What a Week

Well this was a wild and crazy week. Tuesday I met Krista to pick up her girls and bring them home with me for the remainder of the week. I had orchestra practice that night so Gary got to have the privilage of putting them to bed the first night. Both girls are really good about going to bed so it wasn't much of a challenge for him. When I got home both girls and Papa were all sound asleep. On Wednesday I stayed home from work and Brooklyn joined us for the afternoon. Grammy sure had her hands full with 3 girls. Seems like one would go down for a nap and the other would just get up from a nap. I admire those moms that have twins or more and can keep their sanity. It was amazing that I did get as much done around here as I did. Thursday I took Kayleigh and Keira with me to work and it went pretty smoothly. Kayleigh keeps herself pretty well entertained and Keira was really good. I had orchestra practice again on Thursday night so once more Papa got to put the girls to bed.

When I got home the dogs followed me in the house and immediately Sadie started crying and barking. She just couldn't seem to get settled and she was licking herself wildly. I found a rather ugly looking sore near her right back leg on her stomach. I decided to wait until morning to see how things were but she was having no part of being left alone in the livingroom. She would only stop crying and barking if I was right next to her. So I coaxed her into the bedroom beside the bed and got her to settle down. Friday morning Gary took her to the vet and he fixed her up. Not sure exactly what happened but he said she either got caught in something or was in a fight and got bit. Considering she rarely leaves the yard I don't think she got caught in anything and we do have some mean neighbor dogs that like to come into our yard and intimidate our dogs. The scary thing is the fact that there was a mountain lion killed just a couple of miles from here earlier this week and we often have coyotes and fox go through here. Anyway, I won't post pictures because it is pretty ugly, but she has a drainage tube and numerous stitches that will have to come out in about 2 weeks. The vet said she had two very nasty, ragged, deep cuts and she has to take "huge" antibotic pills twice a day for a week. She is feeling better today but wasn't worth much on Friday and Saturday.

Our predicted snow storm did not materialize (fortunately) but it is rather cold, windy and cloudy. We did have about an inch of snow when we woke up but it was gone before noon. I think I will be extremely glad when Spring is here and better yet when it is summer.
The last thing that took place this week was the completion of the floor in our other building. It turned out beautiful and now we kind of wish we had taken up all of the carpet and finished the whole thing. I haven't taken pictures yet of the completed floor but will post some when I do.

Here are a few pictures of the girls from this week.

Happy St. Patricks Day to anyone out there who is Irish!

Our project is coming along although rather slowly. We started to strip the old tar paper residue off on Friday night and worked several hours on Saturday. There is still some work to do and hopefully we can finish it up tomorrow. Then we can sand it down smoother and get it ready for the finish. We think that it might be best to have the professionals do that part of it. There is about 1500 square feet to do and that is more than I want to tackle. Here are a few pictures to show you what we have been up against.

The carpet on the south wall is going to stay and we will display our beds there. We haven't decided for sure what we are going to do with the mezzanine area you can see above. If anyone has any great ideas we would love to hear them.

My time for working on the project is limited now because I am again playing my clarinet in the community theatre musical. We are doing Sound of Music this year and orchestra practice is every Tuesday and Thursday night. It is a lot of fun but it does cut in to my time.

My posts would not be complete without some pictures of the grandkids. I have Brooklyn every Wednesday afternoon and this last week she thought it was pretty funny to try to put her hat on the dogs. I helped her out a little bit and then we took some pictures. Sadie wasn't too thrilled with the whole thing but TJ took it in stride. For some reason Brookly decided it was time to put on her boots, coat and hat and to tell me bye-bye. She wasn't even dressed.

In a little over a week I will have both of Krista's girls while her and Scott take a little vacation. They will be here from Tuesday night until Saturday. Kayleigh shouldn't have any trouble but Keira is only 5 months old so it could be harder for her being away from Mommy. I will have to rest up before they come and remember what it is like to have a baby in the house. She is a good baby though and sleeps really well at night so it shouldn't be too bad. They were all here a few weeks ago and I got some pictures.

Craig and Joc are in Orlando, FL this weekend for our semi-annual buying show and convention for the store. We decided they could go and have a little vacation before the new baby comes. It will be a whirlwind trip but I am sure they had fun along with getting some business taken care of. No doubt Jocelyn will be posting some pictures of their time at Magic Kingdom. Sounds like they were pretty impressed with the fireworks display last night.

Our local junior college basketball team is hosting the regional tournament for the first time ever. They had to win their sub-region to win the chance to host the tournament. We got to watch them walk all over their opponent last night to advance into the quarter-finals. Tomorrow night we hope to go watch them again. We started going to the games a few years ago and it is amazing how it has helped our business. Guess in a small town it is important to show up at community events and do some "networking".