Not the Backpack

Hello Friends,

Looks like the garage sale is getting more stuff.  I can hardly stand the thought of all this stuff going somewhere else.  I guess if it brings happiness to someone else, even if it brings a fraction of happiness to someone else as it has to me it will be OK.  But the latest addition to the garage sale pile almost made me cry.

 I think I am going to be sick.  Can you see the sick feeling I have on my face? 

MOM has now added the backpack and our backpacking tent to the garage sale pile.



I can't take it.  I gotta get out of here.  "MOM I'm going outside.  I can't watch this"

"Watch what Goosie?  Is Cat in the Hat on TV?"

"NO! I can't watch all this stuff you are putting out for the garage sale, it's just to painful."

"Garage sale?  Who is having a garage sale and why are we putting stuff out for their garage sale?"

"I thought we were.  You keep piling all our fun adventure stuff up but we haven't gone on one so I thought this was all going in a garage sale."

"You are the poster dog for the definition of 'Silly Goose'.  We are not having a garage sale.  We are going backpacking for several days in the middle of nowhere Idaho."

"REALLY?!"

"Really, really."

"THANK YOU JESUS!"

"So we are really going?"

"Yep.  And you know what else?"

"What?"

"You can bring a friend."

"I can?  Oh which friend to bring?  It will be hard to decide.  Sneaky or Cheeto, Rex or the Squirrel with no name.  I don't know which one."

"I know which one.  I have already sent the invitation."

"Who is it?"

"Your gal pal Belle."



"Belle?!!!!!!!  (That's me leaping for joy).  Belle gets to come with us!  You are the best MOM in the whole world!  Well, you were before, but now you are just over the top, tails and shoulders above the rest, the BEST mom!"

"I don't know about that.  What I do know is I love you and we are going to have a beautiful adventure togoether."

"What about your knee?"

It's still attached right?"

"Yea."

"Well that is good enough for me."

Well Friends I am one hap hap happy Goose.  I do get to go backpacking with my MOM and my gal pal Belle gets to come with me.  What more could a Goose ask for?

Oh yea, my very own headlamp.

I'll be gone for a while.  If you don't hear from me by Tuesday send Bert to come find us.

Blessings,

Goose