4:30 am – that’s what time Beyonce decided to wake us up this morning – and he didn’t stop crowing, just kept it up. At one point Ryan scared it off with a broom for a short while (very short lived). He slept on our porch last night…
And yes he pooped all over my window sill and that chair. I can’t wait for Animal control to come and put out a humane trap for him today – i really hope he gets caught before I get woken up again.
I won’t finish the title but any bloggess fans out there know what that is supposed to be… we had a visit from Beyonce the Rooster (again a bloggess reference) and it is not leaving evidently.
Sunday morning (our last day of a long weekend, with big plans to sleep in – add to that I’m sick and barely slept Sat night) – 8am – cockle-doodle-doo! For 30 minutes straight! I finally took Fitz outside and there’s a freakin rooster IN OUR YARD.
We ‘scared’ it a house down but it kept coming back all day. It likes our yard/house for some reason, hanging out on each side (including the driveway), front, back, luckily not the porch itself yet. This morning 8am – the wake up call sounded again until I took Fitz out and we scared him away again. Fitz really wants to eat the rooster 🙂
I slept great last night thank goodness, I’m feeling worlds better today (which doesn’t mean much since I felt like an elephant was sitting on my face all day yesterday – my eye balls themselves even hurt – it was horrible :(). Today I at least feel like a human with a cold so I’m going to sleep some more and relax today, hopefully by tomorrow doing a 10 hour day on the computer won’t be agony (so far 10 minutes isn’t great but I had to email work).
Oh yea about Beyonce, I called Animal control yesterday (which is actually closed on Sunday so it was just the police) but they said animal control doesn’t do roosters – only dogs, skunks and racoons! Not helpful at all. She said we could call fish and game and maybe they would do something so i might do that now – i don’t want it still around by next weekend when i’m trying to sleep in again.
We got a lot done this weekend! Saturday was a short day because we had a dinner obligation up in Concord but we did manage to go car shopping and I got a new car! I got a 2011 Acura RDX which is a crossover SUV. It’s nice and small so it’s easy to drive and it handles just like the Audi. It’s got some great features (still have my heated seats and sunroof!) but now I also have USB input (for ipods), bluetooth connectivity for my phone, backup camera and more storage space.
I do plan to get a remote starter installed before winter, but for now we’re going without that feature (I think it will be cheaper to get it installed elsewhere than through the dealer).
Today we worked on window panels, the dogs got the run of the porch again and unlike Fitz who mostly hides upstairs when we’re working on the house, Buddy likes to follow us around, not at all bothered by the saws running. Just wags his tail every time we talk to him 🙂
The window panels are really coming along. We started with the window caps on the cupola. We still have the very top piece of those that we need to make, but we got the first 2 cap pieces made and installed all the way around! Then the sill we installed almost all the way around (one small piece left). Finally we worked on the lower boxes and finished those all the way around. Since it’s hard to explain, here are the pics.
And here are the boys, it’s been a long day (hah!) and they are cuddled up in the A/C. Buddy doesn’t even try to cuddle with me on days like this when we’re home all day. If we’re gone all day he likes to come up on the couch and cuddle. He’s been very good being left alone though, I’ve got my camera on them and they mostly sleep with interruptions to bark at strange noises (buddy) 🙂 I’m so happy they get along so well, I love having 2 dogs!
Work has been a bit busy lately because of an impending deadline but after working a bit Sunday and late tonight I am feeling ahead of the game (I was feeling on track but ahead of the game is safer since you never know what will happen the last 2 weeks of testing). I’m feeling good enough that tomorrow night I’m taking the night off to quilt since Ryan isn’t home anyway.
I’m not sure I’ll make it but my goal is to finish the top to the crib quilt. Fitz is not liking all this rain, he doesn’t get his long evening walk when it’s raining like this and it puts him in a whiny mood. Luckily a short walk and some training (he can jump through a hoop now that’s about a foot of the ground so he really has to jump), tires him out enough for bed. Maybe tomorrow he won’t sleep in so late (he’s my alarm clock and he got up late this morning) 🙂
Well this 3 day weekend to work on the house couldn’t come along soon enough! We should be able to wrap up the electrical now that the exterior lights arrived and we’ll be ready for insulation. And none too soon because we just filled our oil tank after one month of using the heat consistently and that was 344 gallons of oil over December – yikes!
We have someone coming today to give us a quote, hopefully they can do the spray foam when it’s this cold out. If we can’t get it done soon I may be convinced to put up some fiberglass insulation temporarily – anything to keep the breeze down in here 🙂
On a side note – hello winter – we got a raging snow storm this week. And of course our snowblower wouldn’t start! So all day Ryan tinkered on and off with it and I shoveled on and off a bit (front walk and bottom of the driveway). Finally we went and got a new sparkplug and that fixed the problem – we also changed the oil as it needed it. So by 5pm we were snowblowing the 2 ft of snow that had fallen – not an easy feat! But alas it was done and now our snowblower is happy again (we hope).
So 3 day weekend here we come, got some old projects to wrap up (wiring) and some new projects (demo the closet) all in prep for insulation. Hopefully we’ll get a little relaxing time too. Man my hands are cold – back to work!
Quick weekend recap – we didn’t really do anything this weekend 🙂 On the flip side we did get lots of relaxing done – can check that off the list! My work holiday party was Saturday night so we did at least get out of the house a bit – even dressed up.
Also – no picture yet but my carport is up and bungeed to the back porch stairs because the ground was too frozen to really stake it down well. 🙂 Bring on the snow – well – Wednesday – wait till Wednesday when I plan to work from home… then bring it on.
Today I got up early and got into work nice and early like I used to. That meant I could leave before 5, get up, put away all the rest of the xmas ornaments (of course I forgot one!), then go to the gym with Ryan. We’ll see how long this productive streak lasts – any bets for a 1 day streak???
And now it’s just about time to play some StarCraft II with my brother before heading to bed early – hoping I can get up at 6am tomorrow but not counting on it.
in my car that is! I’ve gone through 2 winters with no heat in my Audi. On Saturday I went over to my uncle’s house and we changed out the thermostat and replaced the valve cover gasket (oil has been leaking into the first spark plug area.
My car now heats up to the half way mark (which it hasn’t done in 2 years – it was running cold) AND when I’m driving I have heat – real heat – blowing out! It doesn’t seem to stay hot when my car is idling but that’s fine with me. I will finally not freeze on my drive to work.
Sunday was mostly a day for Christmas preparation. Since Ryan had to work all weekend (he did not join me on Saturday), I spent the day Sunday doing all the Christmas shopping I don’t do online. Unfortunately part of that shopping (for a Christmas tree stand) was not very successful. Every place I went they were sold out. Finally at the second home depot they had some plastic ones, however we soon found out that these stands are very low quality. The screws are very hard to get in (one we couldn’t get in at all). Finally however we got the tree standing up and filled it with water. And then as soon as I moved the tree, all the water started pouring out the bottom! The stand is completely defective!
So the tree is out on the porch now so it doesn’t pour water all over the floor. I ordered a metal tree stand online (we have one but it’s too small for this tree). Hopefully the tree will survive for a few days outside until the new stand comes.
No house work this weekend but we are just about ready for Christmas now (just waiting for some gifts to arrive in the mail to be wrapped, everything else is wrapped). Our tree is not decorated (now we need to wait for the tree stand to arrive) but the house is as decorated as I could do with half of it demolished 🙂
And it’s back to work tomorrow, hopefully not a busy week as i’d like to have some evenings home for a change 🙂
I got home from California Friday night in time for Ryan and I to go out to dinner and relax for the night. Ryan had to work all weekend so it was nice to have one night to relax since I had been gone all week.
Saturday I went shopping with some friends up at a cross stitch store in Grantham, NH which really got me inspired to stitch again. I actually have been stitching a little lately, last weekend while recovering I stitched a small gift for someone for Christmas and I started a small kit I got at Celebrations for the plane ride to CA. So while shopping I bought some fabric for a set of seasonal pieces I’ve been wanting to do for a while and when I got home I started on it.
Today I finished cleaning out the livingroom/diningroom area so we can start on the electrical work now. All the trim and extra wood had to be moved to the basement and then I vacuumed and organized everything else. As soon as Ryan has some free time we can get the holes drilled and run some wire.
Once it got dark I settled in to stitch for a few hours. I’m working on Autumn in my Garden by Mirabilia (there is one for each season). I’m stitching this on 40ct hand dyed linen.
Now it’s off to bed and a short week at work. Monday is a short day this week, I’m meeting up with my sister for lunch and then watching my nieces for the last time this semester. I can’t wait to see the girls, it’s been too long!
Lack of posting has been due to the flu. Last weekend Ryan had to work all weekend and Sunday I came down with what i thought was a cold after we did manage to clean up leaves in the morning.
Unfortunately by noon Monday (I was at work to get some important tasks done) I knew it was more than just a cold and I headed home around 2 to sleep for 36 hours straight under the influence of NyQuil. On Wednesday I awoke from my stupor in less pain and finally able to get out of bed, I spent the day on the couch napping, this time not taking NyQuil which indicated I was on the mend for sure!
Now that I’m back to work I’m a little behind and have been busy. I hope this weekend to get a little done around the house, Ryan has to work again but I will figure out some things i can do before I head out to CA for the week.
This past weekend I met up with Ryan in Denver Friday night.
After long stressful weeks we decided to just relax for the weekend (well Saturday, Sunday we spent the day flying back). So Saturday we watched movies most of the day, even venturing out to watch How to Train a Dragon in 3D which was better than expected for both of us (and I was looking forward to it). I’m reading the book currently and it’s definitely different but very well done.
Now it’s back to work for the week and I have some car repairs that need to be done this week. Car inspection today (Monday) and I need to call a repair shop about some noise my car is making tomorrow. If they can take the car in I may work from home tomorrow because the noise/feel of the car was really bothering me today.
This weekend we have some house plans! We’d like to grout the bathroom and also hook up the electric to the bathroom (i know – i know!!! i should have done that by now but come on!). We also have to mow the lawn and maybe i’ll do a little outdoor work, not too much to do though since I haven’t started new gardens this year.