We are home....Even though we wanted to stay.

We are home to our brood. I was hoping to get home and find a home no worse for wear. Well that didn't happen. Copper has been known to chew and shred magazines and other useless stuff we leave laying about. This time is wasn't so useless. He chewed up the back cover of my MRI book. This is a $80 book. Needless to say I was a bit upset. The same reason he is afraid of pillows may be the same reason he is going to be afraid of books. Oh well. It could have been worse, he could have pulled the T.V. over or burned down the house. Nothing and I mean nothing surprises me with this problem kitty. Needles got her lotions from her friend, so it was a good mail day even though it was Sunday.
We arrived a Chez Ragged around 5 ish Friday. That night we went to the O.G. and had more than enough food. Thanks for picking up the tab Cynical. I will get it next time. After that we toured O'town until it got almost too foggy to see much. Once back at Chez Ragged we lounged in the living room and discussed a multitude of topics. We finally called it a night at around 2 am. Saturday morning Cynical made cinnamon rolls and we loaded up for a caching trip around O'town. We found four caches which included one that eluded us last time. We got a bit peckish so we decided to go back to the house and have sandwiches as we were going to have cookout later with Cynical's sis, his niece M and his bro in law C. We had a good time talking and catching up. This was the first time I had seen Miss M in person. I had seen pictures but that was it, and here she was all 18 months of her. Miss M enjoyed looking at the furry brood of Chez Ragged, and I'm sure if she could have caught them they would have had loads of fun with her. The cookout consisted of steaks, grilled asparagus, baked potatoes, spinach salad and for desert strawberry shortcake. My belly was more than full by the time I got done. After the cook out we sat in the back yard until it it turned off a bit too cool and some drops of rain fell. We went back inside to break out the cards and try our hand in a few games of euchre. The night ended with Pilot/Ragged 2 Needlefingers/Cynical 2. We were too tired to break the tie so we retired for the night. Sunday we awoke to enjoy Cynicals scrambled eggs, biscuits and sausage. We then enjoyed some of Raggeds sliced strawberries and was ready to start our trip to Panther Creek Park and another Geocaching trip. Cynical and Ragged packed a picnic lunch to have at the park. We walked all over the park and managed to pick up 3 geocaches. After that we had the picnic. Turkey sandwiches with chips and fresh green grapes. Then there was a stop off at the pond where Ragged and Needles threw what was left of the loaf of bread out to the ducks and geese. We then returned to Chez Ragged to relax before our trip home. We were very glad to spend time with them and can't wait to do it again. Perhaps next weekend. (snicker)