today, October 2, Livestrong is hosting the wearing of the yellow to raise awarness of the many that live with cancer. This is a terrible disease that affects millions of people world-wide. Each of us probably know of someone fighting cancer now, has lost the fight or within the next couple of years will be affected by someone you know facing the fight of their life.  Wear the yellow today to help raise awareness and honor all that have had to deal with cancer.

In Loving Memory

My uncle and mom Ca. 1950

 

Dedicated to:

IN LOVING MEMORY

Mom's family:

 

Raymond Young Little 1915-1992 Father

Ronald Little 1942-2011 Brother

Elgie "Pat" Boise 1880-1956 Grandfather

Naomi Gruber 1915-1990 Aunt

William Gruber 1934-1993 Cousin

Betty Gruber 1932-1995 Cousin

Luetta Buerher 1910-1992 Aunt

LaNatte Wood 1928-1992 Cousin

Paul Thornburg 1926-2012

Our family misses our loved ones every day.

SUNday

Mom just doesn't get it! She says I laze around in the sun spots just about every day and catch many zzzzzs. She doesn't realize that to me there is just something special about SUNday making those zzzzzs extra extra nice . . .

. . . now please mom go away from me with the clickie thinking, you are disturbing me. Didn't you hear about the state law that said "No photos are to be taken on SUNday"? . . . Sorry that isn't the truth . . . is it a sin to lie? Is it a really bad sin if it is SUNday and one lies? Please forgive me, I won't do that again, not telling a lie to the mom. But then again sometimes a sweet kittie like me has to protect myself if something is amiss in the house and a sweet innocent look (lie) works . . . but I shall not lie to lie on SUNday. How about try not to lie?

MOM!! Hey mommie, ma, ma, ma, ma, ma, ma, mummy please find someone else to bother! Hope you are all having a nice day!

Our Covered Bridge

Our local covered bridge was under attack by a semi truck!!!!

 

 

Our local covered bridge, built in 1873, had a semi truck go all the way through it causing $100,000 in damages . . . 

 

The driver of the semi said his GPS took him that way. Of course, he didn't stop when he heard the first crashing of wood but kept on driving through then tried to get away from the accident.  Oh did I forget to mention that the truck exceeded the height limit on the bridge? I don't get this at all??!! . . .

 

The driver of the semi was arrested on a felony charge of criminal mischief. We had heard from the local residents that the driver tried to flee the scene and had no license. Lucky for the community because someone saw the accident and followed the truck and he was caught. Today structural engineers were contacted to assess the condition of the bridge.

We are in disbelief about this happening? Mom said if she read this in a book she wouldn't think it was a good book because that would be something soooooooo stupid no one would do that, guess she is wrong on that thinking. I guess truth is stranger than fiction.

Tuesday Toesies

There they all are~four toesies!!