D-Day

That could stand for divorce (Hoss and I don't work well together), disaster or the typical big event idea. Ugh...this weekend was AWESOME and SUCKED at the same time.
Friday - bright and early - my mom and dad came (YAY!!) and helped me lay down the new flooring for the girls. See they were supposed to keep the girls and I lay it down myself but they forgot and made out of town plans. To make up for it, mom decided to come and help (whoo hoo!) and dad ending up getting off and coming (WHOO HOO!!!!). By 11, dad was moving the washer and dryer... and then it went down hill. See about every two weeks I HAVE to wash clothes so Hoss had to plug up the washer and dryer before we layed the floor. Obviously something happened in the set up or when I washed and the washer leaked all over my floor.
No biggie, it'll dry. Surely Saturday morning -- 24 hour later I can lay the 8 STINKING pieces left... so dad finished up around the hot water heater and they left. Whoo hoo! Mostly done with only two pipes to cut around. I'm in good shape!
Saturday morning: floor not dry. Ok no biggie. The fan is going, door open, anything I can think of to dry it. Hoss and I go shopping! I need quarter round to finish the room and I want some shelving so the pups can have the full floor. Needed some other things from about 5 other places. 4 p.m. -- floor still not dry. Ok frustrated but still workable. I tend the flower beds, clean the baseboards, and ask Hoss to put up the shelves. BIG MISTAKE. Hoss doesn't just do, he plans for hours - I do and fix mistakes if necessary. In these cases I can be more active than him and I get frustrated. I've done these shelves before, no biggie. Hoss, apparently biggie. Fighting ensues. Shelving gets down eventually and floors still not dry. Now I'm mad!
Finally, 48 hours later, the floors are dry enough I'm laying that floor down. It was a long and trying weekend but it's done. I'll post pics when the quarter round get put down -- here's to hoping for Wednesday or Thursday, latest Sunday.

DIY Weekend #2

It was weekend #2 on the floor project. Got what I wanted done (practically). there is about a sliver or two left of the glue. Also my parents' came, somewhat unexpectedly, Saturday and Bret and dad put in two new flower beds to line the walkway. And I must say, it looks awesome! Mom and I planted some flowers and today I finished the planting some bulbs in my daylily bed.

The floors. Tiny little spot near the door is all I have left and I'll get to clean them up well and in two weeks, I'm laying down some flooring!!! Super excited.

So the flower bed closest to our house is the daylily bed and I planted some Dahlia's to add to the bed.
The bed closest to the road has a mixture, today I added some more African Daisies, and there are some geraniums and something else, I can't remember. It's going to be beautiful! If I don't kill them. I normally stick to my daylilies because you can't kill them. Next I'll get some solar lights to light it up and my front yard will be done!

Long road...

Been a hard day today for the female Mc, not sure about the male Mc. To make it short and sweet apparently one bad time means the end of years.
Anyways, we got to go see our baby and take some new pics:

He's a rascal but I already love him and ready to have a new best friend!

My Hate is His Love

I hate the stupid Playstation 3 and Hoss loves it. And today apparently there is DRAMA within his Madden whatever it dynsasty is it? But seriously, that drama needs to take a side seat. It is intruding even more with MY time with My Hoss! It took over my lunch and my after supper time. I've tried to be good and understanding with his "need" to play and keep up the time he gets to spend with his buddies but there is balance and I'm greedy about our time together.
So Hoss, prioritize and leave the drama to the drama king! Maybe we should implement a rule about after 8 no PS3 and never during lunch. Anytime in between I'll be more understanding



...maybe

The weekend project Part I

Anyone notice the countdown on the side? Anyone tell I'm beyond excited about our baby!!!
We started our project Saturday. Seriously, I thought it was going to somewhat easier than it was. DYI is for the birds and I have new respect for those who do it and do it well. Let's face it, I'm a perfectionist, I'm not going to do things half-way. I'm upset because the fam wants to me to lay the flooring opposite the rest of the house due to the amount of cuts I'll be making (or not depending on the outlook). I'll do it there way but I'm not happy!

So here's Hoss working so hard for me. I did work on it but he was 100% better than me at it except for the little tedious work with a chisel and hammer -- that's all me!



So this is the floor completed... somewhat. We have the glue finish getting up. Seriously -- hardwood with a hard vinyl GLUED and NAILED with another vinyl and carpet on top!!! And if I'm not mistaken, the hardwoods match the ones throughout the rest of our house. Oh well.

There is still some left on the floor around the hot water heater but guess what? It's staying until we replace the hot water heater with a tankless and then we'll totally finish it. But man oh man, it was a pain to do. I'm totally not use to manual labor and I sooo don't want to be. This might be the last project I suggest we do ourselves. **And Hoss is celebrating**
Next weekend: glue up, clean the floors well and possibly start laying down the vinyl planks. Hopefully that goes quicker but I don't see the last happening since we have a new flower bed being put in that weekend also.
And yes Hoss and I are still in pain. Hoss has stayed home from work because of that and a week of basketball officiating.