WE'RE FAMOUS

One great thing happened this week, RJ and I became famous... I take that back it might have been a bad thing. :( See RJ got kinda kidnapped during Hillbilly Days.

NO, Wait a MINUTE!!! IT WAS NOT MY FAULT!!!

One of our new friends offered to take RJ on a tour of the Hillbilly festivities. While that was going on, I was helping Paula, Audra, and Jeff doing EMS. I like doing EMS, maybe I will make a career out of it just like Paula and the rest. I admit it, I got a little distracted, but still, he was out of my sight for a few hours with who I thought were friends... The next thing, I know is that Paula is getting text messages from people saying they saw RJ in a bad place and she needed to help him immediately. After she got those messages, she told me and we went searching all over for RJ. Paula's friends even put a picture of me and RJ up as background on their phones to show people what RJ looked like... I wasn't getting too worried, but as we looked, I could tell that we needed to find him soon before I had to call his parents and the authorities!

As we got to the back of the crafter area, near the camping area, Paula and I started to see flyers with pictures of RJ in a stove on top of a fire. :( I didn't know what to do at all. :( .... Paula finally calmed me down and we grabbed a security guard, who thankfully helped us to find poor RJ. .... Who I later discovered had faked the whole incident to attract attention to himself!! I couldn't believe it.... At least we finally made it through the weekend. I'm not sure I'm ready to take this boy camping. Maybe if he behaves better than he has this weekend, we will go camping.

Hillbilly Days --- Command POST

She had to leave us in the room with Jon and his friend Denise. She said she wanted us to experience what Jon does or at least an aspect. I warned her about the issues with RJ but did she listen? Of course not! So RJ and I got to hang out in the command post trailer and enjoy the air conditioning while Paula was in the heat. :) I like air conditioning!
You know you never really know what to expect if you leave us really unsupervised in a room with computers, radios and technology junk.

Denise tried to help entertain RJ, but that didn't really work, because he discovered radios!! He kept trying to kick off Denise and Jon from the radio cause he thought it was his turn to

play. And he really didn't understand why he couldn't get a turn. I told him it was because of the funnel cake on Saturday but he didn't listen to me.
But Denise decided to take pity on my poor pathetic nephew and let him do the morning weather report. .... But you can probably guess what happened.... Yup, he thought forecasting that it was going to be raining gum drops was funny. Denise, Jon and I didn't find it funny at all. When Denise tried to grab the radio back, hmmm... RJ wouldn't hand it over. I had to use my powers of UNCLE ALFRED to get the mic back. Yeah, maybe I don't want a mate, because I don't want little mes or little RJs... Oh yeah, I almost forgot RJ and I were given permission to help one of the acts get ready to sing. I'm not so sure that RJ was actually helping. He kinda got distracted by another girl. I guess his crush on Steph is over. How much more of this guy can I take?!?!?!?

(HUGE THANKS to Denise for shooting these pictures for me while Paula busy volunteering)

Hillbilly Days ----FUNNEL CAKE!!

Day 2 of the Hillbilly extravaganza! So RJ actually had a good idea! Instead of waiting for Paula or Jon to get unbusy and remember us, we snuck down in the back of the EMS gator that Paula and Audra brought up.
When we arrived down at the festivities, the smell of funnel cake, and the other yummy foods floated in the air. :) It smelled delicious!! :)
After Paula discovered us, she helped us to explore the crafts, but we weren't allowed to touch. She said if she couldn't afford what she wanted, she wasn't going to give us (mainly RJ) the possibility of damaging the crafts or making the crafters mad!

We got tired rather quickly in the heat, but as soon as we smelled the funnel cake again, I knew I needed some. The funny part was RJ beat me to it. He bought a funnel cake for us to share together! :) (I learned later that he "borrowed" money from Jon to buy it for me.)

I was so impressed by his selfless act. :) I actually started to brag. I called and told his parents about what happened. ..... If only I had waited just a little longer... just a little longer...... I, of course, distracted by the funnel cake, didn't happen to notice that RJ had placed the funnel cake on a table with a big, huge, annoying fan at the other end of the table --blowing straight in our direction!

That little punk caused me to get powdered sugar all, I repeat, ALL over me!!! and the freaking table and Paula! I mean how rude! At least we didn't get RJ's new friend Steph at all powdery! But seriously, that little brat, just had to get powdered sugar all over me! :( I swear this Hillbilly Days has been one fiasco after another. Hopefully the Sunday will be better. RJ and I are going to investigate the command post trailer. Its our day with JON!!! :) Hopefully RJ won't cause a disturbance or damage anything in the trailer. Otherwise, Jon will not be a happy camper!

Hillbilly Days --- PURE EMBARRASSMENT

So Paula and Jon invited me to come and enjoy Hillbilly Days with them. Three days of crafts, musicians and yummy foods. So I thought it would be a great idea for something to do with RJ to get him to be more around people (other than me.)

.... Time came and we went. ..... Hmmm yeah.... We were able to stay down at the park with Jon and Paula. The cabin was pretty cool. RJ's behavior seemed to be improving, but then more company came.
When the rest of the company arrived, RJ forgot all bits of manner he had. It started with him sitting on me, while I was resting! I think he just wanted to see everyone and get to know everyone and be everywhere and annoy me. :( .... Oh why, WHY, did I open my BIG MOUTH!!
Well while we were all sitting around chilling, RJ again decided to be a pain! He kept stealing all the food from this one girl named Steph. (Personally, I think he had a crush!) I tried to stop him several times and remind him the right way to get a girls attention but that did NOT work at all!
When Paula finally got some food, RJ calmed down a little, but still was being a pain. He decided that we all need to get a picture taken. A picture! At like midnight!! (My sleep is so being interrupted by him!)

We gathered everyone together and started to take a picture. Well, I personally think RJ scared everyone away because the next thing I know only me, Steph, her friend and RJ were sitting on the couch! Even JON ran away! .... I suspected that it was going to be a great picture... Well NO, not at all...
I get it home, look at it and well... Steph, her friend and I look great... (I would have won most sexy of the weekend!)
However, RJ was a different story! A very different story. Not only was he not looking at the camera, he was staring! At Steph! ... And I could see some drool and some hatred looks toward Steph's friend! I mean how ridiculous! He couldn't even control himself around new people. How am I going to find my mate if he keeps scaring people away!?!?

By the way, JON was NO help controlling that Nephew of mine! I personally think he was encouraging him!!

I hope the rest of this Hillbilly Days adventure turns out better than it is starting! At least I get to see Paula's friend Helen tomorrow... I wonder if Freddy, Red E. Bear and Wringer will be there. It would be great to see some old friends!

An afternoon drive.... ARE WE THERE YET!!!

So yeah, its my first adventure with that interesting nephew I have. Wow! Paula decided this past week that we were taking a "family" road trip to Buffalo for a city-wide yard sale. So Jon, RJ, Paula, and I loaded into the car and went shopping. The morning went okay. Really it did. The problems came afterwards. My poor nephew RJ couldn't keep still, he tried to drive. He tried to hang by his feet. He wouldn't leave me alone and he wouldn't listen to Paula or Jon.

And every time we passed a river, lake, etc. RJ would jump up and down and bother Jon who was driving! It was almost completely unsafe for us to ride in the car.

Paula even pulled me aside at one point and told me that I needed to speak to my dear nephew or else we would no longer be invited on road trips. I spoke to him but I don't think he listened... I can see this being a long summer. Oh dear, will my brother hurry up and work out his issues! I don't know how much we can take of RJ.

My new Summer Visitor! :(

So it was another brilliant thought by yours truly. I am such an idiot at times. Anyways, this past weekend, I went and saw one of my brothers. (I have like almost a million, if you would believe that!) For the most part, it was a pretty good time, except for the fact that him and his wife were having some issues. And their son, RJ well needed somewhere to go so they could sort out all of their issues with no kids around. So me being the nice Tigger and all, said I would watch him for the summer. 'Cause cool Uncle Alfred is liked. :) It was good plan, but I can tell you already, this summer is going to be very trying for me. Just in being able to open up to having another person in Paula and Jon's lives besides me is going to be hard.
Anyways the visit was pretty good. We went fishing, and they cooked for me yummy stuff. But the visit ended way too soon. When we explained to RJ what was going to happen, he kinda threw a massive fit. I had to stay later than I was intended, because RJ would NOT leave his room for nothing. So yeah.... I'm not sure how this is all going to go...
But for now, I will leave you all be, and go hang out with my nephew. Hopefully we will get along great and this summer will be a blast! :) Now if he could stop bugging me for more than 5 seconds! ....