The weather is finally and quite suddenly warming up, yesterday we had a high of 88!
As always when the heat hits so unexpectedly nobody is prepared for it and everybody is complaining but it sure beats the 50s (or less) we had for the longest time!
The cotton fields of last October have all been plowed and since last week they are being irrigated too. I wonder if they rotate their crops, I don't have a clue what they have sowed, in fact I haven't even seen them doing anything yet.
It's going to be a surprise!


We're probably not going to see much of it anyways, come to think of it, since we're leaving in another month and a half or so.
After a lot of searching and talking and teleconferencing we found a job at the West Yellowstone KOA in Montana. Yeah! We're so excited!
It's a full time paid maintenance job for James, just what we wanted, and I'll have the summer off! Well, I've offered to lend housekeeping a hand in case of emergencies but they didn't think that would happen very often since they have a large crew. (Fine with me!)
They want us there at around the 7th of May and we're going to take a week or 2 to slowly make our way up. That means we're probably leaving here around the 21st of April.
I'm so ready for it, my hitch-itch is crawling all over me!





Because of the beautiful evening we celebrated with a BBQ! Very nice double-cheese hamburgers, as in blue cheese inside and Swiss on top, yumm!






Oh and look, Merlin has a girlfriend! Isn't she cute? She thinks he's great but he is sort of half afraid of her! Hilarious. She tries to invite him to play, stalks him and makes these fake-attack moves and he just thinks she's out to get him!

 

 

It's a beautiful cat, she just showed up one day and we have no idea who she belongs to, certainly not to anybody here at the campground. She's skittish but looks well fed. She reminds me somewhat of Pumpkin, our little girl who passed away in 2009.

Pumpkin

 

Sadie is not doing so great lately. She is losing the strength in her rear right leg and went from stumbling a lot to barely being able to hold herself up on that side and falling down on her butt a lot.
I've started to walk her with a sling under her belly. It's not that I have to hold her up all the time but it's more to keep her in balance so she doesn't fall over.
Poor girl! She still wants to run, silly dog, it must be so frustrating!

And here's proof that the dutch celebrate 12.5 year anniversaries and that I was not (as some have said) just out to get a party going.
My sister celebrated her 12.5 years on the job last Friday, she got a nice present, dinner and they decorated her office desk!

 

Congratulations sister!