Happy 4th of July!

Oh my!  It has been weeks since I blogged. Have been busy working nights and weekend again...but let's see, lots to say.  First and foremost, we did get another dog and it happened within a day or two of my last blog.  I went and checked craigslist as I remembered that someone had posted about a sheltie in Dallas and thought I'd give it a shot.  Well someone was actually trying to re-home a sheltie! (mix).  I called that morning when I saw the listing, we went to look at her that evening, and we got her! Here is her picture and her name is Ditzy. We didn't name her that, it was the name she was named by the previous owners.

Isn't she cute!?  She is part sheltie and part papillon (we think or maybe part chihuahua), not positive and she is less than 8 pounds!  She's got the cutest little bark and is very sweet. You can see by this pic she is a lap dog too, first one we've had. Our other shelties just have no interest in that. When we got her she did have tapeworms and we had to get her all her shots (the previous people who had her never took her to the vet), but she did not have heart worms which was my biggest concern. The vet thinks she is around 2 year old. She did have puppies about 3 months ago and we will get her spayed once all her shots are done. She gets along fine with out other dogs and has been picking up their habits...like barking at people out on the street. Here she is along with Molly helping out with that..

Other news is my nephew got married last Friday.  I did not fly out to PA for the wedding as could not afford it, unless I charged it and I am trying so hard to get the credit cards paid off! My oldest was a bridesmaid and I did get to see a few photos of her and the wedding. Hopefully will get to see more soon.  My two other siblings made it to the wedding so it was nice for my sister to get to see two of us anyway (I was the only sibling not to get there).

I have a niece getting married later this month too, but won't get to Massachusetts for that either. But I am very happy for them!  It is so exciting to have members of the family tying the knot!  Hopefully they can come out to visit sometime!

I have been working on trying to keep the garden going in this heat.  Got a few tomatoes for my dad. I went to check on my cantaloupe today as there is one about 3 inches big that I saw and I decided to check all around the vine well (some of it grew over the railing and down the other side of the chicken wire fencing we have up).  To my surprise I saw one that is about 4-5 inches big!  Since it was on the outside of the fence I decided to go ahead and pull it (remember my garden is a BALCONY garden).  I will wait a few days before slicing it open. Hope it will be ripe enough!!  I have never grown cantaloupe before and am so excited to get one this big!   That's it for now....going to spend time with hub..