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~Living Life Large In A Small House On A Small Pond In Litchfield County!~ I cook, I clean, I show dogs, I try to do DIY, I blog and I eat! Follow me as I try to tackle the never ending to do list while still keeping my sanity.
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Long Overdue Gratitude Posts
I am sooo overdue on gratitude posts. It's been that sort of a month.
But here goes in no particular order of some the things I am very grateful for today
Bagel sandwiches with good cream cheese and veggies
Bagels and as close to organic as you can get eggs for breakfast,
The fact I do wake up in the morning,
The Oliver Wolcott Library in Litchfield with it's great DVD selection,
The town transfer station,
Multiple dinner invitations for Thanksgiving,
Being able to sleep in at least one day a week,
A car that works
Knowing the difference between being smart and being right.
Each and everyone of my dogs, past and present.
My hair stylist that covers the grey!
Good co-workers
There are a few more things, but I will list them later!
But here goes in no particular order of some the things I am very grateful for today
Bagel sandwiches with good cream cheese and veggies
Bagels and as close to organic as you can get eggs for breakfast,
The fact I do wake up in the morning,
The Oliver Wolcott Library in Litchfield with it's great DVD selection,
The town transfer station,
Multiple dinner invitations for Thanksgiving,
Being able to sleep in at least one day a week,
A car that works
Knowing the difference between being smart and being right.
Each and everyone of my dogs, past and present.
My hair stylist that covers the grey!
Good co-workers
There are a few more things, but I will list them later!
Monday, November 12, 2012
Friday, November 9, 2012
Today's post of gratitude
I am grateful that I have the common sense to realize that I am not perfect. How many people do you know think that they are?
Thursday, November 8, 2012
30 Days of Gratitude
I am darned lucky to have such wonderful friends and neighbors. Heather and Donald are truly the Best Neighbors In The World and take such great care of me and the puppies! You gotta have friends and they rock!
Storms and more storms
It's been a rough week, first Hurricane Sandy, now snow storm Athena. The snow storm dropped about 5 inches more than anticipated. The puppies have never seen snow, did not like it the first time I dropped them out, this morning they had a great time romping around the yard. It gave me time to clean the boxes and put fresh bedding in them. Two of the pups are nothing but shit boxes. Poop every where and poop all over me. I hate this stage of puppies.
I did get the runs shoveled out. So all the dogs are going outside in a bit. It's not as cold and as windy as it was first thing this am.
I did at one point have all the toys all over the floor, my shoes fair game to small puppy teeth. I just don't have enough out of puppy reach places to keep my shoes safe, not having a door on my closet doesn't help the situation either.!
Puppies are back in their boxes being quiet, tea is still hot under the tea cozy, I got the house vaccummed and right now, I feel pretty good!
I did get the runs shoveled out. So all the dogs are going outside in a bit. It's not as cold and as windy as it was first thing this am.
I did at one point have all the toys all over the floor, my shoes fair game to small puppy teeth. I just don't have enough out of puppy reach places to keep my shoes safe, not having a door on my closet doesn't help the situation either.!
Puppies are back in their boxes being quiet, tea is still hot under the tea cozy, I got the house vaccummed and right now, I feel pretty good!
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
30 Days of Gratitude
I am grateful that I have a skill set that enables me to work in this competitive job market.
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Gratitude
I am so far behind on my 30 days of gratitude
2) I am gratefull I have a working car
3) I am grateful I have good friends
4) I am grateful I have food on my table.
5) I am grateful my dogs are happy and healthy!
6) I am grateful I have the RIGHT to vote to choose my goverment leaders!
2) I am gratefull I have a working car
3) I am grateful I have good friends
4) I am grateful I have food on my table.
5) I am grateful my dogs are happy and healthy!
6) I am grateful I have the RIGHT to vote to choose my goverment leaders!
Monday, November 5, 2012
The Puppy Proof Pen Project
When I was in dog not coming into season hell, I decided to use a little Law Of Attraction. I have this short chain link pen that I call the Puppy Pen. It actually stinks as a puppy pen. The chain link is about four inches wide, perfect for small puppies to crawl through and perfect for not so nice PRTs to stick snouts through to terriorize puppies.It also had embossed pavers in it, perfect to catch lots of puppy poo.
One day this spring before Skye was bred, I decided swap out the smooth pavers in front of the big dog run for the embossed pavers in the puppy run. It was dirty kind of heavy work, I had to move the pen, pick up the pavers, move the pavers, pick up the other pavers, move then, set all the pavers in their new spots and try to level them out (If it sounds like I'm whinging, I am!).
But I managed to get it done and celebrated that with a large gin and tonic and a handful of generic Advil.
There was one last thing to do, which was to puppy proof the pen.What it needed was some hardware cloth to surround it. I had a number of people say they had extra hardware cloth that I could have for free. I love free, what I don't love is people who don't deliver on free.
A trip to the Home Depot to pick up a twenty five foot roll of 1/2 inch hardware cloth. I did look at poultry wire for half the price and plastic hardware cloth. I ended up with the hardware cloth. I just felt better using that instead of something else.
I got my tin snips, a bunch of cable ties and proceeded to wrap the cloth around the pen. I was pretty proud of myself, I managed to cover any and all escape options and fasten the cloth to the pen with the cable ties and very little swearing.....
I also ended up taking one of the spare panels from the old PVC ex pen and made an additional door behind the door to keep the puppies in. Do you know HOW hard it is to keep 5 active Lakie puppies in the pen when you try to do things like put food in or add or subtract pups?
The Pen Before The Wrap
One day this spring before Skye was bred, I decided swap out the smooth pavers in front of the big dog run for the embossed pavers in the puppy run. It was dirty kind of heavy work, I had to move the pen, pick up the pavers, move the pavers, pick up the other pavers, move then, set all the pavers in their new spots and try to level them out (If it sounds like I'm whinging, I am!).
But I managed to get it done and celebrated that with a large gin and tonic and a handful of generic Advil.
There was one last thing to do, which was to puppy proof the pen.What it needed was some hardware cloth to surround it. I had a number of people say they had extra hardware cloth that I could have for free. I love free, what I don't love is people who don't deliver on free.
A trip to the Home Depot to pick up a twenty five foot roll of 1/2 inch hardware cloth. I did look at poultry wire for half the price and plastic hardware cloth. I ended up with the hardware cloth. I just felt better using that instead of something else.
I got my tin snips, a bunch of cable ties and proceeded to wrap the cloth around the pen. I was pretty proud of myself, I managed to cover any and all escape options and fasten the cloth to the pen with the cable ties and very little swearing.....
I also ended up taking one of the spare panels from the old PVC ex pen and made an additional door behind the door to keep the puppies in. Do you know HOW hard it is to keep 5 active Lakie puppies in the pen when you try to do things like put food in or add or subtract pups?
The Pen Before The Wrap
The Pen After The Wrap.
The pen is not quite as spiffy as the "big dog"runs, but it is paved with smooth pavers (easy to scoop poop, bleach and shovel snow out of). The damaged Mason end panel with a tarp over it makes for some shelter from the rain. I will see if I can find a small dog house at Tractor Supply Company for better shelter.
Time start to finish for both parts of the project, about 3 hours. But the pups now have a nice safe place to hang out in the yard.
Thursday, November 1, 2012
Things I Hate
1) Undercooked pasta
2) People who don't read e-mails to the end.
3) Knee socks that sag
4) Having to wear reading glasses
5) Being stood up.
Please note, this is not a complete list.
2) People who don't read e-mails to the end.
3) Knee socks that sag
4) Having to wear reading glasses
5) Being stood up.
Please note, this is not a complete list.
Today's Thought.
So I decided to participate in The Thirty Days of Gratitude project I saw Dogs Don't Eat Pizza Blog. I've spent a good portion of my time recently feeling resentful about things in my life. Things I have no control over, things I have control over that don't work out, and things in general. It really is a negative way of thinking and I wanted to change that.
I read somewhere that it takes 21 days for something to become a habit. I will probably need the thirty days!
I woke up this morning in the most frightful mood. I feel mean and want to be mean to someone! Yeah, that frightful. Then I remembered all those people in New Jersey, on Long Island and on the CT shore that have lost everything-homes, cars, possessions, those people without power and won't have power for days more. Yikes, how selfish one becomes in a mean grumpy mood.
I am grateful that I woke up this morning in my own bed with my dog to a house with power and food in the fridge..
Makes you think doesn't it.
I read somewhere that it takes 21 days for something to become a habit. I will probably need the thirty days!
I woke up this morning in the most frightful mood. I feel mean and want to be mean to someone! Yeah, that frightful. Then I remembered all those people in New Jersey, on Long Island and on the CT shore that have lost everything-homes, cars, possessions, those people without power and won't have power for days more. Yikes, how selfish one becomes in a mean grumpy mood.
I am grateful that I woke up this morning in my own bed with my dog to a house with power and food in the fridge..
Makes you think doesn't it.
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