Tinfoil chair

Sunday evening mom decided to head up to Auntie Jeri's house in Valley Center. For most of my younger years, Auntie Jeri had eight kids with her first husband. Summer after eighth grade she married Uncle Karl and had two more. With our mom's being close friends, us kids got to see each other quite a bit growing up and still do. In fact, Cousin Nathan, whose house I was at in Utah, is the youngest of the original group of eight. 

I walked into her house to see a really nice sofa chair covered in tinfoil. Yes, you read that right. Course, being our family I didn't think too much of it, but I did inquire before I left. 

Okay, first you need to know Auntie Jeri over the last decade has become a self admitting "Crazy Cat Lady." They currently have five. Now granted, Uncle Karl has a good size orange grove on the property, so I'm sure if there's any mice issues, the cats are taking care of it. They definitely have plenty of room to run around on. 

We spent a pleasant evening having dessert, talking of how everyone was doing. Mom and Auntie Jeri retired to her bedroom to talk genealogy, Deborah and I facetimed with Cousin Alice who is in Shang-hai right now. 

Right as we were leaving though I asked Auntie Jeri about the foil covered chair and she said she sat in it to get special transmissions from aliens that giver her secret coded messages telepathically. Now if this had been Cousin Charles (Cousin Glenn's brother) that wouldn't have surprised me at all and there would have been a small possibility he was being serious. (Even his own brother and sister think he is a strange bird.) Cousin Charles is his own post alone, so I might mention him later. 

Being Auntie Jeri though, I knew there had to be another reason. Auntie Jeri said that she had had several pieces of furniture ruined by the cats and she read somewhere cats hate tinfoil. So she decided to try this out of covering the chair with tinfoil and she's finding it works! The cats are leaving it alone. I figured this was picture worthy so I had cousin Emily take a few pictures to show off the chair and my new haircut. 

This is to show off my new haircut

Cousin Emily sporting her style of furs

Yes, you are seeing that picture right. That is a real live cat hanging around her shoulders. I asked her the cat's name and she said, "sheep." I said why not "socks" with the white markings on it's feet? Emily said there's that picture we see often in our church of Jesus carrying a sheep around his neck and shoulders. They figures since the cat likes to hang out up there, that's what they would name it. 

So if you ever wonder sometimes how I came to be the character/entertaining person you all think I am,  look at who I am related to and that should explain a lot.