Laundry day

It is supposed to get up to 73 degrees today, yea!  It is 68 degrees already.  I just opened the back porch door and turned off the heat. Bella already had one poop accident early this morning so hopefully won't be any more today anyway.

Today is laundry day.  No doubt about it, I have I think 5 loads to do.  So much for 'the day of rest' right? 

Anyway took a few more pictures today. Here are the flowers on the balcony and the other wreath and Christmas ornament my oldest created.  We have the ornament in the music room because it is made of pages with scores of music on it.

Brrr...already?

I was so elated when Bella got the hang of the using the doggy door last month.  So when it started getting cool in the mornings this week, I just dealt with it being cool and we kept the door open during the day so that the doggy door would still be used. 

But it was down in the 40's the other night and yesterday was cold and windy all day not getting much above 60, so we gave in and shut the door and turned the heat on.  It was too early to turn the heat on to me, living in Texas, but we were compelled to.  I was layering and still cold !!!

So, no surprise when I turned around while doing dishes this evening that I saw poop on the floor.  Oh well.  It will warm up later this week, so we'll be able to have the door open again at least until the next cold snap.

Sometimes Bella sits at the door when she has to go potty but other times she doesn't.  Oh well. We don't mind too much, she is such a cutie and really fits into our household and our laps nicely!

Beautiful wreaths and best buds

I wanted to share a few things with this blog.  My oldest has been creating wonderful wreaths to sell for the holidays.  I got three beautiful ones. One I haven't take a photo of yet but the other two I have hung up in my office.   They really look nice!

The other thing I wanted to share was how Bella and Tika are really becoming bed buds. Here they are playing tug of war together :)

 

Mums the word...

I didn't realize I didn't blog since Sunday. It has been a busy work week though, so that is probably why.

This weekend I had just a tiny bit of work which has already been done. After that I swiffered the office floor. There was lots of doggy fur there. It never looks that bad until I see the results - and how many times I have to clean the dog hair off the edges of the swiffer sweeper (versus replacing it a half a dozen times). Then I watered the mums that we got last weekend. The yellow ones are opening up beautifully so I took a few pictures.

We are planning to have lunch and a movie in a little bit. We've never used the Video on Demand feature of our cable tv, and are going to warm up our left over pizza and select a movie to watch. Although it isn't free, it is certainly a lot cheaper than going to the theater.

Nice weekend

No work this weekend so it was relaxation time. Hubby and I celebrated our wedding anniversary last evening. We got an early dinner (no lines) at one of our favorite restaurants Longhorn Steakhouse. It was yummy and I told our waitress that we wanted to take our time as we were celebrating our anniversary. I was getting the impression she was asking if we were ready to order our entree rather quickly.  Anyway she was very nice about it and told us to take our time. When our dinner plates were taken away they gave us a nice dessert on the house for our celebration. It was vanilla ice cream, whipped cream and drizzled chocolate on top. I didn't know they did that.  It was really nice!

This morning hubby and I got some mums to put on the front porch and balcony.  He screwed the pumpkin planters onto the railing on the balcony so that they can't fall off. The planters were called mumkins because they were mums in pumpkin planters. Cute!

Then this afternoon we went to the theater and saw The Foreigner (with Jackie Chan).  It was pretty good and we enjoyed it.  I had my popcorn of course, even though I had some longhorn leftovers for lunch.

Here are some pictures of the mums we got today.  I'll take some pictures when they are in full bloom.

Solar Mason Jars

I was looking online the other day for more ways that we can dress up the front porch area.  I located some really neat looking mason jar lights that use both battery/solar power to work. Since we are into antiques, I thought it would be the perfect addition.  We got them and hubby hung them up.

I just went out and they are all working and lit!:)   So exciting. I don't know how many hours they will last but it is pretty and I'm hoping they'll get enough sun light to recharge okay every day.
Here are some pictures.

Little ball

I had off on Tuesday and hubby and I went to find Bella (the new dog) a harness so that I could start walking her. We found one that fit nicely. We checked out the toys too because you can never have too many dog toys, right?   Anyway we got a cute little stuffed toy more Bella's size and also got some smaller balls that squeak for her to play with.  Can't find one already but here is a picture of the tennis balls, that Ditzy plays with compared to Bella's new ball size.  Cute huh?

Yesterday I tried out Bella's new harness. The harness was fine, but she was petrified! She just didn't want to walk at all. She shook, and laid down, etc. I tried just a little and then came back inside. We didn't even get past our house.  So not sure if she'll ever be a walker.  It is okay with me if she doesn't as she gets plenty of running around done out back and she also has run like crazy indoors already when she gets into one of her moods. I'm surprised she hasn't hurt herself with the amount of time she smacks herself against something because she can't stop in time.

Since hubby's digestive systems seems to be doing well, we are finally going to have our anniversary dinner this weekend.  That will be nice. Our anniversary was Sept 23rd, the day I had to call 911. So it will be about 3 weeks late, but that's okay. I am just so relieved that he seems to be doing fine.