Things have been very busy with my family lately. Mister Guy and The Lady have made many trips to Delaware because a sad thing happened; The Captain, The Lady’s father died in October. I was glad that I got to meet him. He liked me though I think he thought it a little silly that Mister Guy and the Lady took me lots of places with them.
I have not been able to come on all of the trips. I understood. I stayed in Texas with Offspring No. 1 and the other furry members of my family. I missed Mister Guy and The Lady when they were gone, but I knew that they had lots to do and didn’t have time to pay a lot of attention to a furry blue and orange monster.
I am happy that I got to come with them this week for Thanksgiving. The Lady and Mister Guy had some business stuff to take care of, but they also had time for some fun things. I was excited when they told me that we were going to take a trip to Dover and I was going to get to meet Ms. Michele and Ms. Peggy. I wrote about them earlier. They are The Lady’s picture-taking friends. Ms. Michele is my friend too. She sent me a special package in the mail. I have wanted to meet her in person for a long time!
Dover is the capital of Delaware so there are lots of important buildings there. We met them at the library. (Offspring No. 1 told me that the library is the most important building in any city. I don’t know if I believe her. I think maybe she just says that because she is a librarian.) I didn’t care where we met; I just wanted to meet them. And I did! Ms. Michele and Ms. Peggy recognized me. I felt so important. They weren’t even embarrassed to walk around the state capital with me.
We saw lots of old buildings and a nice lady walked around with us and told us about lots of stories about the early history of Delaware. I learned a lot about the state from which I come.
We all had lunch together, walked around a little more to see the governor’s house, and then we went to have some dessert. The picture takers were supposed to photograph dessert that day so they were all excited about pie and cookies and scones.
The only bad part of the whole day was that something was wrong with The Lady’s camera that day and none of her pictures came out. She said that they were all fuzzy like me, but not blue and orange. It makes me sad to not have any pictures from my day in Dover, but I have lots of happy memories. Mister Guy and The Lady said that they will take me to see Ms. Michele and Ms. Peggy again and The Lady will do a better job with her camera.
Fortunately, Ms. Michele sent The Lady a couple pictures from our day.
The other thing that Ms. Michele did was bring me a new T-shirt!!! She read my post about going to the playground and brought me a special playground shirt. I love my new shirt!!!! And, I am so happy that The Lady and Ms. Michele are friends because that makes it possible for Ms. Michele to be my friend too!
I haven’t had a chance to go to the playground in Lewes yet because yesterday it was cold and rainy and yucky. I stayed inside where it was warm. The rain makes my fur feel funny and I don’t have a raincoat.
I did get to play in the yard today.
There is a little building in the back yard that The Lady said used to be her playhouse. She would play inside it when she was here visiting her grandparents.
There isn’t much in there now, but I bet it was fun when she had toys in there.
I discovered something new to play with – leaves! We don’t have a lot of leaves in our yard in Texas, but here you can rake them into a big pile and jump and hide and play in them.
It was so much fun! And, I wore my special dirt shirt so The Lady couldn’t get mad at me for getting my shirt dirty. It hides all the dirt!
It was still a little cold outside so we didn’t stay outside too long. Plus, The Lady needed to go inside and make something called pie to take to The Aunt’s house for the Thanksgiving meal. The Lady told me that most people have pumpkin pie with their Thanksgiving meal. That sounded like a good idea to me because pumpkins are orange and I like anything that is orange. Then she said that she wasn’t making pumpkin pie. That made me a little sad until she said that The Cousin was making pumpkin pie so she was going to make a different kind, pecan chocolate chip. That sounded interesting, but not orange. I asked if I could help and the Lady said yes. She told me that I could measure out the chocolate chips. I have never had chocolate chips before so I didn’t know if I would like to measure them or eat them.
Chocolate chips are kind of funny looking. They look more like drips than chips to me and they are not the right color for food. I decided to brave and try one anyway. Much to my surprise, they tasted pretty good. I tried another one. And another one. As I held them in my furry paws, the chocolate chips went from chips, to drips, to…mush. I had a mess on my paws. I looked for something to wipe them on. Then I noticed…my dirt shirt was also chocolate colored! I could wipe my paws on my shirt and The Lady wouldn’t even notice. I found a perfect solution to my chocolate covered paw problem!
The Lady let me help her take the pie out of the oven.
I have not had any yet because I was too full after eating my dinner. I liked the sweet potatoes best because they were orange, but the turkey, dressing, green beans, and dumplings were really good too. I will try a piece of pie tomorrow.
This week I have learned what it means to be thankful. I am thankful for The Lady and Mister Guy, for my friends Ms. Michele and Ms. Peggy, and for my extended family. I missed being in Texas with Offspring No. 1 and Offspring No. 2, but I will get to spend Christmas with them.
I am one lucky furry blue and orange monster.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!