Yeah, Yeah, Yeah...

I'm LOVING Spring! Although I really can't wait for 80+ degree weather all the time, I hate being cold, which = anything below 70... :) In other news... The puppies are getting big and starting to run around and play, too cute!

Taylor with one of the puppies...

Cute!

They are cute, but I think Carolyn has 3 or 4 of them sold now, they get their final shots Saturday, then off to their new homes... Of course I suppose it won't be long until Brianna has a litter... :( The kids are counting the $$ though and trying to decide what they want to get...

Cylee... Zac's baby, Carolyn watches her sometimes when he helps me work on the pool house. She is adorable!

When you have a leak that is difficult, Shark Bite fittings are the ONLY way to go! They are about 5 times more expensive than normal fittings, but they just slide on and do not leak!

Just putting the final touches on the pool house, now that the water is on and I know there are now no leaks, it's time to button that nightmare project up and be done with it!! Hopefully I get my Bobcat back today or tomorrow so I can start working on getting the yard graded and grass sown, what a great day that will be when I can walk outside and not have anything to do but lay by the pool!!!

Wow...

That's a lot of posting in just a few short days... :) I need to anyway, I've been such a slacker lately, and it is a journal of sorts...

No, I'm NOT a mechanic!! I try though, I can manage if I have the manual, but alas, I don't have any dirt bike manuals... Turns out Tanner's dirt bike is a 2 stroke rather than a 4 stroke, who knew?? So yeah, no oil, because who would think to look under the effing seat for the 2 stroke oil tank?? Yeah, the engine is shot now, but one of our neighbors fixes stuff like that out of his garage, so that's where Tanner's bike is currently...

Tanner, Chance and Nate with their bikes. Tanner is now anxiously awaiting for his to get the engine rebuilt, should be about a week the kid said...

Taylor went with another one of the neighbors to a birthday party for one of her friends and painted this picture at the party. Looks great I think, she now has it hanging on her wall...

Other news?? Yeah, I now have the bathrooms back in commission, wow! Not exactly what I had planned for the weekend, but what can you do?

With any luck I'll get my Bobcat back from the hydraulic shop tomorrow... You thought I had that pos fixed?? Yeah, so did I... :( Sadly, when I THOUGHT I had it running the other day, turns out there is another effing leak, so I finally got tired of messing with it and just hauled it down to the hydraulic shop...

Spring!

I LOVE it!! Unlike most people I suppose, I would rather it be 80 - 100 and humid than for it to be 65 or below... I'm sure the handful of people who actually look at my blog already know this though... :)

Another reason I love Spring is all the flowers and greenery... Flowers don't last long on azaleas or dogwoods, but it's nice the few weeks they do last.

If you reference the pic from my last post, yeah, that didn't quite work out, so I had to run all new wire for the phone/satellite/ethernet to the pool house, but tis done and the phone is hooked up, will test the internet and satellite today, should work though, as it is now a single wire going directly from the pool house to the house...

Luckily I haven't yet put concrete in that 'fire pit' area, because that was the perfect place to cut through with the new wire...

Other than that, same old thing here... The puppies are starting to walk around and eat/drink out of the 'big dog' bowls, now to just get rid of them in the next few weeks. The kids will try to sell them, if they have no luck, I will be giving them away, trust me!!

Then there was the 'water leak' in the downstairs bathroom that was coming from the upstairs bathroom, what an effing mess!! I had to rip out the ceiling in the downstairs bath and gut the upstairs bath... :( Oh well, they both needed a makeover, but I really didn't have the time to screw with it, but some things you have to make time for, such as water leaks... :)

Perhaps I'll actually take some pictures of the kids today to post later, don't wait up on it though... ;)

Well, I Actually AM Busy... ;)

I also haven't felt much like blogging once the day is done... :) I'm slowly crossing things off of my 'to do' list though, so I guess that is good!

Timberly, LeRoy and the boys stopped by on their way down to FL, but I only took about 4 pictures for some reason and this is the only one that actually turned out... I REALLY need to start taking more pictures!

Carolyn and the kids took the puppies to the vet for their first shots, they are getting bigger and starting to try to walk around, cute!

Puppies obviously... Yeah, I know that blanket is filthy... Carolyn buys blankets at garage sales for them, so they get a clean one every week... :)

One of the many things I've been up to, I ripped the phone/satellite/ethernet wires that go up to the pool house in two places last year when I was doing some digging, I have attempted to repair them, but too many connections now so I am going to have to run new wire, sigh. Always something...

Seems like I am always working on this effing pos! I broke one of the hoses the last time I was working on it, tried to get one at the Bobcat dealer for over a month, kept getting the run around, I finally went down to a nearby hydraulic shop and they made me one in about 15 minutes and it only cost $25... It required a "special" tool that I couldn't find anywhere, so my neighbor took a regular wrench and 'made' a crow foot wrench for me, which worked like a charm! So I finally have that damn thing running again, now to finally get my back yard graded and grass planted, Carolyn will be THRILLED when that day arrives! I will too for that matter... ;)

Yeah, other than that, I'm NOT working on that basement at the moment, waiting on the guys to finish the drywall and then paint, then I'll go over and do the finish work and it will be done! Winding down on the pool house as well, so with any luck THAT nightmare will also soon be complete! The kids were on Spring Break last week, although we didn't do much of anything, of course I was not off of work. The neighbor took them to a Braves game, they took the Marta down to Turner Field, had a blast! Taylor LOVES baseball, so I guess there may be some games in my future... ;) Yeah, I'll try to actually keep something up here, operative word being try... :)