Puppies (well dogs mostly)

Today is chock full of puppies (well mostly dogs but they seem like puppies). First, my office mate at work brought her adorable 10 week old puppy in to work! He’s a snuggle bug and very fluffy. He slept most of the day but who can blame him, it’s hard being so cute!

After work I picked up my aunt’s dog Buddy for 3 weeks while they’re in Africa. He had a comfortable ride to my house and a huge shock to find out that I now live with another dog (last time he came up it was just him). He and Fitz sniffed each other and Fitz decided Buddy was a toy when Buddy ran down the stairs (he likes to throw his toys down the stairs and chase them). Once they got comfortable enough to ignore each other I took them for a decent walk and then back in to chill in the A/C.

Fitz has now confiscated Buddy’s toys as his own and Buddy is passed out in my lap. So far so good, I’m optimistic that they’ll both sleep through the night ignoring each other and tomorrow working from home will be interesting (Fitz usually sleeps all day).

Fitz: What... aren't all the toys mine?

Buddy: Tuckered out

A day off with my nephew

Yesterday I took a half day off of work and went down to visit my sister and nephew. He’s just over 2 months old and he’s such a cutie. He’s tiny but he’s very alert and was looking around at everything all day yesterday. It was a great time to visit because he decided to stay awake all day again for me.

Say Hi Jason!

Let me help you, take that pacifier out so you can say hi.

Waving hi 🙂

It was a hot day so he spent the evening in just his diaper to cool off a bit and then it was on to muscle shirt number two for the evening and some tummy time (at which time he promptly fell asleep).
Tummy time!

And he's out 🙂

I even got to spend some time with him this morning (he was hungry though) before heading in to work.
Bye bye little jason, I will definitely see you soon!
bye bye for now

While I was over I added the tabs to the wall hanging for Jason’s room so they can hang it up. I also remembered to take some pictures of it finished since the only time I did it was with my dad’s camera.
Wall hanging for little Jason

Closeups - I designed the monkey based on one of the fabrics in the quilt.

The rest of the animals were part of the pattern.

Just one last thing to sew, a skirt for the crib. Should be a quick one and I was tempted to do it last weekend but it was too hot to go up and spend time in the sewing room!

Mid-Summer Slump

We could not motivate ourselves to do much this weekend unfortunately. Saturday morning was good, Ryan removed some more of the porch ceiling then we went to the lumber yard to get the rest of the wood for the window panels. After that we spent most of the day down at Kimball’s for my work summer outing which was a lot of fun.
Back home Saturday night all we did was a long walk and watch some more Castle.
Sunday wasn’t much better, no motivation at all. We did put up the frieze board (planed the wood first) and I got it primed at least. So the front is ‘done’ and ready to be fully painted. I still want to caulk the frieze board though before I do the second coat of paint.

Frieze board up

Today it’s just a short day at work and then down to my sisters to hang out with her and my nephew! I can’t wait! Then back to regularly scheduled programming.

Working from home (doggy point of view)

I think Fitz prefers when I go to work for the day instead of working from home.  When I’m home I make him hang out with me and he’s used to sleeping the day away, saving up his energy for the evenings so he can whine and bug us to go outside.

Today I left to go to the chiropractor around 8, came back by 9am and he was laying in bed just looking at me like ‘what, you’re back?!  I haven’t even slept yet!’.  There was evidence that he may have pulled a toy out (which is unusual), but he hadn’t slept yet.  He couldn’t even get out of bed to follow me to the kitchen, he just watched me like he didn’t know what was going on (maybe he thought he was dreaming).

Now as I’m working I’m getting huffs and loud sighs from his side of the room.  That pretty much means he’s fed up with me and is giving up on waiting to see what I’m doing (outside?  no.  food? no.  play?  no?  sleep?  no.  computer?  not interested (sigh) ).

Sorry Fitz, at least I can take you for a lunch time walk when I work from home, the rest of the day you just have to put up with me typing away 🙂

4th of July weekend

We had a wonderful long weekend with family. We drove out to Lake Pleasant Friday, getting there in time for a quick boat ride and a late dinner. Saturday the rest of Ryan’s family showed up and we spent the day on the boat, it was very relaxing. Sunday it rained on and off all day so we mostly stayed inside and Monday we drove home. It was a great weekend and since I took Tuesday off to get stuff done around the house it felt productive too.

Tuesday I got the cars vacuumed, the laundry finished up, the dog cleaned up and the front of the house painted!

First coat on!

I also got to enjoy the gardens quite a bit…

 

Red roses in bloom!

 

 

Raspberries and Lilies!

 

 

Daisies!

I have two different clumps of daisies that sprang up from last year, they  are blooming now, the ones I bought this year were earlier bloomers and are already gone but these yellow ones are quite a treat too!