A day in the life of the Draper cats.

For those of you wondering what This and That do all day here it is.
This and That usually get up with Robert at about 4:30 a.m. and eat and whatever else they do (I am still asleep at that time). Then, after Robert has left for work they run (literally run) around the house making lots of noise. They play for probably about an hour or more and then come back to bed with me and somehow crowd me in our queen size bed. When we all get up at about 10:00 a.m. or so and they usually go outside for a few hours. Then they come inside in early afternoon and take a long nap! They are cats you know. They go back outside in the evening until dusk. Then for the evening they lay around on our laps and That usually meows a lot to get back outside, but we won't let her. Then off to bed when we go.
Oh, to be a cat! (It actually sounds a lot like my days.)

Everyday life with the Drapers.

Well, Robert is back in school and I am working every weekday. If you are curious as to what we do on a daily basis think no more.
Robert goes to work every week day morning at about 5:15 a.m. Then depending on the day either comes back to bed and sleeps a little more or goes straight to class. Then he does homework throughout the day and spends time with me and plays with This and That. I am lazy and get up every morning between 9 and 10. Then I eat and lay around the house until I have to go to work at 3:00 p.m. (Sometimes of course I have errands to run and things to do during the day, but we are talking typical days here.) I get off at 8:00 p.m. and then Robert and I watch Scrubs on TV while I make dinner and we eat. Then we do whatever we need to do to finish the day, Robert finishes up homework if needed and I do house work or play on the computer. Then off to bed usually between 10 and 11. So, yep, you are right you have just wasted a few minutes of your life, but hey at least you can put your mind at ease now.
Our lives are not so mysterious now.

Old Faithful 09.01.08

For Labor day this year Robert and I decided that we better go and see Yellowstone Park. We have lived here about 5 years and never taken the time to go. More specifically we went to see Old Faithful. I could not handle living so close (1 1/2 hours) from it and never seeing it. We have a wonderful friend, Camille, whom I work with that we drug along. It was great fun! We left at about 10 o'clock in the morning and went and picked up a picnic lunch at the store and headed to the park. It was a very chilly day and when we were leaving the park we saw rain, hail and snow.

We saw several hot springs and a few geysers.

The colors on these are amazing.

Old Faithful being faithful and amazing.

Don't we look great! Camille Bennett and Lois



We had a pretty good video, but I can't get it loaded right. Old Faithful shot for about 5 minutes which is one of the longest times that it does. The park ranger said that on average it is anywhere between 3 to 5 minutes. So, we got a pretty good show!


The wildlife we saw. Not much just a few bison and some cow elk and their calves.

We had a discussion with Camille about how amazing God is to be able to create so much diversity and beauty on this planet! We loved it! Robert and I felt an immediate ease when looking at all the trees and green. We knew we weren't in southeast Idaho anymore.

Camille loving the smell of rotten eggs. (Okay the smell was not so bad)
Yep, that is Old Faithful behind us. We had to wait about 30 minutes so, we just hung around.


A very enjoyable day and we are glad that we went. Maybe now when April comes and Robert graduates we will be able to get out of Rexburg.