Projects, projects, projects

Before

Better.

My next project, well, I have two projects. One is easier than the other. I need to pick up some rustolium and give the  new-to-me deck furniture a going over.

 It will brighten them up and protect them. I'm just going to go with black, I thought about yellow or violet or baby blue, because I like those  - but I decided that if I want to brighten up the scene I can get some pillows or something of if I shift the table a little I could get an umbrella.

Black is easier to live with long term.

I am also going to get serious about the  paintable furniture in the living room. I want an orange and after looking at a lot of oranges, I think maybe the tangerine end of the orange spectrum, not the pumpkin end. The pumpkin end is too brown and looks like crap with the gray. I think the tangerine end of the spectrum is more the right shade, there's pink and red in it and it goes with the other colors. Hopefully.

And of course, I need to rebuild the living room and see what goes back and where it goes so that I can reclaim the downstairs bedroom before it gets hot and I have to move downstairs. So. Projects.

How to wash your snow globes

Prior to moving my snow globes into there new home I had to get them cleaned up and ready to go. They had been living kind of rough for a long time and now they are moving up in the world, I want them to look the part. I hummed The Jefferson's' theme to myself just then.

We had to start somewhere

I know, disgraceful.

 Scrub a dub dub, one globe in the tube

Disgraced, ignored and ashamed no more. Cleaned up and ready to move in their new home tomorrow!

More thoughts

Today I'm trying to decide if I want to pursue trying to find an orange rug for the dining room. I know they are out there but I'm not sure there are any orange carpet remnants out there for me to find. I do not think carpet remnant shopping is quite as fun as china cabinet shopping.

I also do not think that there will be as many choices available.

Did you know that area rugs are very expensive?.  Specifically large area rugs are incredibly expensive! Target has a very nice area rug that would be great and its in my range but I would have to get two of them and that is not in my range, but as pretty as it is, it might be doable.

I bought a tiny version and its really nice. I like the orange and the gray is lovely. I think a nice gray would be good for the living room. I don't think an orange rug, especially one of that size, would go with the burgundy couch and chaise. I think it would just be too much color and make the room too dark. If I was able to find a lighter orange, which would be cool, might be too light and end up as stained and ugly as the current carpet. I think I should just go with a mid-tone gray carpet remnant and a lot of nice orange through the room. Thoughts?

More cabinet drama

Friday after work I hit two thrift stores and found five possible kittens for my friend searching for kittens and one possible cabinet.

I went to the store initially  because they said had this nice piece, which I would have bought on the spot.

Liars. This one was on Craigslist and I wanted it. They all ready sold it, and never removed it form the site. So customer friendly. They also can't answer their phones, deal with their email or be bothered with customer service. Lovely folks. They didn't have the one I came there for, but they did have one I could live with.

Its nice and it has some of texture I thought I wanted. But not enough and it was not really what I wanted. Also they never got back with me on a price and that cost them.

So. Saturday I was up at the crack of noon and on the road in the rain. All Day. I went to six different stores and trekked as far as Durham in search of the perfect cabinet. There are a lot of thrift stores out there, and if you are looking for some stunning mid-century lamps or some design textbook quality mid-century bedroom furniture, I can hook you up. I was not having luck finding my cabinet.

My first stop got my hopes up

It was certainly nice and it was in my price range and it would look great painted out. I had high hopes for this one - but I wanted to see what else was out there.

Answer? After hours and hours and a lot of miles, not a lot in my price range or to my taste. The one I really liked at the Durham Rescue Misson Thirft Mall, was all ready sold and the other one they had mad me sad.

So, the end of the day I went back to the first store and looked again. I still liked it but I saw another that I liked better. It was more than I wanted to spend, but they were open to negotiation and we made a great deal. Its gorgeous and solid mahogany. I'm not going to have to paint it or mess with it in anyway. Its just going to be pretty. I can't wait for it to be delivered. Yay!!!

Friday Cat Blogging

Knows everything

Choices, choices

Today I decided that I am absolutely going to get a china cabinet or failing that, a curio, to hold my entire snow globe collection and if its large enough, also my little animals. I have disgracefully  neglected all of them  for far too long.

I have a lot of snow globes, not that anyone would know that,  because for years they have been hidden upstairs on the attic bookshelves, that are now, moving forward are  going to hold actual books. But first I have to find the right cabinet.

There are many choices. Among them :

 $85 (would get painted out, would look so amazing) no longer available

 $150 (would not get painted, probably, the best choice most likely, would have to negotiate a better price)

 $125 (would get painted, would also look amazing)

 $600! (would not get bought)

$129  So cool and so different, maybe too curved for the space? .(to paint or not to paint?)
(too small for my needs, sadly, took myself out of the running)

 



Does anyone have any input? They are all the correct size and I have contacted most of them.I will have to borrow my brother and his very large SUV to get most of these. Hi Broskey!

Disgruntled Employee

Happy Administrative Professional Day!, yesterday.

In years past, management has taken the secretaries to a nice lunch and handed out some office "thing" and you know, Go secretaries! Thanks for being so docile!

This year I got a African Violet in a plastic pot and note card from my boss thanking me for my service to the people of the state of North Carolina. Do I strike you as someone who wants  an African Violet? Did you know they are really hard to take care of? That they really can't live outside? They don't produce anything. They die if you don't use the right tone of voice with them.

I can't have plants inside! Cats eat plants! I don't think they can safely eat violets! One of the intake people took custody of it and is going to put special AV dirt in it and put it in a better pot. Its going to live in out in a common area in a window with nice Eastern exposure. It can't even stay in my office.

I feel so appreciated. I hate the teapartiers for making it so state workers can't even get their heads patted.

After work while Rocket and I were going downtown we ran across a rickshaw bike guy and he gave us a free ride down Fayetteville Street. Rocket and I really enjoyed it. That made me feel good. Yay Me!.

Garden Update 4 2015

I posted the After pictures yesterday, I kind of jumped ahead because I was excited. Today we see how it got from here to there.

We start

I am locked out of the closet of my shed and I can't get my rakes or shovels or anything else I needed to level the garden spaces post tilling. This was not ideal, I ended up going to Big Lotts to buy a rake - they only had leaf rakes, which while nice, but not what I needed. I had to go to Wally and hope they had something that wouldn't snap in my hands. Fortunately, they offered two levels of rakes and I went with the slightly less cheap version, its nicer than my existing one, to my memory, and it didn't snap in my hands! It did a nice job leveling the dirt and letting me get the weed barrier down.

This year I did not go with the drip irrigation for the first time since I started this gardening habit. I decided that it was just a huge amount of work to get set up and then to get un-set up and after throwing away yet another set of drip hoses, I decided that I needed to learn about my options.

I bought a very nice sprinkler last year for vacation coverage and it is a jewl. It worked very well and offered options and I said to myself that there was no reason to not move it up to the starting line up for this season. So I did.

It waters both gardens and the yard and the tree and hanging baskets to be named later. There is a lot covered in its reach. I have for years read that its very bad to get the plants wet when irrigating them. It brings bugs, the water can potentially knock off blooms and it wastes water. I get it.

However. I had to run the drip hoses for long periods of time because I had to hook multiple hoses together and the longer your hose is the weaker the flow becomes. I had to have two hoses hooked up to have enough water pressure to get adequate water pressure to fill the monster hose enough to water anything - and then it was never balanced and some parts of the garden ended up soupy and others were barely damp. This is not great.

So, now I'm going to go with top down irrigation. Rain comes from the sky! The plants deal with it. We'll see if there is any change in the quality and quantity of the harvest this year.

The genuine rain from the sky finally stopped falling and I got the rest of  garden in the ground. This year I planted leeks for the first time, I had to look up how to do this and I'm glad because I would have just planted the pot they came in and waited for leeks to happen. They would have happened, but they would have been disappointing. They would have been leaky not Leeks.

I looked online and learned that unlike all the rest of the plants that company sells that you can't just plant the pot the pot they come in. You have to separate  all the individual baby leeks out of the leek bunch and plant them one at a time , and there are a lot of individual leeks! You make a tiny trench and you put the leeks in it, as time goes on you build a cone of dirt around your leeks so that they stay partially covered - like potatoes, this is called "blanching". Its to keep the greens flavorful and supple, unlike potatoes where you keep them covered so they don't turn green and poisonous. Viva la difference .

 some of the leeks, the pellets are alfalfa, I used them liberally.

 Corn, soil amended with store boat bag dirt, manure dirt, alfalfa pellets and coffee grounds

Everyone all together

Okay, totally off topic, I was trawling craigslist and I found this . I don't want this, I don't need this, I'm not sure if I would be comfortable using it  - but  isn't it cute? I mean, if you were into solo camping or just liked being able to go without having to make reservations and just wanted to be able stay where ever you end up or  didn't think it looked like a very well appointed coffin,   or went on over nights to somewhere that didn't have room for you for whatever reason...this would be ideal. It even has a tiny kitchen! I kind of wish I needed one.

Garden Update 2015 3

When I wasn't doing an extended dance of joy that the painting was done and the painters were finally gone and I had my house back, I put the garden in.

But first I had to get my veggies, to to decide which varieties to get. I stood there in the stands at the Farmers Market going from one to another checking out the plants and deciding what I needed (a few of each) and how many of each ( some of these and some of those and a few of them) this sauce variety verses that sauce variety and aren't all sauce varieties pretty much the same? I had been getting a super sized sauce variety from Burpee that grows a very large fruit, and I liked it and the tomatoes it produced, but it was expensive and took a looonnng time to reach maturity - which left it open to all kinds of harvest lightening predators.  Faster  to the freezer is better in a world full of things that steal my vegetables.

So now I a lot of small  sauce tomatoes. And I got them in the ground. And I saw I needed more. I changed the lay out this year and  that opened up a lot of new land for tomatoes. I had to go back to the Farmers Market to get more.

and I said "Hmmm. I like those for my uses, but I have people who like the other, bigger varieties. I found three different large, sandwich tomatoes and I got those in the ground. I have a lot of tomatoes now. A lot, a lot. More than I need. But, I use what I have and the more I have to put up, and if I end up with a lot to share, that's good too. I had to get more cages too, now I have all the cages.

And I did it all in the rain. It rained the whole time. It was a joy! The ground was nice and soft and my baby plants got a lovely, gentle start  (not too warm and overcast) and though all the digging, and there was a lot, because you need to bury tomato plants deeper than other vegetables- I only found one grub! This was fantastic news, one year I planted winter cover because I heard it was good for the soil and fed it over the winter, so I did it because lets hear it for healthy soil! What I got in the spring was a jammed tiller and a garden full of grubs and a terrible harvest. Now instead of winter cover, I amend, amend, amend. I feed the garden compost, bags of new dirt and as many alfalfa pellets as it can swallow.And I get no grubs and decent harvests.


I didn't  find  grubs but I did find worms by the handful! I decided  that this  spoke to happy, healthy, well airated soul that will produce bountiful happy vegetables. I found more  with the peppers than with  the tomatoes.


And then it was time for my peppers! I love peppers! I changed the lay out so that my peppers could have a better life away from the faster growing, taller, shade causing, sun hogging tomato plants. I also had to buy more of those than in years past. Darn.

I don't cage then because they don't get as big as the tomatoes and they seem to do better without their assistance.  Also note, still raining.

I also picked up some corn plants, I wasn't going to do corn but there it was and I saw it as a sign. While I was getting corn I wasn't planning on, I got some leaks. I'e never grown leeks so it will be a learning experience. They are not planted yet because the corn is going in a container and it needs to be filled with lots of dirt ( genuine store bought dirt, thank you very much) and very amended because corn is a big eater. I don't want to do all that in the rain. The onions I just haven't decided where they are going to go. Yay for learning!

My Own Private Eldon, Day 5-6 : The Finishing!

We started here, more or less.

I was hoping for some better before pictures but I either never took them or they are on my phone and I am too tired to go fetch them. Suffice to say, it looked different before.Once I get the whole room put back together, I'll do a real search and I'll post the before and afters.

The curtains are pretty crucial to the whole look and they won't be up for a bit. I am bit by bit going to reintroduce my pictures and chochkies back into the room but under very controlled circumstances. The painted surfaces need to cure for a while and its been pouring for days so I'm in no hurry to get them restocked. The same goes for the walls, I think there are going to be hard choices to be made with the redecorating of the spaces.

The end tables will be painted burnt orange soonish and in June, when it comes back in stock at Wayfair, I'm getting a fab new arc lamp that will really light up the room. I got very nice new curtain panels for the dining room at Wally and they are going to be lovely in the space.

Right now I'm just enjoying how pretty everything is and how happy I am to have my house back from Eldon. He was a very good worker ( not so  outstanding I don't have a punch list, his son is not the worker Eldon is, that's for sure), but after six days of them, I'm glad to be alone in  my house again.

I know a lot of the old stuff is not coming back because I am so looking forward to shopping for this new room! I have an artist I really like and I think I'm going to get a print of her work in honor of the rooms new look. Also, a new rug, because the old rug looks like utter shite now. 

I'm like Santa, making  my lists, setting my priorities, looking for bargains. Yay!

Art Dog

Friday Cat Blogging

My own private Eldon, day 4/ Garden 2015 update 2

Today "we" are still sanding. Four days of sanding! They did paint the ceiling yesterday, so I know Eldon is sleeping better.  He is going to come to the house at lunch Friday to hopefully, finally get to painting, at last. He  also plans to be here at 8am Saturday morning.

Which means I am going to be up and moving at 8am Saturday morning too. I have to say that being up and ready to greet Eldon at 8am Saturday morning was not really on to-do list for Saturday. However, it does mean that I will be getting the garden in the ground this weekend. I could have bought plants this evening if I was not PARKED IN AGAIN ELDON.  Now, I will get them after work from the Farmers Market, at least, most of them. There are a couple of tomato varieties that they sell at Wally and they have worked well for me in the past and I'm not going to mess with what has worked.

I'm still up in the air about the corn. I'm not sure.

But first I have to get the weed barrier down, and I'll do that first thing. I still can't get into the broom storage so I can't get to my rake and I really need to rake the garden so its more flat and less not flat. I want it to be flat. No amount of weed barrier to going to correct the surface I am working with now . I'm going to have to do it by hand? I could use boards like they do for wet cement? That would work to smooth it out? Yes, I think it would. Hard work is good for us.

But back to Eldon. Today it finally occurred to me that they used a vast schmatta to cover the garbage on the dining room table but left my  couch and chair open to all the dust and debris  and now they are filthy and I'm going to have to vacuum the hell out of them whenever I get the space back.

Also. Should I paint the furniture this weekend? When I am not working like a dog on the garden? This is the best time, really when I think about it, they aren't in use, I have lots of nice daylight and they have plenty of time to dry before I really need then again. I would have also bought paint this evening IF I WASN'T PARKED IN AGAIN, ELDON. 

My Own Private Eldon, day 3

Tuesday I wore shorts when I walked the dog, because it was warm bordering on hot. I had planned on wearing a skirt to work on Wednesday because it had been so warm I didn't want to wear pants, but sadly my skirts,  no longer fit. Which is a good problem to have, but not at the last minute. I had to change to slacks that do fit- which turned out for the best because this morning when I picked up the paper it was cold!!  Not warm! Its April! And then it never got warmer, all day.

In Texas, once it got warm it was warm, it was contractual thing. It was warm, it got hot and that was how it went. It wasn't warm and then cold, and then warm again and then maybe in several months time it got cold, but none of this "warm on Tuesday, cold on Wednesday", this is nonsense. The weather was ugly mean and nasty, but it followed the rules like an adult. It did not screw around with us. If I put the long sleeves away I put them away because there was no chance in hell that I was going to be seeing them again until deep into fall.

Today, if I had walked the dog after work, I would have worn a coat. A coat. But I didn't walk the dog after work because it was raining. Again. Or still, it had stopped but it started again. But now its cooler than it was and that sucks. My plan for the week the painter was here was to take our walk early and get dinner downtown, I get my Chinese, and good walks and we get home in time to meet the painter. But. It insists on raining and raining makes my plans all soggy.

You can't eat outside in the rain, you can't walk the dog in the rain. You can't do a whole lot in the rain. This sucks. I did get my Chinese but it wasn't the Chinese food I had planned on and I had to leave the dog in the car.

And I didn't get a walk.

The guys are painting and so far they haven't unplugged my sat - but this time I have a plan, I have my computer and I have a movie and I am good. I might even finally figure out how to stream that new Tina Fey show on Netflix. I am not helpless, I am trapped in the office and there are strangers in my house, but I have  a plan, and in a few days, I'll have my house back.

My own private Eldon, Day 2

Today Eldon brought reinforcements!  . His son. They are sanding with sanders. They also unplugged my sat again so I am at a loss. I did my homework for him  though, he was quite horrified at all the paint we got on the ceiling during its last painting - he hates the popcorn and really, really wants me to pay him to remove it. I told him I don't see that well and the popcorn ceiling isn't the visual roadblock that it is for some people. However, I did spring for ceiling paint to cover up the sloppy traces of yellow paint on it  that add to his all ready deeply offended sense of aesthetics.

Sanding, sanding, sanding.

It rained, but it waited until Dog and I had just started our walk, so we went to Wally instead. When I came back, the painter was waiting, I hurried up to turn off the alarm on my phone and got bags out of the car and sprinted inside - The alarm wasn't ready yet.

It always wants me to test it . It passed! It passed and I got to the control panel before it called the cops.  I didn't feel too dopey. It was a test! I tested it!

The painters son drives a truck with a confederate flag where the front licence plate would be if this were a real state. I think I'm going to get a Hilary sign for my front yard. He is also singing and was playing a radio. I can't watch my TV and he gets a radio? I am annoyed. I hope someone eggs his truck.

Sanding, sanding, sanding. I didn't know I had that many surfaces.

Rocket and I eventually got a real walk and it was nice. On our failed walk earlier, we met one of his little friends and the friend snarled at him and jumped at him! It was not fun. The dogs person was horrified, but everyone was okay and we went on our way. The other dog is an Akita and as pretty as they are, they aren't the friendliest dogs and I wasn't really surprised, frankly, I'm surprised when we run across an Akita and we don't get snapped at.  The guy is really nice and he was thoroughly mortified by it.  I felt him, I knew exactly what was going through his mind and how scared he was. It sucks.

Sanding.

On our  more successful walk later after it stopped pouring,  we met two guys walking four dogs and it was a much better meeting. I did notice that Rocket had his hackles up and I think its because it was remembering his earlier run in with his friend. These new dogs were very nice and it ended much better.

Did I mention I can't watch my TV?

Good God! With the  Sanding! Shite.

My own private Eldon

The Paint is happening. Its the Painter-ing! Tonight in our first installment, Eldon showed up on time, which was a good start. And then he threw up in my yard.

I know this because I had to go to Wally to get the dogs meds - Now $40 less then I was paying before plus the added benefit only being one pill instead of four. And this time I didn't leave in a huff, and I remembered to pick up protean bars. I still need wet dog food, but I can get that tomorrow when I make my daily trip to Wally, because doesn't everyone go to Wally every day?

Before the painter blew chunks, it turns out to be a case of Dinner at Hardys, so he's not hung over or packing illness, but just a bit of bad dinner judgment. A slab of the plaster next to my  front window collapsed ( would be covered by curtains, he's going to fix it up to make it smooth). Water damage, there is more of it around the other windows too. I told him the woodwork was in tough shape, I guess I failed to disclose the plaster was a little fragile in places. The fact I didn't know it was fragile in places probably isn't the best defense. Its an old house, shit happens.

I for got to mention yesterday that I have a new hero. It is my wheel barrow.

I heart my wheel barrow! Thanks to it I was able to unload and transport ten  forty pound bags of dirt from my car to the backyard. This would have killed me if I had to do it myself, with the wheel barrow, I hardly broke a sweat. I did discover that it could only carry two bags at a time, but it got the job done. If you don't have one, get one, they are life savers. Even if you don't use it all the time, its like the tiller - a super useful tool that you will use for years.

Speaking of gardening, I came to a descion about the watering. I'm going to use the sprikler instead of going with the soaker hoses again. Its just so much work getting them in place and I have this really great sprinkler that works like gangbusters and I have been happy with it when used elsewhere in the yard. It will water both garden areas and limit the number of hoses I have scattered all over the yard.

I will be interested to see how the as-yet-unpurchased plants feel about it long haul.

New Curtains

Ta Da! New Curtains! Aren't they awesome? I am so happy with the way they turned out. They will be re-hung after the painting is finished, so they will be long enough When the walls are gray  - sometime this week! Everything will really come together.

I did a lot of work this weekend and I still didn't get everything done. I spent Saturday on a historic home tour in New Bern and it was really fun, I love those house tours. I spent Sunday trying to get as much done at my own semi-historic home as I could. I  vacuumed the downstairs, mowed the back yard, amended and tilled the gardens and took the curtain hardware down.

I'm still not done. The bathroom needs my attention and I should clean the kitchen, I'm not going to get to it, but I can try to make it less embarrassing.

Friday Cat Blogging

Rained out

Very electric evening. In  that there is lots of thunder and lightening and I fear for my electronics. That being said, I turned said  electronics off for their own safety and my piece  of mind. So... yeah.  I just now thought about going on the laptop battery and unplugging it from the dangerous current , sometimes the stupid, it burns.?

I was useing  a pillow as a pillow but I switched to the Dog because he is firmer  and offers better support. I've  never  worried about my pillow farting , so there  is a downside to the idea. The pillow also never jumped when it heard thunder.

It is  raining  like hell, something tells me I should go and check the basement. ..

I think it's going to be my neglected  basement ferns lucky day, I'm pretty sure they  are going to get a drenching. I moved them into the floor so they can take advantage of what's going to happen. Damn.

Nothing happened, the rain eventually petered out and there was no flooding of the basement or watering of the neglected basement ferns. A good cleaning of the bottom of the stairs is now added to my to-do list.

 It's been raining like a bitch  off and on and I've  been very lucky until now. Now there is already a stream forming. Damn it, which became dang. Hell becomes he'll. Shit  becomes Shut. Bitch  becomes Birch.  And then we get Duck  that became Suck.  It changed the nice word duck to the un -nice word suck. Which means it's either learning me and my word choices or  it's even thicker than I thought it was. 

The spell check didn't  like "stupid" either.  The programmers  must have  been the very specialist snowflakes.

Penis is okay, vagina is okay. Breast is okay. Bottom is okay, ass is not. I am really not a 12 year old boy. I'm going to watch Backstrom  in a few minutes and no 12 year old would ever even think of doing this.

Greening Up

Today I came home from work and worked with the dog on his rolling wheel and then sat outside and read my kindle on my phone. I made a good dinner and took dog for a nice long walk and we met some very nice dogs and I came home and emptied the dishwasher and stripped and made the bed and sorted laundry. I also watched NYPD Blue.

 I did not go to Wally, even though I really need to and I did not actually do any laundry or run the dishwasher, although I still might as I have run out of spoons. I should either be more frugal with my spoon usage or buy more spoons or I could use disposable spoons, but, that would lead to more waste and waste is waste and where does it end?

 Or I could run the dishwasher. But being more frugal with my spoon usage might not be the worst idea to pursue. I am wasteful with my spoons, I use them too often out of habit when I could in theory, use another tool - but I wouldn't know what that tool would be as I use  various size spoons for all my stirring/combining needs. Forks are not good for eating yogurt, for example - however, they work fine for combining wet and dry dog food, so there is a place I could  conserve spoons and utilize another tool on a daily bases so I might avoid having to run the dishwasher because I have run out of spoons.

Conservation is good for us.

New Season

What is my excuse tonight? We had a staff meeting and it makes my day an hour different and it throw my schedule all off.  Also instead of coming home and making dinner for the dog and I and then going for a bracing walk, the dog and I fell asleep on the couch. He was in daycare all day, it throws his schedule off too.

And then we watched the episode after Sipowitzes wife is shot on NYPD Blue and we got sad too, expesally during the part when Gay John and Andy embrace and Andy tells him he doesn't hold any  bad feelings toward him  for inadvertently setting up the situation that got his wife shot (because he was the worlds most naive adult male and couldn't see crazy when it was flapping it swings and  screaming about energy beams and government implants in front of him) . The dog and I had to sit there and sniffle a little.

I think the next time I am feeling bright eyed and bushy tailed, I am going to take the electric blanket off the bed and retire the flannel sheets to the closet for another year. Its just this side of getting too warm for all that armor and its time to dress the bed for spring.

I may even buy myself some new light weight sheets! I have a whole wardrobe of flannel sheets, mood flannel sheets actually, they hall hang out together and I think they get together and do service projects while I'm away. They work well together, all good friends.

My other sheets are sad and lonely and are ageing out. I really am running a kind of nursing home for sad sheets at this point. They always seem okay, right up until their elastic stops working and there you go, they  end up as dog bedding. The elastic on my flannel sheets takes years to age out, because I buy nice flannel sheets, I should stop cheaping out on  regular sheets, they might last longer. Sheets can be an investment piece if you aren't a careful shopper but if you are a careful shopper, you can buy investment quality sheets with the investment. I will buy sheets and I will be careful to not buy more flannel sheets, even if they try to trick me and put pink flowers on them - because they do that! tricksters!

I did a brief look-see at online sheet sales and now I know why I hold on to such old, sad, worn out sheets! Because sheets are expensive and nice sheets that you can not also use as sandpaper, are really expensive.  And also, Wal-Mart sheets are expensive too and  as a bonus,  are made of inferior quality sandpaper!

Oopsy! I did housework instead of working on an entry.

I didn't do the current laundry or put away the outstanding laundry. I did decide what I am wearing to work tomorrow and filled Rocket and mine pill cases. I'm still trying to nail down if I am going to take Rocket to daycare tomorrow or not, he had a busy weekend and still seems kind of knackered so he may very well not need to spend the day running around , but on the other hand, its good for him to be around other dogs and stay socialized and an exhausted weim in a happy weim...

I do have a staff meeting tomorrow and it tilts my schedule. I don't like having my scheduled tilted. I like my schedule as flat as the plains. I've goten used to it and now with the time change, I don't have to worry about the staff meeting causeingus to miss our walk because it would get dark before I get home.  And I have been just rescheduling my lunch and going home later - my day starts later so I take lunch later and Rockets schedule is more or less undisturbed - This is what I have been doing for the last several meeting Tuesdays and it has not been a problem. We get our walk .

The truth is, I want to eat lunch at Burger Yucky and the only way I can achieve that goal is to have a daycare day. If I take him to daycare I can get a look at their schedule, they have a scheduled posted online but I don't think that it is going to work for my weekend plans as they are now. I need them to have the same hours for Saturdays as they do for weekdays because otherwise, dog is going to go with me and spend a lot of time cooling his heels in my car in the garage by himself and he hates being by himself. We'll see.

Easter Monday

Yay back to work!

Completely non-controversial pictures of Rocket being the Easter Weimie!

And now one totally controversial picture... Hide your children s eyes!

Burned down the Weimeraners Owners page on Face Book. Spurred these comments

I discovered the wonder of the Hide feature, which disappears these idiots from my airspace and the added beauty of swimming in a pool with a life guard. There are rules and the rules must be followed, I followed the rules and they did not. On the upside, at last count 145 people thought Rocket was cute.