Casey and Lloyd enjoying swimming

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I'm obsessed with FIREWOOD

Ok I love my fireplace and never want to run out of firewood. You know me I cant stand to have to pay for something I can get free. I am always on the lookout on my bus route for wood and on craigslist. My goal was to get enough so that it could season by next winter. We had it originally just kind of thrown in and then we found through craigslist of course this free wood box and my friend brought some pallets over. So we had to restack everything we had. It is much better now and we almost have everything cut. Michelle was unloading some ash I saw along my bus route. A fellow bus driver Bill has a truck so he went and picked it up for me and then we filled my trunk the first day and Lloyd brought the truck the 2nd day. They had cut it up in 12-16 inch pieces that were perfect for fireplaces we didn't even have to cut any more. So I have been told we have enough now! What do you think?

Sadie's new area

Instead of dirt and a lil grass she now has a area of mostly grass. Well with puppies coming and Sadie and Casey not getting along to well, we decided to make a separate area for Sadie. It's her own lil area where she can be safe from the big dogs. Ok the 1st day we came home and she had dug her way to be with the big dogs. 2nd day not so lucky as we put concrete blocks on both sides of the fence so she could not dig out. This has worked wonders. Now with the puppies it is working great we put Sadie and Willits in this area when we let Casey outside to go potty and then we let them have the run of the yard while Casey is inside with her pups. It is working very well! To bad I had not got this from craigslist as it was another 200.00 project.

Sod in a few areas

I love CRAIGS LIST! I check it all the time to see what I can get free. Well a couple of weeks ago as we were driving home I noticed someone giving away sod. No it wasn't that brand new stuff that is lush and totally green like a park but it was green from his backyard. Normally when they are giving away grass they want you to come and cut and roll it and take it. Well this guy rented the sod cutter and rolled it and was giving it away. Since I saw the post and called within less than 10 minutes I got lucky! Well that's what I say I don't think that was the words coming out of my husbands mouth. The one who had just worked all day and now was going to have to finish driving home and get his lil truck and go pick it up. But like a trooper he did just as I asked. Would of been nice to take the big truck but it still was full with some fire wood I had found that he had not had time to cut up yet. So we picked up as much as the lil truck would hold and we were off to bring it home and unload it,HA HA. We unloaded the next evening and put a few strips in the front yard over the septic area that had not grown back yet from being dug up. Then we put some in the side yard where we put up a new fence to hold Sadie in. Last but not least we then put it in the backyard. We have been going back and forth on bricks, concrete, grass. This made it easy grass and a fire pit to come later.

Fruit Trees

Well we planted 2 more trees a nectarine and a avocado. Both are dwarf trees as we cant have huge trees due to our septic tank. We figure some dwarf trees should be ok(I hope). So now we have a total of 3 planted. Our first tree was a Orange tree and 2nd was the nectarine and today we planted the avocado!

More puppy pictures

Puppies born on Easter April 4th starting at 3:00pm and last one about 8:00pm. All are doing good with no problems. Cassie is a good mommy already.

Click on the pictures to make them bigger. They blend in real good even with our black tile floor.

Labradoodles have Arrived!!

The much awaited puppies have arrived. One even happened as the earthquake was going so we called it Earthquake! In all we have 7 of them. Mommy has been very protective and didn't get up to go potty until today so only enough time to take a couple of pictures. No sexing the babies yet but I will have to take them to the vet tomorrow or Wednesday so we will know the sexes then.