I'm waiting with bated breath for the quote on doing my bathroom.  I hope it is in my budget it's something I've wanted done for 15 years.  Yesterday I hacked down a bush out front that I always wanted to get rid of!  It's so nice to be able to make all the decisions.  I spent hours on Saturday and Sunday just cleaning up out there and things are shaping up.  I did a lot of the work in the fall.  I had hoped to mow the lawn today, a two hour chore but it decided to rain.  Fingers crossed that a neighbour did not forget that he said he would come over with his chainsaw and take down three little trees.  These things are an irritant here.  They are just bascially a weed and they turn into these bloomin' tree things.  They pop up everywhere.

Wendy I've always been the one to do the work in the house for some reason.  I mapped out the whole fuse box one day and I changed every switch and outlet in this house myself, so I hear ya. But I think it is very good knowledge to have and can never be too much.  I would love to be able to take a course on home maintenace and learn little things about plumbing and small repair jobs.  Just the proper way to do things.

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When I had to do some peering a couple of years ago, I had to get rid of these huge holly bushes that had grown halfway up the windows and the stumps were huge.  They had to get a pickup in and pull them out.  But now I have a nice landscaped front of the house with boxwoods, minitaure roses, these purple spiky things, and some other stuff.  Looks so much better but you do have to keep them pruned and cut back or they can get out of hand.

I have no grass in my backyard because of a huge maple tree but have two sections that I have planted hostas, cannas and various flowers.  Mostly do hanging plants but those have to be done every year, so thinking of things to add that I won't have to replant every year.  Wish I had dug up some of my folks' peonies and replanted them.  Also was thinking about a beautiful vine that was grown on the patio outside of their retirement community ~ looked it up and it's called hummingbird or trumpet vines because of the trumpet shaped flowers that attract hummingbirds but I've heard it can be very invasive if you don't keep it pruned and cut back.  I have some places along my fence where the soil is not so good but those vines would work great, I think.  Anyone have any experience with them.
 

Hooray, Oscar.  That's great news!! 

Oscar, I'm so sorry.  Just when everything was falling into place for you.  Do you think there's a possibility the new owners might keep you on?  It would be easier for them to leave the basic employees in place if they intend to keep running the business as is. 
Thankfully we have a pet clinic near us that is really cheap on the basics, like shots and spay/neuters.  They only charge $20 for an office call if you want to actually see the vet, so it makes it affordable and they're always packed during their walk-in clinic hours.  How does Tank seem without his brother?  When we got our Chihuahua our Jack Russell was more excited than we were, lol.  He obsessed over that puppy for 48 hours, wouldn't go to sleep, wouldn't stop sniffing him, just stayed right there with him, it was love at first sight.  He thought we got the puppy for  him.

Well Wendy as you can guess, I went to see him and that's that, he will be joining our merry little band.  I'll make it work, lol I can stand to miss a few meals.  I'm not really sure about any sale and the ramifications.  It would be absorbed into a much larger company so I think my position at least would be redundant.  Well see. I'm just staying positive, or sticking my head in the sand! Lol. It would take some time is the offer is put in place to wind down so I'm not going to panic quite yet.  Tank was a super big bro with Winston and I expect he'll be with Milo, and the name is a perfect fit for him.  I had a cuddle found his sweet spot and he was in bliss have his ears rubbed.  They walk like little drunken sailors.  I might go back up in a couple of weeks, he's about an hour away, and he can come home a around the 10th of June.  Fingers crossed the bathroom will be completed by then.  The vets around here are so pricey. The only time you see a discount is $10 rabies shots at one place.  My vet charged me $136 Monday for bloodwork on Tank.  $32 of it was a blood collection fee. Fortunately, knock wood he has always been really healthy, only gets his heart worm bills and his shots once a year.  I had this blood done because despite 3 miles of walking a day he is 130lbs.  I thought maybe a thyroid problem. Nope, so I'm just going to reduce his food bit by bit.

Bottomline I've decided the right thing is me!  It was amazing seeing them, looking like little guinea pigs at 3 weeks and the other litter at 6 wks looking like mini Tanks. Actually the other litter was split the little hussy had had two fellas, naughty girl and had 2 from one daddy and 3 from the other. Quite evident as daddy one was a berner daddy two a standard poodle.