tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2510930875083856332024-03-19T17:20:44.055-05:00Life as we know it ...RANDOM THOUGHTS ABOUT A MYRIAD OF THINGS.Sharonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01072230562102464012noreply@blogger.comBlogger1112125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-251093087508385633.post-58235706290089676612017-12-03T12:33:00.000-06:002017-12-03T12:33:09.807-06:00<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I took Joey over to LSU at a dog doctor ("Dr. Pichau") working on Joey's terrible issues all over his body. His whole body was a mess -- his hair was messy - places of it taken off, and his next in front was terrible pinkish! And his ears were also just awful. They sure were messy and he constantly shaked his head so his ears were probably itching and it obviously felt wrong to him. Poor guy. And his neck was also awful - his hair there on his neck was gone and his next was just bright pink. Not good! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But now he's just SO much better. It took more than three years when they fixed him up. And I still have to give him SO many pills -- 7 in the morning, and 5 more in the evening. I guess I have to keep giving him all those pills for almost another month. But he is SO much better these days. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">And soon Gigi's birthday will be coming -- over on December 13, 2017 she will be 4 years old. (As a Cane Corso she was born back in December 13, 2013 -- we bought her in January 2014 -- but I'm not sure how old she will actually be.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I don't know when Gigi (Cane Corso) and Joey (Staffordshire) will be living how long. But since I'm only 73, I'm pretty sure I can live long enough to take care of both of them! </span><br />
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Sharonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01072230562102464012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-251093087508385633.post-85104338516370690692017-09-27T20:24:00.001-05:002017-09-27T20:24:44.757-05:00We had horses for years . ..<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">but all three of our horses are now gone. Both Mark and I weren't able to ride over the past few years, and it had gotten to be a real problem about going out there to the barn and dealing with them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But I'm really glad we didn't just sell them to people we didn't know. Instead now Shadow, my really gorgeous horse, is living at our best friends, Janet and Mike. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">They had five horses already, but when I let her know that we had to remove OUR horses, Janet said she'd really like to take Shadow. Shadow is younger and much taller that our other horses, so she hauled her up to their place and she's just fine up there now. I love seeing her when we visit them often.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And the other two horses - Duke and Arthur - are now over at the place just across the road where they get people to come practice riding on all their horses -- they have something like 20 or so horses over there. People who come ride can eventually let those folks buy a horse from them if they're good enough to handle a horse. But since there's less than a mile away, we can go over there occasionally and watch folks riding those horses we sent over to them. For instance, here's a very young little girl who was about to ride Duke. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When we go over there, we can pet our horses, but if someone eventually decides to buy Duke or Arthur we probably wouldn't be able to visit with those horses any more. But it is much better to have them over there than we would have been able to sell them to anyone ourselves because we can watch anyone riding who might want one of our horses. And they don't let anyone buy one untill they ride over there so those folks can be sure they'd be able to handle them correctly. So eventually at least when those folks who have them selling them, at least that would be folks who would have been good about dealing with them. They would have been riding them there so they could check them out. So those folks never sell a horse unless those people are good at handling them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Anyway -- two previous horses are over there now. But Arthur has a bit of a problem in one of his feet so no one was able to ride him when we were over there last weekend. But there's taking good care of him and keeping him inside so his feet will be getting better.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">As for us, we've been doing SO much about changing out the barn and all since the horses are gone. I guess I'll show you when we're doing over there later on - but I haven't taken any photos about that at the moment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Well, I'll try and remember to fill out this "Life as We Know It" blogger sooner because I've let SO much time gone before filling this up again today. Sigh.</span><br />
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Sharonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01072230562102464012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-251093087508385633.post-5748042554728003662017-07-25T15:48:00.001-05:002017-07-25T15:48:04.866-05:00Hey - I'm finally BACK!<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I lost my computer -- who knows why . . . I turned it off over night, but when I turned it on in the morning again like usual over SO many years it simply wasn't working after all those years! Good grief! So I bought a new computer, but I wasn't able to get it working as the old one was. We got a company that would come to our home and fix that computer for me but that wasn't possible yet. So I took that computer over to Computer Heaven over on Oak Villa Blvd, just off of Florida Blvd just past Airline Highway. And they repaired that old computer, but then I had to let the other guy at the house get it working again as it did previously. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Since the guy who came to the house couldn't do what needed to be done, but those guys over there at Computer Heaven replaced all the things that weren't working and I got it back again just a few days later. But then the guy who came to the house came back and fixed everything up from both that replaced computer AND the new one that I had gotten as well. So now I have TWO functional computers. I feel much better because if either one goes out like that one did a month or two ago, I'll still have another one that I can get online daily while someone works on the one that goes down. So I feel a lot better because I use the computer EVERY day . . . generally two or three times a day! </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">See - two huge computers! And I got a new monitor that I'm using on my repaired computer so the previous monitor is over at that new computer there on the left. But the new one is 32 inches wide so I can get two things at a time. Of course the previous monitor there on the left that's just 24 inches wide can also put in two things at a time as well but the right one needs to be narrower. But hey - SURE glad to have them both!</span></td></tr>
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Sharonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01072230562102464012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-251093087508385633.post-43147797719974278362017-06-09T21:04:00.005-05:002017-06-09T21:04:42.075-05:00Good Grief!<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">My computer that was perfectly fine for about the last 10 years was suddenly not working. So I finally got a new computer -- but this one isn't working the way the old one did. It's a real problem! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But at the moment -- I'm afraid I'm having to work on this computer <u>again</u> at the moment! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So I sure hope this computer eventually works well - as the old one did. And if it works well I'll fill up this Blogger "Life as We Know It" again soon. Sure hope so! (Wish someone I know would know more about computers and come help me!) </span></div>
Sharonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01072230562102464012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-251093087508385633.post-22534243922020835062017-05-09T21:55:00.003-05:002017-05-09T21:56:09.876-05:00So much has been done finally!<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Someone came by a couple weeks back to let us know that they were about to install <u>both</u> of our driveways coming in from the road across that huge drainage ditch running along the front, and all the way across the front of our large property eventually. And they also come to install some driveways in front of that four acres right next door where are relatives are going to build their homes eventually. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Our relatives bought that acreage a couple years back, but both couples are about to build their houses as soon as they retire from their businesses far away from Louisiana. Mark's sister Vicki and her husband John currently live just outside of Washington DC (DC is where her husband currently works for the federal government). And the other couple currently live over in Mississippi since they're both working for the Veterins Administration over there. But since they both used to live here in Louisiana, both couples will be building their houses right next door as soon as they retire -- and they'll both be back in Baton Rouge (well - St. Gabriel, actually). Anyway, they needed driveways installed across that drainage ditch in front of THEIR properties so that they could drive in and especially that the guys who build their houses will also be able to drive in! So we were all very happy to have them installing those things last week!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Those containers are much larger than the older one was in our front driveway because they want all that water to move through that area over to the water line along the side of our property. And we sure are glad about that since we really don't want water raising up into our house ever! It didn't happen last summer, but the water raised up <u>very</u> near the front porch that's about two feet higher than the property.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So our horses raced up to their barn and they just stayed there on their porch where they only had about 3 or 4 inches of water on that porch -- WAY less than out in the pasture!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Of course this blogger hasn't been installed for quite a while since I've been working on things at the house, then just resting! But I'll try and remember to add something to this blog <u>much</u> sooner again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Yesterday we got that rug installed out there in that new bedroom on the old porch, but once that floor was complete, today we put the bed and chairs and tables out there, too! Of course we still don't have those marble window sills and walls, but hey -- it feels pretty good out there already anyway!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Of course, we haven't put that heating/air conditioner in there yet so it isn't perfect temperature just yet, but that's going to happen very soon as well. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And I also plan to put some pictures up on the walls and put in some plants as well. But hey -- it won't take all that long now for me to do that these days. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So it's nice now that in the next year or so when our relatives come back down to Louisiana (one couple lives in Mississippi, and the other in Washington, DC currently) so they can build their new homes in the acreages right next door. Thus they can live here with us in our house while they build those houses. Since we have FIVE bedrooms now that we got that one built out on the old porch it'll be perfectly fine for them to hang out here while they build. Looking forward to getting them down here soon. We'll be SO glad to have them living next door eventually instead of living SO far away currently.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And hey -- any of you friends and relatives in other states can come down to visit anytime now as well. Looking forward to seeing you all!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We've been doing SO many things around this place over the last few months, but we're finally getting there. Whew! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">As for me at the moment, I'm listening on YouTube on the computer to the wonderful Al Stewart music I like so much. One of my favorite songs is "The Year of the Cat" . . . you could hear that if you like at: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And for that matter, you could also hear All Stewart's "</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Time Passages" song, too, at </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When I'm working on my desk and not adding anything on the computer, that computer turns itself off, but if I put music on YouTube the computer WON'T turn off so I like that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Anyway, this weekend we pulled out the plants that got ruined over the winter and we put in new Azaleas and some other similar plants out in front of the front porch:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But Gigi now is over on the other end of the porch and will not get into that room anymore!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But see below -- we have it SO much better now. But we still need to put in all the furniture and it'll be still another month until Jenkins Tile & Marble come over and install all those marble window sills and walls below ALL those windows. Can't wait! But in the meantime, we cleaned up all those walls and added wood over the floor boards, then added a rug over top of that! And I got ALL those curtains that are only the length of the actual windows. And although we installed just two actual windows, the rest of those windows are just glass. Love it! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Oh, and we also put in roofing out in the back yard AND added a 12 foot building. I can keep things inside that little building that won't get wet out there anymore. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Jerry comes by every weekend to clear out the horse barn and pasture, but he repainted all those porch walls and even the sides of those windows as well as both doors! So that area is looking much better now -- but of course the windows and all that marble on the window sills and all the walls below the windows -- even the new floor out there -- haven't been installed just yet. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But we ARE about to put in all those windows soon. The glass company is coming over this Friday to confirm the sizes (we told them the size of what we needed installed, but they insist on checking it out themselves before they bring that glass over here). We've bought LOTS of those PVC white quarter round sticks to place around the windows to keep that glass in place. So we'll be installing those on the outside edge of the windows. Then when the glass company places those glass up against those quarter round sticks, then we'll just place additional quarter round sticks on the inside of the glass as well. Then that'll hold all that glass in place completely. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">And we'll also be getting two actual installation windows as well (instead of plain glass) so that if we will want to open windows we'll have two of the 11 windows that we will be able to open. Also, since we have a heating/air conditioner it has to go out through a window so we knew we HAD to have a window there next to it, not just glass.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">And John Schexnaildre, the guy from that garage floor experts store over in Port Allen, will be coming over next week and putting in that really good flooring over top of those old porch floor boards. It'll be pretty much white! Nice. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We decided to repair that back porch and turn that part of it into an interior room -- the porch that I just noted in this post previously. So we asked Jenkins Tile & Marble to install the marble window sills and possibly install marble walls below all those windows as well. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So one of the Jenkins Tile & Marble store guys came out and checked it out and determined that they could install <u>all</u> those things I wanted. I was pleased about that because he would be installing all those marble window sills AND placing marble <u>walls</u> below all of those windows as well! </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">BUT I found he wouldn't be able to come install all that stuff for THREE months from then!! Good grief! That Jenkins company is working on SO many houses that got flooded back in August so we have to wait until they're done repairing ALL those houses that they got requested back in August. I thought they could do ours sooner since it would probably take way less time to complete our porch as opposed to all those house repairs. But they just put us on the list next after all those others. Sigh. But since I really want them to fix all those things for us, I'm having to actually wait until probably MARCH! And they made me pay $1900 dollars before putting us on that list! Then I'll complete the rest of the payment <u>after</u> they finish installing all that marble. Well, I sure can't find someone else to install it sooner since they got ALL that money. Sigh. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We removed all those white metal things things that kept the dogs from breaking the screens. But those screens are going to remain out there until glass windows get installed anyway. </span><span style="font-size: large;">Jenkins is going to remove those yukky window sills up there in that picture that the dog chewed on and THEN replace them with those marble window sills </span><u style="font-size: x-large;">and</u><span style="font-size: large;"> put in those marble walls below all those windows as well. Those grubby curtains then will get pitched out and nice new ones be replaced. But those gruppy ones can keep the porch private and generally keep rain out at the moment anyway. Then once the marble window sills and walls are installed, Capital Glass will come and install thick glass windows. That'll make it a regular interior room out there then. And then we'll also have someone come put in regular flooring like inside as well. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the meantime, we're going to repaint all the walls and doors that the dog got screwed up. Then in fact maybe we'll just get someone to install that epoxy floor then instead of after March! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Anyway, that porch will be turned into an actual household INTERIOR room eventually. But it's just taking SOOOO long to have it all done. Sigh. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So as a result, we have removed everything from out there so that once the windows are done, a company will come and install new epoxy flooring. But as a result so many things that we removed from the porch got set into the living room. And that stuff is all going to have to stay in there until that room gets finished up in March. NOT good!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But hey -- it was up only a couple days when it got windy and it broke down! Good grief! We apparently should have gotten much thicker tarp. So Mark took that thing back down and he and Jerry went back out to that building out in the back pasture and hauled up a huge tarp-covered tent that we had installed for the horses before we got the them here in our own property. They couldn't fit into the barn where we were renting (enormous horses there!), so we set up that tarp tent so that the horses could go inside and eat hay etc. during storms. Then when we brought them over to OUR house they could just come up to the porch outside their barn or go into their paddocks if they wanted to in their barn as well, so they didn't need that tent. So when it rains they ALL just run up to the barn and hang out on the big outside porch or in their own rooms. So that previous tent wasn't in use any longer -- it was just stuck down in the building out in the pasture. Well, when that tarp we had on the porch got screwed up, we decided to put that big tent that we had for the horses previously in our back yard. That way it will not only let Joey go out when it's raining, it will also keep all our things out on the back concrete area nice and dry as well! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It's pretty large, but two of those boards were broken -- that's why some of that roofing is pulled down on the end. So we've ordered a new roof AND some side tarps that we can roll up or down whenever as well. But although that roof has a couple of little holes near the center, it really does keep most of the rain away currently anyway.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And now we're getting Affordable Gutters to come install gutters across the BACK porch. (They've already installed them on the front of the house AND on the barn as well.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">You might also view that behind that tarp in the photos above is a new fence that keeps Gigi out of the main back yard. You can actually see her there beyond that tarp in both photos above. She really likes that area of the property more than the place where she used to go out. She likes all those giant trees over there. They're Live Oak trees so the trees remain lovely ALL year -- the leaves don't even come off during the winter. And she can view the horses more over there AND she can contact the dogs next door as well now. (That's what she's doing in those photos -- she's viewing those dogs from the side fence.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Anyway, for the next couple months I guess we'll see what we can do about repainting those walls in that porch room, and we'll get that heater/air conditioner that we received a while back and figure out where to install a new electrical portion for that thing. (The only single electric now would be over behind a bed that'll be put in there, so the heater should NOT be right next to the bed!) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But hey -- since I've been sick over the last few weeks I guess I won't be spending time to do things out there until it gets MUCH nicer out there than what it is now -- it's about 30 degrees during the way! NOT good down here. But it's supposed to be up in the high 70's by the end of this coming week. SURE hope so!</span></div>
Sharonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01072230562102464012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-251093087508385633.post-33411014699549020612016-11-13T00:22:00.002-06:002016-11-13T00:22:53.969-06:00Well, SO many things have happened lately - and even MORE will be happening !<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">For one thing, I went over to the Orthopaedic Clinic over there on Bluebonnet Blvd. last week where they did my back injection for a third time! My back doctor, Henry Eiserloh, has been really great ever since I had serious back pain decades ago.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The second time they did that back injection was back in 2011 and I felt perfectly fine until just a few weeks ago. But after that injection last week, I felt just fine again from the very next day! . . . sure love that doctor! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So next we're dealing with a guy who's going to renovate our back porch! That guy named Ricky Wilson (Home Repair Baton Rouge) came by last week and he is going to be fixing up a <u>number</u> of places here - not even just that porch. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Of course it probably won't be until next month or so since he's redoing some of those houses that got covered with water last August. But that porch has been miserable for several years so what's another month or two, huh? No problem. But I'm really looking forward to the replacement of that BACK porch -- well, just half of it actually -- over just behind our master bedroom. Well, it was even fairly nice previously. See, here are photos showing how it USED to look:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Those photos above were taken to begin with -- and with a dog even before we got Joey some years back. But there was a further change another few years later. And </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">here's that area of the porch that was updated and was certainly pretty nice -- way better than it is at the moment, that's for sure -- but it WAS just filled with screens so it wasn't all that great during super-hot summer or during the late winter. Also those metal panels there at the bottom of the screens were on there to keep the dogs from pushing against the screens. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But now soon when we redo that porch, those windows will contain entire thick GLASS -- NO screens. So we won't need those metal panels in front anymore either so it'll be really nice to be able to look out those windows and see those entire back pastures and all those horses all the time. Nice. And we'll be able to go out ALL year since we've got a heating / air conditioner machine for there. So with no open windows, it'll be cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter, just like inside! </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Then at night I used to close all those curtains to keep air from blowing in too much. <br />But that sure won't happen once we get the porch redone since it'll be clear GLASS all over on that whole porch <u>instead</u> of those screens!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But when we got the baby Cane Corso, Gigi, back in 2014 she ended up REALLY screwing up that porch! Good grief!</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">But look at all that messy flooring and window sills and even those curtains!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Of course, now that Gig's in her late 2 years old, she's gotten a lot better about this horrendous mess, but she's still quite difficult for us to handle her. So once we repair that portion of the porch, we'll be setting her up over on the OTHER end of the porch - but this time with a metal fence line covering the wall over on that side so she can't chew up the wall over there anymore either. We thought about selling her, but I need to be sure that whoever buys her would be really nice to her, since she really IS a fine girl these days. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Anyway, as I said, when we get that porch redone, instead of those screens we have </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">on that entire portion of that back porch, we're going to install solid GLASS instead of any screen in that entire portion of the porch right outside our master bedroom and the livingroom. And as I said, we just got a heating/air conditioner (it has arrived - but it'll be a month or two before we get that porch redone).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Oh, and we're also going to install marble window sills and marble walls below the windows all the way down to the floor so the walls will stay just fine indefinitely as well. I'm going to put Gigi crate out there so she can sleep in her crate at night out there in the heat and air conditioning and she won't need to come inside the house.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Anyway -- we're getting that marble over at "Jenkins Tile and Marble" over on Industriplex Blvd -- they have all sorts of of FINE marble things. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If YOU have any interest in that sort of thing, you could check them out on Facebook: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">https://www.facebook.com/Jenkins-Tile-Company-113058415399303/</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So anyway that porch -- well it'll become a "room" rather than a porch -- will have all those nice clear glass windows so we can see the entire back pasture AND the horse barn. I'm going to LOVE sitting out there! And I think I'll even put a bed out there again the way I used to have! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Well, it's going to be a while, but I'll post the renewed porch AND the changes in the back yard when we get around to it. I'll show you later!</span></div>
Sharonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01072230562102464012noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-251093087508385633.post-71984542662686159612016-10-21T23:00:00.003-05:002016-10-21T23:00:29.805-05:00We're getting our pasture horse fence completed very soon - thank heaven!!<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Once Duke ran out across the back fence onto that road behind us a week or more ago, we closed all three horses inside their three paddocks and that big round pen and they were NOT allowed to go out into that big back pasture until that entire new fence got installed and additional electric wires put up along the top and side of the new fence as well. Mark and Jerry have completed the fence, but the horses were still stuck inside their paddocks because they're going to install electric wires on that fence as well this weekend. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But good grief! . . . this morning another police officer knocked on our door bright and early while I was still asleep! When I opened the front door I saw not only the police woman, but behind her out in the front yard was our mule, Arthur! And when I ran out there to try and get hold of him, he went racing up the driveway to the road in FRONT of the house! NOT good -- that road is REALLY busy so he might have gotten hit! Well, I ran out to try and grab him but he headed out the gate to the road before I could get to him. Wow! That really scared me! But just as he headed out to the road a big truck came running down the road and that scared him! So he turned around and ran back into the yard. Thank goodness! So I quickly managed to close the front gate so he couldn't get back out again. And shortly after that, Shadow ALSO came out into the front yard. Good grief! Sure glad SHE didn't make it out of the yard!</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Sure glad that gate got closed before Shadow made it up to the front yard this morning! Good grief!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then I found that the gate out of the back pasture into the front yard had been left open when Mark and Jerry were putting up that new fence - and that's where those horses came out into the front yard once they jumped over that gate that fell down at the side of Arthur's paddock. But as it turned out, Arthur had hit down that gate out of his paddock into that back pasture, then he just jumped over that gate, and he ran across the pasture and found that open gate on the other side and went out of there into the front yard. Then Shadow followed him as well. Those two hang out together generally. NOT good! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Well, then Shadow also came out across that gate and around into the front yard as well, but at least the </span><u style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">front</u><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> gate at the driveway was locked by then so I also closed that row across the driveway keeping them into that front yard while I went back and locked that side gate there way up in that picture above. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Here are Duke and Shadow up in the front of Shadow's paddock. So although they haven't been able to go out to the pasture, they DO have several large paddocks and a big round pen for the last couple weeks anyway.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Anyway, then I gave Duke his breakfast this morning and then I went over and managed to get that gate that Arthur had dumped down (it's on the far side of that round pen in the picture above) and put it back up and added several wires to it to hope to keep it installed at least another couple days until Mark and Jerry finish that back fence and get THAT gate put back up correctly. Well, those horses have been kept out of that back pasture now for two weeks so they'll be VERY happy about getting back out again this weekend, that's for sure! And then once they let them out they're going to reinstall that gate between Arthur's paddock and that pasture so he won't be able to wreck it again ever! I'm sure going to be VERY happy once that's all completed. This morning was NOT good, that's for sure!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So hey -- if anyone I know needs any clothes of any sort, let me know! You can come by and see which ones you might want and I'll be glad to pass them on!</span></div>
Sharonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01072230562102464012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-251093087508385633.post-54152852931896435142016-10-09T18:54:00.004-05:002016-10-09T18:54:57.519-05:00Wow - MORE things taken care of today . . .<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Arbor Vision Tree Service came by yesterday and removed that HUGE Birch tree that was next to our garage where it covered the sunshine that needed to shine on our garage roof solar panels. Without sunshine on those solar panels our electrical cost wouldn't have been as low as it should have been, so we talked to John Marshall at Arbor Vision (they had removed SO many trees all over our property over the last half dozen years) and he agreed to come over this weekend and cut that Birch down for us. And that got done! Great!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This afternoon a policeman drove up our driveway and we wondered why on earth -- but as it turned out, he came to let us know that one of our horses was out on that road behind us! Good grief! And sure enough - it was Duke! Shadow and Arthur were back there at the fence where Duke had climbed over but at least those two hadn't left just yet thankfully! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Anyway, when Duke got out of the pasture, the guy living behind us eventually put a rope around Duke's neck and led him back up to the fence and he came back in. So I called HIM to come eat as well -- and he did! Then once he came into the barn I closed the remaining gate, and now all three of them are stuck in their paddocks and in their round pen and NOT able to get out into the back acreage. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So tomorrow I'll go head out to Tractor Supply to pick up hundreds of feet of horse fence. I'm sure Jerry will help Mark put up that new fence tomorrow when he comes here to work -- and I <u>hope</u> he'll come back again on Sunday so he can <u>continue</u> to help Mark deal with that fence. I'm sure it will take at least two days - maybe more! And once the new fence goes up, they'll be adding those electric wires in front of that fence to keep Duke from pushing against it. Mark bought a new fence control today to replace that electric wire that wasn't working. And now that wire on the new fence will be at least three feet above the ground so that if another storm happens the water won't cover that new electric wire and ruin it like the last one was. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">And there's Mark's part of the closet over on the other side.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Of course I'm going to have to get rid of a LOT of things I don't wear anymore -- especially those pants there below . . . WAY too many of them piled up on the closet there on the other side of that closet that I didn't photograph as well !</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Once I get rid of the ones I don't like to wear it'll be a lot easier to pile the remaining ones up neatly! Hey -- anyone want some pants???</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I'll tell you what though -- once I got so much of that stuff done I just laid down hoping my back would get back to good. I was exhausted! And Joey joined me, of course -- he usually does if I lay down during the day. So Mark took this picture.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">I do love having Joey around all the time these days. He's such a sweetie!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">See - that old closet now is handy to my desk!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">And I LOVE that desk. It feels like a real office.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">As you can see, our master bedroom is very large fortunately! (Mark's "office" is upstairs in that big area outside all those bedrooms up there, so that's great as well.)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">It's nice that my desk is right next to Joey's crate. His crate is SO big -- it's great to have the big TV up there on <u>top</u> of it. So I can see TV at the desk OR in bed - nice! </span></td></tr>
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Sharonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01072230562102464012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-251093087508385633.post-62208584704895435372016-09-12T21:20:00.000-05:002016-09-13T13:13:05.401-05:00Interesting period of time down here . . .<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">My back is in bad shape again currently. After years of feeling great after the surgical injections I had done previously I've suddenly felt pretty bad over the last week or two. I'll be going back to that surgeon to see about it, but it's not until next month unfortunately. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">And since I don't feel like cleaning things up that much at the moment, our home isn't all that tidy. For one thing, it's FULL of things we've ordered after all those problems this last month. We got a dozen of Wasp & Hornet spray, and Flying Insect Killer spray, and even three gallons of the 12-month control Home Defense Insect Killer. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We needed those things to spray out <u>all</u> those bugs on the front porch. There were LOTS of them out there once the water came up almost to the porch last month. Apparently all those bugs in the water decided to come up onto the porch -- and they would jump up onto us when we went out across the porch to the barn! Not good. So I sprayed both the Flying Insect Killer, and the Wasp and Hornet Killer along the entire edges of the porch. Then I sprayed that gallon-size 12-month insect killer stuff EVERYWHERE on the porch. I even sprayed it on the bottom of all the furniture out there as well. But I'll tell you what - when we go out there now we see NO bugs any longer. Thank goodness! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But when we changed our home insurance two years ago, we lost our previous flood insurance then and we didn't remember to find another one at that time. So we're really pleased to have some flood insurance again now because if the house gets flooded anytime now that we're retired, we sure wouldn't be able to afford to pay to get the house repaired without some assistance! So I'm really glad flood </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">insurance is available again now. Whew! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Well, so many things have changed over the last few weeks. But most have been actually OKAY these days. Thank goodness!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We were so terrified when the water came almost up to our tall porch (as you can see in those photos below). But the water went back down from <u>our</u> property within just a couple days. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But a number of our friends have gotten damaged homes. And I'll tell you what - there have been over 110,000 houses completely damaged in the four local parishes -- Iberville (us), East Baton Rouge, Ascension, and Livingston. (For that matter, more than <u>20</u> state parishes have been damaged to date!) And there were even 13 people who died in that flood here locally as well! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We were horrified when that water came up, but as I said, it thankfully went done here in <u>our</u> property before very long. But almost all the houses over on the road just across Nicholson where we lived before we bought this house - just a little way away from here - have all been flooded and they're STILL covered in water. That road is even flooded so you can't drive down there either. And over there on Manchac Road right near there, the Bayou Manchac water is STILL going up! That is SO frightening. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But the weather posts that it will continue to rain daily for as long as it indicates. Sure hope it eventually stops so the water can just get down eventually. Lets hope so anyway.</span></div>
Sharonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01072230562102464012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-251093087508385633.post-86986054337960926692016-08-13T08:57:00.001-05:002016-08-13T08:57:35.839-05:00Weather here in this area is just AWFUL! . . .<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I knew it was going to continue to rain for weeks, but all of the sudden this morning when I woke up our </span><u style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">entire</u><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> property was covered in water -- I mean REALLY covered, more than a foot high so far. Who knows how high it's going to end up! SURE hope it doesn't end up <u>inside</u> the house! But it already has already filled up inside the barn! Poor horses!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; text-align: justify;">And our entire acreage is completely COVERED in high water at the moment. The drainage canal running along next to our property is running over so the water can't run away from here any longer. NOT good.</span><br />
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Sharonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01072230562102464012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-251093087508385633.post-34932890265261711942016-08-11T21:37:00.000-05:002016-08-12T10:00:33.589-05:00The weather here in Louisiana is NOT good! . . .<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I'll tell you what - I'm SO glad I'm retired these days because I sure would have been unhappy about being unable to drive downtown daily for a number of reasons. First of all - my truck is STILL being fixed since it was hit about a MONTH ago! They originally said it would take just a week and a half or so to get it fixed. But hey -- obviously THAT didn't work out <u>at</u> <u>all</u>! They're STILL working on it. They told our insurance outfit early last week that it would be ready to pick up last Friday so the insurance people told us we had to return that rented car I was using last week. But as it turned out, the truck repair folks actually did NOT get it done by last Friday. That day they said it probably would be this last Tuesday. But then that day they said it would probably be THIS Friday. Ha! I guess we'll just see tomorrow if it's done by then or not. Who knows -- they might end up saying even longer. And for that matter, if it's storming here tomorrow I don't think I'll need to go get it anyway!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Anyway, since both Mark and I are retired we're both glad we don't have to go out regularly when it's storming. So now we just hang out here at home together. We sure aren't happy with the weather currently, but we ARE happy to be home here together while it's happening anyway.</span></div>
Sharonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01072230562102464012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-251093087508385633.post-74179844075322923022016-08-07T22:15:00.001-05:002016-08-07T22:18:46.227-05:00Sigh . . .<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We've been having problems with Boo over the last few weeks. His eyes got bad and he panted a lot all the time and just didn't seem to feel normal. I began to consider having him put down at the vet this week since he was feeling bad. But this evening when I went out to take him his dinner he looked like he was sound asleep. Well -- he WAS . . . but forever.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">up there at the top of the page. (Well, actually you can click on it right here as well.) Anyway, there's info about SO many dogs we've lost. So to check him out, his info is down there at the bottom of the list.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Anyway, we'll be taking him up to the vet tomorrow to have him cremated, so then he can hang out here at our house until <u><i>I</i></u> die - then he'll get to go with me forever to wherever I end up. Poor baby. What a sweetie. </span></div>
Sharonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01072230562102464012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-251093087508385633.post-78748656716765562222016-07-24T08:16:00.001-05:002016-07-24T08:25:38.896-05:00ANOTHER working weekend! . . .<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I took my computer downstairs to the living room a few months back. But there just wasn't enough space for all that stuff there in that room. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">This WAS the computer back in the living room. I put the computer on that table that I brought home from the office o</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">nce I retired. It was appropriate in size for the living room, but </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">it </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">really wasn't nearly big enough for all my computer stuff. L</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">ook at ALL that crap on top of everything around it -- NOT good. <u>Now</u> all that stuff all over the place there in this picture is on top of that big crate in the bedroom so the living room is finally tidy again. (Guess I should have taken another better photo, but hey . . . maybe later.) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">B</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">y the way -- that cabinet there in the right corner i</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: justify;">s </span><u style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">full</u><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: justify;"> of all those cremated pets we've lost over the years. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: justify;">There are ashes of dogs, cats, and even partial amounts of the two cremated horses -- LSU said the ashes would be way too heavy to send them completely back to me, so I just got back <u>part</u> of them there in those large boxes there at the bottom. Anyway, once I die, I want to </span><u style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: justify;">also</u><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: justify;"> be cremated and then I want all those pets of ours to get sent up to my daughter along with MY cremation, then she can put us </span><u style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: justify;">all</u><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: justify;"> wherever she would like! (But I just want my critter ashes to go with me wherever that might be.)</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I had taken only two file cabinets down to the living room from the office upstairs originally. And all that stuff that I had to deal with had been stuck all around out there in the living room as well. NOT good! So now that I've gotten my computer </span><u style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">out</u><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> of the living room and moved it into the bedroom - I've also brought down ALL those things that were up in the upstairs office room as well! But that downstai</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">rs bedroom is large enough that I could put in all FOUR file cabinets out of what USED to be our office upstairs (but that will now be another visitor bedroom - there'll be three of those bedrooms up there). But all that stuff doesn't look all that bad down here in the bedroom, and I really do enjoy checking out my computer down here since I have those file cabinets etc. very handy now.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">See - nice to have PLENTY of file cabinets etc. down here.<br />That desk is just sitting next to that giant dog crate so I put that TV up there on top of that crate so I can see it both there at the computer AND when laying in bed sometimes! Nice!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">See -- there's that dog crate there on the right next to the computer as well. <br />And all that stuff that was stuck out there in the living room is now up there on top of the crate. Much better. No one sees all that crap anymore but us! </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">I love those pics of my mom and dad there above the computer -- <br />they were both laughing in all those photos.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">As for that room upstairs, I still need to clear out all those boxes of books and other "stuff" that's laying up there in that third upstairs bedroom. But hey -- I DO have a while to deal with that since our family folks probably won't be coming down until later in the fall when it gets a bit cooler around here. So I guess I can relax for a while now that I'm exhausted from dealing with moving everything into that downstairs bedroom! Whew! Sure glad all that's been done!</span></div>
Sharonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01072230562102464012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-251093087508385633.post-36238309273737069332016-07-09T21:59:00.002-05:002016-07-10T21:09:13.539-05:00Okay - FINALLY finished the porch . . .<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We worked on the front porch all morning, but I sure got super wet while doing that! . . . it was incredibly hot out there. But it IS finally completed. And I'll tell you what - yesterday when I went over to Goodwill to check out small items like artificial plants, etc. I saw that they had a huge old sofa that was incredibly cheap! . . . and it was actually the same exact turquoise color as ALL those seats out there on our porch. As cheap as it was, I bought it instantly and we went over and picked it up this morning. Check it out -- </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">I like that new sofa - it matches everything else out there on the porch!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It obviously wouldn't be good enough to be inside a living room, but it seems perfectly okay on the porch to me! And since it's leather and not fabric, it'll be fine outside.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then today we got all the rest of the curtains put up out there finally as well. I wanted to put curtains up so that when it rains those seats couldn't get wet. If it storms and there's horrendous wind, I can spread the curtains out and link them to the fence so the wind won't blow them away. And then the wind won't blow the rain onto the porch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But even though that Kia is a nice car, I DO want my Ridgeline back. I love that truck more than any vehicle I've ever owned before. So I sure hope they're able to fix it up eventually but they haven't let me bring it in for repair just yet.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">That blue light there on the table on the right is for killing bugs -- <br />and that thing is FULL of dead bugs. It sure works well!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">That new bright top light there by the front door is also set to kill bugs as well - but we just put it up yesterday so we haven't actually seen whether that works as well as that blue light on the table there because we actually haven't turned on that top light very much at night so far. So eventually we'll see.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Well I'm glad that porch was completed because next week is going to be really busy so we sure wouldn't have time to deal with it. I have to go to two doctors, Mark has to go to a doctor, Gigi has to go to LSU, etc. etc. etc. And after finishing working out there in the horrendous heat today I'm SO glad we could finally kick back and relax. Phew! And right now it's time for me to go collapse completely for the night! </span></div>
Sharonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01072230562102464012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-251093087508385633.post-82455834587873484282016-07-03T21:42:00.002-05:002016-07-03T22:58:33.344-05:00Hey - at least the PORCH is pretty much completed --<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Of course the truck is still a mess (we're waiting for the the repair company to let us know when to take it in once they have all the parts) but we <u>have</u> at least pretty much gotten the front porch updated currently anyway. I AM waiting for another bunch of curtains of course (I didn't order enough them the first time apparently). You can see below that there are some curtains over on the right side of the porch, but they're going to be all the way across before long. They should be delivered in another week or two. But at least by now we have gotten that raised bed pretty much updated and all that furniture up on the front porch instead of out in the back yard any longer. We're happy about that anyway. And we got those posts put in today to keep those curtains from blowing out when it's windy out there.</span></div>
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Sharonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01072230562102464012noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-251093087508385633.post-49122046348414510662016-06-29T18:43:00.001-05:002016-06-30T22:33:05.221-05:00Life? . . . really good lately but some things NOT so good . . .<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">On the plus side, Gigi went over to Buddy and Lisa's house a couple days ago and she LOVES them AND their other critters. Haven't gotten any photos about her with all their other animals but they <u>have</u> sent me several of her there in their living room, even with another of their big dogs:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">If she continues to do well for them, they may very well keep her. Sure hope so because she obviously adores them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">And they've already been able to get her pills down that I was NOT able to handle them on her myself. Sure relieved!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">But then yesterday when I was driving Joey up to the vet to check out the issues on his skin, another truck crashed into my truck! Gees! I turned off a main road over onto a smaller road and he pulled out of the store area there on the corner and both of our trucks ended up hitting each other in the front corners of both. Good grief!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Well, I WAS horrified at the time, but now that I know the truck WILL be repaired -- and Gigi is really really happy -- and Joey is getting back in shape, too . . . well, life really isn't all THAT awful.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So anyway - life is actually pretty much okay after all these days. Whew! Thank goodness!</span></div>
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