Grey Hair Freedom!

Another preparation...

So as part of our preparation for our big adventure I decided to make a big decision.  I’ve “ditched the dye” and am “embracing my grey”. After 20+ years of dying my hair I realized I was more and more quickly losing the battle with the greys.  Within days of dying my hair the grey’s would pop out driving me crazy.  Not just that, but because I’m cheap and honestly can’t stand to sit in a hairdresser’s chair for hours on end, I did it myself. Thankfully, my hair is very healthy and even though I used store bought “box dyes”, whenever I got a haircut the hair dresser would always comment on how healthy my hair was.  I was grateful that dying it frequently myself didn’t fry it.  What I wasn’t grateful for were the “surprises” left behind in my bathroom.  Even with strategic placement of towels on the floor and counter and ever so careful application, I’d inevitably end up with splatters of dye on the wall or a corner of the counter the towel didn’t cover.  AND, I often wouldn’t find them until the dye had nicely set up and dried making removal impossible.  And let’s just say the hassle of having to dye my hair while on our adventure and risk ruining the small bathroom in our beautiful RV was not something I wanted to do. Plus, in all honesty, I’m ever so curious to know how it will look.  Will it be more salt than pepper, more pepper than salt, grey or silver tone???  Oh the possibilities 😲 🤔

It’s already been 15 months since I last dyed my hair and so far, I’m so happy with my decision, how it is coming in and the freedom of not having to dye my hair every 4-6 weeks!  I can’t wait to see how far it will have grown out by the time we hit the road!  My plan is to get it cut to my shoulder/collar bone length sometime around late September or early October just before we’re set to head off.  By then it should be 3/4 “au natural” with only the bottom quarter remaining of left over dyed hair 😃.  I’ll be sure to update this blog with a new picture once it’s all grown out.  I figure in another 6 months or so.

Until next time/Hasta la proxima vez!

Current - 15 months of no dye
May 29, 2020

Some transition pictures...

Meet HoseHey and HeyZeus!

HoseHey and HeyZeus
May 2020

Near to the last minute we had a surprising change of plans with the kittens.  HoseHey (the darker boy pictured above) became available allowing us to adopt these two boys who were closer in age and freeing up “Odie” introduced in my last post for another family.  We brought them home on 
March 3, 2020.  Both boys have been settling in very nicely and have added the much needed energy and excitement our home had been missing.  I’m SO grateful we were able to bring home two.  They are great companions and love to chase each other around the house, getting into all kinds of trouble! We LOVE the sound they make running down the hallway, the fun they have with cardboard boxes, packing paper, q-tips, paper balls and of course many many feathered cat wands.  They can jump SO high! And their big brother Lou couldn’t be happier.  Sweety on the other hand, well I think she’s decided she’s just too old for such shenanigans.

We had fun choosing their names.  The lighter guy was already named Zeus and the dark one had the name Nacho although neither really “knew” their names yet.  With our upcoming Mexico adventure we thought Nacho might work and then wondered how we could make Zeus’ name more Mexican/Spanish.  Dan had the eureka moment on the ferry when we went to pick them up.  “I’ve got it...Jesus but spelled HeyZeus!”  It was perfect.

After bringing both boys home, the name Nacho just wasn’t sticking so we set out to think of a more suitable name that would go well with HeyZeus.  It didn’t take us long to come up with ‘Jose’.  It made perfect sense, suited him well and went well with HeyZeus.  Keeping the same unique naming we decided to spell it HoseHey 😊 

By the time we leave on our adventure this fall, both will be one year old.  HoseHey’s birthday is September 9th and HeyZeus’ is October 3rd.  By then we are hopeful the world will return to some semblance of normal.  We’ve decided that as long as the borders are open (US border is set to open June 21st) we are GOING!  We already had a plan A, B and C.  Plan A = Puerto Vallarta area, Plan B = Baja peninsula and Plan C = Southwestern US.  We’ll keep monitoring things and will know whether it’s plan A, B or C closer to our departure date.  October 19th is the date we plan to leave Canada.

With only 5 months left, we’ve been getting our final preparations in order.  This includes getting the boys comfortable in the RV.  Although we haven’t taken them out for a drive yet, we’ve been spending time with them in the rig with the air, furnace, generator or engine running.  The first experience was interesting...they can be VERY vocal 😳.  But as each outing to the RV passes, they are getting more and more comfortable.  They are much quieter now thankfully.  We can only hope they’ll settle in when we actually start driving.

We are so thankful to have the distraction of these beautiful boys during this pandemic. They have SO much energy and such personalities!  They’ve brought us countless smiles and laughs and of course loads of love.  They’re also getting used to their harnesses and are even learning how to walk on leash.  We look forward to walking them on the beaches in Mexico 🏝 

To close out this blog I’ll share a few fun video clips which are great for a smile  

Until next time

Hasta la proxima vez!

HeyZeus - coffee break time 💗 

HoseHey - coffee break time 💕 

                Backyard fishing for cats 🥰