Mary Ellen ... hope you all have a safe and fun camping trip!! I know I tease Patrick about working in the Casita all the time, but you are absolutely right, they could have worse "hobbies"!
I really don't mind what he's doing so long as it makes him happy!
My sister dropped by yesterday ... for coffee & to play with Toto! She wants a little one so badly and her husband never refuses her anything ... except ... an inside pet!!
He has always been that way ... puts his foot down!! Retired Army officer who would bleed green if you cut him!!
What he
doesn't know ... years ago I had a little peke-apoo that my sister absolutely adored and when he would be gone overnite little Brandy would go home with my sister for sleepovers!! Yep! Not only would she sleep over ... she slept
on Larry's pillow!! 
My sister tells him that when he dies she is gonna get
two Yorkies .... one for each arm!!!
She is toooo funny!!!
BTW ... Patrick shot a "trial rocket" off our patio last night [just to make sure they would work well in his fireworks display]!
The thing went up 200 ft. and sounded like a bomb!!! Toto was mortified!!
Took us quite a while to calm her down ... I was furious! We have decided that she and I will watch from a great distance!!