a busy couple of weeks!

My macky dog, he had a stroke or something a couple of weeks ago and just was unable to recover so we made the choice to have him put to sleep, which was very hard on me as you know this little dog has been my baby for about the last 15 years or so. I miss him but I do know it the best thing for him. And having rocky the new puppy has helped as he keeps me pretty busy

Elizabeth and Odin, Odin loves the babies and is so good with them considering he's such a huge dog compared to them. As you can see the babies love him too!

Elizabeth is crawling now

prep work for the sidewalk from the garage to the backyard
last piece of the backyard sidewalk

Here's the dumpster we had set so we could clean up the yard and we filled that sucker right to the top. I didn't think we would

Sprinkling system and new grass for the backyard, we should have this all done this weekend
My garden spot between the house and the sidewalk.

So two weekends ago was spent filling the dumpster, we had so many piles of stuff to haul off we just figured this would be faster and easier. Then we finished the sidewalk in the back and moved the fifth wheel to the RV parking spot.

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Last weekend we decided would be a good time to have a garage sale so that anything that didn't sell we could throw in the dumpster before they picked it up. Which by the way went very well ( I made over $400.00 dollars for the two days) I sold everything really cheap and only had a hand full of stuff to throw away. plus I can get back into my walk in closet and the cupboards and the sheds. We really cleaned out a bunch of stuff ( I had stuff in boxes in the bottom of my closet which I had moved from the old house and never unpacked) I sold all of my books which was a lot easier than i thought it would be.

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I have been watching Elizabeth for Ash as she has gone back to work, which has been a lot of fun

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Kolby is in the process of moving out. she finished school completely on the 14th. Her and Daniel were going to have a may wedding but decided to instead take the money for the wedding go to the justice of the peace and then take the money and go on a really great trip. They haven't decided on when or where yet, but I will keep you posted.

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We have our first trip of the year planned, were leaving on the 5th of June for Northern Idaho and then come home, of course through Yellowstone. I believe the planning of these trips is sometimes as much fun as taking them. We'll be staying in Riggins Idaho on the 7th and 8th they have some kind of Whitewater festival going on so that should be fun then on to Coure D alene, then who knows. We did run into one little snag the fridge in the fifth wheel has been recalled due to the fact it can burn the trailer down (found out last Sunday on one of the forums) but luckily they were able to get it in the shop on Friday and will be able to get it fixed by next week.

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Well that's about it for now

the grass in the front yard is starting to come in and greening up

Chelle and I finished cleaning the pond last weekend and got it filled up and running
We got the grass in the front yard reseeded hopefully we will have enough water this year to keep it pretty and green

This is going to be grass in the backyard

Chelle was here for the weekend, she loves being outside and had a ball on her 4-wheeler

Water and sewer for the RV spot, we did get the cement poured on Sunday
To the left of the sidewalk is going to be my garden spot and to the right is going to be grass

We got the rocks all cleaned out
Chelle and Kolby

Rocket sleeping in the yard

Chelle loves the pond
my rhubarb is coming up

Crawling soon

Elizabeth thinks she needs to crawl, her parents will be in for it as soon as she gets it all figured out

Camping is coming

Grandma with her grand babies and great grand babies
A very good camper

Breakfast. the boys caught those fish on the river
Dirty but happy

The girls
Cooking over the fire

Relaxing
Drue and Chelle

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I am wanting to go camping so very much and it seems like it will never warm up enough to go so I decided these pics would have to do for now.

If it doesn't start warming up our memorial trip may have to be in the snow.

Saturday!

Just a cute rocky pic Our new RV spot complete with water, sewer and electric

Cement pouring AGAIN

my dirty filthy pond
The dogs love it when we work outside

View to the south east

Rocky playing king of the hill, he was the only dog playing so he won

view to the southwest
view to the south

1. worked in the yard Saturday it was so nice out in the morning, got another section of sidewalk poured. Then I cleaned out the pond. Then it got windy and I went inside .

today its cold and windy out again so not in the mood to go outside even.

Spring

Odin enjoying the spring rain

Now this is the life
Rocky's favorite spot

We don't have spring season, we have cement season and its that time of year again
The hookups are in for the fifth wheel finally, had the mulch delivered this morning for it

Here's what we did over the weekend

My freshly painted hallway
The new vertical blind ( this picture sucks but you get the idea)

The rocket man
The new lazy boy!


So your wondering what I have been up to for the last month, I have been spring cleaning

Here's my list of finished projects

1. carpets cleaned (we have way to much carpet by the way)

2. hallway painted (only took me 2 years to get to it)

3. windows washed, found we have 2 leaking windows that have been leaking for some time if it ever warms up we will have to get those re caulked.

4. all pictures, wall hangings, knick knacks, dusted, washed, or wiped down accordingly

5. Threw out the old couch with the broken spring and the ugly dark red and green rug, moved the love seat into the library, and moved the glider rockers into the tv room. Mitch hated the glider rockers so we went out and bought the new lazy boy, which we both agree, we love it and bought a new rug, which kinda looks like bamboo that I love.

6. replaced the mini blinds with vertical blinds in the Library, tv room, and the dining room. by the way I love the verticals and I think that they will be much easier to clean than the sucky mini blinds. and I really want to replace all of the rest of the mini blinds in the house which is no easy project as we have tons of windows.

7. cleaned the laundry room top to bottom, which by the way I should of left till last as that's where we enter the house and with all of the mud it really doesn't look like I have done it, other than the cobwebs are gone

8. have cleaned out most of the cupboards in the kitchen, cleaned out the drawers, and the fridge , still need to move the stove out and clean under it which has turned into a major undertaking as the gas line is to short to pull it out so it has to be unhooked, and there is no valve to turn the gas off and since the temps have been so up and down and I never know if we are going to need the heat or not.

9. touched up all the paint throughout

10. washed all the curtains and valances

I have been gathering up things we don't need, want, or use anymore and cleaning out cupboards, closets ect in the hopes that it will warm up and then we can have a garage sell and get rid of a bunch of stuff I have filled up the extra bedroom so this will need to happen soon. I haven't attempted anything in my bedroom, my closet is so full of stuff Its supposed to be cold and snowy on Sunday maybe I will get around to it then

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While I have been cleaning up Mitch has been working on finishing the garage, he has the power all run including all the plugs and switches in, the lights up, the garage door opener hung and working (woohoo) and the roof insulated and the sheet rock up, and most of the insulation in the walls done, We received our occupancy certificate on March 31. which all that means is now we will have to pay property tax on it. He also has finished running the sewer hook up for our RV spot. put the ties in around it and they delivered the mulch this morning for it. will be really nice to have a permanent spot to put the fifth wheel when we are not using it.

We also started pouring the cement for the sidewalks out back this last week, as we finally had some decent (meaning warm) weather. once that is done We will put in the sprinkling system and get the grass in.

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We named the new puppy Rocky and the reason for that is in his first little while here, he has been stepped on, bitten, run over, closed in between the door and the screen door, beat up by the cats (which by the way are bigger than him). He fell in the trench that Mitch had dug to run the power to the garage and was unable to get out. He fell through the ice on the pond and soaked himself. fell off my big bed. So he was off to such a rocky start , hahaha, Rocky just seemed to be fitting.

Things have since improved for him (so please nobody call animal control) he figured out how to play with the big dogs and not get run over, knocked down or stepped on. The cats have figured out he harmless, The trench to the garage has been filled in, and the pond no longer has any water in it. So were pretty sure he's going to be OK.

He's truly has the cutest personality on him and with all that hair he gets way to hot so we make up ziplock bags of ice for him and he sleeps on them. will have to get some pics of this soon it very funny.

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Well that whats been going on here ( I know this is a long post) will have more pics of the yard work going on and the garage, and rocky and who knows what else .

Hopefully it will include warmer weather pics