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[shipscook]

KY
actually the contract is about 3 years work, but somehow they break it up, the first part is 280 days.
Not sure how it is budgeted, there is still a couple of years left on what we were doing in Alasak, but apparently now, the coast of California has priority?
Just be good to work again, this made me realize that I am in no freakin' way ready to retire!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In a couple of years want to say good bye to the 16 hour days, but think I will at least want a full time (40 hour week) job. And a bigger place to live with room for projects.
Will be good to figure out what I am going to do when I get big--hehe. As Jimmy Buffet sang, I'm growing older, but not up!
Nan

 

[Cook Chatty Cathy]

It was back in the days when I drank a LOT of coffee.

YES SIRRE-E-E I HAVE LOOKED EXACTLY LIKE THAT MOST MORNINGS

 

[chubbyalaskagriz]

Great story of your l'il son marching up and down the stairs with a wee newborn kitty, with mama right behind him to collect it back up and return it to its littermates, Nan! Nice l'il chuckle w/ that one! How adorable!

There's a grandma next door to me who has her grand-toddler visiting for the summer. Derek is a tiny l'il dude with kinky hair always sticking straight-up and wearing the ever-present summer-pamper. He runs around the gardens and walkways and common areas holding a bottle in one hand, and whatever neighbor's pet in the other- that he was able to snare and make his own for tea-parties, cops-n-robbers and the like... Yesterday he was trying to get a kitty to sit in a lawn chair and wear sunglasses! Of course crotchedy old cat wasn't having any of that!

My own pair of cats love l'il kinky-haired Derek... he comes to the windows and calls them and they go darting to the screen and jump into the sills to meow and visit with him. He tries to pet them thru the screen and offers them sips from his bottle. A few times I've had to shut the windows and turn on the air- I hate doing that 'cause watching them play and visit togehter is so sweet!

 

[jglass]

I love you avatar cathy.

You guys should see the potbelly pig that showed up at Jons brothers house.
It just wandered in and it is soo fat it has scars on its belly from it dragging the ground.
Big sweet old piggy. Loves to get petted. It just came there and stayed about three months ago. Its so fat it gets down and cant get back up and squeals til one of them come helps him up.

 

[Cook Chatty Cathy]

OH MY GOODNESS THAT POOR OLE' SWEET PIG! I bet you love him already, I think there is something special about pigs! Especially when they are roasted over a pit!!! LOL I am so sorry but I couldn't help it Janie I am feeling giddy again!!!

I tell you I am fixing to butcher one of our roosters, darned old thing is getting real mean to me when I go into their coup to feed 'em! I am ready for some more homemade chicken pot-pie anyways! Hee-hee

 

[jglass]

You have to share your pot pie recipe with me!

Jon's Dad always teases the grankids about how the pig would have some nice hams on it but they wont hear of it. His brother says the pig belonged to some people down the road who let it run loose and didnt feed it so it wandered up their way. Jon really loved getting to pet it. Next time we go there Im gonna make sure and take some carrots and apples for him to feed the big old thing lol. It just runs loose down there..well at its size it doesnt run anywhere.
Its so funny it rooted into a bed of old corncobs and drug plastic in on top and made itself a nice bed to sleep in up in the barn.

 

[Cook Chatty Cathy]

That is too cute Janie!

 

[chubbyalaskagriz]

FWIW- I felt quite limited as to what photos I tried using before for my avatar... afterall over at the "edit avatar" tab at the 'user cp' center, it clearly states only small photos under 19.5 KB are usuable, but I find I'm able to use pics much larger than that (as most of mine are)...